For a city of such unending and blatant history, my most striking image from a recent trip to St. Petersburg was this one of modern construction.
The image speaks powerfully to the contrast implicit throughout the Russia I saw - history versus modernity, antiquity versus capital development and renovation.
I shot this from the roof of Saint Isaac's Cathedral, just down the street from the Hermitage, on a particularly muted afternoon. The rain had just broken, and before its haze swept across the urban landscape, I had time to snap this.
EOS-400D
EF 70-200 f4
184mm, 500 exp, f7.1
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