Photos
This is from EnglishRussia, a great website. I am touched by these pictures, which are a mixing of historic and contemporary photos. A companion post is here. Vienna. 1945/2010. Soviet soldiers at the Imperial Palace Hofburg: Moscow is getting ready for defense. 1941/2009. Gorky and Tverskaya Streets: Berlin 1945/2010. A disabled tank “Tiger” in Tiergarten [...]
I was looking through google analytics for this site, and discovered that post people spend the most time on is this one — about Lithuanian Swastikas. People from all over the world end up on this page and read much of it. For those of you who haven’t read it I think you’ll find it [...]
Here are some fun pictures from the good ole US of A –
Here are some higher quality pictures of dawn in Finland (plus a favorite of Violeta on the lake). I bought a new point and shoot that takes pretty good pictures. Click on the thumbnail to see the cropped, higher quality picture.
Here are a few pictures of our recent visit to Finland. We had a great time and were able to get some work done. We cut down some trees, cleared a lot of brush, and cleaned the place up. All this while also working from my simple office (desk, chair, laptop, wireless internet connection). We’re [...]
Here are some fun pictures I’ve come across. Enjoy! (click on each photo to see a larger version)
This is a classic picture. Olga and I had to go to a government office (yellow building). Several people were in line for the same office (the ‘line’ is pictured above). You might not know it, but the office was open at the time I took the picture. We arrived an hour before the office [...]
It’s hard to believe these pictures are from 100 years ago – “The photographs of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) offer a vivid portrait of a lost world–the Russian Empire on the eve of World War I and the coming revolution. His subjects ranged from the medieval churches and monasteries of old Russia, to the railroads [...]
A few uses of trademarks in Russia –
Here are some pictures from the last few days at Elama. The kids arrived for camp yesterday, so we should have pictures of camp soon. I enjoyed building some tables and benches, and Sergei finished up the cook stove in the summer kitchen. We also had quite a few people from Christ for the World, [...]
