Season's Greetings Once More! Photo

Photographer’s Note

Today (January 7) is December 25 of Julian calendar, Xmas Day according to Eastern Orthodox Sacred Tradition. In Ukraine this is a National holiday. In a week we are going to celebrate so called “old New Year’s Day” (January 14 of modern Gregorian calendar or January 1 of old style Julian calendar), as a completion of a whole row of the main winter holidays.

We have started celebrating on December 19, Saint Mikolay Day. Saint Mikolay is the holy protector of Ukraine and his day is celebrated with giving gifts to children. Then we celebrate Xmas, both Catholic and Orthodox, and certainly two New Year's Days. At that time the commonly accepted greeting is “Zi svyatami!” (With the Holidays!).

The more extended greeting statement is seen at the center of the picture. It reads as “Z Novim rokom ta Rizdvom Khristovim!” (With New Year and Xmas!). Why New Year is first, although in both calendars Xmas Day goes before New Year’s Day? This is because a New Year is met mainly according to the new calendar on January 1, and Xmas Day’s is celebrated by the most of Ukrainian people today, on January 7.

Marry Xmas to all TE members and TE guests!

In this last year’s photo a part of the street of Academician Ivan Pavlov (eminent Russian physiologist, psychologist, and physician, 1849 – 1936; former name of the street is Konyushennaya, which means “having stables”) where commercial and exhibition complex “Radmir” is situated. Not so far from here there is the biggest Ukrainian trading center and market place Barabashovo, named after another academician Nikolai Barabashov (1894 – 1971), Soviet astronomer. Actually the market was named according to the nearby subway station, named after the academician.

GPS coordinates: 50.00950 Lat, 36.31950 Long

siamesa, rjb874, zeynepe, LeeLoo, robbie9, SAMANDI, saxo042, jhm, shevchenko, PixelTerror, Henryk_Bilor, mkamionka trouve(nt) cette note utile

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siamesa (13195) 2009-01-07 1:19

Hi Sergiy

Very informative your note and a nice picture with a Marry Xmas in this time, according the Eastern Orthodox Sacred Tradition.Very important to know this.
Regards
maria

zeynepe (9358) 2009-01-07 2:01

Hi Sergiy,
You captured nice architectural details with your useful note.
A happy new year to you ,
Zeynep

LeeLoo (5232) 2009-01-07 4:06

Dear Sergyi Lushpenko!
Very interesting modern architecture.
Wonderful old cars.
Nice lightness.
Very nice colors.
Original picture.
TFS!

robbie9 (248) 2009-01-07 4:51

Hello Sergiy and Happy New Year!

As usual... Excelent Note!
I'm agree with LeeLoo, nice composition and nice cars.

BR, Roberto.

Juntas (3504) 2009-01-08 6:56

Hi Sergiy. NIce photo with a great note. Composition is good including those cars and that nice modern architecture. I made a WS, hope you don't mind. Regards. Paulo

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photoray (1362) 2009-01-09 20:38

The varying blue window colors are very appealing and the architectural lines angular mixed with curves. A very interesting structure(s), plus the contrast with the muddy compact autos; modern versus outdated. Congratulations.

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saxo042 (16182) 2009-01-11 9:20

Hi Sergiy,
A very interesting photo from this part of the world, that you here a lot about these days ;) A very fine building and a very interesting note. I also appreciate the map view you have provided!
Best regards
Gunnar

Yves-triga (3613) 2009-01-12 4:21

Hello sergiy,
Nice color of this factory,
The winter is hard in your country!!!
Nice shoot.
Friendly
Yves

jhm (83193) 2009-01-12 4:56

Hello Sergiy,

Thank you very much for this interesting note, I learn almost every day on TE.
We see a very nice picture excellent of quality and sharpness.
Also the tradional Lada as real eye catcher.
We see here a wonderful result, lovely winter picture.
Sharpness and clarity are superb. TFS.

Best regards,
John.

shevchenko (10030) 2009-01-15 19:30

Hi Sergiy,
Very lucky to have chance for celebrate twice the New Year and Christmas at this city, and very lucky you were captured the red car before it out of frame, beautiful background building, thanks for sharing.
Ally

PixelTerror (86691) 2009-01-18 3:40

Hi Sergiy,
An interesting image because it shows your country's present (the new shopping center) and past (the old Jiguli) together.
Have a nice sunday JY

Henryk_Bilor (20371) 2009-01-27 1:52

Hi Sergiy
Nice capture of this building. Good light. Maybe the red Lada disturbs a bit in watching the image ;). I like the explanation of the holidays in your note :).
Have a nice day.

mkamionka (4876) 2009-01-30 3:10

That ia very good idea to wish us a happy new year by including the text in the photo.
Also it is really cool that the text is in a foreign (not for you but for us) alphabet, it always makes a shot very exotic.
I like the contrast between the brand new buildings and the oldfashioned cars.
These cars, I mean like this one on the left, are slowly disappearing form Polish streets, I guess they will disappear from Ukrainian streets as well so I love to photograph them when I only have a chance to document this time going to the past.
I think you should really upload more shots with the incriptions in Ukrainian language, as I say it is so exotic for the rest of us.
Thanks for sharing.
M