Some Russian Winter photos

merlin

merlin

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Saint Petersburg Russia
I was sorting through some of my photo albums today, and came across a lot of wintry ones which can be quite atmospheric

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A frozen river

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Part of a monastery complex covering a huge area in the north of St.Petersburg
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one of many churches in the area
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Beautiful! Some of these remind me of the movie Dr. Zhivago. You must take some photos of fields of daffodils now.:)
 

Nice pics Merlin, reminds me of my years in South Dakota. One year had drifts to the roof on my north side. 5' on lawn....Brrrrrr All years we got snow, lot's of it.
 
Beautiful photographs, Merlin, your sense of color is really wonderful. I love the dark green, blues and terra cotta against the stark white background of the snow. The yellow flowers are lovely.
 
AZ Jim said:
Nice pics Merlin, reminds me of my years in South Dakota. One year had drifts to the roof on my north side. 5' on lawn....Brrrrrr All years we got snow, lot's of it.
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Funnily enough I never used to think of the US as having very cold winters, I thought it was either hot plains or California style temperate, and all the snow fell in Canada :) but I came to realise you get some pretty ferocious winters in some parts, much worse than anything we get in the UK, the two bad ones for snow were 1947, and 1962, when we had two feet or so in Worcester.
 
Cookie said:
Beautiful photographs, Merlin, your sense of color is really wonderful. I love the dark green, blues and terra cotta against the stark white background of the snow. The yellow flowers are lovely.
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I love the yellow flowers too Cookie, its called Kerria Japonica, I dug up a couple of rooted shoots from a friends garden several years ago, and they have spread all over the garden now, they give a great splash of colour in spring, and on and off throughout summer.
 
merlin said:
Funnily enough I never used to think of the US as having very cold winters, I thought it was either hot plains or California style temperate, and all the snow fell in Canada :) but I came to realise you get some pretty ferocious winters in some parts, much worse than anything we get in the UK, the two bad ones for snow were 1947, and 1962, when we had two feet or so in Worcester.
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The highest annual average is 16' in Lead SD, most other areas run to 5-6' except Deadwood which gets 8.5'. Of course in Blizzards the drifts get enormous.
 
Josiah said:
I particularly liked the abandoned two story building with the very faded burnt orange facade.
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That's amazing that you picked out that one Josiah, that was my favourite of the whole shoot, I spent half an hour taking pictures of it, somehow it captured me, no idea why. I have spent time since messing about with it on photoshop, I can still capture how I felt standing in front of it. There were dozens of derelict buildings on the site, though still a working monastery.

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Oh they are just glorious photos...absolutely love them and I agree with You and Jim...my favourite is the abandoned building..it reminds me of Urban photography..
 
Merlin, these are just beautiful. You have a great sense of depth in composing your shots and the subject matter is fascinating. The icicles really caught my eye as we often had similar ones in Pa. where I grew up and we were warned against standing under them as children.
 
All the pictures are beautiful...but, I too love the abandoned faded terracotta building. Your yellow flowers are lovely. Wonder if they would grow in my climate.
 
ndynt said:
Your yellow flowers are lovely. Wonder if they would grow in my climate.
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I don't see why not Nona, they are very hardy and spread by seed and suckering, and I haven't lost any to frost or drought. I only started with some rooted shoots a few years ago. According to wicki your climate is sub-tropical so most things will grow there won't they?

I have just taken these photos:

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They have even self seeded into a wild part of the garden
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I just love those towers on the buildings that are so distinctly Russian.
 

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