Opening new horizons is a way of life for millions of people who do not wait for free time, do not postpone indefinitely, but plan and go. Travel is an investment that makes a person happier and more prosperous. Continents, countries, cities, the world meets travelers with unique natural phenomena, unique landscapes and landscapes, exceptional flavor, and famous sights.
Israeli businessman David Kaplan is a traveler, gourmet, talented photographer, erudite, mathematician, system programmer, successful entrepreneur, and citizen of the world, born in the USSR, worked in Russia for a long time, and currently lives in his historical homeland in Jerusalem.
The map of his travels has no boundaries that arouse surprise and respect from the North Pole to the South, Asia to Europe, across America, Russia, the Middle, and the Far East. Since David Kaplan started traveling, he has flown over a million miles. Traveled to most capitals of the world, visiting more than 30 countries. He knows best in autumn, winter, spring, or summer. Where are the breathtaking sunsets, and which corner of the globe can fly for the most beautiful sunrise? Where to go with a big company, and where it is better to relax alone. He knows which cities are mandatory to visit, which are enough to see once, and where you should not go at all.
When choosing a city for travel, there is no concept of winter or summer. David Kaplan recommends going where you haven’t been. Age also matters: at different ages, you can see London, New York, museums, and sights in different ways. It is also important to consider material resources. No one will go to the most expensive city in the world if they have a limited budget. Thus, the choice is divided into two groups: interests and opportunities. At the same time, there are places that every self-respecting person should visit on the recommendation of David Kaplan. Baden-Baden, Vancouver, San Francisco, New York, London, Paris, Rome. Bermuda, Caribbean, Maldives, Seychelles. You can only go to Belgium for the best food. But Turkey should go only to those who have small children.
The desire to return to this or that city is not connected with the geographical location. Someone returns to their favorite museum or annual event, and someone returns to their favorite restaurant or club. You want to return to a place where you liked something specific, and good memories remain. You come back for impressions to catch these emotions again. The second factor that brings people back to the city is the presence of their real estate there. The third factor is the accommodation of relatives or friends. Therefore, each has its own “return.”
You can travel all year round. When summer is over, but autumn has not yet come, when it is not cold yet, but not hot anymore, David Kaplan recommends going to Lake Como in Italy, Baikal or Altai in Russia. This is one of his favorite places. When summer turns into autumn, these places are stunning. Pastel colors, peaceful calm atmosphere, you can sit in silence and look at the water. Altai is a place of extraordinary power. Having traveled to so many countries, it was in Altai that Kaplan saw nature from all countries in one place. Imagine that you are standing at any point and start turning wherever you look: in Canada, here in Montreal, here is the road to Vancouver, here is a forest, a river, a lake. And all different colors. Beauty is unreal.
In the fall, David Kaplan recommends taking a six-hour road trip from Montreal to New York. Fantastic views await you along the way. You pass Niagara Falls, then you see a maple forest, beautiful, green, yellow, white, blue, firs, mountains, rocks. Incredible beauty surrounds you here. For nature lovers, visiting the magical Waterloo Forest in Belgium is a must in autumn.
For lovers of active sports, in winter, Courchevel is perfect. Those who love skiing and who want to ride come here. For skiers, there is simply no second such place in the world.
And not because it’s prestigious. There are much better places in terms of service. But Courchevel has the best ski logistics globally and is the best place to start skiing.
The cherry blossoms are an annual spectacular sight in late March and early April. Depart first to Tokyo and precisely 5-7 days later move to Kyoto. Also, in the spring, it is good on the tropical island of St. Barth. It is called the island of millionaires. The best villas, hotels, and yachts in the Caribbean region are here. To it, David Kaplan recommends adding St. Thomas to the travel schedule, with its unique island exoticism framed by dense tropical greenery and stunning bays with snow-white sand.
In the summer, according to Kaplan, Italy is first on the list. Especially Sicily with its numerous islands: Panarea, Taormina. On the recommendation of a businessman, go on a date with active volcanoes on the islands of Stromboli and Vulcano. He also advises visiting the Greek paradise: the snow-white romantic island of Santorini and one of the most mysterious legendary places, Mount Athos.
In June-July it is good to travel around Asia. David Kaplan recommends visiting the abode of peace, the great country of Brunei. This is one of the wealthiest countries in the world. Luxurious palaces, mosques, mountains, tropical forests, waterfalls, snow-white beaches, and gentle sea. Dedicate one of your summer holidays to the mysterious Buddhist kingdom of Tibet: mysterious lakes, majestic Kailash, an original culture, and religion. After Tibet, you begin to look at the world differently. It is unforgivable to be in China and not visit the legendary Shaolin Monastery in the Songshan Mountains.
There are many options for summer travel. For an atmosphere of relaxed luxury, David Kaplan advises going to Tahiti or Bora Bora with their picturesque bays and the best snorkeling in the world.
In August, visit the most beloved Scottish Queen Mary Stuart in Scotland. The famous castle and the picturesque lake of the same name Linlithgow. In this country, you can learn archery and join the ancient and aristocratic sport of falconry with Harris hawks. Kaplan singles out golf as a separate item. Scotland is the birthplace of golf. There are more than 500 golf courses throughout the country, some of them ranked among the best in the world. The golf here is fantastic.
From August until the end of September, David Kaplan recommends heading to Norway for fantastic sunsets and a real show of dancing lights turning into the northern lights. Another main attraction of this country is the stunning beauty of the fjords.
Leave the North Pole for a summer travel snack. The Arctic summer does not last long, only two to three weeks. As a rule, a journey to the realm of ice and snow can only be made on an icebreaker, and some rocky coasts can only be reached by helicopter. This trip is incomparable. The North Pole is at the top of the world. Only here can you breathe in the fresh polar air, see drifting perennial ice floes, arctic flowers, and the rarest polar animals such as whales, beluga whales, seals, and, of course, polar bears. After such a journey, you will undoubtedly want to go to the South Pole in December-January and close the earth’s axis. Visit Antarctica and see with your own eyes a colony of emperor penguins.
David Kaplan is a bright, talented, and independent contemporary photographer. He spent his childhood in the Lithuanian city of Vilnius. After school, he entered Vilnius State University and quickly graduated from Applied Mathematics with a degree in Mathematician, System Programmer, Game Theory. David always felt the world differently; from childhood, he noticed what was hidden behind the obvious. Parents saw the potential and a self-sufficient personality in their son, so they encouraged his versatile hobbies in every possible way. Today, David Kaplan is not just a successful businessman, intellectual, erudite, and strategist. He is a creative person. He picks up a camera and plunges into the creative process.
For many centuries, it has been known that artists worldwide have used the principle of the “golden section” to build harmonious compositions. And in photography, it is an essential compositional rule. Many photographers are forced to learn this principle to find the most active points of attention and correctly place the main subjects. Armed with a professional camera, David Kaplan does not assemble the composition according to an agreed scheme. He has an unconventional look. Thanks to his love for system analysis, David Kaplan intuitively places all the accents in the frame, capturing the very essence. He is a talented photographer who can paint with light. David Kaplan’s camera lens captures moments that make us stop and think.
Today David Kaplan lives and works in Israel. The spirit of the Israeli land helps the photographer feel how priceless each person’s life and all living things are. The works of David Kaplan have absorbed the energy of Israel, the great history and traditions of the Jewish people, demonstrate unconditional love and respect for this country. A series of stunning photographs revealing the power of war, joy and sorrow, the beauty of landscapes, flora, and fauna.
For him, photography is a world of revelation—dazzling, unrealistically bright, and vivid pictures of nature, the pain of war, and human suffering. David Kaplan pays special attention to the topic of ecological catastrophe. Through his photographs, he demonstrates the devastating effects of human activity and the slow death of our planet. An impressive number of pictures tell about the critical moments of modern life and art, about the fantastic nature and environmental problems, about specialists whose daily work remains invisible.
The photo archive of David Kaplan can be divided into several thematic sections.
Moscow. While in Moscow, David Kaplan devoted a large cycle of photographs to the Bolshoi Theater. The author shows us a historical architectural object against the backdrop of urban landscapes, revealing art from a new point of view. The master took the pictures during the theater’s restoration, which he led.
Israel. The works of the so-called Israeli cycle absorbed the energy of Israel the great history and traditions of the Jewish people, demonstrating the unconditional love and respect of the photographer for this country. They reveal the pain of war and man, suffering, joy and sorrow, the beauty of landscapes, flora, and fauna.
Ecology. David Kaplan pays special attention to the topic of ecological catastrophe. In his photographs, he demonstrates the devastating effects of human activity and the slow death of our planet.
Invisible work. An impressive number of shots tell about the critical moments in the life of modern people and professionals whose daily work is hidden from us but very important and necessary.
Travels. This is one of the most ambitious projects of travel photographer David Kaplan. Terabytes of digital storage of Russian businessman and photographer David Kaplan have replenished with the best photos from beautiful places on earth, shooting beautiful architectural structures and world-famous sights.
Nature for Kaplan is a world of revelation, dazzling, unrealistically bright. David Kaplan felt his connection with nature through photography. The right choice of time of day and angle, natural lighting, special shooting techniques, and a set of advanced image processing programs: all this together helped David develop his recognizable style of photography.
Each frame reflects his author’s view of the uniqueness and beauty of the world. In his works, we will find picturesque waterfalls, red walls of canyons, high mountain peaks, mysterious deserts, a rising sun over a valley, a magical whole moon night sky, and much more.
From one of his trips to Southeast Asia, Israeli businessman David Kaplan brought back a delightful snapshot of cherry blossoms in the Japanese city of Kyoto – an airy pink and white image of a natural Japanese spring.
Another photo, which depicts an autumn Japanese maple, is filled with extraordinary calm and peace. In the soft light of the rising sun, the majestic maple, with its powerful branches and fluffy crown, seems to rest against the cloudy morning sky, and its roots are buried in the grass, lush and wet from the morning dew.
The following autumn series of photographs is dedicated to Lake Como. All nature here merges into a single whole. There are stunning shots of golden landscapes running along rivers and lakes in thick fog, snow caps on the tops of massive mountains, a geyser lake, and Lake Como. One of David’s works is reminiscent of an Impressionist painting – a reflection of the foliage of autumn trees on the smooth and calm surface of the river. From his travels in Scotland, David Kaplan brings photographs of ancient ruins and ancient mysterious castles shrouded in mystical legends, breathtaking and picturesque landscapes. These are photographs of the fantastic beauty of sunsets, dancing lights turning into northern lights, narrow rocky coasts, sea fjords winding and crashing into the ground.
The North Pole appeared in Kaplan’s lens with its drifting perennial ice floes, arctic flowers, and rare polar animals. The trip gave the photographer a unique opportunity to see and capture the emperor penguin colony with his own eyes. Photos of glaciers and icebergs bathed in the light of the full moon deserve special attention. From the sight of a giant moon over the realm of ice and snow, a body looms, covered with goosebumps.
This is just a tiny part of the work of travel photographer David Kaplan. According to David, proper photography exposes problems and sharpens feelings, strengths, and weaknesses. It, like a link, unites representatives of different countries, cultures, confessions, and professions, teaches us to make the right decisions, find peaceful ways to resolve conflicts, find harmony in everything, appreciate and protect what was given to us from above.
From each of his trips, the photographer necessarily takes away impressions, author’s photographs, and original recipes of national dishes he has fallen in love with. Impressions add up to experience and a list of recommendations for future trips of David Kaplan and his friends.
In the homeland of great ancestors, he decided to combine all the best recipes he tried in many countries. And illustrate them with beautiful, authentic photographs of dishes taken in different parts of our planet. David Kaplan started his FUBER project, cultivating a healthy approach to nutrition, ecology, and family budget.
The shift to work and study at home due to the covid-19 pandemic, the constant presence of all family members in the house, the desire to protect themselves and loved ones from the threat of infection – all this made people have to buy more products and cook food at home on their own.
At the same time, you need to cook often and at once a lot, so that everyone has enough and preferably for several days. Such a test turned out to be within the power of only a few. People are divided into two categories. The first ones are forced to cook, but they do it without much pleasure. They choose simple dishes and strive to do it quickly, easily, and without unnecessary troubles. And the second category includes those who were able to use the circumstances as an opportunity to diversify their home menu and learn how to cook something new and exciting. Such people are looking for inspiration, new recipes and tastes, and even new ingredients. Some of them subscribe to culinary video bloggers, and someone searches for recipes on google, and some download a selection from the “top best dishes for…” series at once.
According to research companies, during the covid-19 quarantine, the number of downloads of gastronomic applications has increased dramatically, and the number of purchases of kitchen appliances and various devices for cooking. But in this massive abundance of recipes, it isn’t easy to find those that even beginners will be able to cook deliciously. Israeli businessman David Kaplan has collected a gastronomic collection of original proven recipes and knows how to optimize purchasing products and cooking. His initial project, FUBER, is an ideal gastronomic service for those who do not like to cook and want to do it quickly and easily. Those who wish to diversify their family menu and are open to experimenting with new dishes will be.
FUBER is a unique food aggregator. Its goal is to encourage people to cook at home easily and quickly. Moreover, with its help, you can create your cookbook. FUBER significantly reduces the time spent in shops and at the stove, and at the same time allows you to spoil your family and friends with a variety of dishes. The range of FUBER kitchens is extensive. It erases the boundaries of geography and will enable you to taste the words of those countries where a person has never been. More than three thousand unique recipes from 35 countries have been collected to date. FUBER has absorbed both the original recipes of gourmet European cuisine from the most stellar restaurants and chefs and classic recipes from other nations, personally validated by David Kaplan.
FUBER is a whole program created for a modern person. Those who value their time are not ready to spend most of their time in the kitchen and do not want to spend most of their budget on groceries. These are recipes, lists of available ingredients, step-by-step instructions, video tutorials, online ordering, and prompt delivery. The program not only helps people cut their time in the kitchen in half but cuts their budget by more than half.
To date, the pilot version of FUBER is available in test mode in Israel. Still, soon every resident of Europe will be able to watch one or another recipe with a detailed description and photo and video support of the entire cooking process and order home delivery of the necessary sets of fresh, high-quality products. Everyone who wants to cook at home safely and quickly, tasty and varied, and most importantly, with pleasure, and at the same time take care of our planet, is looking forward to the launch of this important and glorious project.
Having seen so many miracles in different parts of our planet, Israeli businessman David Kaplan is sure that we must learn to live in harmony with nature and ourselves. Everyone needs to start this path from themselves.