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
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”.
Early Morning walks around Oxford
Whilst on a visit back to oxford we stayed in the Randolph Hotel, very nice, very plush, very English! A couple of the mornings had some amazing light at dawn just as the sun was rising and I had a wander around.
Weekend in St Petersburg
We arrived into St Petersburg Pulkovo 1 airport from Moscow to be greeted by the damp cold that you just don’t get in Moscow, we took a cab we booked at the airport right into the historic Centre by St Isaac’s Cathedral where our hotel was for a reasonable 700 rubles.
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.
The Finca Project – Part 1
My brother and his wife already have one great house in Fortuna, Murcia, Spain, but they have been on the look out for new possibilities for a while, and in the summer they bought a new place. It is an old wrecked Finca (Spanish Farm) with one other wrecked building on the grounds, and 9 acres of land, mostly with Olive and Almond trees.
Where have I been? – Part 2 – UK and Spain
When I left Moscow I was only in the UK overnight down at my Mother-in-law’s house before leaving in the early hours to get to Bristol airport (the cheapest flight to Spain I could find by a long way). When I arrived my parents were there to meet me at the airport and my Dad seemed a lot better than when I left them only a few weeks earlier when he was still in hospital.
Two weeks in Spain
Normally I would welcome a couple of weeks away from the grey Autumn in Moscow, but the circumstances were not great. My dad was taken into hospital when I was still in Kuwait, so I booked the next reasonably priced flight out from Moscow to London, and then from there to Alicante.
Kuwait – Family Portraits
Whilst I was in Kuwait last week I got the opportunity on one of the days to get some portraits of my Niece and Nephew. My Nephew as ever whilst in the apartment wasn’t too co-operative so I had to get some candid shots whilst he was playing with toys.
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.
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 [...]
Travel Photography – Egypt – Aswan
Aswan is probably best known to former Geography students of a certain age due to the Aswan dams, and more specifically the Aswan High dam. The building of the High Dam formed Lake Nasser, this vast reservoir stretches from Aswan down to into the Sudan where it is refered to as Lake Nubia. When the [...]
Photography – Last game of Rugby Season 08/09
This last weekend I went to watch London Wasps play, and since we didn’t make the play-offs this year (which is unheard of in recent years) and several key players were either leaving or retiring after the game I took my Camera down, It was hard work taking the shots as the lens I have [...]
Photography – Trying to make money from it
I have been thinking about ways I can make a bit of cash from my hobby of photography, it looks like I have two options, building a portfolio website or selling via stock photography website. Portfolio Website I could use this option to display my best work and hopefully sell some work directly and get [...]
Enter the Snarks!
I was going to write this when I knew for sure what was going on with the move to Moscow but I figured I would wait until I was a little calmer and had considered the situation better. In anticipation of our visas coming through my wife had been talking to head of HR Europe, [...]
First Moscow Visit – Part 2: Falling for the City
We arrived at our hotel early in the morning at about 5.30am on Thursday and pretty much went straight to sleep. After having a lot of sleep we spent the afternoon looking at three different temporary apartments in Aparthotels with Elena (from my Wife’s company), they were all tiny and really designed as an alternative [...]
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