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highlights from Colorado

October 2, 2011

First! Thank you for all of the wonderful words and unnecessary (but totally flattering) compliments being said about the House Hunters episode! Apparently you all think I’m cute and adventurous. I can’t wait to prove how incredibly normal and somewhat boring I can be. It doesn’t look like the episode will be available for me [...]

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Turkey, part 3; Istanbul…meh

September 13, 2011

My final days in Turkey were spent in Istanbul. Crowded Istanbul. Crowded, touristy Istanbul. I have to admit that I really wanted to like it more, but it left me feeling sour and grumpy. I’ll expand in a later post, for now, enjoy the photos. Inside the Hagia Sofia. Kitty. What a strange drink! Fermented [...]

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Turkey, part 2: various old stone things

September 6, 2011

More photographic evidence of my trip to Turkey. After Canakkale, we made our way to Bergama (via the highly inefficient bus route through Izmir). It was charmingly small-town and stocked with plenty of ancient ruins to gawk at. And gawk we did. View from the balcony of our guesthouse. The owner of the guesthouse grew [...]

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Turkey, part 1: old stuff, ferries, guided tours

August 29, 2011

I don’t usually do this much moving around, but I’m almost tempted to set up a little “Where is Kirstin?” badge. I do still technically live in Bishkek; it’s where my cat and most of my clothes/possessions are. For now I’m just doing a bit of traveling. First up, a week in Turkey. We landed [...]

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more photos: Omar and the scarf shop

August 3, 2011

On the first day of a three-day spree of photo assignments in various UAE markets, the interns were dropped off at the main souk in Sharjah just as the market reopened after its midday “it’s-way-too-hot-to-stay-open” break. The assignment was to photograph the modern Islamic elements in the building, which, at this point, was boring me. [...]

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Kyrgyzstan vs Uzbekistan

July 31, 2011

Wooo! Football! (Oh. I’m not actually a fan of sports. Nevermind.) A friend invited me and Farrell to a World Cup qualifying game between the Kyrgyz and Uzbek national teams. I considered that there was at least a moderate potential for rioting, so I grabbed my camera and went along. The attitude of the group [...]

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more photos: luxury camelccino

July 28, 2011

I have too many photos from my three-week internship in Dubai to only share one from each day. Now that I’m back in Bishkek and my life is back to being slightly less exciting, I figured I would post some particularly interesting occurrences. Like that time I drank a camel milk cappuccino at (probably) the [...]

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more from Dubai

July 13, 2011

One more week has passed! The girls are getting closer and cattier (as girls do), schedules are becoming more hectic and more relaxed (another Islamic architecture assignment? Pass.), and my poor little netbook might just snap in half from all the photos I’m stuffing into it. Picking up from where I last left off. Also [...]

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one year ago

July 10, 2011

I really enjoy the fact that I’m young. I’m in my early 20s and doing some freaking amazing things, if I do say so myself. I worked in Iraq when I was 21, moved to Kyrgyzstan when I was 22, started teaching a university course, and now at 23, I’m jet-setting around Dubai and learning [...]

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Days and days in Dubai

July 7, 2011

This internship is actually starting to pick up speed; I’m spending my days either shooting, getting to a location to shoot, editing, studying photography books, or eating/sleeping (usually not so much of that though). So, unlike the day-to-day updates I imagined, here’s a quick wrap-up of the past few days. Be sure to check my [...]

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