Visit St.Petersburg
Those photos are like saying “Go visit St.Petersburg, Russia”
photos collected by nikolkaya
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Beautiful city (but i hear it is very expensive and too many tourists), I am glad to see these pictures! Thank you!
brilliant
Some absolutely *beautiful* pictures. Very humbling to see the results of such photography skill, to an aspiring photographer as myself.
Everything has something interesting, something beautiful.
Thanks for sharing them.
a nice set
Great pictures! Great city! I want to visit it some day.
They are an excellent set of photos.
Can anyone tell us what the crazy numbers are on the tower?
and what ship (the rigged, old fashioned one) is that - is it permenantly there?
I would have said pic number X - but if I couldn’t be arsed to count through so many - why would you?
and……..third.
Legend has it that one alchemist has built this tower in the beginning of XXth century and nurtured griffins there. The numbers are to hold them inside.
What’s the name of the tower so I can look it up?
PS. Really enjoying the blog here in Finland.
It’s called The Tower of Griffins (Башня грифонов).
Here it is:
http://maps.google.ru/maps?f=q&hl=ru&geocode=&q=%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%BD%D1%8F+%D0%B3%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2&sll=59.93758,30.285101&sspn=0.004928,0.013089&ie=UTF8&cd=1&t=h&ll=59.937628,30.285101&spn=0.004928,0.013089&z=17&iwloc=A
Very good! I would like go there. I’ll go, I don’t know when, but, I’ll go.
the photographers of picture 45 was drunk
go fuck yourself
This is battle cruiser “Avrora” memorial of Oktober revolution.
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А на самом деле серия фоток хуевенькая, все Питерские загашники собрали в кучу. Только пара другая есть достойных фоток.
It seems ER team is falling in love with Russia itself. Compare this to very first posts.
HDR Images are always welcomed!
Thanks ER!
Photoshop !
Not without Photoshop postprocessing
I spent a week in St. Petersburg last summer - it is definitely the most photogenic city on the planet. Now if they could only do something about the mosquitos…
surely you don’t mean the THIRD post?
I was there 2 months ago.
You can go visit, but remember, ITS NOT SAFE there! Especially for strangers! My girlfriend who is local there was hit in the head at the middle of the day in down town(Nevskiy prospekt) and her cell phone was stollen(the cell phone was the main target)
So be ready :))
Who is the aviator on picture 5? Possibly Kostylev?
Picture 130 looks like a stage for a cold war spy thriller
Perhaps Valery Chkalov.
It is Valery Chkalov, stands at subway station named Chkalovskaya
Is there a secret code for solving 34.jpg?
This is a fantastic collection of photos, some of these will make great desktop backgrounds.
Awesome. These pics are simply awesome, they make me feel how man different faces Петер has. I would so visit St. Petersburg if there weren’t so many foreigner-beating russian neonazi hordes roaming around
Don’t speak like this. It’s not true.
С нетерпением ждём ваших замечательных кадров.
1) The tower was covered with blocks of different colors. That “crazy numbers” were used for putting the correct blocks on correct places.
2) If you mean sailboat - it’s an ordinary restaurant. If you mean a battle cruiser - this is “Avrora”, a memorial of the Oktober Revolution (as Para bellum has already mentioned below).
(about the crazy numbers)
Kostantin,
you could be right. But there is no logic in the sequence of the numbers, they are not completely ad-random, but they haven’t (I think) a logical sequence that will allow to put the bricks back on their place, or near the same place.
Perhaps you or someone else see that sequence but I don’t.
Perhaps, it is just an other job of someone with to much free time?
Thanks for that. Seems like a nice place for some dinner!
thanks,…. breathtaking
To Ivan Mikahilov я не считаю себя художником и поэтому за камеру не берусь, взявшись же и тем более разместив свои творения на всеобщее обозрение будь готов к критике.
I think the numbers on each brick are for the identification purpose.may be this ancient tower plan to move another location for the restoration.but plan as usually abandoned for long.Leningrad oh i mean,St,peters burg! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! is the best city in the whole world.God bless Hero city.
Is best place of great ROSSIYA!!!I agree!!! Yes!!! These are large city, the new capital of new Russia!!!! Soon!!!!
the pics screamed of Poverty, Crime and depression!
Oops I was looking at pictures of my homeland again. Sorry folks.
You’re nuts.
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what a wonderful set of photos well done !!!
First: these pictures are wonderful
Second: how come I cannot make such pictures?
Third: why don’t I notice some of the things in the pictures?
Conclusion: perhaps I should go as a tourist
Just great, great photos! I am so convinced, I like to be there soon with my LOMO!
very nice picture set………….
Мне казалось, что критика — это когда указывают на конкретные недочёты но и выдают варианты, как можно было бы сделать лучше. Тогда от этого польза.
Ваш пост критикой, по-моему, не является.
Как я уже писал в этой подборке полно трущеб, разрухи, почему это становиться объектом творчества? Хотя другая половина хороша, можно было бы сделать всю серию такой же. Этот сайт полон англо-американских дегенератов которым только дай повод обгадить Россию.
более того, и сами фотографии еще умудрились спиздить
The picture with the aviator, I think it’s the metro station Чкаловская ??
I used this station every day last summer, when I lived there in Петроградскый район ))
very nice
will you stop snatching pictures, you fuckers?
Thanks Vava!
Thank you Drone76. A nearly identical bust is at the Museum Of Flight in Seattle, Washington.
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I was in Russia last week (Moscow & St. Petersburg)
Beautiful photos of a wonderful city
Can’t wait to go back
ANYONE WHO LIVES IN THIS CITY! PLEASE TELL ME IF THIS IS TRUE!
I am a Moscow resident and never been toSt Petersburg before. An American friend of mine (he is a very intellegent man, one of the few americans i guess) was in St Petersburg this month. He told me very terrible things. He did talk to a lot of common people, police, bus drivers etc. He said that every day he Witnessed extreme poverty and oppression there. He told me that practically every day he saw children begging for food, old people digging through trash and constant presence of armed military everywhere he went.
I did see a significant amount of poverty in Moscow during the 90s, But in the last few years i bareley see anyone begging, I noticed a significant drop of overall poverty in moscow, And i also do not see ayone digging trough trash exept for rare hobos. Once in a while i see 2 cops with AK47s but thats pretty rare. And the only time i have seen military is when they were taking one of their morning 20km jogs. Earlier this year i saw 1 truck with armed solders. That’s about the only time i have seen anything like that.
But what this guy described to me sounded like an extremley opressive situation in St Petersburg.
ANY RESIDENT FROM OLD LENINGRAD TO COMMENT ON THIS PLEASE!
because i am very bothered by it.
It’s hard to find any military on streets in SPb, sometimes you can just see them moving to another part of the city (they actively use subway for it) and that’s all.
It’s not so rich city as Moscow, however I personally have not seen a lot bums with the only exceptions: in the subway’s trains a lot of children beg for money and you’re right some old people dig in garbage cans. That’s true.
Славич, ты еблан и провокатор. убейся!
Какой я провокатор? Я никода не был в Питере, а тут мне етот американский тип говорит что был там и видел толпы бомжей по всему центру и даже на против Зимнего Дворца!
Я помню тоакое в Москве в 90е во дворах, и то не всегда, Даже в метро сеичас там бездомных совсем нет.
Этот мужик как я понял уже, пудрит мне мозги и раздувает всё что слишит! Я говорил ему что он не прав, а он засунул голову себе в жопу и упрется как баран! Жаль только что он интелегентний человек.
Я уже не верю ему. Но когда-то верил и поэтому ужаснулся кода он мне рассказал что тако в Питере такое видел.
Some pictures are pretty good, but most rather amateurish HDR crap. I’d prefer a bit more authentic atmosphere, not just cliche angle-play, contrast and Photoshop-vignetting. Too much kitsch aesthetic and too little information about the city.
I think these photographs reflect more of photographer’s “skill” in using some Photoshop filters and curve buttons, and not so much St Petersburg itself.
i dont see why no one likes HDR. HDR can make a picture look so cool (if not realistic) but still cool
and what photoshop filters? i dont see any here
NO!NO!NO!NO!NO!NO!NO!
Those photos are like saying “European and American guys, go live and work in St. Petersburg, Russia.”
Седьмая фотка-родной Петродворец. Одно из моих любимых мест, напротив верхнего парка и гимназии. Раньше в этом деревянном домике был магазинчик, теперь он закрыт. А на том месте теперь строят очередную отэль….