We spent August in St. Petersburg on vacation and took some pictures. For Nastia’s birthday we took a walk through the city: The Peter & Paul Fortress is where St. Petersburg was founded (and also a nice place to visit): Vyborg, founded by the Swedes, has belonged to Sweden, Russia, Finnland – and now Russia…Continue reading Russia pictures
Category: travel
Pontiac figurehead
During my trip to Sweden we visited an antique and classic car meeting in Ljungaverk where I shot this figurehead on a Pontiac with my D700 and Tamron 90mm f2.8 lens.
Ljungan
While visiting my Swedish grandmother we took a tour of Johannisberg and Ljungaverk. Since the workers at the local power station were doing repairs they had to let out water from the reservoir – resulting in the river Ljungan brimming with water. Taken with my D700 and 20-35mm f2.8.
Berlin
I spent a long weekend in Berlin in July only with my Canon S95 and was lucky with the weather:
Worms
In June we went on a short excursion to Worms, a small town not far from Mannheim. Besides walking through the city we saw the synagogue with one of the oldest existing mikveh in Germany, the Jewish cemetery and the medieval Cathedral of St Peter:
moskva in berlin
walking down frankfurter allee last month i passed by cafe moskva. taken with my canon s95.
view of zürich
this view of zürich from one of grossmünster´s towers was taken with my 20-35mm lens attached to my d700. more pictures can be seen below:
chişinău
here are some pictures from my recent trip to chişinău (republica moldova):
My phd “Okna otkroi!” finally published
A revised version of my phd-dissertation with the title “‘Okna otkroi! – ‘Open the Windows!’ – Transcultural Flows and Identity Politics in the St. Petersburg Music Scene” was published last week in the series “Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society” edited by Andreas Umland. I am very honored to have a super foreword written by…Continue reading My phd “Okna otkroi!” finally published
Mailbox (Chişinău)
And so the series of Post-Soviet mailboxes continues – this time with a mailbox from Poşta Moldovei taken during my trip to Chişinău in April 2011. Taken with my Canon S95.
Beware of the fierce dog
Walking through the rainy streets of Chişinău last Friday I came across this garage door. Besides discouraging cars from parking in front of the driveway it also warns of the fierce dog (Осторожно злая собака). Taken with my Canon S95.
Swedish Winter Landscape
While the winter sun remains quite low in the horizon at my grandmother’s place in central Sweden (about 500 km north of Stockholm) the colors are nice when the sun starts to set in the early afternoon. Taken with my Canon S95.