Photos of the Day for September 21, 2017

Orthodox feast of the Transfiguration (Apple-Blessing feast – Jablychny Spas), Azdamichy, August 19, 2017.  II/VIII Portraits during the break in the service. Праабражэньне Гасподняе (Яблычны Спас), Аздамічы 2017 г.  II/VIII Партрэты падчас перапынку.       After I took this photo… Пасьля таго, як здымаў спадарыняў на лаўцы…   …three of the ladies insisted that… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 21, 2017

Photos of the Day for August 27, 2017

Trinity Monday photo expedition through Pinsk and Stolin Districts:  Polkhava, Mjasjatsichy, Vujvichy, Tyrvovichy, Sitsitsk, Plotnitsa, Rukhcha, Radchytsk, Stolin, Davyd-Haradok. Фотавандроўка ў дзень Сьвятога Духа па Пінскім і Столінскім раёнах:  Полхава, Мясяцічы, Вуйвічы, Тырвовічы, Сіціцк, Плотніца, Рухча, Радчыцк, Столін, Давыд-Гарадок.   Allee of former Skirmunt estate toward Orthodox church of the Nativity of the Holy Mother… Continue reading Photos of the Day for August 27, 2017

Photos of the Day for August 24, 2017

Trinity Monday photo expedition through Pinsk and Stolin Districts:  Polkhava, Mjasjatsichy, Vujvichy, Tyrvovichy, Sitsitsk, Plotnitsa, Rukhcha, Radchytsk, Stolin, Davyd-Haradok. Фотавандроўка ў дзень Сьвятога Духа па Пінскім і Столінскім раёнах:  Полхава, Мясяцічы, Вуйвічы, Тырвовічы, Сіціцк, Плотніца, Рухча, Радчыцк, Столін, Давыд-Гарадок.   A little way east from Vujvichy and the River Styr one crosses into Stolin District… Continue reading Photos of the Day for August 24, 2017

Photos of the Day for August 20, 2017

Trinity Monday photo expedition through Pinsk and Stolin Districts:  Polkhava, Mjasjatsichy, Vujvichy, Tyrvovichy, Sitsitsk, Plotnitsa, Rukhcha, Radchytsk, Stolin, Davyd-Haradok. Фотавандроўка ў дзень Сьвятога Духа па Пінскім і Столінскім раёнах:  Полхава, Мясяцічы, Вуйвічы, Тырвовічы, Сіціцк, Плотніца, Рухча, Радчыцк, Столін, Давыд-Гарадок.   From Polkava one soon arrives in Mjasjatsichy, with its Orthodox church of Paraskjeva Pjatnitsa, an… Continue reading Photos of the Day for August 20, 2017

Photos of the Day for July 9, 2017

Portraits of Polesia (Pripet Marshes), Tsjerablichy 2016. Партрэты Палесься, Цераблічы 2016 г.     Waiting for the cow to come home. У чаканьні каровы.     Great-grandmother Maryja. Прабабуля Марыя.

Photos of the Day for March 4, 2017

Portraits of Polesia:  Nadzja with her son Artsjom at the feast of the Circumcision of the Lord (January 14), Tsjerablichy 2017. Партрэты Палесься:  спадарыня Надзя са сынам Арцёмам, сьвята Абрэзаньня Гасподняга, Цераблічы 2017 г.       It is wondrous to see the transmission of faith and traditions from generation to generation. Цудоўна бачыць перадачу… Continue reading Photos of the Day for March 4, 2017

Photo of the Day for January 18, 2017

Awaiting the start of vespers, Orthodox church of the Resurrection, Tsjerablichy 2015. The parish of the Resurrection in Tsjerablichy follows the ancient Christian practice that women worship on the left side (Gospel side) of the nave, except for spillover, and men on the right side (Epistle side). Прыхаджанкі ў чаканьні пачатку вячэрні, царква Ўваскрэсеньня Гасподняга,… Continue reading Photo of the Day for January 18, 2017

Photos of the Day for January 10, 2017

Vespers on the eve of the December 4 great feast of the Entry into the Temple of the Most Holy Mother of God (II/III).  Tsjerablichy 2016. Вячэрня напярэдадні вялікага сьвята Ўвядзеньня ў храм (Ахвяраваньня) Прасьвятой Багародзіцы (II/III).  Цераблічы 2016 г.     Hard-working hands, for a moment still and folded properly at the anointing with… Continue reading Photos of the Day for January 10, 2017

Photo of the Day for December 30, 2016

Portraits of Polesia:  Granny Prosja (1918) at work.  Tsjerablichy 2016. Vjerka and I stopped by Granny Prosja’s house to say hello but she had gone out in the falling snow to try to cover the pile of hay she uses in tending her chickens.  We found her hard at work in the barnyard. In the… Continue reading Photo of the Day for December 30, 2016