One year a few residents of our apartment complex decided to organize a sort of stone soup Christmas. They put up notices asking people to decorate one of the fir trees in our yard. The response was pretty good. This was my favorite ornament, but it appears to have been banged up pretty good. I wonder if that’s why it was donated to the communal Christmas tree.
My best selling and most highly acclaimed photograph (not that that’s saying much!). The Kalon Mosque mosque in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. Famous for having one of …
A mysterious rock in the middle of Lake Boroboe in Northern Kazakhstan. Legend has it that the army of Ablai Khan took an Oirat princess captive and forced her to marry a Kazakh warrior. She fell deeply in love with one warrior but the others were jealous. So she said that she would marry the man who could shoot to the top of a rock outcrop near the lake. All failed the first time, but her love hit it on the second try. The rivals killed him so she flung herself in the lake and became Zhumbaktas (Mysterious Stone).
The MIG Memorial in Aktau, or MIG on a stick. I love the way they mounted it up in the air at a steep angle. …
A show of traditional Kazakh horse riding tricks for the anniversary celebration of Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan. Traditionally these skills were learned by young …
A statue of a traditional Kazakh woman holding the dombro, a two-string lyre and the ancestor of the guitar. Sitting by the banks of the …
A close up of a statue of a Kazakh warrior put up for the Astana Day celebrations outside Capital Park. I liked the way his …
As part of the Astana Day celebrations of 2009, they set up a music shop inside a yurt. Fascinating to see the variations in designs …
