Olyeshi.

Let’s continue the series, started here https://flaviuslupus.blogspot.com/2018/01/olyeshi-village.html and here https://flaviuslupus.blogspot.com/2018/01/olyeshi-village_8.html

This time I was more successful in terms of shooting conditions, despite a hellish road and unacceptably high risk of a suspension damage on a night road. 

A rare luck, I should daresay, praising myself. The village center, f11, 1/4s, CPL+gradient grey:

A bridge across Kolp’ (soft “p”) river, southward view, f11, 1/8s, CPL+gradient grey:

Remains of an old bridge:

Upstream (eastward) view, minutes before the sunset, f11, 1/4s, CPL+gradient grey:

Downstream (westward) view, the sunset, f11, 1/10s, CPL+gradient grey (heavily shopped):

The same a bit later:

The horizon line is right here – that’s just a river’s turn southwards. 

A surprise. The shot was taken from a former municipality building emergency exit, nothing interesting on its own, but here we see how a gloomiest subject can be turned into something strange (stitched): 

The same with another focal distance: 

f11, 1/2s, CPL+gradient grey in either case. 

A couple of shots taken on my way to Olyeshi 40 minutes earlier.

A bridge across Kolp’ river, upstream view, f11, 1/10s, CPL+gradient grey: 

Downstream view, the same settings: 

Yeah, an unfit place – always shady.

Olyeshi village.

The previous year I had the only chance to visit this place as road conditions proved beyond any psychiatric norm limits. Also, weather was unstable – the extensive clouds moving very slowly created unpleasant obstacles. The result you will see now. Nonetheless the series has its right to exist and may be displayed without any risk of entailing any shame unlike the previous one. Everything was taken in the manual mode with a couple of filters. I can’t remember the details, those were either CPL+gradient grey or CPL+skylight (L1A or L1Bc) – my typical combinations for landscape purposes. 

First sunrays making their way through northern clouds:

A view from the village hall emergency exit:

A former shop and residential housing: 

The village hall again, some efforts were needed to vivify the picture: 

"Office": 

Cowshed: 

This shot was named "Memories", since there is no remotest hope for revival any time ever: 

Belated spring, worse, I arrived too early: 

The same view after the sky cleared up, direction – westward:

Sun is higher:

Eastward view from the bridge: 

To resume in summer. 

Olyeshi village.

My oldest series from Olyeshi. The entire series should be admitted to have been taken in the landscape and sometimes even auto mode, so it’s no wonder that the images quality is relatively low. Occasionally I managed to benefit from lighting conditions, nonetheless nothing can replace manual mode and editing. Later series taken in May 2017 was aimed at correcting the abovementioned errors. Hopefully road conditions this year would be more favourable to reach the destination again,  and weather would provide me with more opportunities to have a new try. 

Entering the village:

The bridge across Kolp river, southward view:

Idiots and roads: