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. Paths run from the Falls until the creeks slows and broadens, and floods into the Mississippi. In a deep spring flood, much of the park may be under water; in an August drought, the shore can gain 25 feet of beach, as this photo shows. (more…)
Happy Women's Day! Awesomest holiday ever. Tony gave me a bottle of the incredibly high quality, $120-a-bottle absinthe we've been ogling for two years at Azbuka Vkusa, and I finally…
Small gallery of heavily reprocessed photography, conveying extra stylization, of images shot in Russia. This picture is of a group of aging Communists gathered outside Red Square who I happened…
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.
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 people, the…
I give you the Belorussian endorsements for the US presidential campaign
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On one hand I’m tempted to repost the whole thing for sheer hilarity value, but on the other some bits do jump out more than others. By the way, this is basically written to snark back at the West for its criticism of Belorussian politics and dictator, to put this in context. Anyway, here we go! Bolding mine. Translation apparently by the Belarus Information Agency… I can’t confirm its authenticity but it’s definitely in the style of post-Soviet newspaper articles. Sigh… (more…)
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 the sky was clear…
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…
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…
Last year I was walking across Tallinn late at night, off to get a pint of the nice house porter at Hell Hunt, when a group in medieval garb and…