Moscow: family and friends
Apr. 11th, 2010 12:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lapsedmodernistMy aunt Rimma
My half-sister Mariana and her youngest, Senya (or Simon):
My half-brother Yasha, my sister-in-law Masha, and their daughters Katya (the older one) and Sasha (the younger one):
This is the apartment building where I grew up, on the 8th floor of a 16-story high-rise known in the neighborhood as "the house with the blue balconies":
This is Lena, my best friend from childhood. She still lives in the house we grew up in, in the same apartment; she just had her first baby two months ago.
My half-sister Mariana and her youngest, Senya (or Simon):
My half-brother Yasha, my sister-in-law Masha, and their daughters Katya (the older one) and Sasha (the younger one):
This is the apartment building where I grew up, on the 8th floor of a 16-story high-rise known in the neighborhood as "the house with the blue balconies":
This is Lena, my best friend from childhood. She still lives in the house we grew up in, in the same apartment; she just had her first baby two months ago.
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Date: 2010-04-10 11:04 pm (UTC)А дом - да. Помню такие. Сама жила в похожем.
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Date: 2010-04-10 11:07 pm (UTC)А с домом, так странно, я так отвыкла от таких домов--мне теперь всё выше пяти этажей кажется неправильным, нечеловеческим...а ведь жила, и было даже уютно...
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Date: 2010-04-12 11:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-11 01:56 am (UTC)How long had it been since you'd been back?
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Date: 2010-04-11 08:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-11 08:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-11 02:48 am (UTC)It's interesting how different the Russian version of Simon (Senya) is from the Slovenian version (Žiga). So much variation across the Slavosphere. Happy trails!
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Date: 2010-04-11 08:47 am (UTC)The full name of Senya is Semyon (with an accent on the second syllable), but because his dad is British they also call him Simon.
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Date: 2010-04-11 05:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-11 07:52 pm (UTC)If you want a DSLR, I would recommend for a start a Canon Rebel or something like a Nikon D40 or D50, and a kit lens, which is usually 18-55, and if you want to take portraits, a 50 mm 1.8 lens, which is the one I used for all the photos in this entry except the one of my apartment buildings.
I think you can teach yourself all the technical basics about composition, aperture, shutter speed, depth of field, etc. but a class would be a really structured way to learn about it...