https://saint-images.okinawa/stuff/saint_petersburg.html - finally finished the page about my visit to Saint Petersburg.
Cool trip, cool photos. I don't think many people know about the other St Petersburg, it even confuses Americans. Also, are the modern Russian high rise apartments actually called "Putin blocks"? haha
I've heard it used a couple of times, although it's not nearly as widely used as "Khrushchyovka" or "Brezhnevka" :D
Yeah haha, it's a name of both a brand of vodka and a of newly built blocks of flats.
Pretty cool! The page itself is especially fun to scroll through with a laptop touchscreen. Also I love the snowman.
Beautiful pics, specially the illuminations, night time hermitage museum, 34_city (looks delicious) and Aurora, but the highlights for me are 81_5 (maybe it's made by a jap manufacturer but that bus design screams russia), 90_bike (BEAUTIFUL sky) and 111_night -- feels straight out of an early 3D videogame in how the street light reflects on the near-perfect octagonal snow-free floor. Unintentionally creepy-charming.
And also really cool horizontal page design, that really adds to the experience. I daresay one of the reasons you may not have enjoyed St. Petersburg as much as Moscow is because St. Petersburg feels to me like a more touristy city.
Still rambling about 111_night -- and how there seems like a shadow at each vertex of the octagon, like a bug in the lighting engine. Really, really nice picture.
Thank you very much, スレナガ! Here are the pics you liked in full res, in case you want them https://imgur.com/a/8yyORn4. And about the "touristy" part - great point; it did indeed felt like that. In Moscow I didn't feel like a tourist at all, it felt much more natural. Cheers for pointing it out.
Phantom edit on the thoughts page; I didn't edit it, yet it decided to steal the spotlight, nasty page!
Thank you! ~~>_<~~~~>_<~~ Messages like this always make my day! I found the background here https://tenshiikisu.tumblr.com/post/79015021080/hey-hey-hey-huge-pixel-background-dump-ive-been There's a transparent version there as well. I think the clouds are from some Mario game originally.
Oh wow, this is amazing resource! Thanks for sharing, I really appreciate it! :) Added you on my awesome NeoCitizens page! Have a nice day!
kudos on the new camera :) I love your photos, especially the ones showing industrial landscapes... could spend hours strolling thru places like that
I tried it and the button didn't change to "following", but it did change after I refreshed the page
Just a fix for mobile users.