Kathryn’s (also spelled with a “C”) Park is a very popular park in Moscow and is gorgeous any time of year but specially in the springtime. If you know Central Park in New York City you would feel right at home in Kathryn’s Park.
The park is a favorite backdrop of wedding photography. The day we visited there were brides, grooms and their entourages all over the place.
The park is the site of Kathryn the Great’s Palace which was started in the 1700s. She died before its completion and it lay dormant and fell into disrepair for several centuries. The palace and park were completed after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s. The Palace is now a museum and the grounds made into a beautiful park with gardens, manicured lawns, forests, a church, gorgeous water fountains and a lake.
I put together a slidehow of shots I took when we visited the park last weekend. If you’re interested the easiest way to view the show is to click on this link: http://vimeo.com/43417422
I also posted the show in downloadable form on my site.
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Monday, June 4, 2012
Saturday, June 2, 2012
On Snow in June!
2 июня 2012
It’s snowing…not really. Today’s temperature is 17 degree C (about 63 F)
For the past 5-6 days the air has been full of puffy white winged seeds coming from the trees. They look something like dandelion puffs but smaller and are about the size of very large snowflakes. There are so many of them that you find yourself swatting them away from your face as if they were flies or bees buzzing around your head. The intensity has decreased but as I’m looking out the window writing this they’re still there.
If you're interested I've posted a quick slideshow of some clusters of these puffs. The images are 3d shots built-up of layers of images. The link is: http://vimeo.com/43446147
The show is also posted on my site.
Nancy’s school has 2 more weeks to go and she finishes June 16th. We head back to the US on the 17th. On the way we’re stopping in Tallinn, Estonia and Helsinki, Finland for a few days each. The cities are a 2 hour ferry ride apart. We’ll fly out of Helsinki and head back to the US for about 6 weeks. I suspect these pages will be quiet for the summer and pick up again as we head back to Mockba for a second year.
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For the past 5-6 days the air has been full of puffy white winged seeds coming from the trees. They look something like dandelion puffs but smaller and are about the size of very large snowflakes. There are so many of them that you find yourself swatting them away from your face as if they were flies or bees buzzing around your head. The intensity has decreased but as I’m looking out the window writing this they’re still there.
If you're interested I've posted a quick slideshow of some clusters of these puffs. The images are 3d shots built-up of layers of images. The link is: http://vimeo.com/43446147
The show is also posted on my site.
Nancy’s school has 2 more weeks to go and she finishes June 16th. We head back to the US on the 17th. On the way we’re stopping in Tallinn, Estonia and Helsinki, Finland for a few days each. The cities are a 2 hour ferry ride apart. We’ll fly out of Helsinki and head back to the US for about 6 weeks. I suspect these pages will be quiet for the summer and pick up again as we head back to Mockba for a second year.
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