Some day it will be completely washed away.

It's unchangeable year to year. Despite the winter’s being dry enough, the road is traditionally washed away. No aesthetic value is implied in the series, just notes made while passing by.

Approaching to Zamoshye:

Explore before driving: 

How deep?

How deep?

Recently Nissan got stuck here. But the byke will pass. 

How deep?

A wide stream crossing the road:

Gloomy view:

A tractor seems to have successfully ignored the pitfall: 

Try measuring! 

The bridge across Lid’ (with soft “d”) river in Grishkino village.

Sad, but true – all old shots from this place were mere jpegs, no one nef, so I have nothing to show. Accidentally, a couple of tolerable examples turned up, all the rest may go well somewhere in Facebook personal albums, nowhere else, since they are incorrigible.

Technical data:

1. f13,1/40, CPL+gradient grey.

2. f13,1/40, CPL+gradient orange.

3. f13,1/30, CPL+gradient blue.

4. jpeg only.

5. f14, 1/50, CPL+gradient grey.

6. f11, 1/50, CPL+ND2. 

7. Old, jpeg only.

Upstream view:

Downstream view:

Shallow waters:

The Theotokos of Tikhvin church in Potok village.

More correctly, between Potok and Grishkino. Technical data:

1. Aperture f14, shutter speed 1/20 s, CPL+gradient grey filters, nef.

2. f18, 1/100 s – quaint settings – either the aperture priority or what? – I don’t remember. No nef, just jpeg, no tripod. It seems to have been taken from an open door. Consequently, the result is shitty. This April I’ll make a new try at the same time. 

Balamutovo village.

The railway embankment proved right what I need. That few is everything I could select from a pile of images taken in various conditions.

Looks like a combination of CPL and skylight, unsure though:

Not too successful example of the ND4 application in counterlight conditions:

An old photo, no filters at all, no .raw, just jpeg:

The valley view. In my opinion, it looks oversaturated, nonetheless, may it exist:

Came too late, from another spot – see here – the lighting was mediocre: 

Just jpeg, almost no way to edit:

...to continue.

One spot series once more.

It’s one of the very few places hereabouts suitable for the panoramic photography. Traditionally, represented as a series containing various conditions like seasons, time, weather. Unfortunately, thanks to a time gap between taking then and publication, I have totally forgot, what filters were used here. CPL is unchangeably used as a sine qua non everywhere, but the second one is alternate – as general, either gradient grey or skylight, more rarely gradient blue or orange. It’s typically possible to recognize a filter’s type, unless the image is not overprocessed. 

Winter morning, right before the moment of sunrise:

The first rays have arisen:

Filters, as far as I can guess, CPL+gradient grey, skylight also could be applied, less probable though. 

Belated spring (taken in April), colours of sunrise:

Cold summer (taken in June), the last sunrays:

The same with CPL+gradient blue filters: 

The first moment of night: 

Summer (don't be hoodwinked by yellowish shades  – the images were taken in June) shouldn't look like this:

The same picture a bit later:

Colours of eary autumn:

It would be logical to continue with some gloomy samples of autumnal landscape, but I have none to offer, except low quality ones, very difficult to process. 

Views from the church hill.

The church hill – actually I have no idea of its real name, if any exists, – is an excellent spot for the panoramic photography. The first series was taken a year ago.

Settings:

1. Aperture f11, shutter speed 1/2s. CPL+gradient grey filters.

2. Aperture f9, shutter speed 1/2s, CPL+gradient blue filters.

3. Same as in the 1^st.

6 minutes passed between the 1st and 3rd. 

4. Same as in the 1^st. That’s a recent image. Back-stitched from RGB in a desperate and unsuccessful attempt to get rid of noise. It’s incorrigible.  

As for the gradient blue version, in my opinion, in weather conditions like those and at this time this filter’s usage would be of no avail. Moreover, shots like those are hard to further process in the Corel and similar software.

5. Aperture f9, shutter speed 0,77s, CPL + something else, rather of all, gradient grey. The position was below, where the road crosses a stream, the tributary of the lake you see here. It belongs to the older series. 

Earlier versions published at flickr and tumblr will soon be deleted. 

Pink hill.

Alas, I keep on failing to catch a good moment to take a shot at this place. Last year results were not impressing, this year weather proved still worse. What can be done here? The cloudy weather like that – not too much dense – is more favourable enough, the picture can easily and unhesitatingly be made sepia or umber-like, but that is not the case for a clear sky and hard frost with their refraction incorrigible by any polarization filters. Filters were the same in either case – CPL+gradient grey. 

Update. Forgot to add this one: