Notes
Campaign “Don’t be a baobab”
Friends, I never cease to admire you! Within two days, you transferred more than UAH 22,000 worth of funds to the “Don’t Be a Baobab” campaign together with the Transcarpathian Military Support Movement. And instead of the planned trips to two psycho-neurological boarding schools and 300 gifts, we visited as many as 7 institutions within three days and gave 1038 holiday gifts. Even after the announced two days of fundraising, your help has kept flowing. Your response to the request for help has exceeded expectations.
Carpathian mountains: Borzhavsky ridge
The idea of doing a naked photo shoot in the mountains will make a person even with arthritis climb with a backpack, break out in seventh sweat, endure the scorching sun and rubbing his boot.
The Civil Contract of Photography
Yesterday I conducted an unannounced monitoring visit to hospice wards based on two district hospitals in the Transcarpathian region, where there are patients with fatal diagnoses who are not even aware that they have such a diagnosis. Unfortunately, for the most part, doctors and medical staff do not have the necessary understanding of palliative care, patients' rights continue to be violated due to a lack of knowledge of staff, and most citizens are still limited in access to adequate comprehensive palliative and hospice care, which provides, in particular, applying of powerful painkillers.
Winter trip to the Chornohora
In order to show you the beauty of the winter Carpathians, I had to put on 5 pairs of trousers and 6 jackets, trample ten kilometers of freshly fallen snow and eat several packs of mivina. And I brought photos of the snowy Carpathian Mountains on 2 memory cards of 16 gigabytes each, and I don’t even know how to start and which ones to show you first - I will make a separate photo essay. The winter trip was held under the slogan "break into the mountains and reboot!".
The Last Supper near Turkul
There is a cool kolyba with a Chinese tapestry in the Ukrainian Carpathians under Mount Turkul where at the Last Supper there are 9 apostles and one woman. If you look closely, you can see Chinese noodles on their table. Kolyba is a place where shepherds spend the night, they graze sheep on mountain pastures and meadows in the summer. In simpler kolybas, tourists stop for the night. This is a real luxury in the mountains. We were doubly lucky, we spent the night in a shepherd's kolyba which is not intended for tourists. When you are tired after a day's hike and see this kolyba, you rush to it with all your might even without strength. It was the coolest photo shoot ever. In the morning we ran out for the whole day, took photos and dried ourselves in warmth and comfort in the evening.
Marmarosh Range, or Hutsul Alps
I decided to meet the beginning of May in one of the most picturesque places in the Carpathians - on the Marmara Range. As for me, this is the best time to hike these mountains, you can see with your own eyes how winter smoothly turns into spring - crocuses bloom right next to the snow drifts. For the beautiful slopes and diversity of nature, this mountainous part of the Carpathians is called the Hutsul Alps.
What do you have in your travel backpack?
Camping gear! Favorite theme of all tourists and their sympathizers. Still, those dark times have passed when they went on a hike in worn-out sneakers, one windbreaker, with a canvas tent, a Druzhba saw and an enameled bucket. Fortunately, now modern tourist clothing is membrane, everything is lightweight and high-strength. And the outcome of the trip largely depends on how competently the tourist’s things are selected and equipped. Although getting ready for a hike is not as easy as it might seem at first glance. There is always little space in a backpack, it is worth its weight in gold, you should not fill it with unnecessary things. Oh gods, who are you listening to? My photographic equipment steadily takes its weighty 4-5 kg.
How to photograph restless children
I revealed the secret of how to photograph naughty and shy children so that they are not afraid and do not look at you like a stuffed fox. And you can do this with the help of creative masks for photo lenses. Now, when shooting, it remains just to imitate the mask: to speak like a dog, or meow like a cat. It works perfectly, tested in the Roma camp. The masks made the task much easier, because before that I had to rely on a beard and a kilogram of toffees.
Riddle from the director of the boarding school
From time to time I visit neuropsychiatric boarding schools with monitoring visits. Frequently I meet directors who are out of place, but, fortunately, there are those who care for their wards and try to make their stay in the boarding school as comfortable as possible. I have warm and respectful relations with such people, it is especially interesting to listen to them. They tell me unusual, interesting life stories.
Today is International Tourism Day!
There are more than 100 types of tourism on the planet - from rural to nuclear. For every taste and for everyone there is a kind of recreation. And most importantly - this is the life experience that we enrich in travel. Here's some nudist tourism for you. That rare case when I publish my nudes, and not just the nudes of models. Now I imagine how the girls feel at my photo shoots - relaxing their asses at an altitude of 2 thousand meters near a cliff is not so easy.
Blonde Roma children
Last night, an activist began to persistently call me with information that once again the Roma had kidnapped a fair-haired child and that they urgently needed to call the police, go to the camp and “beat off” the baby, otherwise they would take it apart for spare parts, like a magical amulet, or just for good luck , and, maybe, for fortune-telling. This is not the first time such appeals have taken place, and in all cases this stereotyped information has never been confirmed. For 5 years, almost every week, I have been in the camp (and we have more than 120 of them in Transcarpathia), and often I have to see the descendants of the Aryans with blond hair (at one time I was also very suspicious of this phenomenon and each time I asked to see evidence of the birth of a baby). And over the years, I have accumulated dozens of photographs of fair-haired Roma children in my archive.
12 girls in one family
I will tell you an interesting story from the life of our Transcarpathian Roma. As you know, Roma families are very numerous, they live together and in a large crowd. There lived a baron in one of the camps, who had 12 (!) daughters. Just imagine for a moment the father's "pain": power in the camp is often transferred from father to son, but you have a kindergarten for girls at home. Such is the joke of genetics. This baron did not make the thirteenth attempt, he put up with it. And many years later, when the last daughter was married off, the inspired father of the family, who shared love between 12 children, finally felt sadness from his heart. And it was necessary to hold elections in the camp in order to appoint a new headman of the Roma settlement.
Campaign “Don’t be a baobab”
Friends, I never cease to admire you! Within two days, you transferred more than UAH 22,000 worth of funds to the “Don’t Be a Baobab” campaign together with the Transcarpathian Military Support Movement. And instead of the planned trips to two psycho-neurological boarding schools and 300 gifts, we visited as many as 7 institutions within three days and gave 1038 holiday gifts. Even after the announced two days of fundraising, your help has kept flowing. Your response to the request for help has exceeded expectations.
Carpathian mountains: Borzhavsky ridge
The idea of doing a naked photo shoot in the mountains will make a person even with arthritis climb with a backpack, break out in seventh sweat, endure the scorching sun and rubbing his boot.
The Civil Contract of Photography
Yesterday I conducted an unannounced monitoring visit to hospice wards based on two district hospitals in the Transcarpathian region, where there are patients with fatal diagnoses who are not even aware that they have such a diagnosis. Unfortunately, for the most part, doctors and medical staff do not have the necessary understanding of palliative care, patients' rights continue to be violated due to a lack of knowledge of staff, and most citizens are still limited in access to adequate comprehensive palliative and hospice care, which provides, in particular, applying of powerful painkillers.
Winter trip to the Chornohora
In order to show you the beauty of the winter Carpathians, I had to put on 5 pairs of trousers and 6 jackets, trample ten kilometers of freshly fallen snow and eat several packs of mivina. And I brought photos of the snowy Carpathian Mountains on 2 memory cards of 16 gigabytes each, and I don’t even know how to start and which ones to show you first - I will make a separate photo essay. The winter trip was held under the slogan "break into the mountains and reboot!".
The Last Supper near Turkul
There is a cool kolyba with a Chinese tapestry in the Ukrainian Carpathians under Mount Turkul where at the Last Supper there are 9 apostles and one woman. If you look closely, you can see Chinese noodles on their table. Kolyba is a place where shepherds spend the night, they graze sheep on mountain pastures and meadows in the summer. In simpler kolybas, tourists stop for the night. This is a real luxury in the mountains. We were doubly lucky, we spent the night in a shepherd's kolyba which is not intended for tourists. When you are tired after a day's hike and see this kolyba, you rush to it with all your might even without strength. It was the coolest photo shoot ever. In the morning we ran out for the whole day, took photos and dried ourselves in warmth and comfort in the evening.
Marmarosh Range, or Hutsul Alps
I decided to meet the beginning of May in one of the most picturesque places in the Carpathians - on the Marmara Range. As for me, this is the best time to hike these mountains, you can see with your own eyes how winter smoothly turns into spring - crocuses bloom right next to the snow drifts. For the beautiful slopes and diversity of nature, this mountainous part of the Carpathians is called the Hutsul Alps.
What do you have in your travel backpack?
Camping gear! Favorite theme of all tourists and their sympathizers. Still, those dark times have passed when they went on a hike in worn-out sneakers, one windbreaker, with a canvas tent, a Druzhba saw and an enameled bucket. Fortunately, now modern tourist clothing is membrane, everything is lightweight and high-strength. And the outcome of the trip largely depends on how competently the tourist’s things are selected and equipped. Although getting ready for a hike is not as easy as it might seem at first glance. There is always little space in a backpack, it is worth its weight in gold, you should not fill it with unnecessary things. Oh gods, who are you listening to? My photographic equipment steadily takes its weighty 4-5 kg.
How to photograph restless children
I revealed the secret of how to photograph naughty and shy children so that they are not afraid and do not look at you like a stuffed fox. And you can do this with the help of creative masks for photo lenses. Now, when shooting, it remains just to imitate the mask: to speak like a dog, or meow like a cat. It works perfectly, tested in the Roma camp. The masks made the task much easier, because before that I had to rely on a beard and a kilogram of toffees.
Riddle from the director of the boarding school
From time to time I visit neuropsychiatric boarding schools with monitoring visits. Frequently I meet directors who are out of place, but, fortunately, there are those who care for their wards and try to make their stay in the boarding school as comfortable as possible. I have warm and respectful relations with such people, it is especially interesting to listen to them. They tell me unusual, interesting life stories.
Today is International Tourism Day!
There are more than 100 types of tourism on the planet - from rural to nuclear. For every taste and for everyone there is a kind of recreation. And most importantly - this is the life experience that we enrich in travel. Here's some nudist tourism for you. That rare case when I publish my nudes, and not just the nudes of models. Now I imagine how the girls feel at my photo shoots - relaxing their asses at an altitude of 2 thousand meters near a cliff is not so easy.
Blonde Roma children
Last night, an activist began to persistently call me with information that once again the Roma had kidnapped a fair-haired child and that they urgently needed to call the police, go to the camp and “beat off” the baby, otherwise they would take it apart for spare parts, like a magical amulet, or just for good luck , and, maybe, for fortune-telling. This is not the first time such appeals have taken place, and in all cases this stereotyped information has never been confirmed. For 5 years, almost every week, I have been in the camp (and we have more than 120 of them in Transcarpathia), and often I have to see the descendants of the Aryans with blond hair (at one time I was also very suspicious of this phenomenon and each time I asked to see evidence of the birth of a baby). And over the years, I have accumulated dozens of photographs of fair-haired Roma children in my archive.
12 girls in one family
I will tell you an interesting story from the life of our Transcarpathian Roma. As you know, Roma families are very numerous, they live together and in a large crowd. There lived a baron in one of the camps, who had 12 (!) daughters. Just imagine for a moment the father's "pain": power in the camp is often transferred from father to son, but you have a kindergarten for girls at home. Such is the joke of genetics. This baron did not make the thirteenth attempt, he put up with it. And many years later, when the last daughter was married off, the inspired father of the family, who shared love between 12 children, finally felt sadness from his heart. And it was necessary to hold elections in the camp in order to appoint a new headman of the Roma settlement.