It is raining here for some days. And it is rather cold already. It means that soon we will have trees with no leaves and everything will look grey. I will have to find something interesting and good looking to pay attention during winter time.

And now something IMPORTANT! I am looking for some more photographers to improve the quality and quantity of photos in this site. The photographer who would like to post on this site has to have:

1. Ability to make good photos of Latvia;
2. Ability to describe the photos using mighty English language.

If you are interested, send me an e-mail to armands.brants (at) photo-latvia.com.

And yes, if you will be a contributor to this site, you will also have an email (at) photo-latvia.com!

Can you imagine a real cat sitting on the roof and being shitted on by birds? No, of course. I think that a real cat, if it sees this one, thinks about it being a disgrace of all cats.

Despite the fact that this is Latvian famous Cat House.

Riga has some nice squares in the Old Town, especially in summer when they are filled with outdoor cafes. Interesting thing about these squares is that they are not very old. They appeared after the wars when the houses were bombed. But now they feel very much like the part of Old Riga. Like they always were there.

I guess every city has its place where you can buy paintings by local painters. In some cities you can watch them painted. Here in Riga some time ago was one person who was drawing portraits of tourists while having a dinner in outdoor cafe, and then trying to sell the drawing. But that’s all here, you can not see anyone painting on the street. But if you want to buy, there is the possibility on the Livu square.

This set of images is from this year’s autumn fair. We have about four (I don’t know exact number) fairs taking place in the Dome square of Riga. They are all about the same, but every one of them has its own focus. In autumn you can buy vegatbles, especially pumpkins. So my focus in this picture set is on pumpkins.

Halloween is coming?

This is a lamprey catching site near the town of Salacgrīva. Lampreys here are very tasty, quite expensive fish, but not everyone likes it because they somehow think of eating snakes…

As I was showing Latvia to our Austrian friends, I told them that in Latvia almost all is made of sand. Also these cliffs near Tūja (called Veczemju cliffs) are made of sand. But nice ones, aren’t they?

Main pedestrian street in Cēsis. On this street there are some nice restaurants, shops etc. But it is not so crouded as Cēsis is quite small town.

One more from Old Riga.

We could experience some problems with this blog next week. I have plans to move it to another hosting and blogging platform. Let’s see what comes out!