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Hello, my dear friends,

Happy New Year!

Spent a really beautiful day in Banff, and Lake Louise. Totally ‘classic winter day around Christmas’, as if from a Carol

Got a few nice shots, - of course!

This post is actually a ‘trial for an idea’ - I let my friends from Russian “My Space” know that they would be able to download pictures in large size here, if they like them and want use them somehow, - as ‘desktop pictures’, for example.

CLICK ON PICTURE TO MAKE IT LARGE!

All my Best Wishes in the New Year to everybody who may stop here,

Cheers!

Hi, folks,

I’m ‘taking five’ again. A lot of stuff did pop up recently, - piled up, in fact, like a good snowball! (Unwrap boxes under the Christmas tree - is one of these ‘to-do’ items And we have to respond, and ‘read a check list’ for that.

I’ll be with you in the New Year with really interesting stuff,

Wish you all the best,

Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year,

Yours,

Clash

Sorry, folks, I’ve been busy lately, socializing a lot with my friends in Russia, and other former USSR countries on “Мой Мир” (’Moi Mir’), a social networking web-site in Russian language.

There’s been a few very interesting conversations in the last couple of weeks. I’ll certainly report about them here too, ’cause I see it is very important to keep the dialog and communication of this sort going. In some sense, it is more important stuff than ‘what we’ve done and seen in the Bahamas’

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There’s one particular way to spot planes in Bahamas. Go ‘below sea level’.

Perhaps, guys in the ‘Stuart Cove’s of Nassau always use this joke on us, ‘dummy snorkels’, whenever they brief before a tour to this place: “A pilot is still there, by the way.. say ‘Hello’ to him, ask, if he needs anything”.

So, it was the very first time when we tried an underwater camera. Really got interested to get an image of that pilot

(to be continued… got a call from crew sched.. )

Yes, we made it down South to the Caribbeans! (in fact, we’ve got back home already

And it seems the water’s color on the map is about to be all right

Hello, Bahama Mama!

We are going on vacation - to check it out what’s going on in ‘Bermuda Triangle’, at its Western point

Although it is a picture of Freeport, we are going to Nassau. I couldn’t find the Nassau’s picture, anyway, it was taken in the middle of the night, enroute from Montreal to Dominican (right through the Bermuda Triangle!) . Hopefully, I’ll have a break from a constant hanging out in the Internet.

But I’ll be back, in a while

Cheers,

Clash

Seems like we’ve got another Chinook here in Calgary. I went out for a walk, - didn’t want to miss a chance to marvel at my favorite ’spectacle’ the Mother Nature is staging every now and then in our area.

At some times we are lucky enough to see Chinook Arch while in the air..

.. like in this one: we flew an approach to Calgary from the West, and a flight path angle was sort of following the sloped Chinook Arch ceiling, - it was kinda cool to see these ‘grandiose’ cloud structures hanging up there, above your head.

But everybody knows Chinook is also associated with quite a strong wind, for, - by physical nature, - exactly the wind it is - a katabatic wind blowing from the slopes of mountains.

One thing about photographing Chinook: you can catch a terrific still view of cloud forms on your camera, but it is going to be a bit of challenge to convey an idea of motion, a ‘visual idea of wind’, - if you don’t have a camcorder

See, what kind of solution I found for this:

Click on the image!

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You never know where this cute, but relatively small and slow going plane would eventually get over at the end of its flying day..

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A week ago I opened an account at the Russian language social networking web-site called ‘Moj Mir’, - which can almost literally be translated as ‘My Space’.

There’s no way to be prepared beforehand for all kinds of surprises that may ‘unleash’ upon you once you’ve stepped in this area of virtual universe.

So was my experience with it.

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A few more topics coming soon (which I didn’t announce in the previous post) are going to be based on ‘Greg’s Files‘.

Greg visited me yesterday, we had a very interesting talk while I was treating him with Russian salad called ‘ The Herring Under Coat’, and he kindly allowed me to use his three albums with photographs for a while so that I would be able to scan them, and we would start posting these photos with his comments.

Certainly, it is a sort of unique stuff.

See in the next post: ‘Antarctica: Search for a Soul‘.