Eva Silvertant ❀
@evasilvertant.bsky.social
Lavish letter-lover, type tinkerer, idle illustrator, sapphic stargazer, Soviet chess collector, and classic camerist.
Babbles about Being/Becoming to Blue Morpho butterflies. 🦋
Babbles about Being/Becoming to Blue Morpho butterflies. 🦋
A few photos I took of my little Misha.
Photos taken with the Super-Takumar 50mm ƒ/1.4, featuring yellowed radioactive thorium glass that produces this beautiful golden cast.
Photos taken with the Super-Takumar 50mm ƒ/1.4, featuring yellowed radioactive thorium glass that produces this beautiful golden cast.
November 7, 2025 at 6:22 AM
A few photos I took of my little Misha.
Photos taken with the Super-Takumar 50mm ƒ/1.4, featuring yellowed radioactive thorium glass that produces this beautiful golden cast.
Photos taken with the Super-Takumar 50mm ƒ/1.4, featuring yellowed radioactive thorium glass that produces this beautiful golden cast.
Original photo:
November 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Original photo:
Misha and Eiki form a feline chair together.
Sometimes the backrest bites, and the seat swats. 🤭
Sometimes the backrest bites, and the seat swats. 🤭
November 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Misha and Eiki form a feline chair together.
Sometimes the backrest bites, and the seat swats. 🤭
Sometimes the backrest bites, and the seat swats. 🤭
I took this photo with the longest focal length lens I have: the Jupiter-11 135mm ƒ/4.
What a ridiculous sight on my camera. 🤭
PS: The 135 mm focal length becomes 202.5 mm on my camera’s crop sensor.
What a ridiculous sight on my camera. 🤭
PS: The 135 mm focal length becomes 202.5 mm on my camera’s crop sensor.
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
I took this photo with the longest focal length lens I have: the Jupiter-11 135mm ƒ/4.
What a ridiculous sight on my camera. 🤭
PS: The 135 mm focal length becomes 202.5 mm on my camera’s crop sensor.
What a ridiculous sight on my camera. 🤭
PS: The 135 mm focal length becomes 202.5 mm on my camera’s crop sensor.
I saw a green–orange–red color gradient around the Moon!
Apparently it’s called a lunar corona. It forms when thin clouds with uniform water droplets scatter the light from the Moon at different wavelengths—creating a diffraction pattern of concentric colored rings or gradients.
Apparently it’s called a lunar corona. It forms when thin clouds with uniform water droplets scatter the light from the Moon at different wavelengths—creating a diffraction pattern of concentric colored rings or gradients.
November 5, 2025 at 6:03 AM
I saw a green–orange–red color gradient around the Moon!
Apparently it’s called a lunar corona. It forms when thin clouds with uniform water droplets scatter the light from the Moon at different wavelengths—creating a diffraction pattern of concentric colored rings or gradients.
Apparently it’s called a lunar corona. It forms when thin clouds with uniform water droplets scatter the light from the Moon at different wavelengths—creating a diffraction pattern of concentric colored rings or gradients.
I tried some spooky makeup for Halloween. 😃
Also, they’re pretty subtle, but I’m wearing lavender contact lenses.
Also, they’re pretty subtle, but I’m wearing lavender contact lenses.
November 1, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I tried some spooky makeup for Halloween. 😃
Also, they’re pretty subtle, but I’m wearing lavender contact lenses.
Also, they’re pretty subtle, but I’m wearing lavender contact lenses.
Some amazing rainbow colors projected onto the turtle and fish tanks. 😃
October 31, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Some amazing rainbow colors projected onto the turtle and fish tanks. 😃
Testing out a Japanese radioactive lens by taking some photos of the largest grape I’ve ever held! I find the lens produces pretty nice flares as well.
Lens used: Super-Takumar 50mm ƒ/1.4
Lens used: Super-Takumar 50mm ƒ/1.4
October 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Testing out a Japanese radioactive lens by taking some photos of the largest grape I’ve ever held! I find the lens produces pretty nice flares as well.
Lens used: Super-Takumar 50mm ƒ/1.4
Lens used: Super-Takumar 50mm ƒ/1.4
A photo I took of some leaves, with absolutely wild background highlights rendered by a modified Tessar with a helicoid.
I like how this black-and-white photo ends up looking almost like a chemistry experiment!
Lens used: Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm ƒ/2.8
I like how this black-and-white photo ends up looking almost like a chemistry experiment!
Lens used: Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm ƒ/2.8
October 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
A photo I took of some leaves, with absolutely wild background highlights rendered by a modified Tessar with a helicoid.
I like how this black-and-white photo ends up looking almost like a chemistry experiment!
Lens used: Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm ƒ/2.8
I like how this black-and-white photo ends up looking almost like a chemistry experiment!
Lens used: Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm ƒ/2.8
Such funny results. Apparently I’m a Wild Child, but most of the 100 activities on the list I engaged in weren’t even wild. I’m probably somewhere in between Wildly Workaday and Moderately Mettlesome!
theinnocencetest.com
theinnocencetest.com
October 12, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Such funny results. Apparently I’m a Wild Child, but most of the 100 activities on the list I engaged in weren’t even wild. I’m probably somewhere in between Wildly Workaday and Moderately Mettlesome!
theinnocencetest.com
theinnocencetest.com
It was such a nice day to lie in the garden and look up at the trees. 🙂
(And to take some photos with Van Gogh-style rendering!)
Lens used: MC Helios-77M-4 50mm ƒ/1.8
(And to take some photos with Van Gogh-style rendering!)
Lens used: MC Helios-77M-4 50mm ƒ/1.8
October 9, 2025 at 10:35 PM
It was such a nice day to lie in the garden and look up at the trees. 🙂
(And to take some photos with Van Gogh-style rendering!)
Lens used: MC Helios-77M-4 50mm ƒ/1.8
(And to take some photos with Van Gogh-style rendering!)
Lens used: MC Helios-77M-4 50mm ƒ/1.8
Misha prowling on the bird feeder. He doesn’t look impressed, but that’s just what his face looks like. 🤭
I like the Van Gogh-like rendering of the background highlights!
Lens used: MC Helios-77M-4 50mm ƒ/1.8
I like the Van Gogh-like rendering of the background highlights!
Lens used: MC Helios-77M-4 50mm ƒ/1.8
October 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Misha prowling on the bird feeder. He doesn’t look impressed, but that’s just what his face looks like. 🤭
I like the Van Gogh-like rendering of the background highlights!
Lens used: MC Helios-77M-4 50mm ƒ/1.8
I like the Van Gogh-like rendering of the background highlights!
Lens used: MC Helios-77M-4 50mm ƒ/1.8
Eiki prowling in our garden.
I’m impressed with this lens! It seems to be sharper than my Helios-44-2; and in my experience, it swirls more readily—or perhaps more obviously due to its larger cat eye bokeh.
Lens used: MC Helios-77M-4 50mm ƒ/1.8
I’m impressed with this lens! It seems to be sharper than my Helios-44-2; and in my experience, it swirls more readily—or perhaps more obviously due to its larger cat eye bokeh.
Lens used: MC Helios-77M-4 50mm ƒ/1.8
October 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Eiki prowling in our garden.
I’m impressed with this lens! It seems to be sharper than my Helios-44-2; and in my experience, it swirls more readily—or perhaps more obviously due to its larger cat eye bokeh.
Lens used: MC Helios-77M-4 50mm ƒ/1.8
I’m impressed with this lens! It seems to be sharper than my Helios-44-2; and in my experience, it swirls more readily—or perhaps more obviously due to its larger cat eye bokeh.
Lens used: MC Helios-77M-4 50mm ƒ/1.8
I always have about 100 tabs open in Chrome, so I’m often forced to restart Photoshop to free memory when it reaches 14GB (out of 16GB).
I finally upgraded to a Mac Mini M4 Pro with 48GB last weekend, and as it turns out, it takes 20–34GB to sustain my toxic browser behavior. 😆
I finally upgraded to a Mac Mini M4 Pro with 48GB last weekend, and as it turns out, it takes 20–34GB to sustain my toxic browser behavior. 😆
October 7, 2025 at 5:44 AM
I always have about 100 tabs open in Chrome, so I’m often forced to restart Photoshop to free memory when it reaches 14GB (out of 16GB).
I finally upgraded to a Mac Mini M4 Pro with 48GB last weekend, and as it turns out, it takes 20–34GB to sustain my toxic browser behavior. 😆
I finally upgraded to a Mac Mini M4 Pro with 48GB last weekend, and as it turns out, it takes 20–34GB to sustain my toxic browser behavior. 😆
A photo of a canna lily I took in Niagara-on-the-Lake last August.
Lens used: MMZ Helios-44-2 58mm ƒ/2
Lens used: MMZ Helios-44-2 58mm ƒ/2
October 7, 2025 at 12:02 AM
A photo of a canna lily I took in Niagara-on-the-Lake last August.
Lens used: MMZ Helios-44-2 58mm ƒ/2
Lens used: MMZ Helios-44-2 58mm ƒ/2
The two eldest are window watching. And Mowgli is sitting like Buddha. 🤭
October 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The two eldest are window watching. And Mowgli is sitting like Buddha. 🤭
I’m totally calling my daughter Va.
I hope she will continue the tradition and call her child A, and perhaps one day, I will get a great-grandchild called ‘ ’.
I hope she will continue the tradition and call her child A, and perhaps one day, I will get a great-grandchild called ‘ ’.
October 4, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I’m totally calling my daughter Va.
I hope she will continue the tradition and call her child A, and perhaps one day, I will get a great-grandchild called ‘ ’.
I hope she will continue the tradition and call her child A, and perhaps one day, I will get a great-grandchild called ‘ ’.
I need to get up and show my wife. 😃
October 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I need to get up and show my wife. 😃
I forgot to share this photo from last July, when I realized my dress and nails perfectly matched the new purse I bought a few days earlier.
I always try to coordinate my makeup with what I wear, but it always brings me pleasure when I notice accidental color coordinations like this.
I always try to coordinate my makeup with what I wear, but it always brings me pleasure when I notice accidental color coordinations like this.
September 26, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I forgot to share this photo from last July, when I realized my dress and nails perfectly matched the new purse I bought a few days earlier.
I always try to coordinate my makeup with what I wear, but it always brings me pleasure when I notice accidental color coordinations like this.
I always try to coordinate my makeup with what I wear, but it always brings me pleasure when I notice accidental color coordinations like this.
There are so many squirrels in La Fontaine Park in Montréal! I managed to take a cute picture of this little sciurine squire. 🤭
On the left in natural colors, and on the right an edit with more autumn-like colors which arguably makes for a better picture.
Lens used: Helios-44-2 58mm ƒ/2
On the left in natural colors, and on the right an edit with more autumn-like colors which arguably makes for a better picture.
Lens used: Helios-44-2 58mm ƒ/2
September 25, 2025 at 10:37 PM
There are so many squirrels in La Fontaine Park in Montréal! I managed to take a cute picture of this little sciurine squire. 🤭
On the left in natural colors, and on the right an edit with more autumn-like colors which arguably makes for a better picture.
Lens used: Helios-44-2 58mm ƒ/2
On the left in natural colors, and on the right an edit with more autumn-like colors which arguably makes for a better picture.
Lens used: Helios-44-2 58mm ƒ/2
I photographed a Montréal firetruck using a modified lens. It can no longer focus, but it can create some insane bokeh!
Lens used: Kalimar MC 28mm ƒ/2.8
Lens used: Kalimar MC 28mm ƒ/2.8
September 25, 2025 at 6:41 AM
I photographed a Montréal firetruck using a modified lens. It can no longer focus, but it can create some insane bokeh!
Lens used: Kalimar MC 28mm ƒ/2.8
Lens used: Kalimar MC 28mm ƒ/2.8
Mowgli and I came across this cat who wouldn’t let us pass until we solved a riddle.
Problem was, we didn’t know what the riddle was, as neither of us spoke feline—so we turned back.
Actually, Mowgli may have understood him, but I don’t speak Mowglorian, so… 🤷♀️
Problem was, we didn’t know what the riddle was, as neither of us spoke feline—so we turned back.
Actually, Mowgli may have understood him, but I don’t speak Mowglorian, so… 🤷♀️
September 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Mowgli and I came across this cat who wouldn’t let us pass until we solved a riddle.
Problem was, we didn’t know what the riddle was, as neither of us spoke feline—so we turned back.
Actually, Mowgli may have understood him, but I don’t speak Mowglorian, so… 🤷♀️
Problem was, we didn’t know what the riddle was, as neither of us spoke feline—so we turned back.
Actually, Mowgli may have understood him, but I don’t speak Mowglorian, so… 🤷♀️