Arches Path, by Sergiy Kadulin

“Arches Path” is well known road from the main Uspensky Cathedral to saint caves. I took the shot from low-angle tripod, heading upwards the hill to the arches direction. It took a while to wait for the moment when it was not crowded, as I wanted path to be almost empty, in order to make main focus onto drama of coexistence of arches and the stony dark road. The light on the wall created interesting effect reflecting from the shapes of arches, and from the distance you can see it as lotus flower leaves growing from the person on the street.

Canon EOS 5D Mark II | 24 mm (EF 24-70/2.8L IS) | Exposure: 0.8sec @ f/10 | ISO 800 | WB Auto
Arches Path, by Sergiy Kadulin

Award Winner: Photo of the Day | August 07
Award Score: 62 (Value 11.5, Clarity 11, Composition 16, Style 12, Skill 11.5)
Photo of the Day Award Category: Night Photography
Photograph Location: Kyiv-Pecherska Lavra | Ukraine

Photographer: Sergiy Kadulin (Kyiv, Ukraine) Registered
Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1967, Sergiy Kadulin grew up in the family with his sister and mother, as his father died when they were two years old. He graduated from the military aviation academy (avionics engineer), and later on, from MBA school (IBR school, based in Ukraine). While majority of his professional career was with information technology, where he worked for such companies as American Power Conversion, hp, Microsoft, and now working in Apple as director of Apple VAD in Ukraine, but photography is his greatest passion and hobby.

Sergiy’s first experience was with his grandfather’s camera (made in 1936), and while he was studying in school he started mode in-depth learning of photography, including dark room processing, shooting on color films, etc. His first own camera (shared with his sister) was Smena-8M, which was very popular in Soviet Union as basic and very affordable camera for children. In upper class his mother gave him a gift – Zenit-12SD, which was his first real film DSLR and he enjoyed it for many years. Later on, while being on business trip in Canada, he bought Minolta with set of lenses, which was far more advanced one. Large part of his film photo collection was made with it.

Sergiy was quite skeptical towards digital photography at the beginning, and switched completely to digital workflow by late 90’s until early 2000. About 7 years ago he graduated from the professional photography course in the Kyiv School of Photography, and later on, continued to study (distance learning course of professional photography) in New York Institute of Photography. He also attended number of training courses in different other schools and on top of it, learn new interesting areas online. He did his first photo exhibition in April, 2011, which was named “Sikkim. Beginning” and was devoted to his trekking in Himalaya, Sikkim, India, in 2010.

Sergiy’s favorite type of photography is travel and landscape; however he likes reportage as well. He does devote significant portion of his time to internal growth and development, which to his strong opinion, is the most important part of any creative human. He is trying to use photography as means to share his deep love to the world, to other people and nature, and pass warmth of his heart to them.

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