Autumn is in full swing in St. Petersburg and I can't help thinking that five months of darkness and slush are ahead. The best season for longing and writing depressive texts, not for photo walks.
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5 a.m., I was walking to the city center, several kilometers away from my place.
Empty streets, everybody was sleeping except nocturnal creatures like me.
A gloomy dwarf-like Vladimir Lenin guarded an entrance of Pokrovskaya Hospital.
The snowfall intensified, snowflakes were covering the camera and the lens making them wet.
It was not a Saharan sandstorm, it was Baltic snow slapping the face of the old Egyptian.
A 3500-years-old sphinx, brought from Egypt in 1832, in that fridge, can you imagine?
The weather was a disaster.
Nevertheless, I decided to cross the bridge to see a certain place, an alley leading to St. Isaac Cathedral.
The snowfall suddenly slowed down and I found this pleasant calmness in the alley.
More passersby were appearing hurrying to their work, it was around 8 a.m. already. The time to go back home, get the feet dry, drink a cup of hot black tea and sleep. I hoped I would not get sick after that walk.
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These are my photos, taken with Nikon D750 + Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G in Saint Petersburg, Russia. This is not a cross-post, the images were never published on the Internet except a color version of the alley that was placed on Alamy and some microstocks.
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I will visit there 3 weeks later...
The summer was super hot but the autumn is chill and fast. You have a chance to see the city decorated with snow although stable snowing is more about the very end of October or the beginning of November.
If you have time for a meeting in St.Petersburg, write me on discord x-rain#1841 I know 2 more Hiveans, I will ask them if they want/have spare time to join. We could have a chat in a cafe or a walk on one of the days you are here. If you have time for that, of course.
Snowy shots and depressive texts. Fine by me :)
I love those dark and cold winter nights. They are so quiet that you can almost hear the snow falling...
Snowy shots and depressive texts. Fine by me :)
:) This is fine, indeed. But there is a line you can easily cross in winter: when depressive shots and texts stay in your head in the shape of depressive images and thoughts and never come out and, when someone calls you once a month, offering to meet, your answer is: "I don't know, maybe it is too complicated for me". So ... Winter is a dark adventure as I see... and not everybody will be a winner. Some lose their friends, family, and eventually sanity. In spring, they think: "was it a bad dream?" But they can't return the lost anymore.
I am typing this and smiling... But actually these things do happen.
Now that is a very depressing image you got here.
I know that further north, where winters are long and even darker it does become a problem. The Polish winters that I am used are ok (for me at least) and if there is snow they are not bad at all. But lack of light and sun can get to people.
I still like winters. And the cold. And snow.
And depressive fictional texts ;)
I understand. I lived in Georgia when I was a kid, winters were milder there, snow meant joy.
Diverse seasons are an inspirational thing anyway, new colours and feelings every 3-5 months.
Creative writing turns hardships into adventures so ... Writing and shooting for Hive will be a great thing to do in winter :)
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