Russia in photos. Without politics.

Picture this angry dove I posted a blog on this forum, but, as I understand it, blogs are not interesting, so will duplicate here.

 

The fieldfare always look like he doesn't trust you. Interesting also behaviour. When I was photographing, he always wanted to go behind the tree. Hide behind the trunk and peeked out from behind it. I go walk around to see better — it bypasses the trunk in the other direction and hiding again behind him.

 

Again graffiti. "Time to make good". Note on style

 

Very fresh picture of Russian reality Two days ago, went out into the yard — there changed the asphalt. The driver of the car ignored the warning in advance and had not moved the car to another place. As a result, the asphalt was put around his auto

When I went there yesterday, the car was gone, and a hole in the pavement patched.

 

A little video. In Moscow in recent years began to lay asphalt with the violation of Soviet design standards. In particular, clean the storm sewers. As a result, in some places after heavy rains such picture turns out

[video=youtube;i8kNAm2v-X8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8kNAm2v-X8[/video]

 

And a little video. One of my hobbies is astrophotography. I astrophotographed rarely. And it is incredibly difficult to do in the city (light pollution). But sometimes something interesting happens.

Here is another story. I once tried to astrophotograph from the balcony, but the sky quickly grew cloudy and photography became impossible. Then I left the camera to shoot a series of photos and went to sleep. In the morning I collected from these photos timelaps. The battery of the camera are quickly exhausted, photos were few and video came out short, but still, I think, interesting

[video=youtube;uBX2Mv7WCLg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBX2Mv7WCLg[/video]

 

And I love to take pictures of night Moscow. This photo is interesting because it is made in totally unsuitable conditions I am very drunk returned since the birth of the friend. With the unprofessional simple camera in hands. The tripod was not. But I liked this view. The lack of a tripod for long exposures I compensated pressing the camera to the power pole Got this photo.

 

Great picture. You captured 'the look'.

 

Even graffiti. Just a wish from someone to his girlfriend. The inscription on top: "Sunny mood, Yummy!"

 

And this is graffiti on boiler house near my house. The plot of the fairy tale "Three little pigs".



Photographed specially for this theme. Earlier did not pay attention to such things, get used to them quickly

 

Again graffiti. The plot — a WWII soldier writes "Victory. May, 9, 1945" on the wall of the Reichstag. Painted on the wall of the boiler house near the house of my friend.

 

The city just passed a law banning graffiti on buildings then went out and started commissioning paintings on buildings. There is another area north of me with some real graffiti. I will post some pics if I can get some.

 

The stars in the sky above the village where my mother lives. The high pipe is a water tower. I'm often too lazy to take in trip an equipment. And often find themselves in a situation where there is nothing except the camera. Not even a tripod. So when shooting this photo in the open field had to be undressed and used as a tripod own shoes

 

It's near a trolleybus stop near my house. Absolutely tasteless graffiti. And someone had pasted a sticker. Interestingly, the inscription in English and Russian is different. In Russian it is written "Had enough to dirty the walls of pointless sh*t".

 

Barbarism, but funny for Russia change. In the USSR was a very popular official may day slogan "Peace! Work! May!". Then it turned into "PEACE WORK SEX".

 

Squirrel in the Park. Nothing remarkable, just for a change

 

Funny story. In the Russian language the words "belka" ("squirrel") and "belok" ("protein") sound quite different. But if you change the second word in russian analogue of the possessive case it begins to be written exactly as the first (albeit with a different accent, not at first and on the second syllable - "bElka" and "belkA"). Therefore, primitive electronic translator confuses these words.

Once such was translated the institute title the website. "Moscow Institute of protein". In Russian — "Institut belkA". The translator translated as "Squrrel institute". As such, the name got on the official site



In Russia this shame became a meme and then long remembered (although the error was quickly corrected).

 

The Caucasus Mountains. A very beautiful place. Near this place are buried the mother of my wife.

 

And so people live in a remote mountain village. The man on the right is my father-in-law.



On the left is his cousin. People with interesting lives. When the USSR was promoted to General Prosecutor of Kyrgyzstan. After the collapse of the USSR had lost everything and went to Russia, in the Makhachkala city. Lived there for several years, but there will be a fire and he lost the house. Then went to the mountain village where he was born. He built himself a house, where he lives until now. This is a picture in his house.

Books on the table — Helvetius, Rozanov, Voltaire, Karl Marx, Florensky. Next — the book of the sights of Kaunas. And a stack of novels by George Sand

 

Continuing the theme of the Caucasus. Rural meal.



Last year was a funny story. In this very remote mountain village somewhere suddenly appeared a girls. They don't speak Russian. Nobody speaks English in the village. After explanations with gestures, drawings and books, it turns out this story. This girls from South Korea. Drove themselves (not as part of any official group) on a tour to the Caucasus. Chose a village (how they were chosen is unknown, the language barrier prevented to figure out, can be randomly pointed on the map), somehow got there. Knocked at the first house. There and then lived for many days, immersing themselves in local life. They were cordially received. In the Caucasus, in General, very hospitable people.

 

she's a cute little doll

 

If we combine the themes of food, children and stereotypes about Russia, it turns out that photo. My daughter has breakfast sandwiches with red caviar

 

She is so cute that I hope some day she will be a gymnastics star like Olga Korbut, Nelly Kim, Tamara Lazakovich, or Ludmilla Tureshcheva.

You are probably too young to remember these great stars but they are among my favorites female sports heroines.

 

This is unlikely If You are familiar with socionics (although in the USA this typology, a close alternative to Myers-Briggs, I think, little known), my daughter, most likely, logical-sensory introvert. Static. The flexibility and softness of sports movements, coordination of movements is not her strong suit. Although she goes to training in the Wushu section, it's more for general fitness than in expectation of great achievements She better get intellectual pursuits. For example, chess. Here is the photo of she (left) recently before the chess tournament:

 

And again a little about the nature of Russia. This is the Valley of lotuses in the Krasnodar region. Freshwater bay (estuary) of Azov ыуф.