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Day: 18 December 2010

Victoria and Albert Museum – The Inner Court Decor

I‘ve noticed someone watching the V&A Museum set on Flickr, and so decided to share one of my favourite photos from the set. Everyone who visited the V&A knows that the building is impressive both outside and inside. And yet this elaborate balcony that overlooks the inner court is so splendid that I still remember losing my breath when I looked up and saw it.

If this had such effect upon me, can you imagine what happens when I look up the buildings in Piazza del Duomo or Piazza della Signoria in Florence?!

Christmas in Photography: My Streetlight And Snowflakes

I have just risked my health by opening the kitchen window to take a few photos. We’re having a slow and silent snowfall in Moscow. It is by no means catastrophic, rather magical and serene. What I didn’t quite expect to happen was to photograph snowflakes. In fact, as you will see, they were more “flickrable” than ordinary objects. I think I mentioned it somewhere that I’ve almost always lived by the road; the road you see in the photo is the one I’ve been looking at for 20-odd years in Moscow. It gets very congested during the day, but at night, at quieter time, it is almost like a village road, with but a few cars rolling their wheels up and down the way. But, back to the photos, this is the streetlight that I once commemorated in a poem. And there is something very special about watching it on the picture, amidst the falling snow…

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