Adele D. Oliver


Community Manager, Lotusland, Canada

Crystal and Gold

in the Pavillion Hall at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia

I was at the amazing Winter Palace - now the Hermitage Museum with a busload of tourists ... for each photo I stayed behind and tried to capture the architecture without people ... no flash used :-)

The Pavillion Hall (2)
The Pavillion Hall (2)
Adele D. Oliver

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitage,_St._Petersburg

Comments 39

  • Tatiana Gutskova 03/02/2014 22:33

    very nice shot, Adele.
    bw Tatiana
  • alexander stefanatos 02/02/2014 9:27

    Beautiful picture with perfectly balanced light considering the difficulty from the so many windows around.Excellent detail.
    best regards alexander
  • chantal Montmasson in Ghiroldi 28/01/2014 22:29

    magnifica !!!!! Ciao
  • aline64 28/01/2014 19:50

    Je le souviens très bien de cette salle avec ce lustre en améthyste , magnifique bravo
    Amicalement
  • Lene Thomsen 27/01/2014 13:21

    How nice - super

    regards
    Lene
  • Josep Roig 27/01/2014 11:13

    Una maravilla de foto de este gran museo del Hermitage que tuve le suerte de visitarlo el año 2007 y que guardo un muy grato recuerdo. un abrazo de Josep.
  • HYZARA 27/01/2014 9:56

    sehr prunkvoll. Der Raum besitzt noch das Flair vergangener Zeiten.
    Liebe Grüße und eine schöne Woche für Dich
    HYZARA
  • Lawson McCulloch 26/01/2014 18:54

    What a majestic looking room, with the stunning chandeliers and beautiful colours.
    best wishes,
    Lawson
  • Emilio Sirletti 26/01/2014 17:31

    There have never been.
    I knew it was nice, but I did not imagine so.
    Thank you for this wonderful reportage.
    Ciao, Emilio
  • Vera Shulga 26/01/2014 17:24

    it is so beautiful!..
  • Andreas Wellnitz 26/01/2014 13:52

    Kommt schön natürlich rüber,lg.Andreas!
  • Manfred Jochum 26/01/2014 13:21

    Very fine picture!
    Absolutely incredible that you had this 1:1000000 chance to pick extactly this tiny fraction of a second when no other people were around....
    When we were in St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) I refused to visit the Ermitage after having seen the huge busloads of people queuing to get in...
  • Dagmar Illing 26/01/2014 11:03

    Amazing capture with fine light and details.
    Regards Dagmar
  • s. sabine krause 26/01/2014 9:37

    so festive and glamorous looking, and so very cool in its white and blue ambience – the name "winter palace" suits this room/pavillion well! love, how the crystal chandeliers are dangling down from the ceiling like drops of ice! a beautiful photo series of a place one now desperately longs to visit!! truly amazing that you succeeded in capturing it in this seemingly deserted, tourist-less ; ) and calm state!! hugs, sabine.
  • Helga Noll 26/01/2014 9:23

    sooo viel Pracht in einem Bild - großartig, Adele !
    LG Helga

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