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St Petersburger and Chips
Left field life in Leningrad. I live in Russia. I am not Russian. This is often amazing, but can also be difficult. My way of coping is taking photos of what I see. Everything here was created by me. I photograph anything that takes my interest, but broadly my work can be categorised into black and white, industrial, street art, street photography & soviet architecture. I post a photo a day & try to have loose weekly themes to connect my images. I love the Tumblr community & will talk photography with anyone. 
Smoke, Graffiti & a Lada. What’s not to like?
Question
So, my spring has been well and truly cleaned. As of today, all my posts will be very recent shots. Having an empty Draft folder feels both frightening and invigorating at the same time. There was a definite sense of comfort knowing that I had lots of posts lined up and ready to go, but at the same time it took away from the excitement of shooting and posting all within the same week. It’s also motivated me to get out there a lot more than I have done recently - nothing keeps you as warm in the cold as the feeling of mild panic at having no new material to post! Which brings me to my question.
Yesterday I spent 3 hours tramping around a new neighbourhood. The minute I got off the bus, I knew it was a bad choice. There was absolutely nothing there that caught my eye, and it didn’t help that when I’d grabbed my camera bag, I’d failed to notice that I’d only packed my wide-angled lens. But while I was wandering round aimlessly, trying desperately to think of ways to fill the frame, I couldn’t help feeling that a better photographer would be able to find something to shoot in any situation. So, what I want to know from all you great photographers out there is: Do you have days when nothing goes right? Is a good photographer a person who can make something work in any situation, or are they a person who knows when the circumstances aren’t right and has the good sense to walk away? Do you have days when you want to throw your camera under the wheels of a bus so that you can be free to just walk rather than seeing a superimposed viewfinder on everything you look at?
Spring Clean 24: St Isaac’s Cathedral
Spring Clean 23: RIP Winter
Spring Clean 23: Colour Burst
Spring Clean 22: Wings
Spring Clean 21: Court
Spring Clean 20: Hands
Just for a sense of perspective, I am the small dark blob being reflected in the globe.
Spring Clean 19: Lada (3)
I took 3 photos that I loved of this Lada, but after posting the first 2 back in January, I assumed people would be getting bored so chickened out of posting the third. I could never bring myself to delete the photo though. And it’s been 3 months. And I’m spring cleaning. So…..
Spring Clean 19: Car Park Bingo
Spring Clean 18: What you looking at?
Spring Clean 18: On Parade
Spring Clean 17: Derelict
Spring Clean 16: Snowscape
Spring Clean 15: Footnote
