http://kirahagen.com Travel Photography and Writing by Kira Hagen Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:32:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="427" caption="Fashion shoot with Szilvia"][/caption] 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 front of the lens. Unfortunately she doesn't want me posting the more risque photos but we got some ... http://kirahagen.com/2008/11/fashion-shoot-with-szilvia [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="640" caption="Two boys work on a dredging boat in the Danube Delta, Romania"][/caption] 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 of this photo - people have always worked on ... http://kirahagen.com/2008/09/working-on-the-river [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="427" caption="Lilly, an Estonian model working in Berlin"][/caption] 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) Estonian except for "Saku Tume, palun", which is how one orders a dark Saku brand ... http://kirahagen.com/2008/09/recent-studio-work [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="448" caption="Piata Universitatii, Bucharest"][/caption] I have my first photos from Bucharest up now... honestly didn't take that many pictures in the capital; it's the sort of place that walking alone with a DSLR doesn't seem like the best of ideas. That said, the town has a crumbling elegance ... http://kirahagen.com/2008/09/bucharest [caption id="attachment_57" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Medieval Gate and Clock Tower in Sighisoara, Romania"][/caption] 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 little of Bucharest, Transylvania, the Danube ... http://kirahagen.com/2008/09/returned-from-romania 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 garbage into categories. Not only compost all organic debris, but segregate the refuse into piles appropriate for a variety of desired mushroom species. Inoculate cardboard and paper ... http://kirahagen.com/2008/07/mycoremediation "Terra Preta", or "dark earth", is an Amazonian Indian technology which can vastly improve soil fertility and pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, potentially keeping it out for thousands of years. Biomass - plant and animal waste such as manure, waste wood, and crop leftovers - can be ... http://kirahagen.com/2008/07/terrapret 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 it and I can still set up print ordering. Anyway, just testing some things out. I feel like I'm staring up a very ... http://kirahagen.com/2008/07/redesigning-this-site 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 weapons. We got some very fine mead in a stoneware bottle, reuasable as an oil lamp with the appropriate wick, ... http://kirahagen.com/2008/06/midsummer-at-the-mittlealter-festival 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 Folkpark and climbed the big hill out there. We had some good bread with local goat cheese on ... http://kirahagen.com/2008/06/solstice-in-berlin