Hi my dear friends


I've retuned
A couple of days ago and I returned from the 16-days trip to Germany. It was totally a great trip! And we enjoyed every minute of it! We met with and in Hamburg where spent great evening taking photos; and we met with in Berlin having a great day together (and also taking photos ). Thank you very much for the meetings! Well... as a result of this trip I've got ~40Gb of night shots _{photos will be coming one after another soon}



Thanks
During my stay in Germany I got quite many comments, s and s. Thanks a lot! I'll reply as soon as possible.



I won a contest
My favourite Panorama Club recently held the Building Exterior Competition. Well... I had never participated in contests here but that time I thought it would be a good idea to post something to it. And I won!
Thank you for voting for me




Tagged
Recently I was tagged by and now I have to tell 10 things about myself. Well, quite a good idea

1. Many people think I live in Moscow (most probably because of many Moscow nightshots in my gallery). But this is not so. I live in town named Khimki that is very close to Moscow and at least 5 days a week I go to the center of our capital to my work. Sometimes I go to Moscow on weekends to meet friends, take photos or for other reason.


2. I work in an American orthodontics company Align Technology as a software developer in the field of 3D computer graphics. And every working day I see human teeth on my screen


3. I speak Russian (of course), English and now I'm learning Spanish (I need it at work to comunicate with customers in Costa Rica).


4. I'm mad with travelling I try to spend as much time as possible travelling either here in Russia or abroad. Not that I select my destinations only for night shooting, but I'm interested in architecture, culture and history.


5. As you noticed I'm also mad with night photography. I don't know how it came to me. I had never enjoyed photography before I started taking night shots. But it came and now I'm completely in it. Hope you enjoy


6. I don't do commercial photography and don't get money from it. Because I'm lazy (that's normal for software developers). I started uploading prints here after a couple of people had requested them. Photography is my hobby, the way of self-expression.


7. I don't care about politics and have never been to elections. Because I strongly think that in my country people decide nothing. And because I don't want to fill my head with things that don't give me either cultural, aesthetical gratification or that do not help me in my work.


8. I hate TV because of a lot of advertisement and stupid news payed by government. I turn on TV only to see some football matchs or something like Olympic Games.


9. I collect coins from different countries of the world. I don't have much (about 3000 I believe - that's really not much for collectors) but in the same time I almost don't spend money buying them. I bring them from the countries I visit; or my friends bring them from the countries they visit


10. I will not tag 10 more people because I'm lazy to decide whom to tag and because many people don't really like it too much However for me it's a fun to answer questions

That's probably all that I wanted to share with you. I don't plan great trips for now because I need to process a lot of photos . I'll try to spend much time here.

Take care and have a nice day!

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