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Fog over the Mead­ows. A man hap­pened to be prac­tis­ing jug­gling there.

Walk­ing on the busiest road in hte city, which was closed due to Navy March, and so all the peo­ple scat­tered in the streets. Actu­ally, archi­tec­ture of St. Peters­burg is sim­i­lar to Edinburgh’s — very diverse and really dense. There is no closes what­so­ever, streets last for hun­dreds of metres, sur­round­ing you like walls.

I think that’s enough with panora­mas — going back to nor­mal “small world” pho­tos from next post.

This panorama (yes, it is) has been taken not so far away from the first one — the river is still Neva (by the way it is pro­nounced as Nee-va). I’m pretty sure the ship on the right is not a “float­ing shop” — it actu­ally sails, or at least it looked as it could. The weather was realy sunny for the whole day and there was a Navy parade on (although I missed it), so more panora­mas of the “North­ern Athens” will be com­ing soon.

So that’s the first of a few panora­mas of St. Peters­burg and the huge lake that fills pretty much all of this photo is actu­ally the main city’s river — Neva. It’s actu­ally huge. There are also quite a lot of draw­bridges across it, which are drawn at about 2 am every day, so that you the­o­ret­i­cally get from one side of the city to another. Also, just for the scale — these foun­tains on back­ground are about 15 metres high.

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Another part of Moscow, again pretty green and—guess what—this is the view from my Moscow’s flat. This time it’s no HDR (I will make more of them later), but another panorama. I think it’s a bet­ter way of show­ing places to peo­ple on pho­tos. Although, I must say, 360° in my opin­ion are awful—it’s hard to get your head round a 360° image, there’s no “behind” objects.

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I decided to post most of my pho­tos from my trip to Moscow this year, mostly land­scapes, panora­mas, still lives and por­traits of friends. Right now I post this panoramic view from Alex’s (my friend) house—that’s a view on one of the green­est parts of Moscow, Belyaevo. It was quite late, so I decided to make an HDR out of it (sorry for the qual­ity, that’s my first attempt to make a HDR image and I’ve used only one photo for it). Nev­er­the­less, I think it’s a good view on evening Moscow.

P.S. Actu­ally, Alex lives in a 26-floor house and we had to get on the roof (top level, climb­ing through closed win­dows and doors, some­times on open air). Wind, sun and graffiti—I don’t remem­ber last time I had so much adrenaline.