On test server
Kieran Turner's photos
Back together and on the road again
Oh!
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Campfire tales
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Member of TEAM AWESOME
Vitalite
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Comrade Lenin
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Olden pride
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Based on an Opel (an entire production line was snaffled from Germany after World War II) this is an early Moskvitch, on a stick (of course) on a garage forecourt. I love the bonnet emblem :)
The approach to the Motherland
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Everything about Stalingrad (now Volgograd) is pride. It's quite an amazing statement of defiance. Most imposing of all is the incredible, enormous statue of Motherland. She's cast from solid concrete, and I'm very grateful to have seen her, since she is held in place only by her own weight, and as a result of subsidence, is reported to be leaning by about six inches. A few more and it's feared she may topple.
Soldat
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Soldier and Mother Russia
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Everything about Stalingrad (now Volgograd) is pride. It's quite an amazing statement of defiance. Most imposing of all is the incredible, enormous statue of Motherland. She's cast from solid concrete, and I'm very grateful to have seen her, since she is held in place only by her own weight, and as a result of subsidence, is reported to be leaning by about six inches. A few more and it's feared she may topple.
Motherland
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Everything about Stalingrad (now Volgograd) is pride. It's quite an amazing statement of defiance. Most imposing of all is the incredible, enormous statue of Motherland. She's cast from solid concrete, and I'm very grateful to have seen her, since she is held in place only by her own weight, and as a result of subsidence, is reported to be leaning by about six inches. A few more and it's feared she may topple.
Rockhopper
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Trumpeted hooded figures
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товарищи I
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товарищи II
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("Comrades")
Three of the four awesome Vagabonds of the Eastern World , as this Irish team was called, along with John who'd joined my team after losing his vehicle.
These. Guys. Rock.
Caught in the... act
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Weary
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Memorial
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The memorial to the dead of Stalingrad is monumentally serene and moving. The walls are of broken glass and gilt tiles which flicker in the light of the eternal flame. Very quiet music, reminiscent of a crematorium plays all the time, and there are many very, very serious Russian soldiers on constant guard.
