Impressionist Photography – Tallinn, Estonia
I just spent another three weeks in Tallinn, Estonia, and after seeing how grungy the city was in March snowmelt (Tallinn is utterly lovely, but the end of winter…
I just spent another three weeks in Tallinn, Estonia, and after seeing how grungy the city was in March snowmelt (Tallinn is utterly lovely, but the end of winter…
I’ve taken the Moscow-Tallinn train any number of times. The scent of coal smoke, used to heat samovars for tea water on board, is indelibly printed on my brain as the scent of beckoning horizons. It’s an old Soviet train, built solid and ugly, but it stays warm and nowadays, they even usually keep it stocked [...]
Lillian is one of my favorite models. She has a wonderful vibrancy about her and that Estonian way of always smiling, even when I'm telling her to look fierce! I…
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 Baths archaeological…
One of the world's best collections of ancient Roman sculpture is in the relatively small Antalya Archaeological Museum, on Turkey's Southern coast. An ancient settlement itself, Antalya is within 90 minute's drive of five ruined ancient cities, and the pick of the finds from them reside in the city's museum.
I like to know as much as possible about places before I visit or move to them, and as I’ve been doing a lot of travel over the last few years I’ve worked some basic online research methods. Of course books are great and I love a good travel guide – Rough Guides are my favorite, generally – but most of the time I don’t have easy access to English language books. Hence, most of my research is done online. (more…)
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, though,…
Amissos - Samsun, Turkey - Images by Kira Hagen The English Club visited Amissos on a cool November afternoon. The the wintry sunlight was fading fast, and slid golden over…
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 presentable again since…
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 to…