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HOT News
April 21, 2008
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The ballet "Romeo and Juliet" was shown in Moscow from 18 to 20 of April by the troupe
"Deutsche Oper am Rhein" from Düsseldorf and it was a part of the Festival of Modern German Choreography supported by Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. The Festival, which runs from March 27 through April 24, showcases the best German performers and strengthens the cultural interchange between Germany and Russia.
On April 20th, I provided a city tour to three young dancers from this troupe. When we were walking around the area of the Red Square and GUM, I took a picture of the ballet poster which was hanging on one of many theater ticket offices in downtown. Also, in my special photo album dedicated to "My Dear Clients" you can see the picture of my recent clients (Colleen, Louisa and Tau), in famous department store on the Red Square: "Trio Touring GUM".
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April 17, 2008
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If compare with nice sunny warm days at the beginning of the month, during the last week the weather in Moscow became nasty, lots of rains and low temperatures, but today was quite exciting day for my current clients, Tom and Kerry from Australia. They hired my services far in advance (in January) on the dates of thier staying in Moscow, from 16 till 19 of April, with planning personal itineraries for sightseeing tours and and purchasing tickets in Old Circus.
On today, April 17th, I planned for Tom and Kerry a special countryside tour to Air Force Museum in Monino and Sergiev Posad (Holy Trinity St. Sergious Lavra). Followed by our special itinarary we arrived to this museum (located 38 km on East from Moscow) on time, even a bit earlier, and already at 9:20 our local guide, former military pilot, started excursion around the territory (area) of the museum filled with a lot of aircrafts, planes and helicopters explaining history of Russian (former USSR) military aviation.
It was quite cold and humid this morning, forecast expected rainy weather for today, but HOW my clients from Hot Australia was excited, when it started a snowfall with quite big flakes (click on the picture to enlarge it)! Of course, Tom and Karen not felt comfortable in such bad weather conditions (0..+2 C, rain with snow), they not used to this climate conditions, but Tom was so excited to see the snow first time in his life that he even forgot about his frozen fingers at the moment!
You can continue to read the story here: "Excursion under snow"
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April 07, 2008
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On April 7th, the holiday of Annunciation of the Mother of God, I organized for my Australian clients a special tour to the Grand Kremlin and Faceted palaces on the first half of the day and after this tour we planned to see cathedrals and Armory museum of the Moscow Kremlin. For a while I was waiting for my clients from this special tour, so I decided to hang around the grounds of the Kremlin to take some interesting pictures by my new camera, I had about 1.5 hours for it and actually this time passed very quick - it was really nice warm sunny day, I can say that my clients from Australia were very lucky with weather, they were the first sunny spring days.
Walking around the Cathedrals Square (the main square of Moscow Kremlin) I noted several camera crews and journalists nearby Annunciation Cathedral and had a thought that something important was going on there... After taking some interesting shots within an hour I returned back to the Cathedrals Square to meet my clients from the special tour and I was greatly impressed by amount of people and security surrounding the Cathedral. It was not difficult for me to guess that the Patriarch of Russia is currently providing a morning liturgy there. Of course, I held on to my camera so I would not miss the moment when our Patriarch will came out after finishing the holiday message. The liturgy lasted till noon and by tradition the bell ringers were on the main tower of Ivan The Great announcing to the people that the message is over. I also was greatly impressed again because right before the moment when our Patriarch appeared from the cathedral, the group with my clients came out from the Grand Kremlin Palace and were able to see the ceremony provided by Alexii II outdoors.
You can continue to read the story here: "Patriarch with two doves"
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February 29, 2008
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An idea to create a special photo album dedicated to "My Family" at my website appeared long time ago, but I was not sure if it would be interesting and worthwhile to post personal pictures of my family. It might be interesting for visitors looking for personal services, as well as my former clients and friends, to see how I live, new pictures of me, my lovely wife and pets and, of course, some interesting news of our family which I can post with these pictures. I used to provide not only a guide and transportation services, but also became a friend to travelers on whom they can rely upon in an unknown country with different culture, customs and alphabet. I try to stay in touch with many of my former clients and keep our friendly communications. Many of them have been very curious to see more my personal photos, especially of my pets, which lead me to crating this photo album. From today, I will try to post my "family" photos and hope that you find it of interest.
I cannot promise the process of uploading the new pictures into this photo album to be fast because I am quite a busy man with my work, family and several business projects on the Internet; however, I am certain that as it is my desire, I will try to add informative and interesting descriptions, and post only high quality photos.
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January 31, 2008
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Currently (at the end of January 2008), I am quite busy with my repeat clients, mostly business people, and had not time for a while to learn its manual, but I have already tested it and made several shots of my pets. I was so excited even I forgot that several minutes earlier that I was very tired after a Moscow By Night tour with my clients.
With the new Nikon, it's like I changed a Russian Lada for a Mercedes...You can see one of the pictures with “My lovely Pets - Kerry and Lilu”, which I took during that night.
To learn all features of this amazing camera, which was released in September 2007, you can read review posted by Phil Askey at Digital Photography Review website Nikon D300 Hands-on Preview.
By some circumstances and availability of this camera in stock, I couldn’t buy a kit, but purchased the body and lenses with flash separately and really enjoy my choice, so now I have:
Nikon D300 Body
Nikon 18-200 mm F/3.5-5.6G ED-IF AF DX VR Lens
Nikon SB-800 AF Speedlight Flash
Here, I would like to thank greatly my repeat clients: Tom Milana from Miami, USA (Transworld Business Brokers LLC) , and Michelle Shultz from London (Qualcomm Europe) who helped me a lot to purchase this camera and accessories.
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Moscow, Russia 
Contact Info: Arthur Lookyanov