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Walking Around Moscow!

April 28th, 2008 | Category: On Location


Shooting in front of the former KGB headquarters.

After the workshop on Saturday, I spent a wonderful Sunday walking around Moscow with Photographer Mikhail Lavrenov. We started before sunrise at Red Square, walked many miles and rode the Metro to even more destinations. Mikhail was also not just a great tour guide, but offered his perspective on the Russia he grew up in and the Russia today.

The colors in Moscow are brilliant. As we walked around and looked at the architecture, old and new, I could feel the energy of the colors. For whatever reason, my expectation of a gray Moscow was nowhere to be found. We stopped for a few moments at Red Square just to look at the scene. As a child, my first image of the Kremlin was during the Cold War… a black & white newspaper photo with hundreds of tanks and missiles parading through Red Square. This morning, there were only a few lucky photographers and a couple of people trying to find their way home from too much partying.

Thanks again to Stockxpert for a great opportunity… and to Mikhail, for an awesome day!

5 Comments so far

  1. cathy stancil April 28th, 2008 11:05 pm

    How beautiful!! Really makes you want to go visit… It is true that when one thinks of Moscow, one thinks grey and cold, at least I did. Thank you for sharing this incredible experience, Ron!! Safe trip home…

  2. MikLav April 29th, 2008 12:29 am

    It was a great day and I am glad you enjoyed it!

  3. Andrei April 29th, 2008 9:41 am

    Hi Ron,

    Needless to say it was eventful and fun meeting heroes like yourself (as I later have learned from Risskie’s photographers) and Anna, the model, have confessed that working with you was rather enchanting experience. Now that I have participated in such extraordinary event on behalf of Stockexpert team I surely will have to beef up my photographer’s vocabulary and spend sometime to work my hobbyist Cannon I have in manual mode more often… lol!

    Cheers,
    -Andrei

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  5. jay May 5th, 2008 2:43 pm

    nice! wish i was there!! when is the US seminar? ;-)

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