mostly, white on white: wednesday walk at St.Petersburg

As I mentioned in the previous post, the weather in my city is not the most pleasant thing - we have a lot of snow and a cloudy gray sky recently, little sun and an awfully short, tiny, criminally slippery daylight hours. (Frost, high humidity and wind can be added to this list on a regular basis, as well...) All this does not really stimulate me to take photo walks in the period from December to February, although of course exceptions are always possible. So, when January gave me - no, not sunny, but at least not very gloomy - a day, I used it for my favorite pastime, such as: I attached to the camera my fave macro telephoto lens and ventured to look at the snow-covered sleeping nature through the viewfinder glass.

I published some of the photos taken that day in my previous post (frosty berries), but it is impossible to fit everything, so here is part two, where I will show you more than just snowy berries.

All photos in this post were taken with a Sigma 150mm macro lens. (This is my second macro lens, besides that I also have a Tamron 60mm, but I almost never use it - it is for crop-cameras). Yes, I dream of trying other lenses, first of all the Canon 100mm L ... and I don't want to limit myself, but my resources are limited. Anyway, my sigma is a heavy glass ... when I take it with me, on the one hand it reduces my possibilities ... but on the other - "less is more!" This is one of my favorite and sought-after lenses. Landscape? Portrait? Object shooting? Macro? Wonderful boke? He does all this superbly.

Looking at these pictures, I want to talk about monochrome ... yes, winter painted everything white, but it still has many shades, and walking with the camera, you can find not only blue spots from Coca-Cola advertising posters.

Silver-plated twigs (to which boke has been applied) are transformed into works of plastic art.

I heard that earlier this blockchain among the numerous photo contests, had one more named "White on White". Alas, I missed that time and competition. I have a very few photos, that would fit said prompt... and I think this one would fit perfectly. It also can be titled "Two Bottles" or "Between Two Temptations." In general, quite accidentally I got a capture rich in images.

Absolute monochrome. Or?..