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My name is Stan Pustylnik, english version from slavic Станислав Пустыльник.
I was born in Odessa, Ukraine, back then it was part of USSR.
I lived first 29 years in Estonia where my father was working as astronomer.

My mother told me that living in harmony is what she tried all her life.
When I asked my father, why we are not following rules written in Old Testament, He answered me -
Why should I live as was written 5000 years ago, if after this time civilization created so many great things?

Izold Pustylnik: For adult man there is no such thing as age… (Don’t use it as an excuse)

Izold Pustylnik: It was language and communication skills that made our ancestors become humans. Transition was incredibly rapid.

Document most important thoughts about love, life, God, purpose of existence... We usually leave it for tomorrow, for better weather, dress, mood.
Then we die and our kids quess what did we thought and search for clues for themself.


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Galleries

Washington DC through seasons : Here is Washington DC album started in 2004. Photographs made around DC famous places during cherry blossoms, summer days, autumn and winter. You can find here photos of following DC monuments: United States Capitol building, Washington Monument, Abraham Lincoln Memoreal, Jefferson Memoreal, Vietnam War Memoreal, Korea War Memoreal, WWII Memoreal, Iwo-Jima Memoreal, National Arlington Cemetery, White House, Union Station, Georgetown, Alexandria

Images are made with Minolta 7D DSLR, Olympus C-750UZ, various Minolta best quality lenses. 

Could be printed large with great detail resolution.

Washington DC through seasons

Here is Washington DC album started in 2004. Photographs made around D ...

Updated: Jul 02, 2009 1:25pm PST

Thomas Wootton preschool 5/14/2009

Updated: Jun 15, 2009 10:36am PST

Blue Angels photo images for print and download : Blue Angels team photos. F18 and C130 pilots are performing extreme acrobatics at high speed, leaving smoke trails for impressive visual effects.
All photos are made with Minolta 7D DSLR with high quality lenses. Resolution is enough for large prints up to poster size. 
I personally like both: close photos made with telephoto lenses, but also wide angle views too, where wide angle lens is saving traces of maneuvers around blue sky and sun. 
Print, frame and enjoy, or buy royalty free download.

Blue Angels photo images for print and download

Blue Angels team photos. F18 and C130 pilots are performing extreme ac ...

Updated: May 28, 2009 8:09am PST

Minolta 650si and 100-300mm xi AF lens parts : Following photos were born after recalling me being kid and taking dad's radio apart while he was at work... 

I remember how much I was thrilled by process of disassembly, and seeing so many little bolts, washers, clips. 

Unfortunately, when I assembled radio back, couple bolts remained extra... 
Dad wasn't pleased of course, because his radio stopped working. 


Now I'm a father, I thought that disassembling one of faulty lenses from my collection would be great project for my 5 years old son David. 

He was thrilled... We had good time, and I explained him as much as I could. After we were done with disassembly, I made some photos of lens parts. 

Please tell me what photos you like most.

Minolta 650si and 100-300mm xi AF lens parts

Following photos were born after recalling me being kid and taking dad ...

Updated: Apr 02, 2009 11:34am PST

For my dad, Izold Pustylnik И.Б.Пустыльник , Изольд Бенционович Пустыльник : ***********************************************************************************************************
I: Dad, why we are not following rules written in Old Testament?
He: Why should I live as was written 5000+ years ago, if after this time civilization created so many great things?
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He:  Intresting, from population of 6 billions living in World, only 10,000 are pushing progress by leading scientific research.
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He: For adult man the is no such thing as age… (Don’t use it as an excuse)
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He: It was language and communication skills that made our ancestors become humans. 
Transition was incredibly rapid.
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This album is dedicated for my father who passed away on 05/02/08.
Izold Pustylnik was a very intellectual person, and a good father.
He was born in pre-WWII Odessa, USSR, in 1938.
During difficult years of war he and his mom were evacuated to the Caspian Sea area.
They had to move to new destinations every couple months to escape from Nazis.
After the war their returned to hometown to find out they had no place to live.
However, life went on. Izold finished high school in 1954 with silver medal.
In 1960 he graduated cum laude from Odessa University as an astronomer.
In 1962 Izold started working at Tyravere Observatory, where he had been working till his last day.
He had more than 200 scientific publications in astrophysics and astronomy.
Please visit his homepage: http://www.aai.ee/~izold/index1.html 

Dear all, photos from this album can be copied, published and re/used, but only with reference to author and IzoldPustylnik

Stan

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IN MEMORIAM
IZOLD PUSTYLNIK И.Б.Пустыльник, Изольд Бенционович Пустыльник (17 March 1938 – 2 May 2008)
Izold Pustylnik, eminent astronomer and senior
research associate at the Tartu Observatory,
died on the early morning of May 2, 2008.
Izold Pustylnik was born on March 17, 1938
in the family of millers in Odessa, Ukraine.
There he graduated from the secondary school
with high grades and cum laude from Odessa
University. In 1962 he applied for a postgraduate
position at the Institute of Physics and Astronomy,
Academy of Sciences of the then Estonian
Soviet Socialist Republic. Remarkably, only
three months after starting his postgraduate
studies, Pustylnik delivered his first academic
seminar paper at the institute in the Estonian
language. His skills in acquiring new languages
were impressive: in the institute’s personnel records from 1992 Pustylnik has
rated his command of Russian, Estonian, English and Polish as excellent, and
Ukrainian, German and French as languages he could read and translate, and
Hungarian as the language he commanded at conversational level.
After his post-graduation studies, Pustylnik defended Candidate of Science
degree at the University of Tartu in 1958 and DSC at St Petersburg State University
in 1994.
During the entire time he worked at the Tartu Observatory, Pustylnik researched
close binary systems, because these stars, orbiting very close to each
other around a common centre of mass, help us learn more about stars than
can be done by studying single stars. He even defined a new stellar category –
gas-eclipsed close binaries, which are binaries orbiting around each other in
the common gas envelope. Though mainly a theoretician, Pustylnik was actively
and over a long period in his earlier academic career also involved in
observing binary systems.
In recent years Pustylnik took interest in famous astronomers and has
published, together with Vitalii Bronshten, a monograph on Ernst Julius Öpik,
one of the leading Estonian astronomers. Pustylnik also wrote about Stanislavs
Vasilevskii, the Latvian astronomer whose talent remained hidden in the tumult
of the 20th century, and investigated thoroughly the life and work of
http://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol40/inmemoriam.pdf
148 www.folklore.ee/folklore
In memoriam
Erich Schoenberg, the Estonian astronomer who worked at the Tartu Old Observatory.
Pustylnik’s interests were not limited to the life and work of famous astronomers;
he also attempted to draw parallels between the views of ancient
astronomers and contemporary thought. At the 2002 Tallinn conference celebrating
the passing of 150 years from the measuring of long meridian arc
from the Arctic Ocean to the Black Sea, which is now known as the Struve
Geodetic Arc and which is included into the UNESCO World Heritage List,
Izold Pustylnik analysed Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve’s geodetic and astronomical
measuring in the light of contemporary astronomical understanding.
In the mid-1970s, during the surge of national awakening in Estonia, astronomer
Heino Eelsalu began to trace Estonian national identity, almost lost
by then, and focused on the interpretation of various myths and archaeological
objects from astronomical viewpoint, laying thus a solid foundation for the
field of archaeoastronomy in Estonia. For many younger colleagues this opened
a new window to the world, and Eelsalu’s enthusiasm fired many, Pustylnik
among others. He was an active member of SEAC (European Society for Astronomy
in Culture) over many years, and had established contacts with scholars
of archaeoastronomy and ethnoastronomy in the entire Europe. He became
one of the main organisers of the 2002 International Conference of SEAC,
which was held in Tartu, Estonia. At the conference he also delivered a weighty
paper ‘Does modern astrophysics widen the horizons of archaeoastronomy?’
(published in SEAC Proceedings, 2002).
Pustylnik’s fine language skills allowed him to cooperate with astronomers
of many countries of the world. His active lifestyle made him noticed and elected
in the boards of international organisations. For instance, Pustylnik was the
member of the Euro-Asian Astronomical Society virtually since the establishment
of the society.
Pustylnik was also one of the main instigators of Euroscience Estonia. By a
cruel irony, Pustylnik was gone by the opening of the 2008 international seminar
which he had summoned. The seminar was dedicated to the astronomer
Ernst Christoph Friedrich Knorre who worked in Tartu before Struve’s era.
Izold Pustylnik will be deeply missed by the people of the Tartu Observatory.
He was a fine colleague and interlocutor on scientific issues and life in
general.
Tõnu Viik

For my dad, Izold Pustylnik И.Б.Пустыльник , Изольд Бенционович Пустыльник

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Updated: Mar 27, 2009 9:26am PST

Favorite Photos : Here are my personal favorites high resolution photos that could be printed or purchased as stock downloads

Favorite Photos

Here are my personal favorites high resolution photos that could be pr ...

Updated: Mar 16, 2009 12:16pm PST

Free Wallpaper Monitor Screen Images Photos : Anyone can use images from this gallery for screensavers and wallpaper on their PC.
To set up image as wallpaper follow these steps:
1. Click on the thumbnail you like.
2. Below the image locate and click on O size.
3. After image will open do Right Click on the image as choose "Save as" option and save to hard drive.
4. After saving the image open it in Windows Explorer
5. Do Right Click and choose "Set as Background".

Or after saving the file to Hard Drive do following steps:
Start-->Settings-->Contol Panel-->Display-->chose Desktop Menu-->
click Browse button-->Navigate to image location and Double Click on it-->
-->choose "Center","tile", or "Stretch" options from Position dropdown --> 
Click Apply button--> Click OK button.

High resolution images without watermark could be found in galleries and purchased through smugmug or shutterpoint websites.

Stan

Free Wallpaper Monitor Screen Images Photos

Anyone can use images from this gallery for screensavers and wallpaper ...

Updated: Mar 04, 2009 1:21pm PST

Stuff : From childhood I was fascinated by items made by people. Simple household items, tools, kitchen gear - made me think about people who made them, their hand that polished handles to shine by routine use. Older item was - more interesting story seems to be behind it. 
This album is about items made by people.

Stuff

From childhood I was fascinated by items made by people. Simple househ ...

Updated: Feb 27, 2009 6:12am PST

stock images :

stock images

Updated: Feb 17, 2009 12:24pm PST

Lens Fungus : In hunt to get inexpensive sharp telephoto prime lens, I bought Sigma 400mm f/5.6 APO for $255 from ebayer with 100% positive feedback. 
Lens arrived well packaged, perfect looking externally. Main optical element clean. I made couple test shots that seemed slightly soft. 

When I looked inside - what a bad surprise. Looks like a dens web. 

Here are images that I made using Tamron 90mm f/2.8 1:1 macro. 

I already contacted seller, notifying about problem. But don't know yet what he will answer me after seeing the images. 
I was reading on web about Lens Fungus and found one poster mentioning that lenses are most affected if stored in leather cases. Mold is also fungus, by the way. 

This lens came in nice black leather case. 

Fungus is feeding on organic matter (dead wood, dry bread, other carbohydrates). I don't believe that lens byitself is good food, but if leather case is contaminated - spores will get inside of lens and will try to grow - web like. 

On one of my images, if looked at "Original" multiple grain-like spores are visible with sprouts starting from them. 

Bottom line: 
Don't use leather cases for lens storage. Don't keep any food in same bag/backpack, even in different section of same bag. 

Stan

Lens Fungus

In hunt to get inexpensive sharp telephoto prime lens, I bought Sigma ...

Updated: Jan 23, 2009 8:55pm PST

Great Falls National Park , morning, evening, nightime : Great Falls National Park  in different lighting conditions. Details of waterfalls, veiling and some other fancy stuff.

Great Falls National Park , morning, evening, nightime

Great Falls National Park in different lighting conditions. Details o ...

Updated: Jan 21, 2009 9:41am PST

RHYTHMFLEX_10_8_2008

Updated: Nov 12, 2008 7:15am PST

Autumn mood : Autumn scenery, closups of colorful fall leaves, foggy images. Could be printed up to 24 x 36 without detail loss.

Autumn mood

Autumn scenery, closups of colorful fall leaves, foggy images. Could b ...

Updated: Nov 10, 2008 6:22am PST

ChallengerJuniorCamp_08_2008

Updated: Aug 08, 2008 11:27am PST

flowers and related :

flowers and related

Updated: Jul 16, 2008 9:50pm PST

fireworks :

fireworks

Updated: Jul 10, 2008 11:58am PST

New York Impressions : New York city through my camera as I saw it. Trip was just 3 days, but colorful, enjoyable, pleasing.

New York Impressions

New York city through my camera as I saw it. Trip was just 3 days, but ...

Updated: Jun 16, 2008 7:44am PST

webaperture postings :

webaperture postings

Updated: May 14, 2008 12:32pm PST

Southern Estonia early spring 2008 : Here are photos from early spring 2008 made in southern part of Estonia.
 Estonia is small independant country located across Baltic Sea from Finland. Population is less then 1.5 million. Being located near Russia's border this country has been in the middle of battles and under multiple powers. More info could be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonia
Country where I lived first 29 years of my life welcomed me with regular cloudy, semi-cloudy and soggy weather. What I was pleased to see - harmony between new and old. New colorful supermarkets and old buildings located in same city blocks. People are same friendly as before.
I had no time to visit Tallinn. Images shown here were made in Tartu( second city by population), in Elva, places called Illi, Peedu, Mosina.

Southern Estonia early spring 2008

Here are photos from early spring 2008 made in southern part of Estoni ...

Updated: Apr 01, 2008 3:47am PST

Exif data : here are basic Exif info viewing instruction in Windows Explorer.

For more about photography go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography

Exif data

here are basic Exif info viewing instruction in Windows Explorer. F ...

Updated: Mar 07, 2008 11:40am PST

USSR Kornevo 87-89 : This is photo gallery showing what we've been through between 1986-1988.
Me, Dmitri Kiyanovsky ( Кияновский Дмитрий ), Artis Kljavinsh, Balsis, Jarushavichus, and many other friends from Kornevo, Kaliningrad oblast, USSR army between 1986-1988. 
Photos has been uploaded and made public with permission from Кияновский Дмитрий.

USSR Kornevo 87-89

This is photo gallery showing what we've been through between 1986-198 ...

Updated: Jan 03, 2008 8:56am PST

night sky :

night sky

Updated: Oct 17, 2007 7:23am PST

skies :

skies

Updated: Oct 13, 2007 8:08pm PST

UCG Company Trip to San Francisco 2007 :

UCG Company Trip to San Francisco 2007

Updated: Sep 08, 2007 8:36pm PST

Lewes, Delaware, 1 week vacation 7/29/07-8/04/07 : Photos in this album are shot during 1 week vacation near Lewes, Delaware, USA. (Atlantic Ocean)
There is beautiful Henlopen State Park nearby with beautiful sunrise/sunset views, clean sand beaches and dunes. 
I was watching dolphins, sandpipers, pelicans, loons, terns and various seagulls, crabs, seashells.
I was also fishing and kayaking. I saw 2 sea-turtles and 1 seal(didn't take camera on kayak). 

There are lot of surfers near Herring Point that I enjoyed to make photos too.

All photos are made with:

Camera - Minolta 7D DSLR. 

Lenses used: 
Minolta 17-35mm f/2.8 AF
Sigma 24mm f/2.8 
Minolta 50mm f/1.7 
Tamron 90mm f/2.8 1:1 Macro
Minolta 100-300mm f/4.5-5.6 xi

Filters:
Circular Polarizer 
1 stop and 2 stop soft edge Neutral Density Graduated Filters.

Lewes, Delaware, 1 week vacation 7/29/07-8/04/07

Photos in this album are shot during 1 week vacation near Lewes, Delaw ...

Updated: Aug 11, 2007 9:15pm PST

Shenandoah : Shot in northen part of Shenandoah National Park from Skyline drive. August 2006.

Shenandoah

Shot in northen part of Shenandoah National Park from Skyline drive. A ...

Updated: Jun 28, 2007 4:45am PST

Billy Goat Trail morning snapshots : Billy Goat Trail is located in Great Falls National Park on Maryland side between C&O Canal and Potomac River. Rocky trail with beautiful Potomac River views. Entire hike is only 1 hour, but gives you great photo opportunities. I'll post more images of this nice place.

Billy Goat Trail morning snapshots

Billy Goat Trail is located in Great Falls National Park on Maryland s ...

Updated: Apr 20, 2007 12:28pm PST

Smith Mountain Lake, family vacation : This is little album from vacation at Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia. We had really great time theere.

Smith Mountain Lake, family vacation

This is little album from vacation at Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia. W ...

Updated: Mar 28, 2007 7:58am PST

Canon Powershot G3 samples :

Canon Powershot G3 samples

Updated: Mar 17, 2007 5:51pm PST

blue water : Shot at very early morning time, before sunrise, or late, after sunsets.

blue water

Shot at very early morning time, before sunrise, or late, after sunset ...

Updated: Mar 16, 2007 8:37am PST

Ice and snow January 2005 :

Ice and snow January 2005

Updated: Feb 24, 2007 10:37pm PST

Great Falls National Park , Maryland side. Daytime :

Great Falls National Park , Maryland side. Daytime

Updated: Feb 14, 2007 9:15am PST

Sunrise in Great Falls National Park, Virginia after flood : Shot in Great Falls National Park in early morning of 06/30/2006 after recent floods in area. Potomac river level was 6 feet higher then week earlier.

Sunrise in Great Falls National Park, Virginia after flood

Shot in Great Falls National Park in early morning of 06/30/2006 after ...

Updated: Feb 14, 2007 6:39am PST

Myrtle Beach 06/2005 : 4 short days at Myrtle Beach, SC, June 2005. Weather was tricky from rain to incredibly hot and humid, little wind. Water was awesome ~ 75.

Copyright for this gallery photo belongs solely to Stan Pustylnik. Images may not be copied, downloaded, or used in any way without the expressed, written permission of the photographer.

Myrtle Beach 06/2005

4 short days at Myrtle Beach, SC, June 2005. Weather was tricky from r ...

Updated: Feb 02, 2007 7:39am PST

winter snapshots :

winter snapshots

Updated: Feb 02, 2007 7:38am PST

London snapshots : I did lot of snapshots during week in London. We were trying to see too much, museums, castles, royal places. Wowsie -Super city, but kind of mess in my head... :)

London snapshots

I did lot of snapshots during week in London. We were trying to see to ...

Updated: Feb 02, 2007 7:35am PST

1 week in Marathon Key, Florida :

1 week in Marathon Key, Florida

Updated: Dec 29, 2006 7:04am PST

Atlanta Aquarium , Stone Mountain 2006 : Spend 5 days with my family in Atlanta visiting In-Laws. Went to Georgia Atlanta Aquarium and Stone Mountain. Both places are amazing - in Must Go list, if you traveling to Atlanta!

Atlanta Aquarium , Stone Mountain 2006

Spend 5 days with my family in Atlanta visiting In-Laws. Went to Georg ...

Updated: Nov 15, 2006 6:48am PST

KonicaMinolta 7D first week testing : Camera design is superior. Very convinient for user. Many external buttons are allowing to change almost any setting with a second.
Also Anti Shake of camera body is working very effectivelly, and I was able to get terrific results even at 300mm focal lenth without tripod in dim lighting (look at images N10,11 and 12).

Every image uploaded is original, with EXIF data visible for you.

Older 3500xi external flash doesn't work properly with this body. Overexposed images in this album are showing it.

Most cheap lens that I had in my backpak - Quantaray 28-90mm f/3.5- 5.6 is not working with this camera. Body simply dosn't see it. Giving "No Lens Attached" error.. :)

However AF Macro tubes are working fine!!!! Hurrah!

I didn’t use RAW here and not “extra fine JPG”. 
All portraits with handheld camera, higher ISO, without flash (I don’t like any flash).
Kayakers made with 70-300mm Sigma DL but with AntiShake enabled.
Macros of flowers made with Minolta 50mm f/1.7 lens and Kenko extension tubes.
Night sky shots with Minolta 50mm f/1.7 and Sigma 24mm f/2.8.
Sigma 24 f/2.8 for city/ HWY long exposures.

Look at exif data of each image(under each image – mode details). 
Some shots are blue or yellowish because I played with WB- Kelvin to start feeling what it does.
Also, to see full size image click on “Original”

KonicaMinolta 7D first week testing

Camera design is superior. Very convinient for user. Many external but ...

Updated: Sep 29, 2006 6:32am PST

Heavy equipment, construction :

Heavy equipment, construction

Updated: Sep 29, 2006 6:31am PST

Ice forms : This is my first icy album during this season. It will be more, because i like abstract creations by frozen water.

Ice forms

This is my first icy album during this season. It will be more, becaus ...

Updated: Sep 28, 2006 2:11pm PST

morning at creek 1 : This little creek was discovered by me couple weeks ago. It's third visit there and how different this place is every time!

morning at creek 1

This little creek was discovered by me couple weeks ago. It's third vi ...

Updated: Dec 13, 2004 7:44am PST

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