Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Entrance at Pokrovsky Women's Monastery.
The entrance at Pokrovsky Women's Monastery, recently revisited and updated.
Monday, February 25, 2013
Star and Cauldron
Seen on the ground of the Museum of the Great Patriotic War (WW2) in Kiev.
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Welcome to the new Roads Less Traveled Photography!
If you have visited Roads Less Traveled Photography recently, you no doubt notice that the site has a whole new look. I recently received an invoice for the next year's hosting at my self-hosted Wordpress site and figured that was more than I wanted to shell out for another year of hosting. So now it's hosted on Blogger.
Blogger you say? This is a Blogger site?
I had looked at Blogger a couple years ago before going for a self-hosted Wordpress site. The two main considerations then were one, a lot of Blogger sites looked dated and old, and two, there were strict limits on hosting photos. That's a killer for a photography site, as you could well guess.
Since my site is now hosted on Blogger, you've likely figured out that Blogger has solved those two big problems, at least from my point of view. But like any change, there are some plusses and minuses.
On the plus side, since my site is now integrated into the Googleverse, I'm hoping for better visibility. When you self-host, you need to do all that Search Engine Optimization yourself, and maybe I just plain sucked at it. But the old site never got the traffic I had hoped for. Another plus is I don't have to go in and update all that behind the scenes stuff that makes a website work. I don't have to update the Wordpress install every month or two. I don't have to update the plug-ins when new updates are available. If I waited a month between updating plug-ins, I'd likely have ten or more to do.
On the minus side, importing of comments has not happened yet. It was a custom commenting system and likely something that either the Wordpress export or the Blogger import did not like or did not recognize. Another minus is that some of the plugins did deliver some really nice functionality that I might miss. But maybe some of this is available somewhere in the Bloggerverse and I just haven't found it yet.
It's likely that as the site evolves I'll discover other pluses and minuses. But for now, I like the look and the functionality of my new Blogger site and I'm happy to be here.
Blogger you say? This is a Blogger site?
I had looked at Blogger a couple years ago before going for a self-hosted Wordpress site. The two main considerations then were one, a lot of Blogger sites looked dated and old, and two, there were strict limits on hosting photos. That's a killer for a photography site, as you could well guess.
Since my site is now hosted on Blogger, you've likely figured out that Blogger has solved those two big problems, at least from my point of view. But like any change, there are some plusses and minuses.
On the plus side, since my site is now integrated into the Googleverse, I'm hoping for better visibility. When you self-host, you need to do all that Search Engine Optimization yourself, and maybe I just plain sucked at it. But the old site never got the traffic I had hoped for. Another plus is I don't have to go in and update all that behind the scenes stuff that makes a website work. I don't have to update the Wordpress install every month or two. I don't have to update the plug-ins when new updates are available. If I waited a month between updating plug-ins, I'd likely have ten or more to do.
On the minus side, importing of comments has not happened yet. It was a custom commenting system and likely something that either the Wordpress export or the Blogger import did not like or did not recognize. Another minus is that some of the plugins did deliver some really nice functionality that I might miss. But maybe some of this is available somewhere in the Bloggerverse and I just haven't found it yet.
It's likely that as the site evolves I'll discover other pluses and minuses. But for now, I like the look and the functionality of my new Blogger site and I'm happy to be here.
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Bankova St, Kiev
This portion of Bankova St is pedestrian only because of several important government buildings, including the Offices of the President.
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Friday, February 22, 2013
Andrew, Olga, Cyril, Methodius
St. Andrew (L), Princess Olga (C), Sts. Cyril and Methodius (R).
Here's a Princess that will never appear in a Disney movie.
St. Andrew
Princess Olga
Sts. Cyril and Methodius
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Here's a Princess that will never appear in a Disney movie.
St. Andrew
Princess Olga
Sts. Cyril and Methodius
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Monday, February 18, 2013
Friday, February 15, 2013
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
22 Hrushevs'koho St.
Building at 22 Hrushevs'koho St, Kiev. Right across the street from the Parliament building (to use a western term). I have no additional information about this building at this time.
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Monday, February 11, 2013
Friday, February 8, 2013
Plaque of Maria Zankovetska
Maria Zankovetska (1854-1934), a renowned actress who was one of the founders of the Ukrainian National Theater.
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Monday, February 4, 2013
The Watchtower
A watchtower at the Kiev Fortress. The Kiev Fortress dates back to the Russian Empire.
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Friday, February 1, 2013
It's Electric!
The Kiev TV Tower. There's no trick processing to make the clouds near the tower white. That's just the way they were!
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