To compensate for last week’s snow in Mannheim (which is already gone.. ;-)) here is a view of the Fontanka canal in St. Petersbug. The picture was inspired by the cover of Billy’s Band album “Парижские Сезоны” and taken in August with my 20-35mm 2.8 attached to my D700.
Category: travel
Russian mailboxes – gallery
After the photoblogseries of Russian mailboxes here’s a gallery and a rapid summary of the mailboxes. The predominant part of the pictures were taken during a river cruise from Moscow to St. Petersburg (and I hope to do a blog post on that trip in the not so distant future). The first stop was Uglich…Continue reading Russian mailboxes – gallery
Mailbox (Piter – 2)
And for the – at least for now – final Russian mailbox. This one provides yet another mailbox form-factor.
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.
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:
Russian mailbox (Kizhi)
The charming island of Kizhi featured yet another mailbox design.
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 – 1)
Continuing the series of Russian mailboxes is a mailbox from the village Goritsy.
Article on annoying airplane passenger
Yahoo! News has a fun article on annoying air travel habits titled “Are YOU an Annoying Passenger?“. My favorite is this one: “Clapping upon landing? Really? This one isn’t so much annoying as it is baffling. How exactly did you imagine this flight would end?” 😀
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.
Airplane turbulence
As someone who has been flying (as a passenger) since he was 6 weeks old I enjoy flying a lot and am always surprised how scared people get during a little turbulence. The airline pilot Patrick Smith, author of Salon’s “Ask the pilot“, recently published two articles on turbulence (“Turbulence: Things that go bump in…Continue reading Airplane turbulence
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…