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13 июня 2007 — Photo and photography tutorials
Time lapse photography is a technique that allows to quickly and visually convey processes that take a long time in real life. For example time lapse photography can shrink to 10 seconds the complete process of building a new bridge. Although usually used in videos time lapse can also be used in still digital photography. […]
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Photographers have been trying to utilize the light of the moon in their landscape photography ever since the photographic process was invented. It was not until World War II, however, that technology had improved enough to make night photography possible. Today, despite technological advances, knowing the phase of the moon during a nighttime photography shoot […]
3 июня 2007 — Dog flea and cat flea remedy — 16 responses
A lot of flea photos.
23 мая 2007 — History of the Novgorod
Early Russia’s foremost cultural and art centre, Novgorod was first mentioned in a scripture in 859. For the many centuries ever since Novgorod produced a large artistic school and preserved numberless monuments of the 11th-17th-century architecture, along with artistically outstanding works of early monumental painting. Novgorod remained unconquered throughout the hard times of Tartar invasion, so that its cultural monuments and artistic traditions survived until to-day. This explains the city’s special significance in Russian art.
23 мая 2007 — Novgorod - monuments of ancient architecture
Novgorod. Museum of Architecture in the open air. Wooden church. 17th century
Novgorod. Museum of Architecture in the open air. Wooden Kuritskaya Church (17th century)
Novgorod. The Antoniev Monastery. Stone chambers (17th century). Detail of the fagade
Novgorod. Kremlin-citadel. Church of St Andrew Stratilates (17th century?). General view
Novgorod. Kremlin-citadel. Belfry of St Sophia Cathedral. Detail of the western facade
Novgorod. Kremlin-citadel. Belfry of St Sophia Cathedral (1437, rebuilt in the 16th and 17th centuries). General view from the West
Photos of most beautiful St. Petersburg bridges.
With the introduction of iron as a building material, in the beginning of the nineteenth century, bridge construction in St. Petersburg entered a new phase. The first cast-iron city-type bridge appeared in 1806, at the intersection of Nevsky Prospekt and the Moika. In those days it was called the Green or Police Bridge.
