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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 good fashion shots (and some of them were good, but as much [...]

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 rivers, often starting very young. The boys could as easily have been working on the Mississippi as on the Danube.

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 beer. Delicious stuff. I’m not sure if it’s really that good, actually, or only that [...]

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 that was very graceful. Every corner held promises of strangeness and [...]

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 Delta, and the Machin Munti National Park, and overall had a very satisfying bit of travel.

Small boat on a tropical beach

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 [...]

Good mead at the Solstice fest

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, [...]

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 top, and split a bottle [...]

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 you expect to find in [...]

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 Moscow’s January bleakness. At any [...]