Russian Festival - Friday

Six years ago I volunteered to work at Holy Trinity's Russian Festival. I do not know what possessed me to do so, but it was one of the best decisions that I made in years.

The Festival starts around noon on Friday and continue until 21:00 that evening. It then resumes around noon the next day.

Most of my time was spent in the temple. Besides greeting people and answering questions, I also ran some errands. This year a very important duty of mine was to make signs on the computer. I made them in English and Russian this year. Most were just editing.

Because of the large number of photographs which I have taken, I have to divde them into different pages. The pictures taken by Natalie and Vera with my Kodak camera are on the same page as the pictures taken with the Canon Rebel dSLR camera.

Saturday's photographs taken with Canon Rebel	Saturday's photographs taken with Nikon D50	Sunday's photographs taken with Canon Rebel
Sunday's photographs taken with Nikon D50	Home page

The Festival officially began with a procession. In the Orthodox Church we begin everything with a prayer. Since I was serving and in a prominent position most of the time, it would had been inappropriate for me to take photographs also. Therefore I asked Natalie to take them.

Some of the pictures on this site are intended as guidance for next year.

This series by Natalie on my Kodak camera
	This series taken on my Canon Rebel dSLR XO of Washington Hill offering us assistance
Swentana doing last minute preparations in the vestibule of the church	One beautiful family with Mrs. Mickel
This photographer gave me just what I needed to complete another project for now
Lillian HOffman, owner of Wolf Restaurant in Essex
Salena Eichelberger, wife of co-chairman David
	One of our visitors with me
Cody family with Reader Joseph
Rachel and Vera, two very close friends		Cyril, our former treasurer
	Cyril and Tamara
	Vera with one of the cute babies at the Festival	Lidia
	Vladimir	night scenes are outside the sacristy door
		rest taken by my new Nikon D50 dSLR
Michael		Maryann and Sue
		Matushka Tatiana and Fr. John
Lidia
	Vera
Fr. John preparing one of the static displays
	Fr. John giving church tour in Russian to students
	Experiment for next year
	Vera, my second photographer	Natalie, my first photographer

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