Wednesday walk at Moscow - etudes in black & white (14 foto)

Greetings! Today I am in the mood for a black and white post again. Well, when the sky is leaden and overcast and there are nor photo walks, neither new photos, it is not surprising that I have to dig for inspiration into my archive. Fortunately, last year I walked and photographed a lot more than I have presented you. So...

By the way, I haven't added any stories from Moscow to my pinmap yet. It's time to correct this omission. Today's photos were taken during my last travel to Moscow in May 2021 (exactly when BTC have pumped down... Memories!)

I met up with a few of my old friends who don't visit me in St. Petersburg. I drank beer with them, talked to them about life, photography, music - in general, a lot of things have accumulated to talk about over the past years (I haven't visited Moscow for a long time). By the way, one of my friends works as a photographer at the Kremlin Museum, and the photo above was taken at his workplace. This is me = in the frame, looking at a collection of vintage cameras. On the right you can see the model "Viliya-auto" - if you are interested, it was my first camera, it was on it that I took my first steps in photography in the 1990s. Well, in my hands I have an "Amateur" camera - a Soviet replica of the Rolleiflex TLR - a wonderful medium format, analog quality ... with its help all the photos in this post were taken.

I am just Kidding!! All photos were taken as usual with my travel kit: Canon 5D + Sigma 50mm. I just held this TLR camera in my hands and, of course, couldn't take it out of the museum. Although it would be great to practice an analog photography session under the guidance of older and more experienced comrades. Alas, it did not work out in my life with analog photography, although my mother at some point developed and printed photographs with her own hands, I even found a photographic enlarger device lying around in our closet...

Ok, less words - more photos! Although, this frame also requires explanation. Can you guess what is shown in it? Flip it... yes, it's just a pictogram of a train running on rails. But upside down it is someone's face; very cool, isnt it! I am very fond of recognizing faces in my environment, with a help or without #googlyeyes.

A nice scene on the street. 'Beauty minute'. Just a nice scene, peeped on the street: a motorcyclist stopping in front of a traffic light tints her lips. Everyday life of the city as it is!

Posters on the streets live their life. I was very pleased to discover the GORILLAZ poster.

There are a lot of bikes and scooters on the streets of Moscow. Of course, I did not take pictures of them ... but it was absolutely impossible to walk past some of them with your back turned!

Interesting graffiti, and a passing cyclist also noticed and explore it. The inscription says in Russian "I died" - however, the last letter is painted over with other graffiti on top, so it is impossible to confirm my guess exactly.

More graffiti... in fact, I devoted a whole separate day to going into the city alone, and looking for graffiti - if you don't know the place in advance, it turned out to be quite a difficult task: the central streets are well "cleaned" of this kind of art... but in dirty back streets, you can still find something.

Very interesting place! At least visually. This is the entrance to the 'Black Swan' pub. Perhaps it would be more correct to name it "Magpie" or "Magpie's Nest" - judging by amount of broken, old, useless and abandoned things including books (!) that were used to decorate its display and entrance ... A real magpie nest!

And sorry to finish my post on such a sad note. A wretched old man (beggar) at the street. It is almost impossible to see them on the main streets of the city, but one of them caught my eye. I honestly photographed and added to the post everything that I saw during that walk.