http://kirahagen.com Travel Photography and Writing by Kira Hagen Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:18:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ 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 running, and I'm finally getting them back up to speed. Anyway, I've been working with some models this week, ... http://kirahagen.com/2008/06/viking/ 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 architectural antiquities - here's Dawn sitting on the steps of the enormous Altar of Zeus, which is not exactly the sort of thing ... http://kirahagen.com/2008/06/on-the-steps-of-the-altar-of-zeus/ 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 meet up with family there. My dad was working on developing a marine protected area and it was a great excuse to ... http://kirahagen.com/2008/06/seychelles-gallery/ 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 was on fire upriver of us. It took the fire department about two hours to get it under control. Yesterday one of ... http://kirahagen.com/2008/05/beautiful-disasters/ 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 settled in fairly well now and I should be posting again regularly! The trip was... an adventure, in the way that badly ... http://kirahagen.com/2008/05/in-berlin/ 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 props and poses - I love the golden age quality of this image- sort of a vision of Queen ... http://kirahagen.com/2008/04/queen-maeve-pose-by-karina/ 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 copy and paste most of my posts back in. I skipped some that were just links to galleries without text; ... http://kirahagen.com/2008/04/recovering-posts/ 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 and all that! I do have a backup file from two weeks ago when I last upgraded wordpress, ... http://kirahagen.com/2008/04/hacked/