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Frame for two
There is no leader in their duet. They are both main and inseparable. One is a tripod for two, one camera ... They even have one frame for two. So they sign their photos - "Alexander and Vyacheslav Mityukhins." Under the curtain of the year in the printing house "Autograph" was published by the photo album "Landscapes of the Southern Urals", dedicated to the joint creativity of the two Chelyabinsk residents.
The 63-year-old Gemini Mityukhins in a duet have been working almost all their lives. By profession, Vyacheslav Economist, Alexander is a physics teacher. It happened that the paths diverged for a short while, but for the past 20 years both have been working in the printing house "Autograph". The brothers call themselves photographs of the Ural nature. Although in fact, the spectrum of photography has long been a long time ago, of course, is not limited to landscapes.
“Photo album was born by chance,” says Alexander Mityukhin. - The director of the printing house "Autograph" Igor Spiritual saw the slides that we shot for two decades, and proposed to publish "landscapes of the Southern Urals." The result was a 20-year history of nature. Unfortunately, many picturesque places have already been lost. Everything is being built up - Yaldy, Argazi, Turgoyak ... There are now many cottages on the banks. At one time, we predicted it and tried to capture our lakes in its original form. In the photographs - nature, not touched by either tourists or developers.
Mityukhins take off the landscapes all -zero. It’s the hardest way to work in winter. We must ski, the daylight hours are short, the equipment and hands are freezing ... Autumn is the brightest, gives a lot of colors. It’s nice to shoot in the summer too. “True,” the brothers complain, “there are many mosquitoes. And vacationers. And for photographers these are practically synonyms.” Spring is good in its own way. Especially when there is a lot of snow in the mountains. With abundant melting, streams are so expressive! Snowmen, lilacs, rainbows, rains - any manifestation of nature can give the idea of a cool picture.
A large number of photos that adorned the album taken near Chelyabinsk, within a radius of 30-40 kilometers. Balandino, Argazi, Miass River, Hones ... There are many more beautiful places in the vicinity of the capital of the Southern Urals.
“There are still a lot,” says Alexander. - But in ten years, I think there will be little. Everyone will boil, build up. Snowmobiles, ATVs, cars, picnics ... The famous Alexander Sopka near Zlatoust, alas, is already cut down by tourists.
Our task: to captivate both nature, and the pleasure of getting from the creative process. And nature for a photographer is always positive emotions. What are only sunrises and sunsets.
Flying the album, you also enjoy it. You’ll think: why don’t we appreciate and protect those wealth that we get absolutely free?
