Umbrellas, trains and other stuff – my after Geneva trip notes (part vii)
Bonjour my friends. Hope you’re doing well during this long and everywhere cold winter. I come here with another series of images taken during my Geneva visit a few months ago. And again, as usual, after every my trip to other countries, I promise to myself to travel aboard every 2-3 months, I never keep that promise. Shame on me, on my job and on my too serious attention to what I’m living from. Seems like impossible to change these sitting deep inside of me habits. Sometimes I do feel that my life is a part of the Groundhog Day movie. This routine just killing me, even I’m trying every evening to break it down every evening after a workday, but every single morning, 5 times every week, I feel the same feeling – I have to change something.
There is something that I would like to tell you about the picture with two guys under one umbrella. It was rainy and cold, and I walked with my friend Jeremy in search of some cozy place to sit with a beer. When I crossed a super crowded central street, I noticed one guy vlogging in the middle with a selfie stick, covering himself an umbrella. Suddenly I heard that he speak the Russian language – the first language, that I started talking in this life. As usual, I don’t feel any nostalgy to the place of my birth (actually it’s Ukraine, not Russia), but this time I felt this desire to ask him where he is from. He said the name of one of USSR republics, where I spent around 27 years of my life – Kazakhstan. And when I asked him about the city of living – the answer was exactly the same city where I grew up, went to school and matured (really, already matured ???). It was like OMG moment, so we took a few pictures together, quite quickly talked about life, and I asked them also to take this portrait. it was a crazy coincidence – right place at right time, plus an interesting story for the portrait.
As always , such an in depth study of folk and I just drool over the one with the older man and his phone taken through the window. Touched my heart
thank you Paula ! always happy to read your comments !
Hey Victor, your telling and of course your pictures reminds me to this title: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI4-r8Vx8qM It calls “One of these days” I heard it the first when iwas a young boy and i love this song since today. I also saw it in a live concert in 1992 with a liveshow like in ths video.
For me, it is the perfect music for the tristess moody days, we have from november til march in middle europe. Dark and cloudy, rainy days. Simply one of these days. Hope you like this song 🙂
yes such beautiful song. my favorite part is starting at minute 2:13 with very monotonous rithem created by bass guitar with some effect.
winters are not too dramatic and long here but the current one is different with very cold nights and long pouring rainy days. thank you for the kind words and fpr the music !
These are such a wonderful shots!
thank you Annabelle !
Awesome set Victor! As they say the eyes have it!
thank you Sam !
Really nice set of photographs Victor. I especially like the holey fence.
thank you Lisa ! yes it looks like a huge cheese 😉 i also took one shoot of this with my film camera 😉 actually i can stand there hours – a situation is changing every single second .