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March 27, 2013
Wednesday HDRs - London, Istanbul & Kyiv
The three cities (besides Chernobyl) that we visited earlier this month. Everybody takes this tourist picture of London, so I decided to do something else with it - first tonemap it and then make it up to look like an oil painting. Man, it was cold that day.
Sometimes I think there is no city greater than Istanbul. Here's the Haggia Sophia at twilight.
And this is St. Sophia's Cathedral in Kyiv. (Kyiv is the Ukrainian language spelling. Kiev is Russian.) Kyiv is full of cathedrals. There a...
March 24, 2013
March 23, 2013
Chernobyl Reactor #4
The concrete blocks on the buildings to the left and center comprise part of the old sarcophagus built to contain radiation after the 1986 accident. This is as close as they'll take you, about 300 meters.
A new sarcophagus, an arch, is being built off to the right and behind this photo. It will slide on tracks right over the top of the old one. But radiation levels increase at higher elevations, making it unsafe to work at the top of the construction site, above thirty meters.
The really cl...
March 22, 2013
Being Recep Tayyip
“To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.” - Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
A penny for the thoughts of the Turkish Prime Minister as he surveys his world this weekend.
Almost forty years ago the leader of Cyprus fled a military coup. With cover from the upheaval, Turkish troops invaded the island’s north and still control it today. None of the rest of the world recognizes Turkey’s legitimacy there, but the Turkish flag still flies and Turkish Ai...
March 21, 2013
Haydarpasha Train Station, Istanbul
More in the Turkey and HDR Galleries at EarthPhotos.com.
March 17, 2013
Snapshots, Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
Yesterday we arranged a visit to Chernobyl, about 110 kilometers north of Kyiv. You must have a permit to travel inside the 30 kilometer "exclusion zone" around reactor number 4. Here are a few first photos. Starting with the second one, they're all from inside the exculsion zone.
Click through for more.
Posted from Kyiv. More when we get back home.
From Kyiv
In the center: Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Independence Square, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Into the Exclusion Zone, Chernobyl
Top: Cash register at Middle School Number 3, Pripyat, with gas masks,
and bottom, a copy of Soviet Patriot newspaper dated April 23, 1986. The
accident occured just after midnight on the morning of April 26.
More to come.
