Memorial day celebrations brings colorful crowds to Miami Beach, so it is a great opportunity to practice street photography. The event is not really very welcomed by locals, since 2001 has built a bad reputation for its incidents, bad behavior and fashions. However, like in every place, common sense rules, as long as you don’t bother other ones or stay put from weird situations and activities nothing really happens and it is perfectly fine to photograph there.

I am still trying to, and want to love my Fujifilm X-E1 camera, so I decided to just bring that with a couple of lenses, left the Nikons at home, despite that I don’t like the electronic viewfinder, I am totally convinced that is a great camera, however it can’t replace the Nikon D4 in some cases, and there were some situations were I wished to have the Nikon yesterday, but also the D4 can’t beat the stealth mode and easiness to carry the Fuji. With all is an amazing carry around and travel camera that I plan to use more and more often.

Here is the gallery with the photos, (flash only) hope you like them.

2013 Miami Beach Urban Weekend – Images by Daniel Korzeniewski

The following photos were made on the departure station in Moscow, called Leningradsky, and from my window during the journey, needles to say it snowed almost all the way.

That’s all for now, more coming soon.

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Russia was in my bucket list for a long time, so when Aeroflot started direct non-stop flights from Miami to Moscow last year I had the perfect excuse, they are now serving this route 3 times a week, you get there in about 12 hours. I was 8 days in Russia, 4 days in Moscow, 4 days in St. Petersburg, moved between cities using the fantastic Sapsan, the fast train takes you from Moscow to St. Petersburg in only 4 hours.

I really loved both cities, I had a fantastic time there, can’t say I liked more one or the other, they are simply two fantastic places worth to see and enjoy.

Moscow is one of the biggest cities in the world, in fact the most populous city in Europe, and that’s not the only big thing there, the city is expensive, but of course they have the bigest community of billionaires on earth living there. Moscow is also home to several World Heritage Sites, of course including the Kremlin and Red Square, I loved every minute of my stay, and let me warn you, I believe this is the longest post of my blog….

When planning trips I always try to see when is the best time of the year to visit, not this time, Aeroflot was running a great promo and I jumped all over as soon as I saw it, after all late march is spring right? well, not that fast…. as I was landing realized that it was going to be cold, you wanna know how cold? well, see this…

It was freaking cold!!!! that’s not the spring I know… but fortunately it was not like that all the time and I had good days as well, allowing me to walk and visit the most iconic places, and photograph them, of course all covered in white snow and with sections of the Moskva River completely frozen.

Because I had only 3 full days in Moscow I stayed most of the time around the city center and principal sights, walked around the Moskva River, the Red Square, and the Kremlin.

View of the Kremlin from the banks of the Moskva River in Moscow, Russia.

Facade of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow

Facade of the State Historical Museum in Moscow.

Detail of Facade of the State Historical Museum in Moscow

Exterior view of the Kazan Cathedral located in the Red Square.

St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow

View of the Kremlin from the banks of the Moskva River in Moscow.

Bridge leading to the Red Square in Moscow

MOSCOW – CIRCA MARCH 2013: View of one the famous “Seven Sisters” or Stalinskie Vysotki Building in Moscow

Rush hour in Moscow

So far so good, now if you are into rich architectural details, domes, and cupolas you are up for a feast in Moscow.

Detail of the dome of the Kazan Cathedral located in the Red Square in Moscow

Detail of cupolas in The Upper Saviour’s Cathedral and Terem Churches in the Kremlin in Moscow

Architectural detail of the entrance of the Cathedral of the Archangel in the Kremlin

Architechtural detail of domes in St. Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow.

Architectural detail of The Ivan the Great Bell Tower and Assumption Belfry on Cathedral Square in the Moscow Kremlin

Architectural detail of dome in the St. Clement’s Church in Moscow

Detail view of the The Assumption Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin

View of cupolas of the Church of Christ’s Resurrection, in Kadashi Sloboda, Moscow.

Golden Cupolas in the Moscow Kremlin

Detail of cupolas in The Upper Saviour’s Cathedral and Terem Churches in the Kremlin in Moscow

And I leave you with two of my favorites photos, taken in the late afternoon overlooking the Moskva River with the Kremlin on the right and the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in the background.

Hope you liked it, as always I appreciate your comments, for prints or licensing information just click the photos.

More coming soon….

So they gave me a shot list and sent me 2 days to the Florida Keys to make photographs for their Travel Saturday section, it was a fun experience, needed to cover 18 locations in 2 days, beaches, restaurants, street and iconic locations, I had a blast but needed to rush, with 18 locations to shoot in 2 days and all the way from Key Largo to Key West there was no other option than go in and out quick from every place.

The contract had a one year embargo on the photos, meaning I couldn’t use them for one year, so now that the period is over I can post them. Here are the ones I liked the most, some of them didn’t make it, some others were published, but I just like more the ones I am posting here.  If you are interested to see the final piece and the photos they ran just click here to download the PDF. Aerial shot from the cover and underwater photos are not mine, just the rest of them.

View of tropical flowers in a gift shop in the Florida Keys

Famous No Name Pub in Big Pine Key.

View of the famous Key West Cemetery

Mile Marker 0 in Key West US1

Tourists in a Ricksaw in Duval Street in Key West

Patrons on famous Bo’s Fish Wagon

Blue Heaven Cafe in Key West

Band playing in Slopppy Joe’s Bar in Key West

Slopppy Joe’s Bar in Duval Street, a landmark in Key West

View of 7 mile bridge in Marathon

Dock with boath in Key Largo

That’s all for now, hope you like them.

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I was there mostly for work, but I was able to escape and walk my favorite places in my hometown, also made a day trip to Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay and you can see the photos here.

It was great to get back to Buenos Aires, almost 5 years passed since my last visit, so I enjoyed the city as much as I could. Walked around Puerto Madero, La Boca, San Telmo, and other places, and I hope to come soon.

Congressional Plaza and Congress Building.

Old bus parked in the streets of Buenos Aires

Facade of the Palacio Barolo. The building is landmark on the city, located in Avenida de Mayo when it was built was the tallest building in city and South America.

Locals waiting the bus in the San Telmo neighborhood.

Dome of the famous San Telmo Market, established in 1897.

Old botles in the neighborhood of San Telmo.

Facade of the historic San Pedro Telmo chuch in the neighborhood of San Telmo in Buenos Aires

Pink House, Casa Rosada, in Buenos Aires Argentina. this is the Government House of Argentina

Colorful walls of Caminito Street in La Boca.

Skyline in the neighborhood of Puerto Madero.

T he historic Fragata Presidente Sarmiento, docked in Puerto Madero at night.

Boardwalk and cranes with La Mujer Bridge in background in the neighborhood of Puerto Madero.

People crossing the La Mujer Bridge in the neighborhood of Puerto Madero.

Skyline in the neighborhood of Puerto Madero at night.

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After a long day exploring the parks, while returning to the the cabin I made this photograph, it was the perfect time of the day.

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Brasov is nested in the central part of the country and surrounded by the Southern Carpathians and it is part of the Transylvania region, my goal was not only to visit the city but also a couple of castles in the region, including the famous Dracula castle, however we got lost on the way and we couldn’t make it to the castles…. maybe next time, better prepared and with more time as this was only a day trip. The region is only about 160 km north of Bucharest, but there is no easy road to get there and it takes about 3 hours.

The city is very well preserved and I loved the atmosphere, certainly I’d like to go back and stay a couple of days, all these photographs are not taken in the best of the lights on the contrary I arrived at noon, but there is no much you can do when you travel with time constrains, so I needed to work around it.

View of one of the many public buildings in the town of Brasov in the Transylvania region in Romania.

View of typical construction and windows decorated with flowers in the old town of Bra?ov in Romania.

View of the Postal Office in Brasov, Romania.

View of Dome at the Council of Brasov County in Romania.

View of the Strada Replubicii in Brasov, Romania.

View of a typical sign from a restaurant in the streets of Brasov in Romania.

Bra?ov and Romania Flags against a blue sky in the Transylvania region.

View of typical facades of historic buildings at the pedestrian Strada Replubicii street in Brasov, Romania.

View of the Pia?a Sfatului in Brasov, Romania.

Local kids playing soccer in the streets of Brasov, Romania.

View of Curtea Honterus Street in the town of Brasov in Romania.

BRASOV, View of the Piata Sfatului in Brasov, Romania.

View of typical facades of historic buildings in Brasov, Romania.

View of the Strada Replubicii in Brasov, Romania.

That’s all for now, more to come soon, for prints and licensing information just click the photos.

Anyhow, during the trip just decided to cross the pond and visit Colonia del Sacramento in Uruguay, several companies are offering day trips, but the best bet is to take either the ferry (3 hours) or the faster hydrofoil boat (1 hour), I went the faster way and returned in the ferry.

The trip is great, too bad I was there just for the day, and not during the best hours to photograph, you get there almost noon and the return is before sunset, but this is really a fantastic place, just imagine, the oldest town in Uruguay, and named World Heritage Site by the Unesco. It was funded by Portugal in 1680 right across Buenos Aires in the bank of the Rio de la Plata river.

Here are some photos taken while walking the historic quarter, seems that I was inspired by antique lamps and rustique walls that day, nor that you’ll find much more other than that, cobblestone streets and charming tranquility all over.

My partners in crime for this lovely day were my beautiful sister Nadia, and my handsome father JC, and of course I needed to photograph them as well… sorry guys….

Lastly on the way back to Buenos Aires stepped out and photographed the ferry and this time yes!!! my favorite time of the day, twilight….

And this is all for now, more coming soon….

The Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest is magnificent building, a huge structure, in fact according to the World Records Academy this Palace is the world’s heaviest and largest civilian building.

It was designed by the Ceausescu regime in an neoclassical architectural style and was built almost entirely using Romanian materials.

Today, besides housing the Romania’s Chamber of Deputies, the Romanian Legislative Council, and the Romanian Senate, the Palace also contains huge conference halls, salons, etc that are being rented for a wide variety of other private uses.

I took a guided tour of the Palace, and unfortunately, at the time, photos inside were not allowed, and you can only get to see a very small portion of the building but enough to check out the monumental doors and windows, crystal chandeliers, woolen carpets so large that were needed to be woven on site, and the massive use of marble from Transylvania almost everywhere.

Anyways, here are some photos that I made around the building, that’s all for now… more to come soon.

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Unfortunately I was there only during the morning, so missed the Thunderbirds performance, but it was fun anyways, here are some quick photos.

That’s all for now, more coming soon.

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