I visited Santiago, formally Santiago de Chile, during my recent trip to South America. A friend photographer Andrew (AndrewGraemeGould.com) was kind to host me for two nights and show the city’s photography “hot spots”. The experience was amazing! Santiago is the “Street Photographer’s Paradise”. Such beautiful and photocamera-friendly people live there. Nobody has ever complained about taking his/her photos. Even …
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I am back from my first trip to South America, and this is the opening post of its photo coverage. I have visited beautiful countries Peru and Chile, met wonderful people, experienced amazing adventures, and took a record high 7,945 photos (!), in which I am going to tell you my stories about the Inca Empire and Mystery of Easter …
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I am obsessed with bikes… I’ve found Berlin as a perfect city for riding one. There is no view in Berlin without Berliner or Berlinerin on a bicycle. If you don’t see any bikers, take a closer look, at least a bike itself must be somewhere around ;)
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Berlin is amazing! I visited it last year during my German-Austrian ‘Guten Tag! Deutsch Time’ Nona Hora EuroTrip and loved to walk its busy open-sky streets. I am currently working on my next travel photo book, looking through Berlin cityscape and street photography and finding some interesting photos I have not shared with you yet. Click on image to view …
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Last week I introduced my new project The Miracles Of Polaroid. Now it’s time to share the first Miracles ;) Warning: Challenges Ahead The project has begun with cleaning the dust out of 25-year-old instant photo camera Polaroid Pronto! Sonar OneStep (1978) and exciting shopping for Polaroid flash bars and film. On eBay vintage SX-70 flash bars go for 30-50 …
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The History In April 1947 (75 years ago!) Edwin H. Land, a researcher in polarization of light and 38-year-old president of the Polaroid Corporation, invented an instant camera– a photo camera that performed all steps involved in making a photograph- developing, fixing, and printing. With a ‘Land Camera’ (named after its inventor), you just push a button and 60 seconds …
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This is the second part of my photo session with celebrities from Madame Tussauds Hollywood Wax Museum. Find a Photo Trivia question at the bottom of this page. Tip: This is a wax copy of an original movie still which became a best-selling poster and turned the actress into an instant pin-up girl. The film raised her stature as a …
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In 2009, in addition to existing Hollywood Wax Museum, a new $60 million showcase of Madame Tussauds Hollywood Wax Museum was opened on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Over a hundred life-size celebrity wax figures, including Hollywood Icons, Movie Stars and Directors, TV Stars, Pop Stars and Sport Stars are displayed in themed layouts of a new museum. The layouts …
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“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” ― Marilyn Monroe 53 years ago, on February 8, 1960, Marilyn Monroe was awarded the Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. By that time, a blonde actress, who started her carrier as a parachute inspector (a brunette parachute inspector), had become not only …
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On My Shelves is my Instagram photo project – I take photos of stuff from my shelves using a phone camera and post them here in Travel Photo Journal (all items are related to my travels or photography). This is the fifth set of pictures. Click here to read about the project in its “pilot episode” or click here to …
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This is the second set of photos from my New Year’s Eve in New York trip. As I have told before, my hopes for a walk in White Christmasy New York were dashed last year. The weather in NYC in the last 5 days of the year was horrible. On the only sunny day I walked by Rockefeller Center Ice …
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Happy Old/Orthodox New Year 2013! Not everybody celebrates New Year today… But, this is still ‘the most wonderful time of the year‘,- talking about 71 Degrees Fahrenheit (+21 Celsius) in Atlanta in the middle of January :) This post, however, is about my trip to New York City in “real new year’s” eve – during last five days of December …
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FIFA World Cup Brazil. Dreams Do Come True!
The Gothic Gargoyles of Notre Dame de Paris
Photo Trilogy: Rapa Nui – The Island. The People. The Museum
Easter Island: My New Friends Moai
Mystery of Easter Island
Top 10 Shocking Asia Experiences
Havana, Cuba. American Classic Cars
Havana, Cuba. The Lost Island
Incredible India. Pink City – Jaipur
Incredible !ndia. Blue City – Jodhpur
FIFA World Cup Brazil. Dreams Do Come True!
Photo Trilogy: Rapa Nui – The Island. The People. The Museum
Palma de Majorca: From Modern Beach to Gothic Town
EuroTrip 2013: Czech Republic and Belarus
My Orange Crush – Spring Break on Tybee Island
Cambodia. Siem Reap. Floating Villages
Once a Beauty, Now a Beast. A Photo Story from Vintage Cars Graveyard
Two Spanish Capitals – Barcelona and Palma de Majorca
Santiago de Chile: Street Photographer’s Paradise
Stranger Portraits from Archived Thailand
Around Minsk, Belarus
The End of Brazil Mania. Goodbye, World Cup. Thank you, Fans!