Month: December 2015

OBX

Outer Banks, NC. #beachgames #outerbanks

On a frozen lake

Photo by wife of @mmordasov from Apatity, Russia. This boys are grateful to me for they got a chance to run and pull a sledge with me and my wife. Sledging on a frozen lake is an excellent way to have fun for both people and sledge dogs.#apatity #polarnight #dog #everydayrussia

Swimming

Photo by @mmordasov from Apatity, Russia. Winter swimming is very typical activity in Russia. At noon, right after the sunrise I went to a lake to photograph swimming people. Owing to a hard frost the lake was frozen and hidden under the thick layer of ice. First of all swimmers had to cut, saw and …

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Barents Sea

Photo by @mmordasov from Teriberka, Russia. Barents Sea is a part of the Artic Ocean. Sharp frost, sparkling snow and waving water put me into a trance.#everydayrussia #teriberka #polarnight #barentssea

Neglected boat

Photo by @mmordasov from Teriberka, Russia. Due to sickness I had to stay home for a solid day and made no one photo. I decided to show you some pictures from my previous trip to this nothern land. On photo: Neglected boats are frozen in nearby a small settlement Teriberka, January, 2015.Barents Sea is a …

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Fish

Photo by @mmordasov from Apatity, Russia. Today I was staying in line about an hour to buy this marvellous trout. The fish was super fresh and cost 330 rubles (approx. $ 4.6) per kilo. How glad I was when we found roe in the fish! We salted the roe immediately, and now I can’t wait …

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Library

Photo by @mmordasov from Apatity, Russia. The library my wife went to when she was a pupil. The building was designed and built in early 1990th, and almost nothing has changed there. There are frescoes at the top of the walls illustrating the most famous and important Russian works of fiction. Can you find on …

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Chesapeake Bay

Chesapeake Bay town of Cape Charles, Va. The bay was formed 35 million years ago by an asteroid 5 miles wide. Cape Charles is 120 years old and was built on an agriculture and fishing economic base common to the entire Eastern Shore of Virginia. Most residents of the state of Virginia don’t even know …

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Dog

Photo by @mmordasov from Kirovsk, Russia There are always a lot of dogs in northern towns. And there are almost no cats there. It seems to me, cats can hardly survive the winter. I was walking around the town more than one hour at temperature -17°C (1°F) when I met these two. They were sitting …

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Lit

Photo by @mmordasov from Murmansk region, Russia Yesterday I had two spare hours before the next meeting. I spent them walking 7 km (4,5 miles) by foot along a roadside to small distinct part of a town. The country looked wild, dark and abandoned. I met no man, but a lot of vehicles drove by …

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