Saint Peterburg ; SFX and Zenit

Hi there..

This freaking hotel-lounge-WiFi makes me cry...
When you are used to faster connections this can break you into peices.
Its barely working to surf with so im a little bit doubtful if this blogg entry will show...but lets make a try..

Been here in St Pete for almost two weeks now and have one left.
Work work and work...


But the weekends are still holy! Thank god for that!
So last weekend i took my old Zenit camera (though im in love with my Nikon D3 im sometimes unfaithful and go analouge) packed it with some Ilford SFX black and white film and just walked around in the suburbs to start with. I had to get to the metro.

I think for some reason the suburbs in St Pete,
well in Moscow also actually, are very interesting.
As i had mentioned before im pretty dazzled by grungy, trashy and worn out buildings and enviorments. Its dirty in a beautiful way and it has become like that by nature, and it makes it more exiting to view for the beholder. Its sad and depressive visual impact tells you a story, and makes you think "How did it look once upon a time"? It feels very Sovjet and it is (or was...)

St Pete citycenter is really nice aswell with its fascinating arcitechture, but as i have heard its only a shell from the outside in most cases, and the city was built in a hurry by some Peter the Great.... ;)
Constructionvise, the buildings needs alot of reparation and some can fall appart any minute.

Anyhow i was not so pleased by the endresult of the analouge pictures.
Im not sure what really happened, if im just not thinking right behind the camera or this guy who processed the film for me, did a very bad scanning. Could be both though...hehe.
I was also in the citycenter taking some shots, but one roll is still under processing so soon i will be up with more pictures from the same kind of Ilford film and also i have an AGFA APX coming up.

Pakka!