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I figured it would be conceptually interesting to do a panorama EBS (exposing both sides) album at Greenwich: the prime meridian, where time begins and the world divides into East and West, in an opposing symmetry that mirrors the duality of shots captured with this technique.
A dear friend gave me the gift of a rare and beautiful film... I intended to shoot this @100iso; but in the rush of loading film on the fly, the ISO was left @400 - a happy accident. The tones in the photos are so rich, they remind me of jewels. The details in the sky are an unexpected gift as well. For TRW.
p.s. the film expired in 1995
On the threshold of my 38th anniversary I upload some selection of mine childhood shots. Recently I made a big rescan on Nikon Coolscan-V all my family slide archive in maximum resolution. So I want to share some results. These slides were taken by my dear Papa circa 1976-1987 with Zenit-E camera, Helios-44 2/58mm. on famous and the best from accessible on the Soviet market slide films - glorious GDR Orwochrome UT 18. So please enjoy these warm, yellowish family masterpieces from non-existent country USSR
Once upon a time we've drove to hitch-hiking to Alupka in Vorontcov Palace. It's been a sun spring day. I load in my Zorki 10, (russian automatic camera from 70-s) Kodak Color 200 film, overdue in 2006.
When we arrive to Alupka, we met our friend Alexey from Moscow, and gone walking in Vorontcov Garden situated under walls of Vorontcov Palace.
Vorontcov Palace - is one of the oldest and largest royal palaces in all of Crimea. It's a great work of Edward Blore, Scottish architect.
The basis of the architectural design of the palace was the idea of the alchemical marriage between East and West: half of the palace looks like a European castle, another part looks like a Orient palace.
Winston Churchill in book "Triumph and Tragedy: The Second World War" write about this place: "The setting of our abode was impressive ... Behind the villa, half Gothic and half Moorish in style, rose the mountains, covered in snow, culminating in the highest peak in the Crimea. Before us lay the dark expanse of the Black Sea, severe, but still agreeable and warm even at this time of the year. Carved white lions guarded the entrance to the house, and beyond the courtyard lay a fine park with sub-tropical plants and cypresses."
