Weekend in Kazan
Kazan is the modern day capital of the Russian Republic of Tatarstan and lies about 450 miles to the east of Moscow where the Volga and Kazanka Rivers meet. Kazan was formed in the early 15th century but became the capital of the Tatar Khanate that emerged from the Golden Horde although it said the [...]
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.
Travel Photography – Yekaterinburg Part 2
The next day we went for a walk down the river Isset from the original wooden dam (albeit with newer stone facing) that we saw on our first day here (see previous post)
Travel Photography – Yekaterinburg Part 1
We were looking to travel somewhere at the last minute for the weekend,somewhere for the two of us to get away alone so we consulted our list:- Murmansk – Too cold and dark yet, St Petersburg – been too many times, Sochi – Too much rain, and Yekaterinburg – cold but not too cold and [...]
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.
Kamchatka – Rafting the Bystraya
So, on the 3 rafts, we had 21 people, and ALL our gear for the 2 week trip, and all the kitchen and dining setup, so consequently the boats were pretty heavily loaded.
Kamchatka – Esso Village
We had another long journey (about 5hrs) to Esso village to experience some of the ‘native’ Even people of Kamchatka, we started by driving through the forest and then to the same interesting river crossing, luckily the last crossing before the lunch break was running late so we managed to catch it.
Kamchatka – Tolbachik Volcano
It looked like a lunar lanscape of volcanic ash/sand and rock with small cones around us and the imposing site of Ostry (sharp) and Plosky (Flat) Tolbachik Volcanoes,
Kamchatka – Uzon Caldera and Valley of the Geysers
We arrived at the supposedly fantastic hotel with thermal baths, Helios Hotel in Paratunka, another highly innacurate description by the Vision of Kamchatka team, where we said goodbye to some of our group who were returning home.
Kamchatka – Gorely Volcano
The morning after the scramble up Mutnovsky Volcano we were looking forward to going up to the top of Gorely Volcano which on paper should be easier, only 1829 metre high
Kamchatka – Mutnovsky Volcano
The next day it was time for the first volcano, Mutnovsky (2323 metres high). It is formed of 4 Stratovolcanos joined together and has a double crater
Kamchatka – Petropavlovsk
I recently returned from a fairly unique trip amongst my friends certainly, I went to the Russian far east, to Kamchatka, ‘Land of Ice and Fire’
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.
St Peterburg’s City Day 2010
St Peterburg Celebrated its 307th Birthday on Thursday 27th May 2010, however the celebrations went on for 4 days until Sunday 30th May, however we arrived in St Petersburg the morning after the official City day, but after a day of work, food, drink we didn’t see much of the events of the weekend until the next day.
St Petersburg – Inside the Blood church
We didn’t realise until a day or so beforehand though that the day before we arrived it was the St Petersburg City Day, and that this year it was being stretched out over 4 days
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
Weekend in St Petersburg with the In-laws
As a finale to their enforced extension to their visit to Moscow due to the volcanic ash cloud over most of Europe we decided to go to St Petersburg.
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.
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