Dan in Russia 2002

The best part of the trip, of course, was the kids. I tried to capture as many of them in photos as possible, but it wasn't that easy, for several reasons: 1) Kids move around a lot, and quickly; 2) My camera was always a major distraction -- as soon as I brought it out, activities were disrupted because everyone wanted to review each photo I snapped; and 3) On a serious note, it was obvious that quite a few of the kids did not want me to take their photo, period. I got some pretty good shots overall anyway. Here goes...

Yegor here has unsuspectingly been turned into a rabbit by that crazy Kolya.