My hobbies
Photography
My main hobby these days is photography. I am using my DSLR (Canon 1000D) and ever growing collection of
auto (Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II, Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 Mk1, Sigma AF 55-200mm f/4-5.6 DC, Sigma AF 10-20mm f/4-5.6 HSM EX DC)
and manual (Helios 81H 50mm f/2.0, Carsen 135mm f/2.8, Vivitar 200mm f/3.5, Rokinon 85mm f/1.4) focus lenses.
You can check my most recent 20 photographs here.
I also wrote some software for photography:
De-vignetting.
Bokeh calculator.
Music
My other hobby is music. Here is my simple
waltz composition (you can also get it as a PDF file):
I have encoded the record of this waltz, and also
a few
more my records into MP3 format. As an encoder I
used freeware program BladeEnc.
Most of this stuff is very old (1990-1995).
Spanish theme
(I
- flute soprano, my friends Sasha
Korobko - acoustic guitar, and Vova Tudoran - castanets).
Song in Russian "Alisa"
(composed by Russian band "Beat Quartet Secret" in 80-s). Vocal - I and
Sasha Korobko, rythm guitar - Sasha, solo guitar - me.
My very short "Ballad".
(I play flute soprano, rythm and solo guitars).
My song "It's
all right"
(in very bad English). I play guitars and castanets.
My rock song in
Russian
(very Green). I play all, and try to sing.
My waltz. I play
"Yamaha".
My
rock
parody on the anthem of a used-to-be super power. Again "Yamaha".
An attempt to compose something "a
la classics". "Yamaha" + personal computer.
My favorite - very short "Introduction"
- to some never composed melody... Acoustic guitar, "Yamaha".
Much more recent stuff (2002): me and my wife Mercedes are
singing "A hard day's night"
(acoustic guitar).
