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It's got a 2.0 megapixel camera and it isny bad as a camera, considering it's actually a phone. As a phone it's not very good, but. Too many wee footery buttons. I keep pressing the wrong ones. You can play music on it as well, though, which makes it an all-round good thing to have in your pocket.
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I got the phone in Armenia, so we'll start off with some pictures from there. The first is a flock of Armenian Gulls over Lake Sevan. These gulls are a distinct species (at least, most ornithologists tend to think so nowadays) Larus armenicus. They're usually fairly difficult to tell apart from other large white gulls unless you have a big telescope and a good field guide. The lazy way to do it is to go to Lake Sevan, stand on the shore and have a look over the water for some gulls. Any you see are pretty sure to be Armenian Gulls. The next two pictures above are of basalt rock formations in the Hrazdan River Gorge in Yerevan. You can walk down there in ten or fifteen minutes from the city centre and it's very peaceful after the city traffic. Lots of restaurants line the river and they're pleasant places to eat on summer evenings (there's usually music and dancing). There's also a strange long tunnel from a park in the city into the gorge, but it smells a bit pissy. Good to do once for the experience but I wouldn't recommend the routeif you're trying to get your appetite going for a visit to one of the restaurants. The first two pictures below were taken in the gorge and you can see one of the restaurants. The third picture was taken in the city centre. Last autumn there were two iron horses with the bull. They all disappeared for winter and in late spring this year the bull reappeared. |
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| This year there were some camel sculptures in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The year before it was horses. I'm sure there were many more camels around the city but I only got a chance to snap these three (I saw two more from a trolleybus). I lost my phone after I took these photos, but Sveta got it back. It had fallen out of my pocket in a taxi.... |
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| ...and so Sveta texted my phone and offered a small reward for it's return. A nice man called and said, 'I wanted to return it anyway, but how much is your reward?'. Here are some mosque pictures I took shortly after I got the phone back. But the last one isn't a mosque of course, but a building site with picturesque cranes. |
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| On our return to Armenia, we went to the mountains for a couple of days. It rained most of the time, but we managed to get out for one long walk and I took some snaps of wild flowers before the rain came on again. The last picture is my footprints on the batroom floor after we came back soaking wet. |
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