wednesday walk at St.Petersburg (11 foto)

The start of the walk turned out great! This is the very first shot - coming out of our door, we were immediately greeted by our local backyard cat overseer (I've already photographed him a few times this year). He was going about his cat business, and was not in the mood for petting, but agreed to stop and pose just for a few seconds - he showed me how he sharpened his claws on the bark of a tree.

Isnt he handsome?

Here is an uncut version of this card. The feet on the right side of the photo are my daughter's. In fact, I left the house to follow my family off (they had an evening visit to the theater). We walked together to the subway entrance and then I returned home. It would have been a very short walk if not for all the distractions... and I had to take a picture of them all! :)

There's always a special life near the entrance to a subway station - it's sort of 'oasis of life', a hub for the people flowing through the city. This is where people wait for partners, meet, and take advantage of other people to sell or offer them something. Street musicians often perform here, and sometimes I see even fire jugglers. (I've shown you these pictures before).

This street vendor sells beautiful fall flowers - fisalis. The close-up is cropped from the previous photo.

Physalis don't grow in our park, so people can't pick them there - and attracted by the beauty, they buy them. Judging by this huge bouquet of maple leaves, people have just come from the park... And full of autumnal cheer! And there was no way they could get past this gorgeous autumn bouquet of pistachios...

And now, a surprise! Look what came into my frame! It came on its own, I didn't look for it: a few people were pulling a cart near the subway entrance. I didn't understand what was going on at first, but the cart was an unusual thing, and it caught my attention. I walked closer to see and understand what was going on.

And it turned out that a music video was being filmed here! I didn't distract people from their work by asking what kind of music video they were shooting... most likely a music video! One of the assistants was holding a sign that said "Please do not look at the camera. Yes, the "eye contact" is not needed everywhere :))) photography is definitely an embellishment, but the genre of video.... I think that it is very situational.

By the way, how do you like the bokeh that my Sigma 150mm creates?

The street musicians were here, too: a guitarist, a singer, and a drummer... and they were shooting a video, too! (There was an iPhone mounted on a tripod filming the singer close-up - you can see it on the left side of the photo). By the way, there were several drummers - maybe they were assistants, or friends of the band, young guys that the band trusted and gave this high - to participate in their song. Of course the band noticed that I was photographing them, but it only caused a smile back, and no objections - and they chose not to look at me in the frame :)

I did more than a dozen takes, and I'll show them in a separate post. It all took much less time than I'm telling you about it. And then I went home, and choose the route through the park, and took many more pictures; some of them I showed in my Sublime Sunday blog.

Victory Park has four irregularly elongated ponds. This photo shows the shore of the central one, the largest one. The next photo below is taken there 10 minutes later. It's amazing how different the color is when you change the angle a little bit!

On the cape I witnessed a real professional costume photo session... with fantasy props. It's not something you see every day! What's more, I've never seen such a beautiful and strong sorceress before in my life!

And guess what? Here I ran out of my "digital film", exactly at the most interesting point! Well, I mean, the CF was 100% filled. I frantically rewound a few frames, erased them to clear some space... but still, it wasn't a solution, it was a missed opportunity. I took just four captures -- and went home. The photographic part of the walk ended there. What is the _moralite_?.. you should explore outdoors locations more often! and according to the distribution curve, the probability that you'll come across something interesting will definitely increase.