Bubbles! London, UK
Street Scene at the Exhibition Road, children are always ready for playing..
Canon 5dmarkIII, Canon 24-105mm, 1/2000 sec, ISO 100, f/6.3
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Exploring the lines at the British Museum, London, UK
Exploring interactions of people and spaces. It took me a while to find the right person and the right angle... good for practicing patience! Taken at the British Museum, London
Designed by Foster and Partners and engineered by Buro Happold, the Great Court of theBritish Museum is absolutely stunnishing with flows of light coming everywhere.
Canon 5dMarkIII, Lenses: T&S 17mm, ISO 100 f/11 speed 1/20, hand held
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Little hands at the Science Museum
Abstract on an item at the Science Museum, one of the great London Museums on the Exhibition Road, my favourite Road in London. the two hands on the background belong to my great Spanish friends visiting the museum with me
Canon 5dmarkIII, Canon 24-105mm at 55mm, ISO 640, f/4, speed: 1/50
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Playing at the Design Museum, London
Photographing babies is not an easy task! In the picture, Baby Alex, the son of my Russian-Lithuanian-British friend, playing at the designer museum, opened in 2016.
More to the museum: Designed byJohn Pawson and OMA, it is located at the former Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington. London, Uk. It has a great space with very interesting lines and a parabolic roof.
Gear: Canon 5dmarkIII, Lenses: Canon 24-105mm at 60mm 1/250 f/ 4, ISO 5000
Since I didn't have a flash I had to push up the ISO resulting in a quite granulous texture
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An afternoon at the Museum...
The Natural History Museum is a must see, collosal piece of architecture. It was built in 1880, but a competition was held in 1864 to design the museum, The winner, Francis Fowke, died shorty afterwards and the design was taken over by ALfred Waterhouse, who put in it a specila romanesque style. Construction works lasted for 7 years.
Unfortunately it is always extremely crowded, not easy for photographers, a good way of training patience!
Canon 5dMarkIII, TS lenses 17mm
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A second try at the Victoria & Albert's new space on a very sunny Sunday. It was fun to be there among so many different characters of all sorts plus got acquainted with a great Spanish architecturephotographer. This image is a panoramic made out of two pictures
Architects: Stirling Prize-winning architect Amanda Levete and her firmAL_A.
Canon 5dMarkIII, CanonTilt and Shift 17mm, f/8 ISO 100, 1/320 shutter speed, no tripod
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Serpentine Pavillion 2017 by Francis Kéré, London, UK
I went early morning to Kensington Gardens to discover the 2017 Pavillion. Those pavillions are provisional constructions commissioned to great architects every year and they last the time of a summer. I was rewarded with this pretty morning light.
Canon 5dmarkIII, Canon TS 17mm, f/10, 1/40 shutter speed, ISO 100, max. Shift, on tripod
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New born contemporary architecture .... at the V&A Museum, London, UK
Discovering the very recently inaugurated new porcelain-tiled entrance and underground exhibition hall at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Architects: Stirling Prize-winning architect Amanda Levete and her firmAL_A.
Just arrived from a very early flight and just around the corner from my hotel, there is this very sexy place for photography, I couln't resist the temptation, despite the sleepeness.
Canon 5dMarkIII, Canon Lense 24-105mm, f/8 ISO 100, 1/250 shutter speed
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Dreaming .... portrait of a teenager
Less than 12 hours in Geneva, coming from Russia I had the time to enjoy my family's company for dinner at Le Théàtre de l'Orangerie on the beautiful Parc de la Grange, Geneva, Switzerland.
Portrait of dreaming Andrea, 17 years old.
Canon 5dMarkIII, Canon 24-105mm, ISO 2500, f/4 1/50. Light corrections on Lightroom, since the ambience light was redish, not so easy for portraits
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Kanoniersky Island, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Kanonersky Island, one of Saint Petersburg Islands, an old artillery gunpowder depotwas built on the island. It has a post-industrialist favour. Nowadays ships pass near the island through the ship canal to the dam and further. Some docks and piers are working around, a highway is under construction. I went there on a wild photographic tourwith russian friends trying to find signs of decay, and there are many!
Canon 5dMarkIII, Canon 25-105mm, ISO 100, f/11, 1/320s
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Reflexions at the new wing of the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg
Discovering another Hermitage, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Chilling out on a summer evening, New Holland, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Intallation on the renovated park @ Novaya Golandia, New Holland Island, Sain Petersburg Russia. The derelict Island is getting a face lifting, here people chilling out on a summer evening, under the very sexy mobile intalation by ??
Panorama out of two pictures, Canon 5DmarkIII, Canon T&S 17mm; f/8; 1/8 sec, ISO 100 on tripod
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Dinning with Saint Petersburg's artists friends on the Rubinstein Street
Canon 5dMarkIII, Canon 85mm/1.8 lenses, 1/100 f/1.8, ISO 1000
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Circles, Naval cathedral of Saint Nicholas, Saint Petersburg
Dome of the Naval cathedral of Saint Nicholas, Kronstadt, an island at the outskirts of Saint Petersburg. This Russian orthodox cathedral was built in 1903–1913 as the main church of the Russian Navy dedicated to all fallen seamen. Inside the walls of the cathedral you can read the names of all (known) fallen seamen.
I went there one day before the big Navy Parade, when preparation was in full swing. Beautiful and sad at the same time.
Canon 5dMarkIII, EF 24-105mm lenses, 24mm distance, shutter speed: 1/30 f/5.6, ISO 1300, handheld
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Opening of the bridges, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Bridges opening in Saint Petersburg are a must see, locals and tourists alike love contemplating this daily event. I went with some Russian friends, rushing after a party, just on time to put my tripod and shoot :)
Canon 5dMarkIII, EF 24-105mm lenses, 50mm distance, long exposure (8 seconds!) f/8, ISO 100, on tripod.
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Dreaming, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Stairs at the trains depot in Lomonosovskaia, Saint Petersburg, Russia. Since I wasn't allowed inside the depot, I let me inspire by this spiral and by a very motivated model.
Canon 5dmarkIII, Lenses: Canon 24-105mm; f/8, 1/160, ISO 100, 105mm
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Kupchino, a remote and kind of decadent neighbourhood of St Petersburg,
360° / 180° panorama - here in a flat version which can be activated with the right software for a virtual visit
Made out of 7 pictures with tokina fisheye lenses
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Grand entrance to New Holland Island, long fell into neglect, Saint Petersburg, Russia
New Holland Island was created in 1719. After the Russian Revolution its buildings fell into neglect, Here photographed at sunset at about 22h30 hours, still the White Nights period. It has a nostalgic and derelict touch. This grand entrance is not grand anymore, but a stop for tourists boats surfing the channels of Saint Petersburg.
Technical data: Canon 5dMark III, Lenses: Canon TS 17mm, long exposure (4 seconds), f/8 ISO 100, 17mm, tripod, post production with Lightroom and Photoshop
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I like the simplicity and whiteness of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Mary. A peaceful place to take refuge on a heavy rain day. Saint Petersburg, Russia
Technicalities: Canon 5dMarkIII, Lenses: Canon 24-105mm 4L IS, f/4, 1/40 sec, ISO: 1600
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Храм Спаса на Крови (Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood), when photography is forbidden, pictures taste much better ;), Saint Petersburg, Russia
Храм Спаса на Крови (Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood) is one of the marvels of Saint Petersburg. Photography is quite tricky inside the building, but I somehow managed to make a full series on my tripod before I was ordered to stop. Here is an image of the Christ Pantocrator, under the central dome, the last one I took (without my tripod this time, on a very low shutter speed)- I like the way light comes down from the windows above. It was taken in the early hours, after the morning service, perfect light and atmosphere inside.
Technicalities: Canon 5d mak III, Lenses: Canon Tilt & Shift 17mm, 1/30, aperture: f8, ISO:800