Autumn in Somino.

Nothing special, otherwise I should have come here in morning or evening, the series was a by-product of our coming there to close an exhibition.

Just a village view with the St. Peter and Paul church in the center.

 St. Peter and Paul church, standard lens, CPL filter.

St. Peter and Paul church, AIS Nikkor 28 mm lens, CPL filter.

By the way, that traditional WC in the right corner my be a composition element.

A couple or rural views taken with the standard lens and CPL filter.

The last three images were taken from another side of the river, here I forgot what filters were used in the first case: either CPL or grad.grey. Cannot identify, though typically they are recognizable. 

Nikkor 28 mm + CPL: 

Nikkor 28 mm + skylight L1A, hence is that blue sky:

An autamnal day in Tervenichi.

That was an accidental, totally unplanned trip. Everything went on exactly as the previous time : having felt that I lost all strength to keep on driving along the main road I took a turn to Alekhovshchina to avoid anything worse. Of course, dropped in Tervenichi on my way back. The weather should be said seemed the most inclement for the landscape photography and that is technically true as drizzling hampered to change lenses and covered them with droplets, but the result proved the opposite of what I expected. 

A downstairs view with the Life-giving Spring chapel, standard lens, f11, 1/15s, CPL filter:

The same view, f11, 1/20s, a bit different polarization:

The Intercession of The Holy Theotocos church (center) and partly the Assumption Refectory church (right), standard lens, f11, 1/15s, CPL filter:

The same view with a bit different focal distance and polarization:

The Assumption Refectory church, upstairs view, f11, 1/20s, CPL filter:

Chapels view, f11, 1/15s, CPL filter:

Upstairs view, f11, 1/10s, CPL filter:

The same shot, but something shifted:

The Life-giving Spring chapel, standard lens, f11, 1/15s, CPL filter:

A view from a field, f11, 1/10s, CPL filter:

Chapels (actually the second one isn't a chapel, that is for ablutions), f11, 1/10s, CPL filter:

The same view, f11, 1/15s:

A general view from the chapels, f11, 1/15s, CPL filter:

The same view with an AIS Nikkor 28 mm, f11, 1/15s, CPL filter:

Upstairs view with The Assumption church in the center, AIS Nikkor 28 mm, f11, 1/15s, CPL filter:

The Assumption church, AIS Nikkor 28 mm, f11, 1/15s, CPL filter:

Downstairs view, AIS Nikkor 28 mm, f11, 1/20s, CPL filter:

The Intercession of The Holy Theotocos church, AIS Nikkor 28 mm, f11, 1/20s, CPL filter:

The Assumption church from behind an altar, AIS Nikkor 28 mm, f11, 1/10s, CPL filter:

A closer view, f11, 1/15s:

The Assumption church and nunnery shop as seen from the central road, AIS Nikkor 28 mm, f11, 1/20s, CPL filter:

The Intercession of The Holy Theotocos church main entrance, AIS Nikkor 28 mm, f11, 1/15s, CPL filter:

The Intercession of The Holy Theotocos church southern view, AIS Nikkor 28 mm, f11, 1/15s, CPL filter:

Goritsy revisited.

Goritsy, the last point of my quirky trip on October 5^th. Well, I should daresay, on one hand weather condition were the best for landscape shooting – mild light, shades, semi-transparent clouds, but on the other one an Arctic anticyclone covered the entire Vologda province, hence a cold near a large river was terrible. According to my camera time data it took just 25 minutes to make the entire series, but eventually that cost me dear – quite predictably I caught cold. Despite my car heater making its best all the way back, after a week everything resulted in a high temperature. Nonetheless, that was a success. Taking the last minutes of a day in lighting conditions like that is a rare luck.

By the way, the next night my mother mocked at me. As a person hailing from Ivanovo province she knows perfectly well what that means getting cold on a large river. 

Oil and canvas. A view from the shore dam. 

The standard kit lens AF-S Nikkor 24-85 mm 1:3,5-4,5G SWM VR ED. F11, 1/15s, CPL filter. Nothing extraordinary, this lens works well, but zoom is always zoom. 

The nunnery entrance. 

Cold weather, cold colours.  

Praising myself. My old good Nikkor AIS keeps on making its best and never disappoints.

F16, 1/10s, CPL. Nikkor AIS 28 mm, 1:2.

Let's add some red ochre.

No, of course, it didn’t look like that in any way, Corel and fantasy are suitable tools to be used in cases like that. F11, 1/10s, filters are unrecognizable. Typically it’s easy to discern them, but here this task is challenging.

Adding red ochre again. 

Nikkor AIS, f11, 1/6s.  

Resurrection cathedral. Nikkor AIS, f11, 1/10s, CPL.

Now feel the difference. Nikkor AIS, f11, 1/13s, skylight L1A. 

Evening light. Resurrection cathedral. CPL.

The same, another version.

Skylight filter found its application here.

The day is over. As usual try feeling the difference between skylight L1A and CPL filters. The old Nikkor AIS is everywhere.

F11, 1/8s, skylight L1A.

F11, 1/6s, CPL. 

North-westerly wind over Sheksna.

Nikkor AIS, f16, 1/8s, CPL.

Panoramic view of Sheksna.

F11, 1/20s, standard lens. I seem to have got completely frozen by the moment, since my old fix wasn’t used for this panorama. 

Panorama from a hill.