Monday, July 8, 2019

Something reflective in the wind - street art installation

Make Your Photos Work for You on Stock Photo Site

Say, you have a decent camera and like to take pictures?

But did you know that you could upload your pictures to a stock photo site, and, once approved as a contributor, you could make some money (however little) automatically on each photo (or vector image / video) that gets subsequently sold!

It also does wonders for your photographer's ego - knowing that your pictures can actually sell or, at the very least, that you can be approved as a contributor!

Shutterstock is one such stock photo and video resource where you can become a contributor relatively easily.

Or maybe you'd like to buy quality photos, images and/or videos by artists, both professional and amateur, from around the world for personal and/or business use?

Shutterstock is where you can do that also and offers a variety of subscription plans or one-off purchases.

Saturday, July 6, 2019

Dao Dezi World Mix 1994 Deep Forest

Curbside Breakfast

An early curbside breakfast.

завтрак у обочины гриль гурмэ Макдоналдс

McDonald's something called Grille(d) Gourmet here in Russia (Гриль Грумэ) и кофе.


Общепит: Завтрак у обочины: Завтрак рано утром у обочины в июне 2019 г. Гриль гурме и кофе в ассортименте. Гриль Гурмэ в МакДоналдсе остается самым часто зака...

Friday, July 5, 2019

Paid by Qatar?

Paid by Qatar?


Not that I personally blame Qatar or M. Platini.

I wish somebody offered to pay me (off).

Monday, July 1, 2019

Sights of the city of Taldom in 40 photos

In about 40 photographs, here are some sights in a small town of Taldom located somewhere to the north of Moscow which I passed through last month.


In the above photo is a house built by the merchant Volkov in the modernist style of the beginning of the 20th century; now it is the Taldom Regional Historical and Literary Museum.



The residential house of the merchant Kiselev, N. F., built in 1907, now houses a central district inter-settlement library.


Monument to the writer S. A. Klychkov next to the library building.



The shopping arcade on Karl Marx Square, the building was built in 1908 and is an architectural landmark.


In this day and age, the building houses a branch of Sberbank, as well as various small shops selling food and some cheap Chinese and other low-quality industrial goods.




This building was a fire station with a bell tower, built in 1900, and is a monument of architecture, now renovated and housing Taldom's Civil Registry Office.









This sprawling building is the seat of the Administration of the Taldom district, but 100+ years ago it was a residential house of the merchant Mashatin, M. D. with shops, built in 1900, and is a listed building.



Another view at the shopping arcade or "merchant rows".


And this one is the former house of A. F. Vorontsov, a merchant, and now the Tsvetkov School of the Arts.


Monument to writer Saltykov-Shchedrin.