My daughter, Nyusha, getting one of her first meals. She’s a few hours old here, we’re still in the delivery room.

I’m going to keep going for a little while with pictures from the first couple of days of Nyusha’s life. I shot a total of 3 rolls of film while we were at the hospital and got a surprising number of photos I’m happy wihth. I’m (obviously) not going to post all of ‘em here lest they take over this website, but here’s another one and there will likely be a few more following it.

On this one, she’s already something like a day old, relaxing after a morning meal.

I took this a few minutes after my daughter Nyusha was born a week and a half ago.

My head was spinning and my hands were shaking.

Laecee is feeding Finn on their first day out of the hospital.

Another shot from the same Fedorov-Volkov show in Elbo Room, this time of Volkov alone with his double bass.

Leonid Fedorov and Vladimir Volkov perform in San Francisco’s Elbow Room last week.

Over the years, a significant portion of my social life had to do with modern Russian music. I would go to pretty much all the shows, would know and hang out with a lot of the people, I was part of the “scene”. I don’t do that so much anymore.

Fedorov, however, is an exception. Whenever he’s around (be it solo, as part of Auktyon, together with Volkov, whatever) I come to listen. Sometimes I also take pictures.

A quick portrait of chuviha I took during our visit to De Young.

Taken in the lobby of the De Young museum in the Golden Gate park, not far from my house. There was something very touching (to me) about this scene that I can’t quite put a finger on.

Another photo of our cat Hercules posing with Marina. I’m beginning to develop a whole series of these. Unposed and unlit.

This is probably the single most important photograph I’ve posted here so far.

My grandmother, Luba Goldin, is video-chatting with her grand-daughter (my niece) from her hospital-bed in Israel on the last good day of her life. The next morning she has taken a turn for the worse, and one day later she died.

She was one of my favorite people and I miss her incredibly.

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