Alla and Nikita in the half-empty neighborhood that surrounds the long-dead Packard Plant in Detroit, Michigan.

The view of Canada across the Detroit river from the hall of the GM Renaissance Center skyscraper.

Piano duet.

Ruslan is playing in a huge sandpit in downtown Detroit.

Papa with his two daughters are observing the aftermath of papa’s inattentiveness in the town of Belleville, Michigan.

Alla is capturing the successful crossing of a high-speed street by a low-speed reptile.

It didn’t occur to this proud Michigan turtle that we saved its life twice: once by not running over it, and a second time by protecting it from the tires of an oncoming truck.