I was on my walk through Forest Park this morning, and got to thinking that I was getting more pleasure out of this little side project that I got traveling to Russia. How can that be?
I suppose that my wife Rachel and I have been traveling all over the world for so many years and seen so many great places and things that we have become blasé and hard to please. So even Saint Petersburg,a place that would delight most people, didn't seem so exciting... Yes, it's has grand perspectives, it's yellow, and blue, and green, the Hermitage has got great Art, it has canals and bridges, and palaces with grand gilded baroque rooms, and gardens with fabulous fountains and gilded statues...And I took pictures, all in 3D, but I just wasn't that impressed, and most of the pictures are still resting unprocessed in a computer folder called RUSSIA.
Peter the Great visited Europe, and decided he would copy European Architecture to build a new city bearing his name in the middle of swamps by the baltic sea. He hired second rate French and Italian Architects that eventually came up with that over the top Gilded and Painted "Wedding Cake Pastry" Russian Baroque Architectural style, which is a mishmash of Peter had seen in Stockholm, Versailles, Florence, Venice, etc..., with none of the authenticity, variety and charm of the originals.
So here I am getting excited about graffiti, sewer grates, spray paint, footsteps in concrete and all kinds of junk in Birmingham, Alabama, a place where there is truly by World Standards NOTHING of interest...Funny!
I have such a backlog of pictures of such humble things that I will probably never catch up, as I shoot more every day. But anyhow, here are a few more...I sometimes do raise my eyes momentarily on walls an such, and play with colors and textures in post processing(Topaz is a great plugin for Photoshop):
I suppose that my wife Rachel and I have been traveling all over the world for so many years and seen so many great places and things that we have become blasé and hard to please. So even Saint Petersburg,a place that would delight most people, didn't seem so exciting... Yes, it's has grand perspectives, it's yellow, and blue, and green, the Hermitage has got great Art, it has canals and bridges, and palaces with grand gilded baroque rooms, and gardens with fabulous fountains and gilded statues...And I took pictures, all in 3D, but I just wasn't that impressed, and most of the pictures are still resting unprocessed in a computer folder called RUSSIA.
Peter the Great visited Europe, and decided he would copy European Architecture to build a new city bearing his name in the middle of swamps by the baltic sea. He hired second rate French and Italian Architects that eventually came up with that over the top Gilded and Painted "Wedding Cake Pastry" Russian Baroque Architectural style, which is a mishmash of Peter had seen in Stockholm, Versailles, Florence, Venice, etc..., with none of the authenticity, variety and charm of the originals.
So here I am getting excited about graffiti, sewer grates, spray paint, footsteps in concrete and all kinds of junk in Birmingham, Alabama, a place where there is truly by World Standards NOTHING of interest...Funny!
I have such a backlog of pictures of such humble things that I will probably never catch up, as I shoot more every day. But anyhow, here are a few more...I sometimes do raise my eyes momentarily on walls an such, and play with colors and textures in post processing(Topaz is a great plugin for Photoshop):
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