wednesday walk at St.Petersburg - 22 foto .:. EN/RU

Today I share the pictures from my yesterday's notable photo walk around the city center. I have equipped the camera with a wide angle lens and all the pictures are taken by my wonderful 16-35mm 2.8L. We started in the Art Nouveau district, on the Petrogradskaya side, walked along the embankment, the rowing canal, and ended our evening in one beautiful loft ... but, in order.

One of the most interesting and unique in its design in the "modern" style buildings of the city of St. Petersburg (Bolshaya Zelenina street, 28). Fanciful, unique, unlike anything ornaments and decorations, as well as a huge mosaic, covering the entire upper floor. I still try to take good photos to show this beauty as convincingly as possible.

Frankly, I would really like to live in this (or similar) house, to meet such beauty every day. But alas, I was not lucky to be born in different family and generally in another city. I can only admire from afar... sometimes.

The first floor is now occupied by some attractive tavern called "The Asian spot at St.Petersburg." Funny enough! But I admit, the design looks quite appealing. We didn't explore it from the inside, not this time.

We arrived at the embankment. There stood another interesting building that cannot be passed by with closed eyes. I don’t know anything about it, but judging by its appearance, this is a clear eclecticism and the end of the 19th century, exactly what was rejected and was changed during modernity.

We ended up on the Admiral Lazarev embankment, and found a luxurious bike path. Luckily, cyclists have left some space for pedestrians :)

At the moment, there are 94 rivers, channels and canals in the city (with a total length of about 300 km, including about 20 artificial canals). The main river is the Neva. And in this frame, one of its channels is Malaya Nevka.

When we were walking, the river housed rowers training.

Yes, today's walk definitely dont like my usual routes. I rarely walk around the historical part of the city ... especially in the cold season. But now the season is open! More walks will come, I hope.

After we finished the embankment, we found ourselves in a rather industrial area of the city; at least, this was an industrial district in the past, so the architecture here is not fascinating. I made some #streetphoto.

But look what I got here at a crossroad!! it is exactly the joy of such interesting encounters, that makes one fond of photo-walks across the city, exploring its nooks and crannies so much. This is an old model of a Soviet car named "Volga", this one no longer can drive... but 146% it attracts attention with its thoroughbred contours and retro style.

Now the car serves as an advertisement for the local anti-cafe.

I took 20 photos from different angles (and even from inside, blindly, 16mm allowed me this) -- and realized that I just can’t take myself away from this object, and just repeat myself, I take exactly the same identical photos. Only by an effort of will I tore myself away from the wonderful retro car :)

Here's what it looks like from the inside... By the way, you can see that I added a bit of "vintage look" to the photo with the help of x-processing. My usual trick... not sure if it is a bad habit or not.

Soon after that, our walk ended - simply because we reached the point of our destination: a loft on the territory of the former 'Lenpoligraphmash' plant. This loft housed a beautiful art space, but more importantly, it housed an outstanding coffee spot worthy of being added to the @pinmapple map. And I definitely will tell you the rest of the story in another post, in another community dedicated to coffee. (Hello, @millycf1976!) In the meantime, a couple of pictures and the finish line of our walk.

Actual address: embankment of the Karpovka River, 5. The real place is not on the surface, I would even say that it is so hidden that it cannot be found without special instructions ... So the pictures should help.