Marina Galperina
Politics

Medvedev is a Photographer, By the Way

Tipped off by recent snickering on LiveJournal over Medvedev's photography gallery on the presidential website, we've peaked in for a gander.

Medvedev: president, hobbyist photographer/sailor of some kind.

Meh.

Ooooh.

Medvedev discovers photoshop/LSD/another planet.

Nice angle (a.k.a. private plane perks).

Medvedev's sensitive side in shallow-focus-flower form.

The very Russian "birches in the winter" scene: landscape patriotism?

Medvedev has an eye for composition. And he's watching you from his window!

Medvedev à la David Lynch.

More Presidential Photography on his site, here.

The LiveJournal tip came from here.


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