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Just bit the bullet and started over with WordPress, though I did keep my old blog posts. It’s a fresh start to go with starting over in a new country; moved my family away from Moscow and to Cologne, Germany this spring and are finally settled. Speaking of family, that’s pretty much why I haven’t posted in a couple years… amazing how much time and energy a baby takes! We have a little Viking boy named Rorek now, a pretty […]
Gorodets 2013, Viking period reenactment battle. I love how the guy with the horse hair on his helm looks so perfectly at ease in the midst of all that steel!
Snæfellsnes, Iceland: “Close to the Light”. Really wishing I could have spent more time in Iceland! This picture was taken after we got somewhat lost in Snæfellsnes and ended up entering through what I think was the far side of the park from where people normally do. We walked up to the edge of the glacier and sat for a bit and contemplated the sheer power and presence of place the mountain had. I think I understand something more of the […]
After I picked it up I went to the nearest park and shot for about an hour and a half. Unfortunately, about 2 minutes in an elderly local English teacher glommed on to me and, asked if I minded her practicing her English with me for a bit, and then followed me around for the next hour and a half. Nice lady but I couldn't get to the backwoods parts of the park because she seemed determined to follow wherever […]
Went out to shoot the park across the road (Kolomenskoe Park, Moscow Russia) with my lensbaby (special old-fashioned lens that gives a lot of blur). It was really cold. I like how the tunnel effect of the spot focus makes it look like Narnia or faeryland in some of the shots. Not a heavily edited shoot, just haven't had the camera out for a while for anything other than pictures of the school I work at. #ObscureCameraSunday Google+: Reshared 1 […]
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 […]