Capturing St. Petersburg architecture in finer detail (aka My Home City is Still Awesome)
As part of my ongoing series of posts showing that my home city is in fact, pretty awesome, here's a translation of egorov's post over at spb_ru. The usual rules apply - original text in italics, my notes (if any) in plain text.
There's a very simple way to photograph a city - take a zoom lens, squint and look carefully at the details above your head. Turns out that you can find so many interesting things just by raising your head. And the zoom lens helps to get rid of all the extra stuff and give the picture a nice rhythm.
So, in this post, let us crane our heads and squint our eyes in downtown St Petersburg.
01. Main Admiralty building
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03. The Winter Palace. (former Imperial palace, now a museum of history and culture and one of the greatest museums in the city, if not all of Russia)
04. Somewhere near Malaya Morskaya street
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The writing below what sure looks like Putin (but may not be him) says "pieces." No idea what that means.
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08. Church of the Christ on Blood (which marks the spot where Emperor Alexandr II was assassinated before he could sign a law that would transform Russia into a constitutional monarchy, which left us with one of Russian history's greatest what-ifs)
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14. Raven on the Field on Mars.
Alright, that's it - lower your heads, massage your neck :)
There's a very simple way to photograph a city - take a zoom lens, squint and look carefully at the details above your head. Turns out that you can find so many interesting things just by raising your head. And the zoom lens helps to get rid of all the extra stuff and give the picture a nice rhythm.
So, in this post, let us crane our heads and squint our eyes in downtown St Petersburg.
01. Main Admiralty building
02.
03. The Winter Palace. (former Imperial palace, now a museum of history and culture and one of the greatest museums in the city, if not all of Russia)
04. Somewhere near Malaya Morskaya street
05.
06.
The writing below what sure looks like Putin (but may not be him) says "pieces." No idea what that means.
07.
08. Church of the Christ on Blood (which marks the spot where Emperor Alexandr II was assassinated before he could sign a law that would transform Russia into a constitutional monarchy, which left us with one of Russian history's greatest what-ifs)
09.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14. Raven on the Field on Mars.
Alright, that's it - lower your heads, massage your neck :)