Tag: Saint Petersburg

WPC : 2017 Favourites

Fortunately, this challenge offers the use of different reasons for selecting our favourites from 2017.

Emotional pull – walking around Borough Market, London, the scene of a terror attack just three weeks later.

Borough Market and The Shard
Borough Market, East London

Memorable experience 1 – a week in Saint Petersburg, with my daughter and our fabulous guide, Elena, seeing many highlights of the city that are off the regular tourist trail. Sometimes cold, sometimes wet, worth every minute.

  1. Palace Square & Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg
    Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg
    The Botanic Garden of Peter the Great
    Yusupov Palace: Plotting the demise of Rasputin
    Faberge Museum

Memorable experience 2 – East Sussex with family: visiting Batemans, the home of Rudyard Kipling, Sheffield Park and its beautiful gardens, and the white cliffs of the coastline.

Rudyard Kipling’s residence, Batemans
Rudyard Kipling’s study, where, among many stories, ‘IF’ was written
Sheffield Park, East Sussex
Sheffield Park, East Sussex
Pure indulgence, Edendum Restaurant, Brighton, East Sussex
Cuckmere Haven, East Sussex

Photographic effects – Experimenting, and modestly claiming some success!

Sheffield Park, East Sussex
Sheffield Park, East Sussex
Sheffield Park, East Sussex
Sheffield Park, East Sussex
Conifer Gardens Tree Farm, Mt Dandenong, Victoria
Conifer Gardens Tree Farm, Mt Dandenong, Victoria

Gardens – regular visitors would be disappointed if some Aussie gardens missed the “Favourites” list.

Cranbourne Gardens, RBGV
Taeve Tara Garden, Mt Macedon, Victoria
Tawny frogmouth
Cranbourne Gardens, RBGV
Cloud Hill Garden, Mt Dandenong, Victoria

Inspired by The Weekly Photo Challenge set by Ben Huberman

Wishing all my blogging friends a Merry Christmas, and a Safe and Prosperous New Year.

Weekly Photo Challenge : Glow

All that glitters is not gold, but gold certainly emits a warm glow. Sunsets glow, even on chilly evenings. There is a warm glow before a ballet performance. Saint Petersburg has it all!

Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg
Palace Square & Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg
Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg
Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg
Mariinsky Theatre

For the weekly photo challenge, Glow

…. but does it work?

Not something one sees every day! A pedestrian crossing with split designated directions. There were no crowds of tourists at the time, so one is left to speculate whether it works!

Yusupov Palace, Saint Petersburg
from Yusupov Palace entrance looking towards the Moyka River

….. and, does it work? This is also a test to see if an email notification of a new post is triggered, as none was sent in relation to the recent post “Windows”