Discovering Russia: Orenburg

Such a big fun to see your small provincial hometown with the eyes of a foreigner. And twice more fun if he's a British journalist from Russia Today channel.
Here's a pretty long report about Orenburg, Russian region on the borderline with Kazakhstan. James Brown covered all the sights and attractions of the place I live in.

"The city is famous by shawls made from goat hair and by its big salt deposits. The Soliletsk’s salt lakes could compete with the Dead Sea", says the promo text.

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.

How Design Is Made

For a pretty long time I've been working as a broadcast designer and made tonns of TV commercials. Actually I still go on doing that, but less and less, trying to shift to travel photography. So this YouTube video is just about how 99% of all work is done in this sphere.

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!