Tag Archives: russia
Nostalgia
Photography, space dogs + treasure
Russia before the revolution. Slide show wired magazine.
Street photography. Slide show lensculture.
Lighting films with mirrors, as in Rashomon forest scene, and flash and mirror photography.
Laika Лайка and the Soviet Space Dogs
“Belka Белка and Strelka Стрелка spent a day in space aboard Korabl-Sputnik 2 on 19 August 1960 before safely returning to Earth.
They were accompanied by a grey rabbit, 42 mice, 2 rats, flies and several plants and fungi. All passengers survived. They were the first Earth-born creatures to go into orbit and return alive.” wikipedia.
Shipwreck off the coast of Colombia.
caviar+pancake
under the bridge
русский кот
pyongyang кафе
our awkward and dericious dinner at pyongyang cafe.
i had cognac with my food, something the late mr. kim would have approved. bulgogi.
the waitresses were all north koreans (allegedly). there were four of them, skinny and well-dressed, watching the fina world championships while they waited on us. the room was equipped with a norebang machine just in case the cognac got out of hand. Пхеньян кафе
walls of vladivostok
doors
end of the line
vladivostok station, the eastern terminus of the trans siberian railway.
zolotoy bridge Золотой мост