Paris on Bastille Day
A friend and wedding photographer, Kyle (http://kylehepp.com/), invited me to tag along to photograph a wedding in Paris, and afterward, we met up with some more friends and spent the day wandering around the city. We walked by the original Moulin Rouge. This was the view of my Airbnb. Just walking around, the beauty and ...
Tambov
While visiting Tambov, a small city about 300 miles south of Moscow, I noticed an interesting wedding trend that I first saw in Moscow. Instead of carving out initials in the bark of a tree or spray painting it beneath a bridge, couples would buy a lock, attach it to a rail on a bridge ...
St. Petersburg
The last stop on my Russia trip was by far the most varied and interesting. I’ve been to St. Petersburg once or twice before when I was much younger, so this time around, It was almost as if I was seeing it for the very first time. The city itself is simply gorgeous. Situated at ...
scenes from moscow
Here’s a small selection of photos taken in and around Moscow, where I was born and spent most of my childhood, before moving to the US 24 years ago. I recently came back from a trip to Russia, which included time spent in Moscow, Tambov, Rostov and St. Petersburg. I had a chance to see ...
Iceland
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Spending two weeks in Iceland was an amazing experience. I had heard prior to the trip that the weather in Iceland was a bit unpredictable, but didn’t realize then that was akin to saying that rain can sometimes be a bit wet. As one example, during one day and almost within an hour, the weather ...
Petra & Wadi Rum
After spending a week in Israel, I wanted to see Petra and Wadi Rum just to the east in Jordan, but since I was staying in Ma’ale Adumim, a town in the West Bank, crossing over at the local border gate was problematic for a few reasons, not the least of which was the possibility ...
Israel
In 2009, I had a chance to spend about a week with some family in Israel. Being ethnically Jewish, but not religious, this was a great chance to visit family and reconnect with a place I was both innately connected with and did not really know much about. I was staying with family in a ...
Barcelona
About 8 years ago, I spent several days in Barcelona after returning from a trip through Israel and Jordan. I stayed in the Barri Gòtic area of downtown and ventured out to the beautiful town of Sitges, drove up into the mountains to see the Montserrat Monastery, and just because it was so close, drove ...
