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- I am a photographer and EFL teacher out to see the world! I do stock photography, fine art prints, and event and wedding photography, as well as teaching English lessons. I am currently spending some time in Berlin, Germany, though I’m originally from Minneapolis in the US. I speak English, French, Russian, and a little German and Turkish. Prints, cards, and usage licenses are available for the photos on this site.
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Archive for March, 2008
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Tverskaya Cyanotype
Posted on March 25, 2008 | View CommentsAh, Moscow: the never-ending greyness, the lousy weather, the winter depression, the bad air… I doctored up this photo in honor of all that. (Sorry about the lack of posts recently, by the way; there’s a bad flu going around and I ended up sick... -
Joke: “The River”
Posted on March 16, 2008 | View CommentsFound this at http://www.lokis-laughter.com/ The River One day, three men were hiking and unexpectedly came upon a large, raging, violent river. They needed to get to the other side, but had no idea of how to do so. The first man prayed to Woden, saying,... -
Two new sites for learning languages
Posted on March 13, 2008 | View CommentsHaving at least a basic proficiency in some foreign languages is essential to traveling well and understanding the places you visit or live in. Though traditionally taught in a classroom setting, the modern traveler has some very interesting new resources for solo study of a... -
Editor’s Pick!
Posted on March 11, 2008 | View CommentsI just got pulled as an editor’s pick on Blogged.com! This is pretty much the first site review I’ve gotten so I’m very pleased. -
Labyrinth & Fishermen, Minnehaha Park, Minneapolis
Posted on March 11, 2008 | View CommentsMinnehaha Park, Minneapolis, is one of my favorite places in the world. It’s a thin ribbon of a park following Minnehaha Creek down a narrow river gorge. Paths run from the Falls until the creeks slows and broadens, and floods into the Mississippi. In a... -
Happy March 8th!
Posted on March 8, 2008 | View CommentsHappy Women’s Day! Awesomest holiday ever. Tony gave me a bottle of the incredibly high quality, $120-a-bottle absinthe we’ve been ogling for two years at Azbuka Vkusa, and I finally got out to a public banya (steam baths) with my excellent girlfriend Marina. Good but... -
Old Communists
Posted on March 4, 2008 | View CommentsSmall gallery of heavily reprocessed photography, conveying extra stylization, of images shot in Russia. This picture is of a group of aging Communists gathered outside Red Square who I happened across while walking to an exhibit at the Menage. They were almost entirely pensioners.
