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Remembering Winter (8 Images). For Monomad Challenge by x-rain

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Remembering Winter (8 Images). For Monomad Challenge
![DSC_2913.JPG](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/x-rain/EoCgG91tVMNZ1SL7YQoixKUEfAEPbz5E1rpJ88FnvijoBxhKYMsoL3ELW1RMX8ymYaU.JPG)

Autumn is in full swing in St. Petersburg and I can't help thinking that five months of darkness and slush are ahead. The best season for longing and writing depressive texts, not for photo walks.

Below, there are images from my archive for the #monomad challenge.

![DSC_6449.JPG](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/x-rain/23tGwCfzpQAzrZhiBr77tw3oA8DVw838u6zrkL4PEguWYujowH6mLoh73VcmFS44rDQ1P.JPG)

5 a.m., I was walking to the city center, several kilometers away from my place.

Empty streets, everybody was sleeping except nocturnal creatures like me.

![DSC_6455.JPG](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/x-rain/23tGXT2kFXtnUYfGYyWHtFpovCYC1wqAXTw9Db9QgGU6JJuTdeW8a6qdb5HHM8gYTQitz.JPG)

A gloomy dwarf-like Vladimir Lenin guarded an entrance of Pokrovskaya Hospital.

![DSC_6474.JPG](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/x-rain/23t76pL8H1EoiSC8tEamZvRbPZQ4XRfERMvV1dF6uWw5HsSpvhzKvWxRs7mBp2MS17c6U.JPG)

The snowfall intensified, snowflakes were covering the camera and the lens making them wet.

![DSC_6490.JPG](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/x-rain/23tGc1D2n6FZuAQMRY7dAYCkKT6aXrudyo5dRVxdrb2R8WLANdCosn2Wj9Y9vfLZ1Riku.JPG)

It was not a Saharan sandstorm, it was Baltic snow slapping the face of the old Egyptian.

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quay_with_Sphinxes">A 3500-years-old sphinx</a>, brought from Egypt in 1832, in that fridge, can you imagine?

![DSC_6477.JPG](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/x-rain/23swpgTsk8RKprheHyauLixEdrCmd7xJxuy2eWXw8xcq3YDTT1VnkyigpcJkXv1Btq3a5.JPG)

The weather was a disaster.

![DSC_6495-2.JPG](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/x-rain/23t7DGPN3M8VmpcQhTEL4DXmqYcvBc38yNfsEkjoPJw9pRxTzajLto6FhuziWv3wbb47z.JPG)

Nevertheless, I decided to cross the bridge to see a certain place, an alley leading to St. Isaac Cathedral.

![DSC_6500-5.JPG](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/x-rain/23t7DRaKcveUprTFGM1rnGKK1vVqtmMT8oJNqbpBj61A6bYtmug7qm6oGQWzJArjoTwkV.JPG)

The snowfall suddenly slowed down and I found this pleasant calmness in the alley.

More passersby were appearing hurrying to their work, it was around 8 a.m. already. The time to go back home, get the feet dry, drink a cup of hot black tea and sleep. I hoped I would not get sick after that walk.

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*These are my photos, taken with Nikon D750 + **Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G** in **Saint Petersburg, Russia**. This is not a cross-post, the images were never published on the Internet except a color version of the alley that was placed on Alamy and some microstocks.*

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@chorock ·
I will visit there 3 weeks later...
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@qwerrie ·
oh! I know a few photographers at Hive too, which share this beautiful city and would like to join a photo-walk across the city.  qwerrie #3288 at discord, as well.
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@x-rain ·
The summer was super hot but the autumn is chill and fast. You have a chance to see the city decorated with snow although stable snowing is more about the very end of October or the beginning of November.

If you have time for a meeting in St.Petersburg, write me on discord x-rain#1841 I know 2 more Hiveans, I will ask them if they want/have spare time to join. We could have a chat in a cafe or a walk on one of the days you are here. If you have time for that, of course.
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@ewkaw ·
Snowy shots and depressive texts. Fine by me :)

I love those dark and cold winter nights. They are so quiet that you can almost hear the snow falling...
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@x-rain ·
*Snowy shots and depressive texts. Fine by me :)*

:) This is fine, indeed. But there is a line you can easily cross in winter: when depressive shots and texts stay in your head in the shape of depressive images and thoughts and never come out and, when someone calls you once a month, offering to meet, your answer is: "*I don't know, maybe it is too complicated for me*". So ... Winter is a dark adventure as I see... and not everybody will be a winner. Some lose their friends, family, and eventually sanity. In spring, they think: "*was it a bad dream?*" But they can't return the lost anymore.

I am typing this and smiling... But actually these things do happen.
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@ewkaw ·
Now that is a very depressing image you got here. 
I know that further north, where winters are long and even darker it does become a problem. The Polish winters that I am used are ok (for me at least) and if there is snow they are not bad at all. But lack of light and sun can get to people. 

I still like winters. And the cold. And snow. 
And depressive *fictional* texts ;)
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