Moscow is my hometown so I come here often. And of course I also take pictures here. I try to regularly come to the famous places to look for new angles or wait for an interesting light.
This summer while standing right next to the road and hardly holding my tripod from being knocked down by cars from the one side or by pedestrians from the other I managed to capture this dynamic photo:
And a year ago I caught a fantastic rainbow over Kremlin!
Yes, it is difficult to make myself always walk downtown with all my equipment and very often come back without pictures at all but when I finally do capture a unique image all those expenses pay off. Needless to mention that those are only expenses of time and power, a trip on metro there and back can hardly be called a money expense, it is so low compared to a trip to another country.
Here are some more pictures of Moscow
I have never seen as many rainbows as I have seen in Germany! I think it is the combination of rainy weather, sun showing up from time to time and the pure air that gives that effect. Sometimes I can see 5 rainbows during a week in different days. And I don’t even need to do any effort. Sometimes I just need to look out of the window. Also rainbows like to meet me on a road and then it’s very important to react fast and find a good place to stop. But possibilities to stop on highways are limited so often I have to take pictures right through the windshield.
When it starts to rain my attentiveness and keenness of observation become stronger and I start to watch the potential place where a rainbow can show up. In contrast to the locals I like German rains. Because I know what I can find after they stop.
At first when I saw such a bright event as a rainbow I got so excited that my hands started to shake and I was randomly pushing buttons on my camera to try to capture that wonderful image as soon as possible. But now when I see those colorful stripes at the horizon I try to carefully consider the right composition, find the best angle, move fast in different directions watching the rainbow becoming more bight or less. I pick interesting surroundings from houses or plants to give a professional look to a picture, not just “here is a rainbow”. In general I try to capture the most artistic landscape during the short period of time when a rainbow is visible.
After the wonderful rainbow summer last year I decided to make a collection of rainbows from different countries. Bright and faint, full and partial, urban and natural – any type of rainbow made me delighted and with my ability to turn the observed landscape to an artistic photo were successfully added to my collection.
The end of fall, winter and long journeys to snowy Moscow stopped the inflow of new rainbow images. But with the beginning of spring and returning to Germany colorful shining outside the window reminded me again of my collection and started to widen it. Of course most of my rainbows are German but I slowly start to add other countries too. But actually I doubt that any other country can catch up with so wonderful rainbow conditions of Germany.
My collection can be viewed here: rainbows of the world
