Staro Rīga III
Nov 20, 2009 Festival
Last photo from the series of this year’s Staro Rīga festival. This building looked very colorful and nice. “The Odyssey of Dreams” it says if I can read it right.
Tags: Latvia, Riga, Staro Rīga
Staro Rīga II
Nov 17, 2009 Festival
As I promised yesterday, today one more picture from festival Staro Rīga. They displayed ancient Latvian signs on the roofs of the buildings. The light and music show theme was human life from birth (child’s cry in the beginning) till death (ascending to heaven with the sound of clapping wings of a dove). Truly amazing, you have few more days to get there and see it yourself!
Tags: Latvia, open-air museum, Riga
Damn Birdies!
Oct 7, 2008 Architecture
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.
Livu Square
Oct 6, 2008 Architecture
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.
Tags: Latvia, Livu Square, Old Riga, outdoor cafes, Riga, squares
Street Art Gallery
Oct 5, 2008 Daily Life
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.
Tags: art gallery, buy, drawing, drawings, Latvia, paintings, Riga
Autumn Fair
Sep 29, 2008 Daily Life
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?
Mirror And A Girl
Dec 27, 2007 Architecture, City
This is taken near the old Ģertrūdes church in Riga. The rather old wooden house is put inside glass walls making reflections. On this gray day what catched my attention was this advertisment which stood out of this depressing weather.
Countryhouse
Dec 26, 2007 Daily Life
This kind of house would be normal in countryside, but this one is in Riga near its border, near newly build apartament-houses. I guess this house has something to do with the nearby Biķeri church I was posting about yesterday, but I could easily be wrong.
Anyway, I can’t imagine how it is inside there when outside is -30 degrees Celsius…