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• Photo Gallery: Almaty Subway

  I finally found a nice photo gallery of the Almaty subway which opened the other day. I note that it looks a lot like the Moscow subway, with high ceilings and over-decorated walls. You half expect a crystal chandelier. That may be nice, but for this almost New Yorker, a subway is meant to be […]

  12/07/11 • (Comments Off on Photo Gallery: Almaty Subway)

• Gagarin’s Baikonur

  There’s a really nice photo essay of Baikonur by Anton Verstakov up, with great shots of the house where Gagarin stayed and even his bedroom among other things. It really is amazing how desolate Baikonur looks. Verstakov notes that the cosmodrome reminds him of Soviet times: For me it is a sort of a flashback, […]

  4/20/11 • (Comments Off on Gagarin’s Baikonur)

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  From Akmola to Astana

  Ran across a great series of photographs by Manuel Capurso called From Akmola to Astana, which documents Astana capturing both the old and the new. It’s an interesting set. Anyone who has lived in Astana for some time will have noticed the sharp contrasts between the two cities and the surrealism of new modern buildings […]

  3/24/11 • (Comments Off on From Akmola to Astana)

• Who Says Girls Can’t Throw | EurasiaNet.org

  Who Says Girls Can’t Throw | EurasiaNet.org. Great photo of a girl in Almaty pelting a classmate with a big old snowball!

  3/19/11 • (Comments Off on Who Says Girls Can’t Throw | EurasiaNet.org)

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  Asian Games Snapshots

  Jin Liu of ATP/Getty Images has gotten some great shots of the podium assistants in Kazakhstan for the Asian Games. Click on them to go to the attachment page where you can see them in larger sizes:

  2/03/11 • (Comments Off on Asian Games Snapshots)

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  Photographs

  I’ve been playing around with WordPress quite a bit and I’ve decided to set up a separate subdomain for my photographs on KZBlog. Redbubble is a good place to buy and sell art–the quality of products I’ve bought there is really good, better than I could do myself. But the display of photos is not […]

  12/12/10 • (Comments Off on Photographs)

• Sheepheads and Dombros 15% Cheaper

  Redbubble.com, where I host a modest portfolio of photos and T-shirts, is running a pre- holiday sale. Until 14 November, you can get 15% off everything. That’ll get you a Dombro Hero T-shirt for like $18! Just use the promo code KZBlog_is_on_sale_6104 at checkout. Browse my photos here: or just click through to my my […]

  11/05/10 • (Comments Off on Sheepheads and Dombros 15% Cheaper)

• Eagle Hunters

  Looking around Redbubble, I discovered an Australian artist/graphic designer with some nice paintings of Kazakh eagle hunters. Check out Gerard Mignot‘s portfolio. It’s also interesting to Search for Kazakhstan (NSFW) on redbubble. I seem to be the major contributor now but there are some great landscapes and also a few pictures of naked people bathing […]

  9/29/10 • (1)

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  Kalon Mosque in Top Ten

  Just a small ego-booster. My photo of the Kalon Mosque in Bukhara was voted one of the top ten photos in the Travel and Adventure in Asia Challenge on Redbubble As per my usual shameless plug, my photos are for sale on Redbubble, so feel free to browse around for a Memorial Day gift!

  5/31/10 • (Comments Off on Kalon Mosque in Top Ten)

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  Pictures of the UFO Last Year

  Update on: UFO in Kazakhstan which does appear to be the real deal in so far as something did fall. Whether it was a UFO or not, I couldn’t say. Still no new information but we do have some pictures, including pictures that seem to come from official news agencies. Thanks to Above Top Secret […]

  5/13/10 • (3)

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