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About by: Kira
April 20, 2008, 02:59
Hello and thanks for stopping by my website! My name is Kira Hagen and I’m 32, a semi-pro photographer, traveler, and teacher of English (and sometimes…
- Archives by: Kira
  February 11, 2009, 06:00
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- Site Map by: Kira
  November 4, 2009, 21:42
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English Lessons by: Kira
June 8, 2008, 23:34
While traveling for the last few years my main work has been teaching English, and since it’s such a great way to meet and work with interesting people I’d…
Photography by: Kira
July 10, 2008, 21:40
I’m a part time professional photographer shooting a Canon DSLR. You can see my work in the galleries listed as subpages here, contact me regarding photography…
- Prints & Stock Photography by: Kira
  July 16, 2009, 02:55
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- Sales & Services by: Kira
  February 27, 2009, 06:28
  Photo Prints The photos in the gallery can be bought as photographic prints by adding them to the cart, where you can order a wide option of prints and printed…
- Facebook Photostream by: Kira
  November 6, 2009, 23:56
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Contact by: Kira
June 1, 2008, 23:50
Email me at kira@kirahagen.com or use this form to contact me: Networking Profile Links: Model Mayhem MySpace
- Guestbook by: Kira
  June 2, 2008, 00:15
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My Blog
- Studio and Event Photography (6)
  Announcements about new studio and event photo galleries
  - The Amazon by: Kira
    August 9, 2010, 03:51
    Studio photos of a model dressed as an Amazon or perhaps Valkyrie
  - Ancient Priestess by: Kira
    May 30, 2010, 15:11
    Last month I did a shoot in Ankara with model Özge Can posing in a chiton, a dress common to women throughout the ancient Mediterranean, at the Roman…
  - Fashion shoot with Szilvia by: Kira
    November 4, 2008, 00:32
    Small gallery from my fashion/ lingerie shoot with my Hungarian friend Szilvia. She’s studying photography, but I’ve got to say she did awfully well in…
  - Recent studio work by: Kira
    September 29, 2008, 22:41
    I’ve been doing some more work with models recently, mainly a lovely Estonian girl named Lilly. Unfortunately, I seemed to have forgotten all my (meagre)…
  - Queen Maeve — pose by Karina by: Kira
    April 21, 2008, 16:01
    This is Karina, the first of the two models I’ve been working with and the reason I went out and bought studio lights. We did a lot of playing around with…
  - Tamta by: Kira
    April 20, 2008, 01:47
    I think my website has been hacked… the main site has disappeared and I can’t get into the WordPress admin area either. The other wordpress blogs I’m hosting…
- Travel Photography (23)
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  - Ancient Priestess by: Kira
    May 30, 2010, 15:11
    Last month I did a shoot in Ankara with model Özge Can posing in a chiton, a dress common to women throughout the ancient Mediterranean, at the Roman…
  - The Antalya Archaeological Museum by: Kira
    May 2, 2010, 16:14
    Photographs of Roman sculptures, Byzantine coins, and the collection of the Antalya Archaeological Museum.
  - Amissos by: Kira
    November 26, 2009, 23:41
    Amissos — Samsun, Turkey — Images by Kira Hagen The English Club visited Amissos on a cool November afternoon. The the wintry sunlight was fading fast,…
  - Just moved to Samsun, Turkey by: Kira
    October 3, 2009, 22:26
    Long time since I posted anything on here. A wordpress upgrade broke the old “Options” theme I was using, and I’ve been fiddling with making the blog presentabl…
  - Brides of Time by: Kira
    June 27, 2009, 07:31
    I love watching art restoration work in progress, especially when the technicians are actively working on things. These statues were in a wing of the Louvre…
  - Russian Vikings by: Kira
    March 1, 2009, 13:28
    This is my favorite shot from the Gorodets living history festival in 2006. It always makes me think I should title it, “No shit, there I was…” The guys…
  - Weekend in Ely by: Kira
    February 11, 2009, 06:57
    Spent the weekend in Ely and visited the International Wolf Center.
  - Working on the River by: Kira
    September 30, 2008, 19:35
    Some boys working on a dredging boat in the Danube Delta, Romania. Dredging is highly disruptive of the fragile delta environment, but I love the timelessness…
  - Bucharest by: Kira
    September 14, 2008, 05:36
    Travel photography of Bucharest, Romania
  - Returned from Romania by: Kira
    September 4, 2008, 03:59
    Just got back from a trip to beautiful Romania. I shot over 4,000 pictures on a 10 day trip and have a lot of editing ahead of me now! Managed to see a…
  - Midsummer at the Mittlealter festival by: Kira
    June 23, 2008, 04:18
    We had a great anniversary day yesterday — spent it out at a middle ages festival that was like a mini RenFest but with more alcohol and more children with…
  - Attack of the Viking by: Kira
    June 14, 2008, 02:56
    I’ve been pretty busy this week trying to get some web software working — back in April when this blog crashed so did 4 other bits of online software I was…
  - On the steps of the Altar of Zeus by: Kira
    June 9, 2008, 16:48
    Had a friend from the States visiting this weekend, and got out to a couple of museums for the free Thursday museum nights. The Pergamon museum showcases…
  - Seychelles Gallery by: Kira
    June 1, 2008, 02:49
    Just got some older photos uploaded. They’re from the trip I took to the Seychelles Islands in early 2006 — midwinter holiday from work in Moscow to go…
  - Beautiful disasters by: Kira
    May 25, 2008, 05:18
    Didn’t expect to be shooting disaster pictures when I went down to the weekly expat riverboat barbecue two weeks ago, but what looked to be a gas station…
  - In Berlin! by: Kira
    May 11, 2008, 20:52
    Sorry about the lack of posts recently; I just made a major international move from Moscow to Berlin with about 2 week’s notice. My husband and are getting…
  - Tverskaya Cyanotype by: Kira
    March 25, 2008, 10:20
    Ah, 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…
  - Labyrinth & Fishermen, Minnehaha Park, Minneapolis by: Kira
    March 11, 2008, 02:25
    Minnehaha 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.…
  - Old Communists by: Kira
    March 4, 2008, 11:35
    Small gallery of heavily reprocessed photography, conveying extra stylization, of images shot in Russia. This picture is of a group of aging Communists…
  - Moscow Galleries by: Kira
    February 21, 2008, 11:41
    Moscow — Images by Kira HagenJust doing some updates on the photo galleries. Split my Moscow photos into a couple different groups — this one is focused on…
  - The Greatness of Rome by: Kira
    February 9, 2008, 11:09
    This guy cracked me up. Charged me two Euros to take the shot. Such a Roman — didn’t even put down the cigarette. Italians! Anyway, I sort of think it…
  - The Winged Messenger by: Kira
    February 5, 2008, 11:42
    I photographed this statue in the Capitoline Museum, Rome, and I really, really wish I’d snapped a shot of the tag on it as well. I’d hit the stage where…
  - The Torchlit Procession by: Kira
    January 12, 2008, 11:52
    Tallinn, Estonia: a group of costumed performers playing medieval music carry torches through the streets
- Travel Blog (20)
  - Travel Research by: Kira
    March 6, 2010, 17:23
    A list of web sites for travel planning for photography and teaching English, describing how Kira Hagen plans her international travel
  - On Seeking the World’s Soul by: Kira
    February 13, 2010, 23:32
    The last trip got to me. Just a bit, nothing too bad, only traveling two weeks around Turkey, where I’ve now lived for 5 months. It left me exhausted,…
  - Upgraded and broke my theme by: Kira
    June 29, 2009, 09:33
    Having some problems with my site at the moment — my apologies! I upgraded wordpress and the template I’ve been using for the last few years broke. So, trying…
  - Sorry about the mess… by: Kira
    February 27, 2009, 11:05
    I just stopped using Zenfolio’s photo hosting and now some of my older image links are broken. I’ve switched to self-hosted Gallery2 software and am in the…
  - Mycoremediation by: Kira
    July 11, 2008, 14:16
    I’ve just been reading up on mycoremediation, or cleaning soil with beneficial fungi, at Fungi Perfecti. Here’s an exerpt: What can you do? Delineate your…
  - Terra Preta by: Kira
    July 11, 2008, 11:14
    “Terra Preta”, or “dark earth”, is an Amazonian Indian technology which can vastly improve soil fertility and pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere,…
  - Redesigning this site by: Kira
    July 9, 2008, 23:44
    I’ve been playing with a big site redesign — I’m thinking about switching to the “Options” theme and using Gallery2 for my photos, since google can index…
  - Solstice in Berlin by: Kira
    June 21, 2008, 05:29
    It’s the shortest night of the year. I’d much rather be out at a bonfire than here at the digital hearth, but at least Tony and I went out to the Friedricshain…
  - Recovering posts by: Kira
    April 21, 2008, 12:18
    So I couldn’t figure out how to get that backup to work, but luckily I’d been crossposting just about everything from this blog to LJ and was able to manually…
  - Hacked by: Kira
    April 20, 2008, 15:27
    Well, some bit of malware just ate my site. I’m extremely annoyed — as if I wasn’t in the middle of moving to a new city and trying to get the apartment ready…
  - Going bonkers by: Kira
    April 18, 2008, 01:41
    Went down to the Belarussian consulate to get our transit visas started today, but the line was too long and they said they wouldn’t get through what was there…
  - Moving to Germany by: Kira
    April 13, 2008, 14:30
    We’re doing it. Yesterday we went out and got tickets to Berlin for April 30th. We leave on the 9:15 pm train and arrive in Berlin 24 hours later. So,…
  - Stopped by the FSB by: Kira
    April 9, 2008, 02:21
    Been having a stressful week… got stopped by the FSB (the Federal Security Bureau, loosely translated, and successor to the KGB) and questioned for 2 hours…
  - Joke: “The River” by: Kira
    March 16, 2008, 10:55
    Found 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…
  - Two new sites for learning languages by: Kira
    March 13, 2008, 10:56
    Having at least a basic proficiency in some foreign languages is essential to traveling well and understanding the places you visit or live in. Though…
  - Editor’s Pick! by: Kira
    March 11, 2008, 10:59
    I 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.
  - Happy March 8th! by: Kira
    March 8, 2008, 11:03
    Happy Women’s Day! Awesomest holiday ever. Tony gave me a bottle of the incredibly high quality, 0-a-bottle absinthe we’ve been ogling for two years at…
  - Spreading the word by: Kira
    February 25, 2008, 11:04
    I’m working to get a bit more traffic coming to this site by submitting it to various blog directories. I’ve now got listings on Technorati and BlogCatalog.
  - Great Moments in Bad Writing and Poor Translation by: Kira
    February 20, 2008, 11:06
    I give you the Belorussian endorsements for the US presidential campaign. On one hand I’m tempted to repost the whole thing for sheer hilarity value, but on…
  - Published in National Geographic Historia by: Kira
    February 18, 2008, 11:07
    In November, I found a request for images of Tsaritsino Palace, a museum estate in the South of Moscow, on Photographers Direct’s web site. That Saturday…
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