Russian mailbox (Piter 2)

Mailbox (Piter – 2)

And for the – at least for now – final Russian mailbox. This one provides yet another mailbox form-factor.

Russian mailbox

Mailbox (Piter – 1)

Back in St. Petersburg this mailbox provides an example of the standard design. Note that the logo still is the Soviet hammer and sickle.

Rain-pipe

The Streets of St. Petersburg

During my last visit to St. Petersburg the weather was so nice (and hot…) that I managed to spend two days shooting what I like the most – street details and concert announcements. 😉 Here are the results:

Mailbox - Kizhi

Russian mailbox (Kizhi)

The charming island of Kizhi featured yet another mailbox design.

Mailbox - Goritsy

Russian mailbox (Goritsy – 2)

Goritsy had two different kinds of mailboxes and here is a picture of the other one (this one being in form similar to the one in Uglich).

Russian mailbox - Goritsy

Russian mailbox (Goritsy – 1)

Continuing the series of Russian mailboxes is a mailbox from the village Goritsy.

Copenhagen botanical garden

Botanical Garden

Here are some pictures from a recent visit to the Botanical Garden in Copenhagen:

Russian mailbox - Uglich

Russian mailbox (Uglich)

While living in Russia I was struck by the fact that the Russian postal service used different mailboxes and I decided to take a picture of some of them. This one was taken in Uglich while on a river cruise from Moscow to St. Petersburg.

Waves at Kronborg

Sitting in St. Petersburg sweltering in the heat (30+ C) this image of waves breaking at the beach near Kronborg castle in Helsingør offers a slight cooling down. Shot in 2009 with my Nikon 20-35mm f2.8 lens at 20mm on my D700.

Andrei Ivanov

A picture of my good friend and fellow musician Andrei taken in a St. Petersburg cafe not far from Moskovskii Vokzal. The picture itself is taken in 2009 with my favorite portrait lens (Tamron 90mm f2.8) on my D700 with an off-camera flash firing through a soft box (Lumiquest SoftBox III). For another picture of…Continue reading Andrei Ivanov

Back in Mannheim

Some pictures from this year’s second trip to Mannheim – instead of rain it was hoooooooot. But I did walk around and was thus able to reminisce about when I lived there in the early 1980s…

St. Hans pictures

Here are some pictures from this years St. Hans fire by Gentofte Sø: