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St Petersburg

January 08, 2019

I took this picture through a window in The General Staff Building of The Hermitage with my Leica Q on the first day of 2019 and I can't stop looking at it. Without making any adjustments in Photoshop, it is just so irrepressibly painterly, and one of those pictures that quite magically, evokes a vision of an era, a time and a place, with which I am now slightly obsessed.

As here in the UK we so clumsily try to disentangle ourselves from Europe, I am aghast at how European St Petersburg is, was and despite Lenin's best intentions, still is. 

View from a window in The Hermitage looking at the Winter Palace, St Petersburg
View from a window in The Hermitage looking at the Winter Palace, St Petersburg
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