Champs-Elysees Photo

Photographer’s Note

"Nevsky Prospekt" is the main avenue of Sankt Peterburg and one of best known streets in Russia, when seeing it the comparison that comes to a french mind is "Champs-Elysees".

Cutting through the most historical part of the city, it runs from the Admiralty to the Moscow Railway Station and then, after a slight turn, to the Alexander Nevsky Monastery. In the very first days of St Petersburg it was the beginning of a road to Novgorod, but was soon decorated with some fine buildings, squares and bridges. Getting wider as it goes, Nevsky becomes most beautiful where it has Kazan Cathedral on one side and the "Dom Knigi" book store on the other, with a wonderful view down Kanal Griboedova to the picturesque Russian-style Church of Our Savior on the Spilled Blood. In addition to the many churches of different denominations there are many more attractions around, like the Grand Hotel Europe, Arts Square, the Russian Museum, the National Library of Russia, the monument to Catherine the Great, Anichkov Bridge or "Gostiny Dvor", the largest department store in the city.

This view has a certain historical value now, it's unlikely you'll ever see this fine avenue again with such a light traffic and mostly soviet made cars. For the 300 years celebrations of Sankt Peterburg, Nevsky as well as a number of other sights in the city have been seriously renovated.

I hope I could free myself from the "green" virus ;))

Cool-ice, ChrisJ, Cos, jmdaoudal, jpdeloof, jrj, nwoehnl, ChristianS, singuanti, RGatward, anakin, Xalkida has marked this note useful

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Cool-ice (5289) 2005-02-24 3:50

Heuuuu, les vrais Champs-Elysées sont plus impressionnants quand même (et c'est un Suisse qui le dit...) ;o)
La compo est bonne, peut-être juste les couleurs sont-elles un peu fades et mériteraient un petit coup de boost.

Kenny10pin (19301) 2005-02-24 4:05

interesting work here, I like the way you took this, I wouldve cropped the top more, but that just me, well done

oochappan (22032) 2005-02-24 4:20

Nice, you speak Russian too now !
First of all: incredible clear natural coloring here Jean Yves, the blue sky is fine and lucky not overdone as your target is the ressemblence of cities, very nicly framed in perspective view.
Well done !
Henk

AmiBe (6042) 2005-02-24 5:37

Et bein voilà une image non contaminée par le vert martien ! ;-)
Bonne composition en diagonale, avec un point de fuite bien placé.

antti (0) 2005-02-24 5:45

Good view from "Nevski". It is very long street. And wide one. There are allways people walking. Good perspective you have here and nicely those caples so up, that not disturbing. Good share !

jmdaoudal (82) 2005-02-24 6:02

Magnificence de cette grande ville, architecture très riche..
Bonne composition et aussi sujet très interessant.
Le cadrage est parfait, la largeur soutient l'immensité de l'avenue.
Bonnes teintes et profondeur.
Compliments
Jean Michel

jpdeloof (2546) 2005-02-24 6:45

Bonjour Jean Yves, c'est une belle perspective de l'avenue, l'angle de prise de vue est bien choisi pour donner de la profondeur à la photo.
Belle image.
jp

diaz_sanchez (0) 2005-02-24 6:55

Hola amigo:)Great photo:) great note:) I love it:D

saludos

Marga

jrj (34779) 2005-02-24 12:34

Good street shot Jean. Nice details and especially looking back to 97.. Fine lead and perspective by the avenue.

Zepi (22848) 2005-02-24 12:56

Une photographie savamment composée !
J’aime cette diagonale (les immeubles) et cette sensation de profondeur du à la ligne du trottoir qui file tout droit face à notre regard !
Bien joué !
Beau travail !!!

Amicalement – Sébastien

nwoehnl (120) 2005-02-24 14:34

Good perspective accomplished by your framing of this view down the Nevsky Prospekt. Good light, nice details present in the façades of the old buildings, and yes the green touch is gone in this one. Nice shot, Jean-Yves.

ChristianS (2997) 2005-02-24 15:42

Hi Jean Yves, nice photo and perspective, great depth, it seems to be a very long avenue. Nice buildings, great light and colours. Beau travail!

Regards, Christian

singuanti (15240) 2005-02-24 22:33

you certainly captured my attention when you called this the Champs-Elysees! It does appear to be a very vibrant area with excellent architecture. Nice to see you are feeling better and aren't green anymore! great shot.

ChrisJ (70443) 2005-02-25 3:31

Salut Jean-Yves

Good use of a strong diagonal & linear perspective with a vanishing point in the composition. Excellent sharpness, colour & pov. Tres bon!

RGatward (19751) 2005-02-25 4:42

Another nice memory for me. You were there a year later. Interesting to see then still more Volgas and Ladas on the streets then than anything else, unlike Moscow, which already was displaying its recent wealth in the form of Mercedes, Volovs and 'Beamers'.

anakin (2775) 2005-02-25 9:54

Salut Jean-Yves
Good perspective and good light and colours
well done
saludos

Xalkida (11740) 2005-02-27 12:40

Excellent street scene in this 8-years old photo! Very nice lighting, good colors for it's age! TFS!