Panos from St. Petersburg

Llywellyn

I'm way, way behind on processing my photos from my most recent excursion overseas last summer, but I did manage to pull together my panos from St. Petersburg in time for a Christmas present for my mother (who has been pestering me incessantly for photos from the trip—I think I've bought myself three more months' processing time now :wink).

The skies we saw while there were crazy amazing.

1 - The Hermitage


2 - Academy of Fine Arts


3 - Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul


4 - Smolny Cathedral


5 - Central fountains at Peterhof


6 - St. Isaac's Cathedral


Thanks for stopping by! :thumb

kts

Wow great shots! I've wanted to go there for ages. I really do love all of these shots, great work!

schmoo

Kerry, these were totally worth waiting for! And you know, I don't think I've ever seen St Petersburg without snow

Tango

You're right! Crazy Amazing Skies!

Cool compositions, great exposure, great everything!

what lens did you use on the last image? (what a grand image!)

black mamba

Hi Kerry,

Wonderful, wonderful!!! These shots really bring out a beautiful side of Russia and you have captured that beauty exceptionally well.

Tom

Llywellyn

Thanks, kts and schmoo! Schmoo, it's so funny you mention the snow; our personal guide from St. Petersburg sent us a "happy holiday" e-mail that included images of the city under siege of snow. Breathtakingly beautiful and so different than when we were there.

Aaron, that last shot is 9 images taken with my 12-24 at 16mm, f/6.3, 1/200, ISO6400. Photoshop really struggled aligning the images because of all the arches, so I had way more manual work on that one than the others—and I still had to leave one arch out (far right). PS would have none of it :whew

Llywellyn

Thank you, Tom! St. Petersburg was gorgeous. But I admit by the end of my visit, I was "palaced out." Palaces everywhere!