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Vertical Moscow :: Red Square

Fujifilm Panorama G617; Kodak Ektachrome EPP 6005
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35mm :: Strolling at the GUM #1

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.” ~Marc Riboud

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#StreetPhotography :: Panoramic Moscow in Black and White

“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
― Saul Bellow

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Polaroid Moments :: Welcome to GUM

It’s 1992, I had a Polaroid camera, several packs of instant film and all the time in the world…

“I’ve been a long time gone now
Maybe someday, someday I’m gonna settle down
But I’ve always found my way somehow”
Dixie Chicks, The Long Way Around

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35mm :: Old Arbat, Moscow – Sometime Ago

“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.” ~Guy de Maupassant

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#StreetPhotography :: Changing the Guard at Lenin Mausoleum

Moscow, Red Square - Summer 1991 | Photo ©ockstyle — Moscow, Red Square – Summer 1991 | Photo ©ockstyle

“Sometimes the little times you don’t think are anything while they’re happening turn out to be what marks a whole period of your life.” ~ Andy Warhol

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35mm :: Moscow Train Stations

“My heart is warm with the friends I make,/ And better friends I’ll not be knowing,/ Yet there isn’t a train I wouldn’t take,/ No matter where it’s going.” ~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Scrapbook 1993 “Hotel Oktyabrskaya”

“We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten” ~Cesare Pavese

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The Art of Prop Styling :: Russian Props

“It is quality rather than quantity that matters.” ~Seneca

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35mm :: First snow on the Red Square

No filters were used, the colors are just the result of film processing errors…
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#StreetPhotography :: The “Fallen Monuments Park” in Moscow

Once upon a time in 1991…

02 moscow_park_08-0951_ockstyle — Mолодой Hаполеон :: A walk down memory lane 1991 :: the Fallen Monument Park in Moscow, RF | photo: ©ockstyle

“We travel far and fast
and as we pass through we forget
where we have been”
~ W.S. Merwin

Центральный Дом Художника 1991 :: A walk down memory lane: the Fallen Monument Park in Moscow, RF | photo: ©ockstyle — Центральный Дом Художника 1991 :: A walk down memory lane 1991 :: the Fallen Monument Park in Moscow, RF | photo: ©ockstyle

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Великий Осип, (Иосиф Эмильевич Мандельштам) :: A walk down memory lane: the Fallen Monument Park in Moscow, RF | photo: ©ockstyle

06 moscow_park_17-0951_ockstyle — Павший памятник :: A walk down memory lane 1991 :: the Fallen Monument Park in Moscow, RF | photo: ©ockstyle

07 moscow_park_18-0951_ockstyle — Павший Фелекс (Фееликс Эдмуундович Дзержиинский) :: A walk down memory lane 1991 :: the Fallen Monument Park in Moscow, RF | photo: ©ockstyle

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Tres Chic :: Salmon Roe Breakfast

“The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., “Over the Teacups,” 1891
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