Nature, stop! I don't have time to capture the beauty! The weather gives way to snowfall, frost and the sun. This winter is the best in recent years for me. Everything came true, everything is as I wanted.

The village of Slobodischa is located in the Gryazovetsky district of the Vologda region. A car is so rare here that I woke up the locals. Two men were waiting for me with headlamps, and then they were

It seems to me that I have developed my own style in photography after all. I don't think about him while shooting, and that's right. The most important thing is to be here and now, to feel something from

The village of Shishkino is located in the Sokolsky district of the Vologda region on the banks of the Sukhona River. There are few houses in the village, as well as residents. The distance to Sokol is

My favorite, and indeed of all landscape photographers, weather phenomenon in winter is definitely hoarfrost! This atmospheric phenomenon is often confused between hoar and rime. I have already written

The snowfall itself is not always interesting to film. Yes, you get beautiful pictures with snowflakes or snowstorms – foggy and often minimalistic scenes. All the most interesting things happen when the

Every year I photograph snowdrifts and still can't come up with a standard, that is, something that would completely satisfy me. If snow caps and balls on branches are one thing, then snowdrifts are always

Why, when the words "the strongest magnetic storm of the century" are heard, does the sky decide not to show anything in our region? At the end of January this year, a magnetic storm hit the

I've been collecting places that I want to return to for a long time. Kubenskoye is one of them. An important criterion is the comfort of the place, which in turn has components: elevation difference,

Sometime in the middle of January, an atmospheric vortex hit the European part of Russia. Vologda got hurt too. Until now, utilities are "cleaning up" the consequences of this snowfall. It looks

Last year, I really didn't want winter...And she wasn't there. This year, I wished for a real snowy and moderately frosty winter... Sorry, utilities and other haters of this season, but it looks like my

I don't know the exact name of this neighborhood, but it merges with the center. And yet this is the outskirts on the east side of the city. Maybe the locals call it PPM (Pulp and paper mill), because

Now I'm getting closer and closer to the center of the Sokol. This time I wandered into the neighborhood of Pechatkino. I also photographed the dugouts in it in the summer and, driving past, saw all these

MRP is usually translated as a Mechanical repair plant. I do not know where he was here before. The neighborhood is located on the same side of the Sukhona River as the center of Sokol, but stands on the

While exploring the courtyards of Sokol, I came across a neighborhood where entire private territories are decorated with garlands for the holidays. In general, in our region, and maybe throughout the

After walking around the snowy winter forest to my heart's content, I decided to go out into the field to capture the hazy sun setting over the horizon. It's good to shoot the sun through a frosty haze

I often think about what led me to take pictures. And I have long since found the key moment when my love of beauty manifested itself in me – I looked at postcards with landscapes and pocket calendars

The same snow cover remained in Sokol as in my previous visits. One snowfall created beauty for a long time. Miracles are happening to me again, and I don't even notice it. As I have already said, for

Soldek is a neighborhood of Sokol, where the timber processing enterprise of the same name, which was founded in 1899, is located. Soldek is located in the riverside part of the city and is separated from

This was the first supermoon in 2026, and it was quite early – at the very beginning of January. The one hundred percent moon, of course, was hiding behind clouds, but the slightly waning moon was already