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Though I wasn't really aware of it when I pushed my camera's shutter button, this picture tells an interesting story …
It's been decades since my own children have been young enough and small enough to be pushed around in a stroller … so I'm not really familiar with the current products and models. When I saw the word "Stokke" on the stroller in this photo, I assumed that it was a German product, and probably completely unknown on this side of the ocean. (It's actually a Norwegian company, founded in Alesund, and doing business in more than 60 countries. For more details, see the company's website at www.stokke.com)
Anyway, the stroller that you're looking at here is one of a family of baby-related transportation products, and if you happen to live in the U.S., you can order one directly from Amazon. This purple model, for example, is shown here -- in the same color -- on Amazon:
www.amazon.com/Stokke-180205-Xplory-Stroller-Purple/dp/B0...
What I wasn't expecting at all was the price: this model sells for $1,099.99 on Amazon. Plus sales tax, of course, But shipping is free -- unless you decide to have it shipped to one of several "selected countries" outside the US. (If you're interested, you can also add a cup holder for $24.99, and a mosquito net for $21.99)
It gives you a sense of what the Russian economy is like these days ...
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for Sep 26, 2013.
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I had a brief business trip to Moscow in the fall of 2013 -- arriving in the city on a Saturday morning, relaxing for the rest of the weekend, then a day of intense business at a computer conference on Monday, and finally back to NYC on Tuesday morning -- and I was hoping that I could take advantage of my brief period of free time to get some photographs of the city. Ideally, I was hoping to visit Red Square at sunrise and sunset; and I even considered taking one of those garishly-colored tour buses around the city to see what might be interesting.
Alas, none of that happened, simply because of the weather: it was raining when I arrived on Saturday morning, it was raining harder when I left on Tuesday morning, and it drizzled and rained most of the time in between. Some people enjoy walking around in the rain, but I'm not one of them. I also don't really enjoy trying to photograph during rainy weather, though I know that it's sometimes possible to get some really interesting results. And I have to admit that I'm pretty paranoid about getting my digital cameras wet.
As it turned out, there was one brief break in the weather, late on the Sunday afternoon: the rain stopped, the clouds cleared, and the sun even came out. I grabbed my little Sony RX-100 MkII pocket camera, leaving my larger Sony A65 DSLR behind, and headed out of my hotel, walking a couple blocks up Neglinnaya Street to a shopping promenade on Kuznetskiy Most -- where there were throngs of people strolling, shopping, and enjoying various unrecognizable snacks and munchies from little food stalls along the street.
I walked around for a while, and then found a quiet bench where I could park myself and watch the ebb and flow of traffic in both directions on Kuznetskiy Most, snapping shots of anything (and anyone) that looked interesting. At the end of an hour, I had gotten some 375 shots … and then the clouds returned, and the rain commenced once again. I scampered back to my hotel before the rain got too heavy, uploaded the digital images to my laptop computer, and did most of the editing on the long 9-hour flight back to New York a couple days later.
A couple of these photos could have been taken anywhere: you can't really tell whether you're looking at something in the middle of New York City, or the middle of Moscow. But some of them -- indeed, most of them -- show us a mix of faces and dress styles and architecture that could only have been taken in Moscow...
This is a stroller for one, but a larger and more sturdy version. No problem at all to fit in the i3, and lots of room for groceries.