Oto in Motherland: a (huge) photo log

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Postby Otohiko » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:55 pm

Rotting timber
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Upstream…
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Campfire site
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Campfire site and lake
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I have the fondest memories of this campfire site.
We, the islander kids, would come here and have our campfire time, burning bread. That’s right, not toasting, burning. We called bread burned to perfect blackness “galoshes” and ate it with particular satisfaction :P

Not our island, but clearly the most cramped island I have yet seen
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*to be continued*
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Postby Otohiko » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:56 pm

Dacha, indoors.

Balalaika, the famed 3-string Russian lute-type instrument that has a lot in common with the banjo.
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Kitchen
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Pier, with the sun glaring brightly from the washing sink mirror
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Pier and Fast Rowboat
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Evening
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*to be continued*
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Postby Otohiko » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:56 pm

Mathilda
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She’s very natural in that environment. Excellent climber.
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Also terribly intelligent. It took her a while to acknowledge me as “one of her own” – but not too long. I’ve never met her before, but I soon had conversations with this cat. I swear, she knows exactly what you say to her.
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A strange find in the bushes…
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Very creepy:
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*to be continued*
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Postby Otohiko » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:56 pm

Oto and the washing sink again
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Outdoor table
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Indoor table
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Another creepy twig
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*to be continued*
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Postby Otohiko » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:57 pm

Mathilda, scouting.
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Here come the peoples. Mathilda in for official welcome.
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The pier
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Mathilda on the pier
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She knows what I’m doing, and she’s posing for the camera, I’m telling you

Assessing the flat-bottom after a routine voyage
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*to be continued*
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Postby Otohiko » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:57 pm

Leaving the dacha

Neighbouring island
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Buildings on the shore
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The old dirt track
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More buildings
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Field and power lines
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*to be continued*
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Postby Otohiko » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:58 pm

Countryside
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Dirt road Image

Two roads…
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(the one to the right leads to the dacha *sniff*)

Fields
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A ray of light
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At least I got to visit my favorite place in the world, even for a mere 3 days!

*to be continued*
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Postby Otohiko » Sat Dec 30, 2006 8:59 pm

Hittin’ the highway…
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Backpacker
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Railroad, back at Vyborg station
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Locomotive
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Preparing to board
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(end of this trip)

*to be continued*


Another regularly-scheduled pause. Discuss? :roll:
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Postby Flint the Dwarf » Sat Dec 30, 2006 9:00 pm

Goddamn, this thread is almost as big as Russia.
Kusoyaro: We don't need a leader. We need to SHUT UP. Make what you want to make, don't make you what you don't want to make. If neither of those applies to you, then you need to SHUT UP MORE.
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Postby Otohiko » Sat Dec 30, 2006 10:34 pm

Right, and like Russia it's not finished... yet. :roll:

Give it a few more pages and I'll be through!
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Postby Gox777 » Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:17 am

All very interesting and beautiful pics.
That doll was creepy!
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Postby Jnzk » Sun Dec 31, 2006 8:55 am

The pictures from your grandpa's dacha in Karelia are absolutely beautiful! I really should go out in the nature more...

I was actually about to ask if you would have been able to visit a con in Helsinki last July, but you just sort of disappeared after flying to Russia. :(
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Postby Otohiko » Sun Dec 31, 2006 3:02 pm

Janzki wrote:I was actually about to ask if you would have been able to visit a con in Helsinki last July, but you just sort of disappeared after flying to Russia. :(


You should've PMed me, I sort of checked my messages every other week or so...

That said, I wouldn't have been able to go since I only had a single-entry visa (I'm not a Russian citizen. It's pretty silly that I can travel freely wherever I want in the EU with my Canadian passport, but need to jump tons of hoops just to enter Russia.)

I REALLY want to go to Finland. In fact if I manage to suddenly make money the next year or the year after, I want to go to Russia by the way of Prague and a short diversion to Germany perhaps; then go to Estonia and see my relatives there; and then take the ferry to Finland. Apparently there's already multiple people who want me to visit Finland :lol:
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Postby Otohiko » Sun Dec 31, 2006 3:08 pm

Alright, final 1/3 of the pictures left.

The total size of the document where I worked on the 'album' ended up being 150 pages of text + BBCode :shock:

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Back on the Vasilievsky Island, this is the harbor construction I was talking about. You can see land reclamation in progress:
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The Hermitage Courtyard, Russia’s most famous museum
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I didn’t take any pictures inside – it’s too well-known a place and I’m no professional photographer. If you’re interested in the world’s most expansive museum – just search for it online!

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Passing the Artillery Museum, but we’re not going there this time – but to another military history attraction anyway
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Street
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*to be continued*
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Postby Otohiko » Sun Dec 31, 2006 3:08 pm

Building
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The old and the new – modern architecture, as seen across the bridge, looks out of place in St. Petersburg
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#6 tram on the bridge
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Nevka river
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and this is where we’re headed – the old Cruiser Aurora
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*to be continued*
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