Photo excursion to Smarhon’ and Ashmjany Districts 2019. Фотавандроўка па Смаргоньскім і Ашмянскім раёнах 2019 г. Zas’tsjen’nje 2019. Засьценьне 2019 г.
Tag: farming
Photo of the Day for August 1, 2019
Pentecost: Papshychy 2019 (XI/XIV). Long ago the residents of Papshychy in the Hlybokaje District of northern Belarus were miraculously spared death from a plague which ravaged the surrounding area. To commemorate their forefathers’ deliverance, villagers observe the feast of Pentecost by carrying a cloth, onto which people place offerings, in a procession from a roadside… Continue reading Photo of the Day for August 1, 2019
Photo of the Day for May 31, 2019
Eastertide portraits of Polesia: newly-planted potato patch, Tsjerablichy 2019. The slow but steady spread of small-scale mechanized farm machinery produces new patterns at planting season. Веоікодныя партрэты Палесься: нядаўна пасаджаная бульба ў агародзе, Цераблічы 2019 г.
Photo of the Day for May 14, 2019
Rites of spring in Polesia: Vjera and Vasil’ planting their back garden. Tsjerablichy 2019. Веснавыя звычаі й упарадкаваньне на Палесьсі: Вера й Васіль сядзяць задні агарод. Цераблічы 2019 г.
Photos of the Day for April 9, 2019
Polesian spring: Machul’ 2018. Палеская вясна: Мачуль 2018 г. A classic Polesian scene: order, prudence, hard work. Палескія парадак, працавітасьць, прадбачлівасьць. Annual spring flood. Веснавая паводка.
Photos of the Day for October 10, 2018
Portraits of Polesia: Prosja, Tsjerablichy 2018. In her 101st year, granny Prosja has hardly slowed down, and no visit to Tsjerablichy is complete without greeting her as she works in her garden or, here, in her potato patch some distance from her house. Партрэты Палесься: бабуля Прося, Цераблічы 2018 г. Заўсёды прыемна пабачыцца ды пагутарыць… Continue reading Photos of the Day for October 10, 2018
Photo of the Day for September 14, 2018
Individual farmstead (khutar – хутар), Lipki (Astravjets District) 2018. Хутар, Ліпкі (Астравецкі раён) 2018 г.
Photos of the Day for June 12, 2018
Cycle of the year: readying hothouses to grow cucumbers. Eastern Stolin District in central Polesia has become Belarus’ cucumber capital. Much of the crop is exported to Russia. The area is covered in hothouses, ranging from agribusiness-size facilities in Al’shany, which has a statue in honor of the cucumber, to small constructions in many village… Continue reading Photos of the Day for June 12, 2018