This site is being comprehensively updated. If some stuff doesn’t work and the old posts look a bit iffy . . . well, that’s to be expected. In the meantime, I am posting some pics from St Petersburg. The view is just simply too high and too wide to get around it - even with a cheap Chinese wide-angle converter.

But it’s impossible to take really bad pictures in St Petersburg. All the light is reflected from so much water . . . exactly the same kind of light that inspired the Dutch painters. The architecture glows.

Here we are in winter but everyone, as you can see, is out on the street with cameras. (Click on image to enlarge)