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Eva Silvertant ❀

@evasilvertant.bsky.social

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Lavish letter-lover, type tinkerer, idle illustrator, sapphic stargazer, Soviet chess collector, and classic camerist. Babbles about Being/Becoming to Blue Morpho butterflies. 🦋

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Eva Silvertant ❀ @evasilvertant.bsky.social · 2d

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Eva Silvertant ❀ @evasilvertant.bsky.social · 4d

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

Eva Silvertant ❀ @evasilvertant.bsky.social · 4d

Ahh that’s 17 and 21 years ago now. It’s fine. It’s just strange that the test counts this as living a wild life.

Eva Silvertant ❀ @evasilvertant.bsky.social · 4d

One of the items is getting cheated on or cheating on someone else. My two exes cheated on me. I’m so wild! 😱

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Eva Silvertant ❀ @evasilvertant.bsky.social · 4d

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!

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Eva Silvertant ❀ @evasilvertant.bsky.social · 6d

Yeah, it’s a nice mix of colors; some trees are still green, while others are already yellow or even orange or red.

Tomorrow we’re going to Bronte Creek Provincial Park to watch the beautiful colors of the trees. I’m sure I will be able to take some nice pictures.

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Eva Silvertant ❀ @evasilvertant.bsky.social · 6d

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

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Eva Silvertant ❀ @evasilvertant.bsky.social · 7d

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

Eva Silvertant ❀ @evasilvertant.bsky.social · 7d

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

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Herzberg Design Co @herzberg.bsky.social · 8d

Here’s every typeface that I’m currently working on (to some degree or another). Hopeful that they’ll all see the finish line before I start drawing 2 dozen new ones. Which one are you most excited about?

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Eva Silvertant ❀ @evasilvertant.bsky.social · 8d

They’re all amazing, but I’m most excited by Budapest and the two Arny typefaces!

Eva Silvertant ❀ @evasilvertant.bsky.social · 9d

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. 😆

Eva Silvertant ❀ @evasilvertant.bsky.social · 9d

A photo of a canna lily I took in Niagara-on-the-Lake last August.

Lens used: MMZ Helios-44-2 58mm ƒ/2

Eva Silvertant ❀ @evasilvertant.bsky.social · 10d

The two eldest are window watching. And Mowgli is sitting like Buddha. 🤭

Eva Silvertant ❀ @evasilvertant.bsky.social · 12d

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 ‘ ’.

Eva Silvertant ❀ @evasilvertant.bsky.social · 12d

I need to get up and show my wife. 😃

Eva Silvertant ❀ @evasilvertant.bsky.social · 19d

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Eva Silvertant ❀ @evasilvertant.bsky.social · 20d

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.

Eva Silvertant ❀ @evasilvertant.bsky.social · 20d

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

Eva Silvertant ❀ @evasilvertant.bsky.social · 21d

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

Eva Silvertant ❀ @evasilvertant.bsky.social · 22d

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… 🤷‍♀️

Eva Silvertant ❀ @evasilvertant.bsky.social · 23d

Eiki and Misha. Can you tell they love each other?

Eva Silvertant ❀ @evasilvertant.bsky.social · 23d

But they look so fabulous!

Anyway, I found a loophole by wearing their exoskeletons instead. 🤭

Eva Silvertant ❀ @evasilvertant.bsky.social · 25d

Complementary cicada color coordination. 🤭

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Eva Silvertant ❀ @evasilvertant.bsky.social · 25d

Haha sometimes you need to go for a quick little drug for your health.