Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Nov 28, 2011, 5:29 pm
Sunset on the beach in Primosten, Croatia After almost 2 years of knowing I needed to switch my site to faster hosting, I’ve finally switched to a new host and redone the site using a new theme. So I’ve probably lost some pictures and broken links along the way, but at least my blog is finally ...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Oct 19, 2011, 7:50 pm
Natural dolmen? It looked like it but I have no idea how it could have gotten to be so; this is very near pinnacle of the hill. Romania left me with mixed feelings. In Bucharest and the Eastern part, there was a lot of beauty but also that utter disregard for the worth of other sustainable relation...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Oct 18, 2011, 5:37 pm
Street performer in front of Notre Dame de Paris, 2007. Paris, September 2007Google+: View post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog. --- "Between Law and Liberty" is a post from: Seeking the World's Soul. If images are not showing up in the RSS feed, please visit the original post. --- Relate...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Oct 18, 2011, 5:37 pm
Street performer in front of Notre Dame de Paris, 2007. Paris, September 2007Google+: View post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog. --- "Between Law and Liberty" is a post from: Seeking the World's Soul. If images are not showing up in the RSS feed, please visit the original post. --- Relate...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Oct 18, 2011, 5:37 pm
Street performer in front of Notre Dame de Paris, 2007. Paris, September 2007Google+: View post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog. --- "Between Law and Liberty" is a post from: Seeking the World's Soul. If images are not showing up in the RSS feed, please visit the original post. --- Relate...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Oct 18, 2011, 5:37 pm
Street performer in front of Notre Dame de Paris, 2007. Paris, September 2007Google+: View post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog. --- "Between Law and Liberty" is a post from: Seeking the World's Soul. If images are not showing up in the RSS feed, please visit the original post. --- Relate...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Oct 18, 2011, 5:37 pm
Street performer in front of Notre Dame de Paris, 2007. Paris, September 2007Google+: View post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog. --- "Between Law and Liberty" is a post from: Seeking the World's Soul. If images are not showing up in the RSS feed, please visit the original post. --- Relate...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Oct 18, 2011, 5:37 pm
Street performer in front of Notre Dame de Paris, 2007. Paris, September 2007Google+: View post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog. --- "Between Law and Liberty" is a post from: Seeking the World's Soul. If images are not showing up in the RSS feed, please visit the original post. --- Relate...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Oct 18, 2011, 5:37 pm
Street performer in front of Notre Dame de Paris, 2007. Paris, September 2007Google+: View post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog. --- "Between Law and Liberty" is a post from: Seeking the World's Soul. If images are not showing up in the RSS feed, please visit the original post. --- Relate...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Oct 18, 2011, 5:37 pm
Street performer in front of Notre Dame de Paris, 2007. Paris, September 2007Google+: View post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog. --- "Between Law and Liberty" is a post from: Seeking the World's Soul. If images are not showing up in the RSS feed, please visit the original post. --- Relate...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Oct 17, 2011, 4:01 pm
Dead on. Reshared post from +Tammy Capistrant Magic on a 3
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Oct 10, 2011, 11:24 am
In album Times and Epochs Festival 2011 (87 photos) Google+: View post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog. Created By Minimali.se. --- is a post from: Seeking the World's Soul. If images are not showing up in the RSS feed, please visit the original post. --- No related posts.
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Oct 10, 2011, 11:24 am
In album Times and Epochs Festival 2011 (87 photos) Google+: View post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog. Created By Daniel Treadwell. --- is a post from: Seeking the World's Soul. If images are not showing up in the RSS feed, please visit the original post. --- Related posts:One of the ...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Oct 10, 2011, 11:11 am
Someday when I'm back somewhere I can see stars at night, I want to try doing something like this. The photographer combined a number of exposures together to get both the stars and the star trails. It looks like the entire sky is full of falling stars. Reshared post from +Michael Otepola 2011-10-0...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Oct 1, 2011, 12:28 pm
She's one of my favorite photogs on here! Reshared post from +Elena Kalis Bahamas In album Bahamas Google+: View post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog. Created By Minimali.se. --- Elena Kalis' water photography is so inspiring is a post from: Seeking the World's Soul. If images are not s...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Sep 29, 2011, 6:39 am
My first try at making a video from a photoshoot! Made in Movie Edit Pro, music mixed in Acid 8, model/ costumer Marina Sidyakina from Oh Marisha! at http://oh-marisha.com, assisting by Anthony Arndt. Google+: View post on Google+ Post imported by Google+Blog. Created By Minimali.se. --- My first...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Sep 26, 2011, 5:48 pm
The costumer/ model Marina, from http://oh-marisha.com , collaborated with me for this shoot at Tsaritsino Museum-Reserve on the outskirts of Moscow. Her dress was inspired by Marie Antoinette and we chose Catherine the Great's recently-restored palace as an appropriate setting for it.In album Tsari...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Sep 7, 2011, 12:48 am
Extraordinary work here, especially in terms of the amount of planning and positioning it took to get these shots – you have to know exactly where the moon or sun will rise and already have worked out how you can capture the light. The moon is on the horizon for only about a minute, too, so once i...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Sep 3, 2011, 7:07 am
Big living history festival in Kolomenskoe Park this weekend! Extra convenient because it's right next to my flat and for once I don't have to camp in the pouring rain to get photos like this. The riders in the "polo" game are using boffers (padded swords) and a large bundle of fabric, which I imagi...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Aug 24, 2011, 8:54 pm
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Aug 19, 2011, 7:20 pm
Wondering if I should give a shot at video or infrared while I'm out there, or just stick to handheld stills. I have a lot of handheld stills of this sort of thing already, though. (I'm taking my tripod, but it's taken a beating this summer and the legs keep collapsing… Can't replace it by tomorro...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Mar 28, 2011, 9:26 pm
Karen K. with a windblown veil   I just spent another three weeks in Tallinn, Estonia, and after seeing how grungy the city was in March snowmelt (Tallinn is utterly lovely, but the end of winter always looks like nature has a hangover) I decided that moody, blurry black and whites might be a goo...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Dec 16, 2010, 7:41 am
I’ve taken the Moscow-Tallinn train any number of times. The scent of coal smoke, used to heat samovars for tea water on board, is indelibly printed on my brain as the scent of beckoning horizons. It’s an old Soviet train, built solid and ugly, but it stays warm and nowadays, they even usually...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Aug 8, 2010, 9:51 pm
Lillian is one of my favorite models. She has a wonderful vibrancy about her and that Estonian way of always smiling, even when I’m telling her to look fierce! I was thinking “Maenad” when I envisioned this shoot, and when she showed up suntanned and wild, straight from camping at a music fest...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - May 30, 2010, 9:11 am
Last month I did a shoot in Ankara with model Özge Can posing in a chiton, a dress common to women throughout the ancient Mediterranean, at the Roman Baths archaeological site. Özge is working on a master’s degree in environmental engineering and does modeling as a hobby, and we connected via Mo...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - May 2, 2010, 10:14 am
One of the world’s best collections of ancient Roman sculpture is in the relatively small Antalya Archaeological Museum, on Turkey’s Southern coast. An ancient settlement itself, Antalya is within 90 minute’s drive of five ruined ancient cities, and the pick of the finds from them reside in th...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Mar 6, 2010, 10:23 am
Medieval Gate and Clock Tower in Sighisoara, Romania I like to know as much as possible about places before I visit or move to them, and as I’ve been doing a lot of travel over the last few years I’ve worked some basic online research methods. Of course books are great and I love a good travel ...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Mar 6, 2010, 10:23 am
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Feb 13, 2010, 4:32 pm
The last trip got to me. Just a bit, nothing too bad, only traveling two weeks around Turkey, where I’ve now lived for 5 months. It left me exhausted, though, and I’ve spent the last three days since getting back to Samsun in the house, all burned out and anti-social. I always try to go… fu...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Feb 13, 2010, 4:32 pm
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Nov 26, 2009, 4:41 pm
Amissos – Samsun, Turkey – Images by Kira Hagen The English Club visited Amissos on a cool November afternoon. The the wintry sunlight was fading fast, and slid golden over the twin tumuli atop the hill above the old harbor, slowly fading to twilight blues as it sank behind the coastal mountain...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Nov 26, 2009, 4:41 pm
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Oct 3, 2009, 4:26 pm
Long time since I posted anything on here. A wordpress upgrade broke the old “Options” theme I was using, and I’ve been fiddling with making the blog presentable again since then, on and off. Mosty off as I was spending a lot of time job seeking, then getting ready to move, and finally moving ...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Jun 29, 2009, 3:33 am
Having some problems with my site at the moment – my apologies! I upgraded wordpress and the template I’ve been using for the last few years broke. So, trying to find a new one that displays both images and text well – so far, a lot harder than I expected. I do know some of the menu items are ...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Jun 27, 2009, 1:31 am
Statues covered in plastic draping at the Louvre I love watching art restoration work in progress, especially when the technicians are actively working on things. These statues were in a wing of the Louvre that was undergoing repairs and covered in a great deal of dust. The plastic draped over them...
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Kira Hagen posted an article on Seeking the World's Soul - Mar 1, 2009, 6:28 am
Living history Viking combat This is my favorite shot from the Gorodets living history festival in 2006. It always makes me think I should title it, “No shit, there I was…” The guys fighting are mainly college students who do this as a hobby. It’s live steel, dull weapons but otherwise real...
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