June 2, 2008 - 11:00 am - Posted by Galina
I had not posted for my blog for a long time. It was emotional zigzag.
Zigzags appear in my life as result of failures or psychological traumas, when shift of perception makes me look at my life from another perspective.
Contemplating my professional future, I see my aspirations are mostly inapplicable in Austria. My prospects would be [...]
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April 8, 2008 - 9:32 pm - Posted by Galina
It was gloomy morning, and feeling worthless, I wept for three hours.
I always die during such paroxysms of desperation. But life always comes back to me. It comes and fills the body with warmth. Looking at the middle-aged woman with gray hair and two swollen rabbit eyes in the mirror I made a few telephone [...]
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February 24, 2008 - 6:50 pm - Posted by Galina
Serbian demonstration against Kosovo independence,
Vienna, Heldenplatz, 24.02.08, 13.00
As I have no more reliable source of information about Vienna events than FM-4 and Internet sites,
I arrived at place more than two hours earlier equipped with three lenses which I eventually didn’t use
When demo started, it was fun to shoot people together with other 4-5 male photographers
But [...]
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January 8, 2008 - 2:14 pm - Posted by Galina
Nikkor AF 70-210mm
This old lens, almost single one i constantly worked with, is very nice. But time comes to start with indoors journalism photography, and my camera with this very lens is mostly dead in dim light. Solution?
Maybe solution is Nikkor AF-D 80-200mm 2.8 D lens which costs about 800 Euros.
I realized I can [...]
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October 30, 2007 - 1:31 pm - Posted by Galina
Great Russian writer Ivan Turgenev wrote that our happiness is usually erected at pedestal of other people misfortune.
Mechanism of reality is so that we can feel good only on expense of somebody else. In ethical sphere it is expressed in emotional vampiring of humans, in social and economic sphere it lays in basement of labor [...]
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October 18, 2007 - 10:27 am - Posted by Galina
Email considered not reliable way to apply for job; all the same I use it now,
Because I am convinced that personal visit gives any results when it is expected.
Besides some editorial offices are situated in other parts of Austria or abroad.
Here is my application and polite negative replies I started to receive.
Sehr geehrter Herr [...]
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October 16, 2007 - 2:46 pm - Posted by Galina
Galina Toktalieva
Zur Person
* 20.September 1960 in Kirgisistan
Familienstand: ledig, keine Kinder
Wien, 03. Juni 2008
Berufliche Werdegang
1987 – 1995 Korrespondentin bei verschiedenen russischen Zeitschriften und Magazinen mit Spezialgebiet Soziale Fragen.
2003 – 2004 Freiberufliche Übersetzerin für das Institut für Weltraumforschung der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Graz.
Übersetzung eines kompletten Buches über Astrophysik von Ukrainisch in Englisch. Projektleitung: Dr. Norbert [...]
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September 24, 2007 - 9:02 pm - Posted by Galina
Portrait is always the sort of intimacy between photographer and model, even if it is spontaneous street or public portrait. With intuitive wisdom photographer tries to reveal most prominent features of model’s character, if possible. Normally 20-30 attempts give one interesting snapshot, and 50 provide sufficient material for normal characteristic portrait.
Fast street portraits look inexpressive [...]
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