“The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer sun.”
~ Myrtle Reed
“The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer sun.”
~ Myrtle Reed

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

“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.”
― Saul Bellow
Continue reading #StreetPhotography :: Panoramic Moscow in Black and White
“Without appreciation for grace and beauty, there’s no pleasure in creating things and no pleasure in having them!” ~ Bill Watterson

Continue reading Handmade :: Gzhel

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

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

“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
Continue reading #StreetPhotography :: Changing the Guard at Lenin Mausoleum
“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

No filters were used, the colors are just the result of film processing errors…
Continue reading 35mm :: First snow on the Red Square
Once upon a time in 1991…

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






