June 22, 2008 - 7:55 pm - Posted by Galina
One flew over Cuckoo’s Nest ( Ich flog über’s Kuckucksnest )
When I was 19 years old, I failed entrance examination to the Kyrgyz university.
First exam was English and I passed it very well. Then it came turn of composition. We were to write a few pages on the theme �Communism and future of humankind�.
Instead of [...]
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June 11, 2008 - 8:45 pm - Posted by Galina
Group of people in Mariahilfer Strasse, Vienna
Zhanna
It was sunny spring of 1982. The university alley of apple and peach trees was all pink lace of blossoms. The air was fresh and clear. But I was ascending marble staircase of main building with monument of Great Chief at the top feeling chill in my heart.
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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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May 13, 2008 - 2:07 pm - Posted by Galina
19.05.08 I often think about illusion of time, invented by our lineal human mind, all past moments (samsara) and future moments exist at the same time
15.05.08 I found wonderful book of Steve Caplin in local library and added patriotic picture to my nude gallery
13.05.08 Three male photographers with Canon cameras assisted me in creation of [...]
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April 4, 2008 - 7:27 am - Posted by Galina
Dear Mr. Gusenbauer!
Excuse me for breaking rules and sending you photo with a piece of nudity, but I do not see other way to attract your attention to the point.
I am freelance photographer and journalist, and once you posed for me and other photographers during election campaign in Graz in autumn of 2006. Unfortunately, [...]
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March 13, 2008 - 10:09 pm - Posted by Galina
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I miss Graz and its streets more than I miss Kyrgyz steppes, and it seems both are lost forever, though first [...]
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March 9, 2008 - 7:45 pm - Posted by Galina
You are welcome to my recent flash gallery created with Lightroom and Autoviewer
“Everything, a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being, is ultimately unknowable”
From “A New Earth” by Eckhart Tolle
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February 13, 2008 - 4:45 pm - Posted by Galina
Normally people don’t like their own photos even of high quality. Portrait photography is the special art of flattery. Everybody has own vision of himself that can be broken by cruel frankness of digital camera vision. Image we perceive with our eyes is processed by multiple filters of our brain. People don’t like their own [...]
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January 28, 2008 - 10:16 pm - Posted by Galina
Fast portrait of young worker
Light is best artist, it creates something impressive and bright without slightest effort.
The lack of light makes everything dull and flat, and a few hours of work over such photos
hardly improve anything. It is like relationship. When relationship is dull from the very beginning,
it will hardly be better after months of [...]
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November 15, 2007 - 1:58 pm - Posted by Galina
I visited normal Soviet school, where among other exotic subjects
we studied scientific atheism.
In classroom with portrait of Mongolian looking Leader and quotation: Religion is opium for people
teacher talked about Darwinism and astrophysics mocking over
tales of holy world creation.
We were busy with history of Christianity, and there was Moslem country outside - with neither veil, nor [...]
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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 bersetzerin fr das Institut fr Weltraumforschung der sterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Graz.
bersetzung eines kompletten Buches ber 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 models 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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