Some photos taken on various trips in recent years. Pick a category below:
From the archives: some scanned 35mm slides and prints from a few not-so-recent trips:
On holiday: a week in England and Wales, and a week in Ireland. Four flights covering 8000 miles of air travel, 2 rental cars, 1200 miles of driving interesting roads, sleeping in a dozen hotels and B&Bs, one ferry boat ride in the middle of the night, countless ATMs, pubs, castles, mountains, valleys, and 860 digital photos taken. Where do we start to tell the story? Here are a few notable pics from our journey. I just added a few more. Enjoy.
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I want to go back and spend a week in the city -- the one day we had didn't begin to scratch the surface. |
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Note that I will refer to geographic entities as they were known when I visited in 1984, hence, "West Berlin," "East Berlin," "West Germany," etc.
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Note that I will refer to geographic entities as they were known when I visited in 1984, hence, "USSR," "Soviet Union," "Leningrad," etc.
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A view from my Moscow hotel room, overlooking the Kremlin and Red Square. |
Saint Basil's Cathedral, on Red Square, Moscow. |
The domes of St. Basil's. |
Lenin's Tomb, on Red Square, Moscow. Soviet citizens would queue up for blocks to see this. Lenin's preserved body is displayed inside. Kind of creepy. |
Church of Saint George, Moscow. |
The Main Department Store (GUM), Moscow. |
Kalinin Square (now Maidan Nezalezhnosti), Kiev, Ukraine. |
People's Friendship Arch, Kiev. Commemorates the unification of the Soviet Union and Ukraine. The Ukranians, who were not so enthusiastic about being joined at the hip with the USSR, referred to this as "The Yoke." |
Saint Andrews Church, Kiev. |
Motherland statue and the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Kiev. A memorial to the massive losses suffered during World War II. |
The Winter Palace in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg). |
Peter and Paul Fortress, Leningrad. |
Palace Square, Leningrad. |
Smolny Cathedral and Convent, Leningrad. |
One of the many canals in Leningrad. |
Along Nevsky Prospekt at about 9 in the evening. Unlike today, in 1984 it was a fairly dead place at night. |
Palace Embankment in Leningrad, including the Hermitage Museum, Winter Palace, Hermitage Theatre, and Summer Garden. |
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