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May 14, 2007
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I am currently working with my repeat client from Canada, Annie Budz, who came to Moscow on her vacation again, now with her sister younger Irina to discover more interesting sites in Moscow and its Region during two weeks (10-23 of May). Because of very bad traffic during workdays we as usual go out of the city from Monday to Friday and spend weekends in Moscow city. Annie likes very much Russian church architecture and we are taking a lot of pictures everyday...
Today is my Birthday, May 14th, and I decided due to this event to share one of the Best pictures of this Day on my website (see my news).
Picture of the Day: Church from epoch of Peter I
Hope you like... Cheers! ...
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March 21, 2007
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At the beginning of March (5th) I received a request from Lynn Frieda, freelance photographer living in London, who had been hired by "Departures" magazine to photograph a story for their October 2007 issue. This is going to be a special issue about Russia. From the photo editor of this magazine, Lynn got a list of places in Moscow that would be of interest for future articles. She wanted to organize photo shooting from March 11th to 13th. It was an unrealizable task for Lynn to make all by herself: pre-production calls prior to the shooting, find contacts and make arrangements with the people who are responsible for giving permission for photo shooting and get agreement, setting up the schedule for these days to cover everything (or at least as much as possible)....
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February 22, 2007
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Today I have more time to continue the story of the Russian cops (see my previous news), which happened to me and my repeat client from Germany on Red Square on 8th of February. But first I would like to supply you with some useful information about new registration laws in Moscow which came into force from January 15th, 2007.
All foreign citizens arriving in Russia must register their visa within three working days. If you are staying in a hotel, the administration of the hotel should register your visa for the period of your stay. Be sure to specifically request this service. Visa registration at the Moscow AFMS (Administration of Federal Migration Service) usually takes 1 working day or more. A hotel can make it the next day after your arrival as a conf...
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February 15, 2007
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This morning it was just another heavy snowfall in Moscow and, finally, I was able to make several interesting pictures with real winter landscapes during the day with my current client from Indonesia. During the last couple of days the temperature in Moscow raised to zero and the snow which fell before almost started to melt... I remember that yesterday were a lot of water on the roads and very dirty everywhere... Just imagine how I was impressed this morning when glanced out of my window - all the buildings, cars and trees were covered by very thick layer of snow... and I thought how pity that I have to work today and it could be nice to go out of the city and take some pictures in countryside... But anyway I was lucky today, even the traffic was bad, I found some ...
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February 08, 2007
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I walked today around the Red Square with my repeat client from Germany, Romy Brock. It is her 6th business trip to Moscow and this time she found some spare time between her meetings to walk around the famous Moscow attractions together and take some pictures of our memories (tomorrow I have to see her off again)... I have rare chances as usual to be in photos, in most cases only if my clients ask me to make a photo of us together, or they decide to take picture when I talking about history of Russia during our tours or just occasionally during our conversations, sightseeing tours or some special events... But this time I had the chance to ask Romy to take a picture with me during the tour around the Red Square for my website and friends.
During last several days...
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December 22, 2006
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I think, that the theme of Christmas and New Year gifts is very actual nowadays and everybody trying to get something special for his relatives, friends and co-workers. Of course, the negatives from these customer's activity is the terrible traffic in big cities, crowds in shops, but be patient - at the beginning of January will be pretty quietly... :-)
It could be pretty complicated to send to all my former clients and new friends from many countries the personal greetings with upcoming Winter Holidays.. Of course, during the next several days, for a while I have several days off, I will try to send as many as possible greetings, but I am afraid now that this task will be pretty hard for me and I have not enought time to accomplish this, as I think, important tas...
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December 04, 2006
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During the last two weeks Muscovites are very surprised to witness such warm temperatures at the end of November - beginning of December with average temperatures during a day about 4-5 degrees above zero Centigrade. Of course, the snow, which fell in the middle of November was melted very fast and the weather in Moscow became to be like in Europe, a lot of people talking that we are living now as like in London, mostly cloudy, no sun, a lot of rains and from time to time fog, even several days ago after a small rain I have seen a rainbow nearby my house - it was really impressive to see at this time of winter season!!! The current thaw in Moscow may hit the absolute record for the first winter month.
Talking about the current weather in Moscow, I would like to s...
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November 27, 2006
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Yesterday the 26th November, the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series for Cup of Russia in Moscow finished. During the last week I was happy to meet and provide my services again for my VIP client, Johnny Weir, three-time U.S. champion figure skater. I was very excited to meet with Johnny, his mum Patty and his coach Priscilla Hill again.
At the restaurant of hotel Ukraine, I met his new choreographer, Marina Anissina, who is Russian, but lives in France. I presented Johnny, his mum, coach and Marina my best photos which I took mostly during sightseeing tours with my clients around Moscow city and its countryside. They were all impressed with my photos and Marina told me that I presented Moscow for foreigners very professionally and she was amazed that I am an amat...
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November 14, 2006
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During the last week it had been a lot of snowfalls in Moscow and, when the temperature lowered at the end of the week to the -7..-9 C, evidently for everybody, that the winter came to Moscow already. With the fist snow, of course, the traffic situation on the roads became worse and it were happened a lot of traffic accidents with the fist snow and ice on the roads. Car owners started to change the summer tires on the winter ones with studs. Of course, using the studs on tiers not so good for road surface, and to the end of each winter a lot of roads have to be fixed as usual. But during winter season we have a lot of snowfalls and very low temperatures, very often on the roads appeared ice, so on the news during all the week the traffic police recommended to change ...
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June 02, 2006
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Today I decided to create the special theme in my Moscow Photo Gallery devoting to the tours "Discover Rural Russia".
The Moscow Region is rich in history, national traditions of the Russian people and unique historical and cultural landmarks.
New tours were recently made with my repeat client Annie Budz from Canada. We were guiding by the excellent book "Discovering the Moscow Countryside" written by Kathleen Berton Murrell, who is a former Canadian Diplomat lived and worked in Moscow for many years.
The Moscow region (Oblast) contains 47 thousand square kilometers of land, its territory larger than such European states as Belgium, Switzerland and the Netherlands. The region's population is over 7 million people. It is a region rich in history, national ...
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