Russia in photos. Without politics.

This photo (as well as the photo of the remains of the millstone above) was made by my wife on my LG G4 smartphone As I wrote earlier, I did not take DSLR with myself on this trip, so I have to take photos on a smartphone. But I like the quality of pictures of the smartphone LG G4. In my opinion, it is still one of the best cameras on the quality / price ratio of a smartphone.

And while my wife was making pictures of the dam, I ran around with an action camera, shooting a video True, I'll upload the video until I'm sorry, it's a pity for mobile traffic

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Yesterday I drove to Kaliningrad for a whole day, also made some interesting photos. But I'll post them later.

 

I several times jumped with a parachute. First, just to test me, then - because it became interesting. The last time it was a very long time, in 2003. But that day, for the first time, I took a camera with me to the plane. And I got this picture after the jump, when I was falling with a parachute There was a lot of cloudiness. On the ground - gloomy, cloudy weather. And above the clouds the sun was shining. The camera, of course, was very primitive at that time. And the picture lost a lot in quality. But anyway, I'm looking at this photo and remember that day.

 

Photo without any history and philosophy Just a little street next to my work.

 

Summer in Moscow has already ended. The weather is dull and rainy. As we joke - "Summer in Russia is short, but snowy"

This photo was taken on one of the last hot days. Sokolniki Park.

 

I did not realize how long ago you started to show us photos.

 

Well, this topic is 2.5 years old Although I write here quite rarely, under the mood. And lately, frankly, the mood is not enough. On Western resources, there is so much anti-Russian propaganda that it became sad to communicate. But these are political questions, and I try to keep this topic away from politics

So, not to fall into the offtopic.

It's in the same park (Sokolniki). A holiday for the Hare Krishnas. In recent years, the Hare Krishnas in Moscow has become noticeably smaller, but periodically their marches still meet

 

i wanted to post a photo taken at Kauai from Hawaii, When i learn how, I shall show you a bit of Hawaii.

 

You must be mad! I'm only joking though . . . (Cerb hastens to add lest a moderator thinks he means it!)

 

Thanks for the feedback

Here is a very fresh photo. This is the Moscow suburbs two days ago. We went with my wife to a store specializing in all sorts of things for celebrations. On the way I liked this combination of colors

 

Years past pass. An excursion into the past becomes more and more interesting. The mark of 20 years ago is difficult to take - photographs of that time are few. But 15-year-old photos are already available. Photoarchive 2002 is already extensive, just this year, my first digital Canon A40 bought myself

I think it will be interesting to see what happened in Russia 15 years ago?



In the photo - my workplace of 10.09.2002.

- I do not remember the contents of the system unit, although, probably, it is possible to recall through posts in my forum, its archives are available since December 1998.
- Monitor Samsung 3NE
- Speakers Genius
- The keyboard is some kind of BTC, which is characterized by the fact that it was almost the only completely classical AT keyboard at that time without the left buttons
- Modem U.S. Robotics Sportster Courier ... By the way, the manufacturer somehow disappeared from the market. It's a pity the name was kosher, according to Asimov
- Two PDA cradles, for the Casio PV-S450 and for the Audiovox Maestro. The first was interesting with fantastic autonomy. 160 hours from one pair of AAA battery. Batteries for a few months of work (and active reading) was enough. The second is interesting because it was a revolutionary solution - a full-color color PockerPC for $250. But the manufacturer Audiovox in the market and could not resist.
- Folded IBM Thinkpad 560X

 

So, I continue the theme "15 years ago" The car park in Moscow in 2002. In general, at the road junction under my window there were light car accidents on a regular basis. Sometimes twice a week. So there are a lot of photos of this place It's interesting that the cars in the majority are still Soviet-made. It will take only 5 years and most cars will become foreign cars. 19 September 2002

 

And a bit of modernity. Here such an installation I met one of these days on one of the absolutely unremarkable little Moscow streets

 

Autumn. The area of Ostankino. Moscow. Russia. Earth. Solar system. Milky Way.



In the background is the house-museum of Sergei Korolev, who first pulled people from the gravity pit.

 

The only thing I know about Krishnas was heard in this song.

 

I'm watching now on YouTube, my wife and daughter have recorded



That's already the feeling when children do what you never could

 

This is today, the house where I live

 

Wouldn't that be considered an apartment?

 

Those subtleties of translation, which Google is boggling

In the Russian "dom" is not only the "house", the whole structure that belongs to you, where you live, but also the place of residence in general

Yes, this is a multi-apartment building where I rent an apartment.

 

If you don't mind my asking, what is rent as a percentage of your income? No need to name costs or income.

 

In Russia, people are still not as shy as in the West, they call income figures I get about 110-115 thousand rubles a month now. That's about $2000. For an apartment I pay 34,000 rubles, near $600. The apartment, however, is small even by the Russian standards. Two rooms with a total area of 55 square meters. Approximately 590 square feet. I believe that this is a lot for Japan or China, but very little for America

This year I bought a three-room apartment in Kaliningrad (80 square meters = 870 square feet), but this is a new building, immediately after construction and without interior finishing. There is still a repair, decoration. Because of the fact that it is in a fairly remote city, the process, I'm afraid, will be very much delayed. Therefore, I live as long as in Moscow

 

My sg/ft cost for my house is about the same for your apt. 1400 sq/ft. The cost in other parts of the country vary considerably. You also spend about the same percentage of income as I do.

 

Just selfie

 

It so happened that I did not buy pyrotechnics in stores for my whole life. Except for Bengal lights. In my childhood and students I used pyrotechnics myself, then there was no time, then there was nowhere to buy.

A week ago, in the GIS-directory in the phone I made a query for "fireworks" and found a pyrotechnics shop less a mile away from the house.

I went there yesterday. Has bought a bag of all junk For 2000 rubles, it's about $35 Firecrackers, crackers, Bengal candles, Roman candles, all sorts of flyers from "moths" to rockets of different calibers. Only I did not buy batteries of salutes, they conceptually did not make me happy.

Today, my family tested it in part. According to the test results, Roman candles were the most liked. But I took small, 0.5", 4 pieces in the set, such



So I went today and took four more "candles", but already 2x 1.5" and 2x 1" Another 2000+ rubles One and a half inch tubes are such monsters, from the ground to my waist. Especially I was pleased with the instruction - "to thrust into the earth for 2/3 of the length". This is for the pipe almost in the hand thick! Apparently, the instruction is taken from small candles.

Although small candles are also interesting in their own way. I think that big candles explode at high altitude, which is cool, but far. And from the small candles the charge takes off about 10 meters upwards. And after the explosion, the lower part of the cloud of burning fragments turns out to be on the ground - in reality everything around shines and shoots

 

There is such a popular anecdote — Do you want your son to be born or a daughter? — Son of course! I want to buy a radio-controlled helicopter!

I bought a daughter on the New Year as a gift on the AliExpress microscope As usual, a gift from a series of the above-mentioned radio-controlled helicopter My daughter is not very interesting yet, and I recalled my childhood with pleasure: D Moreover, the increase in this microscope provides better than in school in my childhood.

In the kit there is a set of ready-made preparations, 12 pieces of different vegetation. And I ordered another set of 48 preparations (I have not come yet, a month and a half already on the way). But it's more interesting, of course, to do it myself

Here, school classics, peel of onions. An increase of 200 times, but when shooting with a phone through the eyepiece it's difficult to talk about the exact magnification



Here is a crop with a photo of a slice of a leaf of some flower from the kitchen Chloroplasts are clearly visible. I remember that I did not see them at school. The cells themselves are big white spots.

 

We went with kids to sledding Although up to the hill in the Alley Cosmonauts (a place for walking nearby) go for 15 minutes, we go out there rarely.





And in Russia, meanwhile, there are baptismal bathing.