A wooden church situated some 2 km south of Ferapontovo. As the building is surrounded by high trees, it’s difficult to find any point to take a shot of it. Even any, not to mention anything spacious. May be in winter as trees are bare, something is seen. Just four shots with two lenses.
The village is like any other one of its kind, the only landmark here is the Peter and Paul bridge across Sheksna opening large vistas northwards and southwards. Here I publish results of two trips separated by one year. In October 2019 weather conditions proved extreme, not just to say unfavourable for landscape photography, so I had refrained from processing and publishing those shots till making a new, more successful series, from the same observation spots. On 2.10.2020 better opportunities turned up, though a clear sky is not a desirable option anyway. Here I merged both series. That would be excellent taking panoramic images here at dusk, but I have typically driven by this place either in a midday or too late, even at night. May be, if a time gap turns up some day.
St. Peter
and Paul bridge view from a former ferry pier:
A northward view from the pier:
A warm picture:
A series of northward views from the bridge:
A series of southward views. The first pano is overtly unsuccessful, but may it exist. In 2020 better images were taken:
The southern part of Ivanov Bor:
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.
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:
Not so much spring, may be said summer, since that was on May, 30rd. That wasn’t scheduled, even considered, just an accidental drive-in due to circumstances on my way back. I was the only visitor at the nunnery that morning, except for very few locals going to liturgy.
What’s wrong here? Clear sky is typically ruled out by me while making preparations for landscape photography, but here, since my trip route was changed suddenly, I had to use whatever turned up. The results are here below. As we see, strong contrasts were inevitable outcome of a deep blue sky, noise level is high and nothing can be done to remedy that without considerable quality deterioration.
Firstly, a group of panoramic (actually just one is a stitch) images, not too successful due to white balance errors:
