Best of the Year, 2011 (11 of 11)

Top 11 Photos of 2011

Sun Setting on 2011 ~ Trukhaniv Island, Kiev, Ukraine.

12 hours until the New Year here in Kiev. I wish everyone a happy and healthy New Year and the best of everything in 2012!

See you on the other side!

This concludes the Top 11 of 2011.

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Best of the Year, 2011 (10 of 11)

Top 11 Photos of 2011

Old Castle Wall ~ Uhzgorod, Ukraine.

I liked the look of this from the very beginning. Here, I decided to go a bit over the top with the processing to really make the colors and tones pop!

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Best of the Year, 2011 (9 of 11)

Top 11 Photos of 2011

Here Comes the (K)nights (HDR) ~ Park Kievan Rus, near Zastuhna, Ukraine.

Park Kievan Rus

This is a grand project. No one dared to reproduce ancient Kiev, the capital of the biggest country of medieval Europe, till construction of “Kievan Rus” Park was started to the South of Ukrainian [...]

Best of the Year, 2011 (8 of 11)

Top 11 Photos of 2011

St. Sophia Cathedral (HDR/Panorama) ~ Kiev, Ukraine.

Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev is an outstanding architectural monument of Kievan Rus’. Today, it is one of the city’s best known landmarks and the first Ukrainian patrimony to be inscribed on the World Heritage List along with the Kiev Cave Monastery complex. [...]

Best of the Year, 2011 (7 of 11)

Top 11 Photos of 2011

The Former Leipzig Hotel (HDR) ~ Kiev, Ukraine.

This is the former Leipzig Hotel building, constructed in 1900. Unlike many older buildings in Kiev, which are left vacant by greedy owners who covet the land the building is on, but not the building itself, this building is being restored [...]

Best of the Year, 2011 (6 of 11)

Top 11 Photos of 2011

St. Andrew’s and Andrew’s Descent (HDR) ~ Kiev, Ukraine.

St. Andrew’s is the church in the upper right of the photo. In the lower left is a building known locally as the Castle of Richard the Lionhearted. It’s been said so many times that a clear sky is as bad [...]

Best of the Year, 2011 (5 of 11)

Top 11 Photos of 2011

Rain, Independence Square (HDR) ~ Kiev, Ukraine.

No selective coloring or de-saturation involved. This is pretty much how it came out of Photomatix, with just a few minor tweaks, like sharpening.

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Best of the Year, 2011 (4 of 11)

Top 11 Photos of 2011

A Winter Dreamscape ~ Kiev, Ukraine.

One of the entrances to Mariinski Park, Kiev.

Created using Fractalius. Then blended it with the original, made it B&W, and bought back some slight color in the brick.

Flickr “Explore” #16 of 2011.

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