Lomonosov Moscow state university at night
by Alexey Kljatov
Title
Lomonosov Moscow state university at night
Artist
Alexey Kljatov
Medium
Photograph - Hdr Photography
Description
Lomonosov Moscow state university (or MSU) at autumn night against clear dark sky, reflected in a pond. This university is the biggest and most famous in Russia. This HDR image combined from 5 different exposures, taken from tripod.
I like this place. The building itself is one of Stalin towers, or Seven sisters, built in various locations of Moscow. All seven buildings have slightly different, but similar architecture.
The main building have beautiful night illumination, while all territory illuminated with standard yellow lamps, which is not good for photographers, because this light is too uniform and looks boring at night photos.
University and its surroundings (quite large territory) reminds "city within a city", though it have no walls, and anyone can walk here without any restrictions. This territory have gardens, walk ways, pools, and even streets with bus stations, though all traffic have strict speed limit.
Wikipedia says:
"The MSU main building was the tallest building in the world outside of New York City at the time of its construction, and remained the tallest building in Europe until 1990. The central tower is 240 m tall, 36 stories high, and flanked by four huge wings of student and faculty accommodations. It is said to contain a total of 33 kilometers of corridors and 5,000 rooms.
Facilities available inside the building include a concert hall, a theater, a museum, administrative services, a library, a swimming pool, a police station, a post office, a laundry, a hairdresser's salon, several canteens, bank offices and ATMs, shops, cafeterias, a bomb shelter, etc. The star on the top of the tower is large enough to include a small room and a viewing platform; it weighs 12 tons. The building's facades are ornamented with giant clocks, barometers, thermometers, statues, carved wheat sheaves, and Soviet crests."
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Comments (6)
Jeannie Rhode Photography
Alexey, Stunning capture with fantastic lighting, clarity, reflections and composition, excellent work.
Linda Howes
This is really Stunning Alexey!! l/f
Alexey Kljatov replied:
Many thanks! This university building have amazing night illumination. I planned to shoot it again and do different processing.
Robert Hebert
This is so beautiful!
Alexey Kljatov replied:
Thank you very much! Yes, this building have nice architecture and night illumination.
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