Showing posts with label photo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photo. Show all posts
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Gusta
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Travel Photos: USA
Couple of weeks ago I came back home from a long photo travel through the USA. I've traveled a long way on the east coast from Boston to the island of Key West in Florida. I had a great time traveling, seeing beautiful places and meeting nice people, who often spent all their time with me. Now I'm editing my travel photos of Boston, Cape Cod, New York City, Washington DC, Savannah, Miami and Key West. As ssoon I'm done with it all the photos will be published on my website Travel Stock Photos
Monday, November 22, 2010
Hamburg Miniature World
Last year on my visit to Hamburg I visited an amazing museum, the most unusual museum I've ever seen. MINIATUR WUNDERLAND HAMBURG is the largest model railway in the world with 20 km of railtracks, 1300 trains and 500.000 lights.
If you ever come to Northern Germany, you don't want to skip this place. But if you come it may take all your time, because you would not want to leave. Here's an amazing promo video of the museum and my travel photos from Hamburg.
If you ever come to Northern Germany, you don't want to skip this place. But if you come it may take all your time, because you would not want to leave. Here's an amazing promo video of the museum and my travel photos from Hamburg.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
New trip planned
On Saturday we are going to expedition to Russian National Park "Samara Luka", a gorgeous island in Volga river, a historic place with mountains over 100 mln. years near Samara. This is really the most scenic place in the area and also one of the most arduous, there are no common roads, just some tracks and dirt roads for 4x4.
Will take your suggestions, questions and requests for travel photos. Also considering assignments in this area.
Follow me to read my trip story and see photos when I come back.
Will take your suggestions, questions and requests for travel photos. Also considering assignments in this area.
Follow me to read my trip story and see photos when I come back.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
France Travel Photos
At last I'm done with uploading and attributing my best travel photos. I have now Berlin travel photos, Vienna travel photos, Venice travel photos and many more.
But this time a want to share beautiful pictures of France, these are mostly Paris travel photos, but also some photos of Lyon, French riviera and Monaco.
France travel photos: Paris, Lyon, Riviera - Images by ZooMMER - Photography
But this time a want to share beautiful pictures of France, these are mostly Paris travel photos, but also some photos of Lyon, French riviera and Monaco.
France travel photos: Paris, Lyon, Riviera - Images by ZooMMER - Photography
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Twitpics from Orbit
I've just come across an article about ISS crew twitpics from the space.
It has some amazing photos made with Nikon DSLR and 800mm lense. Amazing to see the results, but the photos look as close as Google Earth with just 800 mm!
The coolest is famous Golden Gates Bridge.
The photo is made by astronaut Soichi Noguchi. He also tweeted this to Twitpics. Can't stop praising modern science and technologies. Could you imagine this - live picture (made and ouploaded by astonaut) of Haiti's Port-Au-Prince right after the earthquake.
The 5 man crew comprising Expedition 22 aboard the ISS now have the capability to transmit live, unfiltered views and comments from space. And whats more is that starting on Feb. 1 they’ll be streaming live video from the outpost, orbiting some 220 miles above the earth while speeding along at 17,500 MPH.
It has some amazing photos made with Nikon DSLR and 800mm lense. Amazing to see the results, but the photos look as close as Google Earth with just 800 mm!
The coolest is famous Golden Gates Bridge.
The photo is made by astronaut Soichi Noguchi. He also tweeted this to Twitpics. Can't stop praising modern science and technologies. Could you imagine this - live picture (made and ouploaded by astonaut) of Haiti's Port-Au-Prince right after the earthquake.
The 5 man crew comprising Expedition 22 aboard the ISS now have the capability to transmit live, unfiltered views and comments from space. And whats more is that starting on Feb. 1 they’ll be streaming live video from the outpost, orbiting some 220 miles above the earth while speeding along at 17,500 MPH.
Monday, March 1, 2010
Nikon vs. Canon
I've been a staunch partisan of Nikon cameras since I started shooting professional. My loyalty to this brand even increased when they released the first DSLR with HD video. I immediately upgraded to Nikon D90 and still use it for both stills and video production, but now I guess I'm losing my patience and adherance to Nikon. I've been waiting for HD video improvements for so long, but instead Canon has drastically improved its 5D Mark II.
To be honest 5D beats my Nikon D90 in terms of footage quality and has a number of versatile settings which my camera lacks. And now I'm ready to switch to Canon, even though I'd have to change all the lenses and speed lights.
Please tell me that Nikon would have something like 5D Mark II in the next 6 months. I'd love to hear this news at last!
Sunday, February 28, 2010
European Photo Travel: Prague
Here I continue my European photo trip story, which started in Warsaw, Poland
Accomodation
After Lodz (by the way second in size city of Poland) we had a night car trip to Prague. We didn't plan to stay long in Prague and spend all the time in suits ;-) but decided rather to take a bed in cheap hostel. A nice guy in information bureau recommended "Hostel 5" and that seemed OK taking that we were 7 and took 2 private rooms with our personal kitchenette and shower. We were pretty happy with the rooms for the price, but the choice of hostel appeared to be the biggest mistake. EVER.
Prague and its sights
As all the shower procedures after a night in car were done, we went ahead to Prague's famous attractions right away. Even with moody skies the city looked fantastic, especially after boring and even depressive Polish towns. Prague's architecture with fairy-tale medieval bridges and towers dating back to 13th century was an impressive experience.
The old city called "Staré Město" is pretty small but is so packed with lovely shops, small restaurants, ancient buildings, that no other town in Europe can boast of. We went throught the Vaclav Square with its National Museum of Prague building, Charles Bridge, Jan Palach Square with Rudolfinum Gallery, a great representation of neo-renaissance style and of course the Astronomical Clock on Staromestska Square. By the time night came we really toured much of the city and stopped near the Prague Castle, which gave a lovely rooftop panorama of Prague as it sits on top of a hill. It has a really amazing view to Prague red tile roofs, especially at dawn.
Food in prague
By that time we really were hungry and stopped by in a small restaurant on the end of the Old Town. Oh gosh! I've never had anything as tasty as Czech cuisine, I mean it. The portions there are so big, but still pretty cheap. The most common meat in Prague is pork (it's often served with dumplings). This comes with sauerkraut just like we're used in Russia too ;-). We had Pomaiski tomato soup with melted cheese, which all of us ranked 10 out of 10. I've scanned through thousands of websites looking for the recipe, but didn't succed. Do I have to mention Czech beer, which is nothing like you had in your country. I like light beers, but if you visit Prague dark beers are highly recommend to try.
Writing all this makes my mouth water, but I really adore Prague's restaurants. When you order pasta in France you get a petit dish for 30 Euro, while in Prague you pay 3 times less and get a plate, which is too much for 2 people :-)
Czechs vs. Russians
Already on spot we learned that our days in Prague clashed with the 40th anniversary of the "Prague Spring" which was celebrated nation-wide. The symbol of the Prague Spring (Russian tank) was placed on Vaclav Square just in front of the National museum and gathered tonns of tourists. Local press even made many jokes on that Russian tank brings tourists and money to the country.
I really need to say, that despite all the tough times in the past Czechs are friendly to Russians and do not associate troubles they had, with Russia. This really makes them stand out from the Poles and also brings crowds of Russian tourists to Prague. Surprise for me to see many Russians in Prague, I guess almost half of the tourists spoke Russian on the streets, though it's just how I saw it.
Mistake
After walking all day long we came back to the hostel, flopped to beds and slept like a top. We didn't even hear someone coming to our room at about 5am and taking away our bags. When we woke up it was a shock. Two bags were missing, they had all the docs and IDs of 3 people, 2 credit cards, some jewelery and several thousand euro cash. We called the police, kept trying to get at least passports back, but if you're unlucky to get in such a scrape, be ready to complete negligence. We were ignored by "Hostel 5" owner (who didn't even talk to us), by police (the officer even seemed to smile at us) and by the Russian embassy (which took 120 euro for a new temporary ID and said that was all they could do).
The paperwork took 2 extra days in Prague, after all we could easily go anywhere without map. I wish we had some better reason for extended weakend in Prague, unfortunately the positive impression of the town was absolutely damaged. That's how we learned that Prague is in the top 3 of the pickpocket cities of the world.
Next
Actually in this situation we had to go home the shortest way possible. But we decided to not give up and continued our trip, though had to cut it short.
Next post would be from Germany.
Accomodation
After Lodz (by the way second in size city of Poland) we had a night car trip to Prague. We didn't plan to stay long in Prague and spend all the time in suits ;-) but decided rather to take a bed in cheap hostel. A nice guy in information bureau recommended "Hostel 5" and that seemed OK taking that we were 7 and took 2 private rooms with our personal kitchenette and shower. We were pretty happy with the rooms for the price, but the choice of hostel appeared to be the biggest mistake. EVER.
Prague and its sights
As all the shower procedures after a night in car were done, we went ahead to Prague's famous attractions right away. Even with moody skies the city looked fantastic, especially after boring and even depressive Polish towns. Prague's architecture with fairy-tale medieval bridges and towers dating back to 13th century was an impressive experience.
The old city called "Staré Město" is pretty small but is so packed with lovely shops, small restaurants, ancient buildings, that no other town in Europe can boast of. We went throught the Vaclav Square with its National Museum of Prague building, Charles Bridge, Jan Palach Square with Rudolfinum Gallery, a great representation of neo-renaissance style and of course the Astronomical Clock on Staromestska Square. By the time night came we really toured much of the city and stopped near the Prague Castle, which gave a lovely rooftop panorama of Prague as it sits on top of a hill. It has a really amazing view to Prague red tile roofs, especially at dawn.
Food in prague
By that time we really were hungry and stopped by in a small restaurant on the end of the Old Town. Oh gosh! I've never had anything as tasty as Czech cuisine, I mean it. The portions there are so big, but still pretty cheap. The most common meat in Prague is pork (it's often served with dumplings). This comes with sauerkraut just like we're used in Russia too ;-). We had Pomaiski tomato soup with melted cheese, which all of us ranked 10 out of 10. I've scanned through thousands of websites looking for the recipe, but didn't succed. Do I have to mention Czech beer, which is nothing like you had in your country. I like light beers, but if you visit Prague dark beers are highly recommend to try.
Writing all this makes my mouth water, but I really adore Prague's restaurants. When you order pasta in France you get a petit dish for 30 Euro, while in Prague you pay 3 times less and get a plate, which is too much for 2 people :-)
Czechs vs. Russians
Already on spot we learned that our days in Prague clashed with the 40th anniversary of the "Prague Spring" which was celebrated nation-wide. The symbol of the Prague Spring (Russian tank) was placed on Vaclav Square just in front of the National museum and gathered tonns of tourists. Local press even made many jokes on that Russian tank brings tourists and money to the country.
I really need to say, that despite all the tough times in the past Czechs are friendly to Russians and do not associate troubles they had, with Russia. This really makes them stand out from the Poles and also brings crowds of Russian tourists to Prague. Surprise for me to see many Russians in Prague, I guess almost half of the tourists spoke Russian on the streets, though it's just how I saw it.
Mistake
After walking all day long we came back to the hostel, flopped to beds and slept like a top. We didn't even hear someone coming to our room at about 5am and taking away our bags. When we woke up it was a shock. Two bags were missing, they had all the docs and IDs of 3 people, 2 credit cards, some jewelery and several thousand euro cash. We called the police, kept trying to get at least passports back, but if you're unlucky to get in such a scrape, be ready to complete negligence. We were ignored by "Hostel 5" owner (who didn't even talk to us), by police (the officer even seemed to smile at us) and by the Russian embassy (which took 120 euro for a new temporary ID and said that was all they could do).
The paperwork took 2 extra days in Prague, after all we could easily go anywhere without map. I wish we had some better reason for extended weakend in Prague, unfortunately the positive impression of the town was absolutely damaged. That's how we learned that Prague is in the top 3 of the pickpocket cities of the world.
Next
Actually in this situation we had to go home the shortest way possible. But we decided to not give up and continued our trip, though had to cut it short.
Next post would be from Germany.
Travel Changes Time
Their were no time zones before 19th century. Time was measured with the sun position and differed even in neighbour towns. Introduction of the time zones evolved due to emergence of railroad fast transport in the UK. Making a timetable for trains was impossible without some unified time measuring.
It was railway companies who lobbied a single time zone for the UK. Then the system started to spread all over the world.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Vodka and Wodka
Some European languages appear to have 2 similar words in their vocabularies - vodka and wodka. Even with linguistic education I didn't ever know this and was pretty surprised, coz as I was tought a language being a progmatic and adjustable formation would never have 2 different words for absolutely identical things.
So I wondered what could be the difference b\w vodka and wodka. It appeared to be pretty simple - the "vodka" came from the Russian language and means Russian vodka, whereas "wodka" is from the Polish language and means Polish vodka :-) The same damn centuries-long competetion b\w Poland and Russia even in linguistics :-)
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