winter flowers

This close-up was my entry to 'Photo of the week' challenge by @mister-omortson — week #71 prompt was 'Flowers'. I chose to present my recent photos from the Victory Park at St.Petersburg. I did found some 'winter flowers' growing across the snow. The remnants of the soviet epoch.

In my previous post I asked if anybody can guess what it is, nobody dared to give any suggestions. Ok, I will tell you. These are decorative elements of a fountain.

location:	St.Petersburg, Russia	February 2022	natural light
camera/lens:	Canon 5D	Sigma 150mm	.raw-conv

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I have applied some photoshop processing to the camera .raw files.
Below is unedited version 'as camera saw it', if you are curious.

I have made several attempts to photograph this piece of architecture in the past, which is quite difficult - the fountain is large, and its individual small elements do not add up to a beautiful picture. Snow, from which individual cast-iron flowers stick out, gave a completely new vision to the picture. I really liked the result that I got (especially with the addition of a pinch of cross-processing in Photoshop).

Я предпринимал в прошлом несколько попыток сфотографировать это произведение архитектуры, что достаточно трудно - фонтан большой, и его отдельные мелкие элементы не складываются в красивую картинку. Снег, из которого торчат отдельные чугунные цветки, придал совершенно новое видение картинке. Мне очень понравился результат, который у меня получился (особенно с добавлением щепотки кросс-процессинга в фотошопе).

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A musical bonus for my Russian-reading followers.
Музыкальный бонус в качестве приза для тех, кто сюда добрался: песенка про старое доброе зло. Рекомендуется для создания подходящего настроя для разглядывании содержимого поста.

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