KZ Photos

2007-01-14T21:53:00.000-08:00

The advertisements on the wall behind say "No hangover Vodka!"

2007-01-14T21:52:00.000-08:00

Kiosk doing swift business in beer and cigarettes.

2007-01-14T21:50:00.000-08:00

#40 Lenin Street in the "old" (nothing is more than 70 years old here) part of Karaghanda

2007-01-14T21:48:00.000-08:00

Spaask-one of the post WWII POW camps near Karaghanda. This is the memorial/mass grave yard of the prisoners.

2007-01-12T21:57:00.000-08:00

"Dawn" an old Soviet sign on an old Soviet apartment building in Karaghanda.

2007-01-12T21:52:00.000-08:00

Lunch at the Bazaar...if its not meat, its not food.

2007-01-03T21:08:00.000-08:00

Yurta-Set up only for the holiday celebrations

2007-01-03T21:03:00.000-08:00

Sunset In Shakhtinsk

2007-01-03T21:01:00.000-08:00

Selling Onions at the Green Bazaar in Karaghanda

2006-12-10T23:53:00.000-08:00

Karaghanda Miners Statue in front of the Miners Theater

2006-06-27T10:43:00.000-07:00

This is a new building, not an old one. Notice the fine construction materials.

2006-06-27T10:41:00.001-07:00

Shakhtinsk

2006-06-27T10:41:00.000-07:00

My laundry process adn preferred brand of detergent.

2006-06-27T10:39:00.000-07:00

Shashlyk being cooked at a picnic on the old Soveit collective farm near Shakhtinsk.

2006-06-27T10:38:00.000-07:00

My neighbors.

2006-06-27T10:36:00.000-07:00

The nightly cattle roundup in a south KZ village.

2006-06-27T10:33:00.000-07:00

The Kazak National orchestra in Almaty. They are playing the national instrument, the dombra.

2006-06-27T10:32:00.000-07:00

My local train station in Karaghanda.

2006-06-27T10:30:00.000-07:00

Me on a winter stoll on the steppe. A self protrait.

2006-06-27T10:29:00.000-07:00

Me at a family birthday party...I'm the one in back;-)

2006-05-27T22:28:00.000-07:00

Shakhtinsk from the steppe.

2006-05-27T22:27:00.000-07:00

Canned horse meat. I haven't eaten it, I prefer my hosremeat fresh.

2006-05-21T21:03:00.000-07:00

Heating Sysytem in Shakhtinsk.

2006-05-21T20:58:00.000-07:00

A typical train station in the middle on the steppe where the local ladies wheel up thier baby carts full of dried fish, soda, beer, fruit, fermented horse milk, pastries, etc.

2006-05-21T20:55:00.000-07:00

Me, my friend Shain and our new Fascist fighting friend on Victory Day, May, 9.

2006-05-21T20:53:00.000-07:00

South KZ bazaar. We ate some sausage from this galloper later that night, it wasn't too bad but a bit gamey.

2006-05-21T20:39:00.000-07:00

Lenin is everywhere. Here

2006-05-21T20:37:00.000-07:00

Shashleek, it's the KZ version of BBQ and tastes much better than it looks in preparation.

2006-05-18T23:29:00.000-07:00

Steppe Picnic with some of my local friends. Eating pork shashleek.

2006-05-18T23:28:00.000-07:00

Kazakhstan Cowboy

2006-05-18T23:27:00.000-07:00

These were our visitors when we had a picnic on the steppe. Notice the "mountains" in the background, we had to drive 150 km to get even this close to them

2006-05-18T23:24:00.000-07:00

My spa. This is how I bathe, a heating coil in a bucket of water then I dump it over my head and convince myself I am clean.

2006-04-22T11:07:00.000-07:00

They aren't water bottles! This is my buildings dumpster on it's cleanest day save the remnents of the Saturday night celebrations.

2006-04-22T11:04:00.000-07:00

My apartment building with the spring melt in the fore ground. My "balcony" is on the other side of the building but looks exactly the same as the side.

2006-04-22T11:02:00.000-07:00

Shakhtinsk Technological College. Where I confuse the future English teachers of Kazakhstan. The pipes on the left are part of the heating system that runs through the town and inadequately heats the buildings.

2006-04-22T10:59:00.000-07:00

Russian Orthodox Church in the center of town with the compulsory abandened apartment buildings that out number lived-in buildings in town.

2006-04-22T10:56:00.000-07:00

Downtown Shakhtinsk. This is on my walk to and from the KazPost Post Office. It's a perfectly accurate depiction of the town.

2006-04-19T20:39:00.000-07:00

A beautiful view of the only topography behind the only "lake" in the area.

2006-04-19T20:25:00.000-07:00

This is what I wade through to get to the bus station.