Golden Ring Cities – Sergiev Posad
Sergiev Posad is the closest of the ‘Golden Ring’ cities near to Moscow, of the Golden Ring we have already visited Vladimir and Suzdal.
Golden Ring Cities – Suzdal
Suzdal is perhaps one of the most interesting of the ‘Golden Ring’ cities North East of Moscow, and one of the oldest remaining towns in Russia with records showing its history dates back to at least 1024 AD.
Irina – Outdoor Portraits – Varying focal length
This was another portrait session for my course, and once again, as it was decent weather we did this one outside, around the time the sun was starting to drop behind the buildings
Tania – Outdoor Portraits 2
This was another exercise for my course, involving concentrating on the expression on the face of the subject, especially the eyes as they look directly at the camera, slightly away from the camera, and even directly away from it. I really like the results here, especially this first shot:- As always, click the thumbnails in [...]
Tania – Outdoor Portraits 1
This was another portrait shoot for my course, the purpose was to take quite a lot of shots, noting down any thoughts for each shot at the time, and stop when you get to the shot you think is the best
Renee – Outdoor Portraits
This was another exercise for my course, the purpose was to take active portraits. The portraits should concentrae on the look on the face whilst engaging in the activity rather than the activity itself.
Jirgala – Outdoor Portraits
This was another assignment for my course, again I needed to take some portrait shots outdoors, but this time the purpose was to experiment with lighting. Jirgala and I headed over to the park in the middle of Strastnoy Boulevard as there is mixed light there
Anya – Outdoor Portraits
This was another assignment for my course, to scout out possible locations for an outdoor standard portrait shot (head and shoulders), then decide on one location and take the portrait shots. For this I had a few places in mind, as did Anya, they were in the same area so we went for a walk around and instead of just taking photos of an area I knew well, as possible locations, I actually took some portrait shots in each location
Balcony Portraits
As part of the photography course I am doing there is a module called ‘People and Place’ which is kind of a mixture of Portraiture, Locations, and the bringing of them together to take better shots of people in specific contexts for potential clients.
Moscow photo exhibition: Icons
Earlier this week I met up with a new friend Jos to go to see a photo exhibition in Moscow’s old Red October Chocolate factory building called or “Icons”.
Moscow – Sculpture Park
There are some great statues of Lenin in the historic section made from different materials, and sat in front of a huge Soviet-era metal Sculpture/Sign that seems to been in every photo I have every seen associated with this park
Touring Moscow with the In-laws
The in-laws came over 2 weeks ago today for four days, but the volcanic ash cloud covering most of Europe meant they stayed for 10 days in the end, so we did a fair bit of looking around the city to the following places:- Red Square and St Basil’s Cathedral Kitai Gorod Cathedral of Christ [...]
April Drinking in Russia
So over the last few weeks since being back in Moscow we have been out a fair bit, either out in bars/restaurants or at our place, with friends, and also with family when they visited. Now I have the Canon G11 I can take an ok photo when out with friends without taking the big SLR.
Breaking the Ice on the Moskva
Whilst Lou and did a boat cruise on the River Moskva in the summer (on Moscow day) on a small boat with about 20 other people, in the winter this isn’t possible, however there is a longer cruise on an icebreaker.
Moscow by night…….And Day
Last week we tried to have a wander around Moscow at night time to take some photos, but the temperature dropped rapidly as we approached the river, but luckily by this time we had already gone through Red Square to take a few photos, and so we made our way home via Ulitsa Varvarka.
Walking in a winter wonderland – Serebryanyy Bor
The weekend after we returned to Moscow we went to visit a colleague of Lou’s and his Family who live in a reidential area of a park in Moscow – Serebryanyy Bor. By the time we were walking around the sun was dropping so there were some fantastic colours in the sky.
The park itself is on an island on the River Moscow to the west of the city, has a number of private residences, and a large number of small paths crossing through the forest. It seems like a popular location with cross-country skiers, we even saw an older lady being pulled along on her skis by a huge Mastiff dog, which had our friends’ rideback puppy cowering when it pulled its master over to greet the pup.
Where have I been? – Part 1 – Last Few days in Moscow
Well it has been a while mainly because I have been with family a lot for the last 6 weeks or so, and I had unpredictable internet access and laptop availabilty wasn’t always great.
So, when I came back from Spain in Novemeber I was only coming back for a couple of weeks or so before heading off again to see my parents again in Spain. After a week or so of being back in Moscow the miserable grey, rainy weather was getting me down – there was only 10hrs of sun in the whole of November 2009 in Moscow, and I am pretty sure that all came on a day I was out of the country.
Moscow – Autumn in Sokolniki Park
Sokolniki Park is in the North East of Moscow and gets its name from the area of the city that the Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich’s Falconers used to live as Sokol means Falcon in Russian and he was a keen hunter.
Moscow – Autumn Weekend
Here in Moscow the Autumn days of falling leaves in parks seem to be all too short but this last weekend was one such weekend, nice ‘crisp’ (cold-ish, but no rain) weather, and still had to catch up that the failed attempt at a walk in the park last weekend.
Moscow – A Walk in the Park
When we got back the temperature change was very noticeable, we left and it was 20C, when we returned it was at most 11C but has since dropped to 5C in parts of the daytime. Anyway this last weekend we decided to go for a walk around Moscow to one of the many parks, we decided to go to Victory Park.
Corporate Photography – Traditional Headshots
A couple of weeks ago I did a corporate photography shoot with the senior management of the Russian offices of a large multinational company. The brief was to produce a single usable portrait shot for each of the team for a large conference they were hosting for their largest clients, all household names throughout the world.
Moscow City Day 2009
Over the first weekend of each September Moscow celebrates the birth of the city with parades, open air concerts, even a waiter race. The city is usually crowded, lots of security, especially when entering key areas (Lubyanka Square, Red Square, etc) where there were bag checks and metal detectors, and there was also a lot [...]
Moscow – the first month or so
It has been about 6 weeks since we moved here to Moscow and it feels like we have done so much, and so little, from multiple trips to Ikea (a necessary evil!), to being overawed in Red Square, once again multiple times. So the apartment we settled on is in the area of Kitai Gorod [...]
Moved to Moscow……..Finally
Well I had to delay posting this for a week due to not having the photos for it but here goes, and I have just linked to the photos on Flickr for this post. After a mad few weeks seeing people, getting our stuff packed away and either shipped, moved into storage, or moved to [...]
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