soviet imperial style, or Stalin's ampir

I provide this post for 'CITYSCAPE photography & art' contest, by @axeman — week #42

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location:	St.Petersburg, Russia	June 2019	natural lighting
camera/lens:	Canon 5D	50mm 1.4	jpg-sourced

The photo I choosed for this round, is just my little exercise in photography -- making decisions how to arrange the guiding lines of the building, having no zoom, but a fixed-focus 50-mm (not the best option for architecture and cityscape shooting, to say the truth). But when I get this shot I was very happy about it, as I felt I totally nailed it. And a little story as a bonus.

I am one of the guys who have a habit of lifting their heads from time to time to inspect the state of the firmament and, in general, whats up there? Once, twenty years ago, I was walking down the street and lifting my head, I noticed that a cat was walking along the street the same route as me, but at the height of one floor, along the cornice! I was so surprised and delighted with the situation that I still remember the fact itself. Although I don’t remember nor what kind of cat it was, neither the place where it happened... Do raise your head more often, comrades!

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A few more photos from the same session. It was a #wednesdaywalk across the city disctrict build in the 1950-es, the epoch of 'imperial style' and 'Stalin's ampir'.

These huge gates are a built-in garage. Never saw them open.

Look at the locks -- seems this is their permanent state :P

Just a typical citylife photo.

These yards have a lot of cats. Thats a good sign!
Means they are a good place for living.

Buildings have a lot of unique, customed, one-spot decorationes, exclusive to a certain building only. Other building has other decoration motives. there is a lot of symbolics of health, sports, fertility, wealth of the earth's interior - "everything that the Soviet people own" (as the official ideology claimed).

And, again, a lot of them started to ruin, or already have been erased, the time peeled them off, like this 'fake fountain'.

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