Katya Palladina

The Best Type of Hunting

September 29, 2013 • Leave a Comment

First King Boletes found in US! After living in Pacific Northwest for more than a decade I finally got to go mushroom hunting and it was very successful! This is a quiet kind of hunting, with camera and basket or a paper bag and a pocket knife. And a buddy! It was Andrew 's first time mushrooming too and he found more boletes than I did! We h...

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Tokyo people

September 29, 2013 • Leave a Comment

I was patiently waiting for the moment, woman was looking away from me, and I was photographing beautiful back of her kimono when suddenly she turned and calmly looked at me. After pressing shutter I smiled and lightly bent and so did she. I was very fortunate to spend a week in Tokyo in November 2008. It was my first time in Asia and of course...

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Luminata Lantern Parade 2013

September 23, 2013 • Leave a Comment

This is Green Lake in Seattle, quiet gem in the city with wide walkway around it. Every year Fremont Art Council puts together magical procession in celebration of Autumnal Equinox. Families come with home made paper lanterns, little vagons covered with strings of lights and kids and adults dressed up in beautiful festive attire. Days are...

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Piglets of Pyallup Fair

September 22, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Pyallup Fair now has a different name - Washington State Fair. Sounds important. But I liked Pyallup Fair better, it forced me to learn how to spell Pyallup and study map of the area better! I really wanted to see pigs and piglets and we had this opportunity on one of the last days of the Fair. It was cold and rainy and three days old piglets were...

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Yellow, orange, red, blue and "Impatient Virgin"

September 17, 2013 • Leave a Comment

Nothing warmth one's hear as ability to see something writteng in one's native tongue. Here I read "Save" in Russian on a beautifully restored plane on display during 6th Annual Vintage Aircraft Show hosted by Historic Flight Foundation at Paine Field in Mukilteo. Sunny and hot, paint shines, aluminum panels reflect, and propellers are ready to tak...

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