Blog Archive: January 2016

Neighborhoods of Tbilisi - Varketili

3 January, 2016 | Tourism objects | 221 seen

In today's photo article I will speak about another neighborhood in Tbilisi - Varketili. Varketili is most probably famous because of the Varketili metro line connecting this part of city with city cente.In today's article most of the pictures are focused around exactly at this metro station.

Varketili is probably not the most tourist visited place in Tbilisi, if you are hoping to find lovely wood carved balconies here or enjoy a swim in a sulfur bath you most probably wont find anything from that here. I haven' t double checked this, but apartment rent in Varketili are one of the cheapest options in Tbilisi. I know at least two expats living in this neighborhood. On the other hand Varketili is one of the largest Tbilisi massive and it' s very huge.

The best way of getting here - Tbilisi metro.

Varketili metro

You barely can notice that somewhere here actually a metro station is located, connecting you with Tbilisi city center in matter of couple of minutes (10-15 minutes) Actually Varketili was one of the hardest neighborhoods to actually photograph for me. I was so confused of large masses of…

Giant Plane Tree in Telavi

2 January, 2016 | Tourism objects | 309 seen

There is a biggest tree in Georgia located in the city center of Telavi (Region of Kakheti). It's not only giant, it is more than 900 years old as well.

I discovered this tree back in October , 2015, during a day trip to region of Kakheti, we made a 5 minute stop here, I got an opportunity to photograph it with my mom posing next to it.

The Giant Plane tree in Telavi, Republic of Georgia

It's width is about 12 meters and height 46 meters.

The Giant Plane tree in Telavi, Republic of Georgia

The plane tree in Telavi is near the ‘Batonis Tsikhe’ (the Prince’s Castle), the Batonis Tsqharo’ (the Prince’s Spring) and the monument to the great Georgian King of the 18th century Heracles II. Source: Platan

​

The Giant tree in Telavi

It is known that the great Georgian writers Ilia Tchavtchavadze, Akaki Dseretheli, Vazha-Phshavela and other Georgian or foreign public figures were visited to see the plane tree in Telavi. As earlier, there are so many guests to see the tree, which attract and charm the visitors by its greatness and beauty. Source: Georgian Genealogy

Platanus Orientalis…

One Second a Day Video Project (November 7 - December 9, 2015)

1 January, 2016 | Digital Photography School | 14 seen

I decided to great the New Year of 2016 with a 32-second video flashback I made at the end of 2015, filmed mostly in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia.

​The idea of creating one second a day video project arrived at me after I watched the movie Chef (2014). I was already doing my 365 days photo project and for the 32 days it was both fun and entertaining to both photograph and film, then post-process, e.t.c. It was a harsh experience as well. But it was worth every additional hour spent to produce a daily second video.

• Master class in Asian Cuisine
• The Tiger Lillies Concert Review in Tbilisi
• ​Wanderings In The Tbilisi Old Town (HDR Efex Pro)
• Eating at some of the Tbilisi restaurants
• Lisi Lake in Tbilisi (Georgia)
• Listening to Classical Music at Tbilisi Baroque Festival
• East Point Shopping Mall in Tbilisi
• ​and other

All videos were shot with my Canon 1200D DSLR camera, some videos are shot from a tripod.

I wanted to make this in Adobe Premiere but ended up simply uploading…