St. Basil’s Cathedral

For the last few days I haven’t been able to shoot pictures, so I decided to scan some of the photos I shot on the trip to Russia I made 10 years ago and share them with you.

I’m not too happy with the quality of the scans, but since I scanned them at my office (my scanner is a bit old and its software is not compatible with Snow Leopard), they will have to do… for now.

Here are the first two.

I shot this photo from the window of my hotel room.

Come on, check these other photos out!

  1. Spasskaya Tower
  2. St. Basil’s Cathedral
  3. A Church In The Distance
  4. Russian Landscape
  5. Spasskaya Tower
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This entry was written by Juan, posted on January 23, 2010 at 12:03 am, filed under Photos and tagged , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

6 Comments

  1. Kala
    Posted January 23, 2010 at 6:50 pm | Permalink

    I traveled to Russia in 2001 and 2006 but did not visit Moscow. Love the architecture and the colors are really vibrant in these shots. What a magnificent view you had. Yay! too for scanned images.

  2. Juan
    Posted January 24, 2010 at 12:49 am | Permalink

    Cool! I left Russia one day before Putin took office.

    Russia is a nice country to visit; it has beautiful places. I went to Moscow and Novgorod. Novgorod is a city about 4 hours away from St. Petersburg… is just beautiful, fresh air, lots of trees… amazing place.

    One of my dreams was to visit St. Basil’s Cathedral, and when I was in front of it, I got chills down my spine… it was a really cool feeling. :)

  3. Milkayphoto
    Posted January 25, 2010 at 1:26 pm | Permalink

    Never been to Russia but wow, the colors and composition in this image are fantastic! It is too bad that the scans are not doing them justice. And, I bet you regret that date stamp in yellow!! Hey, gives you reason to go back!

  4. Juan
    Posted January 25, 2010 at 1:46 pm | Permalink

    Thank you, Tracy!

    Yes, I’m going to rescan them again at a higher resolution… at least 600dpi.

    And, I bet you regret that date stamp in yellow!! Hey, gives you reason to go back!

    Tell me about it… but you’re right! I should go again, and next time I should extend my visit to St. Petersburg.

  5. George
    Posted February 3, 2010 at 2:41 pm | Permalink

    Looking at the shooting angle, I’m trying to figure which hotel you were in. Probably the Rossiya? I think they’ve torn it down since then. I stayed on the other end, at the National. Of course, in real life the colors are not anywhere near that glitzy!

  6. Juan
    Posted February 3, 2010 at 2:56 pm | Permalink

    You’re correct, George, it was the Rossiya. That’s bad they torn it down… it was a nice and affordable hotel.

    True, I over saturated them. When I rescan the photos again (I’m not too happy with their current quality), I’ll post process them better.