Day 15 Year 2
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We know exactly the person on the perch and when this photo was snapped yesterday — Lynsey — the Polk Prize winner who almost committed professional suicide last spring.
Here’s a different angle of the mess, c/o Marina, and her OnePlus telephone. I thought of selling it to foreign news agencies, but reconsidered.
I was fumbling with f-stop not far way from the Eternal Park of Glory trying to take a picture of the Mist Mesto bridge in the dark.
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The Kinzhal Russian hypersonic missile struck minutes later a couple of kilometers downriver.
Which reminds me of taking a different photograph in tricky light a couple of years ago1.
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Ukraine is Not a Piano (February 28, 2021)