Rotunda Photo | TrekEarth

Photographer’s Note

I am keeping showing my favorite places of Kharkiv city.

This is the Victory Monument or “Glass Stream” (now more often called as “Mirror Stream”), fountain and rotunda built in 1947. In my own rating of the city’s sights it is #3 (after Annunciation Cathedral and Derzhprom building), but in the list of the Seven Wonders of Kharkiv (formed with an Internet poll) it is #5, Derzhprom being #1 and the cathedral being #4.

This generally accepted symbol of the city is situated at the main city’s street Sumskaya in the Victory square. Formerly the square was a cemetery with a small church named after Saint Myrrhbearers. The church was completely destroyed in 1930s and the place was prepared for constructing a gigantic mass performance theatre. But in 1934 Kyiv became the capital of Ukraine and the square was used only as a park. After WW II the alley of Young Heroes and the “Mirror Stream” were built there. In 2007, when the 60-th anniversary of the Stream was celebrated, it was reconstructed and illuminated. Now it is planned to rebuild the Saint Myrrhbearers’ church near the Stream to restore the square architectural view.

In the picture one of many color phases of the automatically changed illumination is shown. The colors are changed in minutes, being from purple to green and blue.

When you are in Kharkiv, remember to buy the “Mirror Stream” candy suite.

GPS coordinates: 49.99870 Lat, 36.23450 Long

POSTPROCESSING OF THE POST
As a response to the critique given by Waylim I've made some self-editing as a workshop image with small recentering and adding more space on the top. Please see the result here.

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Critiques | Translate

siamesa (13120) 2008-11-16 1:02

Hello Sergiy
Splendid picture. I imagine this monument and the changes of the lights. It is a marvelous show indeed. TFS
Regards
Maria

luciola (1052) 2008-11-16 10:37

Hi Sergiy
Uncommon photo,beautiful light.
Best regards
Lucja

UkeTex (232) 2008-11-16 12:48

Hi Sergiy,
I like the colors very much. I think centered composition works well in this case. Well done!
Cheers, Andriy

Waylim (11025) 2008-11-17 18:17

Sergiy,
Very beautiful night shot, the color illuminated on the structure in the dark is very well captured. Really good sharpness for a nightshot. Compositionally may be a little better not so center in the image and a little more room on the top. Thanks for this beautiful image and very good information notes.
Way

robbie9 (248) 2008-11-18 8:44

Hi Sergiy,
I see that you can put links in your notes, well done! :-)
After that, good night photo, maybe a bit dark, but very amazing colors!
You know that night shots are my favourites!!
Congratulations!

shevchenko (10008) 2008-11-18 18:20

Hi Sergiy,
Interesting compositition to show another feature of the Victory Monument by night, good contrast of color, lovely colourful lighting, background building and branches add another point to this night shoot, good sharpness, well done.
Ally

litiancai (1040) 2008-11-18 22:08

Hi Sergiy,
Despite the low light conditions, you've managed to capture a nice sharp and colourful shot. The contrast between the building and the solid black night sky is great. Your notes are excellent too, exactly why I'm here on TE - to learn something new and about places I've not heard of!
Thanks for sharing
Lee

jmdias (19623) 2008-11-19 15:14

sergiy

fabulous colors ,light, pov and subject. These mixed colors and the special light shining in the darkness are amazing cause the shapes and cause the sharpness too. well done

hugs

jorge

toto (18749) 2008-11-22 5:27

Bonjour,
belle photo de cette rotonde éclairée de cette fort jolie façon.
Bonne netteté, jolies couleurs, bonne luminosités.
Bien venue sur TE et bonne continuation.

Amitiés Thomas

Beasolea (1646) 2008-11-22 7:15

Hello Sergyi,
You present very nice picture of the beautiful Cathedral.
Good POV. I think you did very good job with the night picture. I know how hard is to take nights photos.
TFS
Best regards
Bea

Graal (58403) 2008-11-22 23:25

Priviet Sirioza,
horoshiye dielo, very nice night shot. Good presentation and interesting note. Good photojob. Mienia nrawitsia.
Gr., Aleksander

Photo65Net (43096) 2008-11-23 9:17

Hello Sergiy,
Wonderful night colors here.
I like your expo which caught great colors over dark sky.
Have a nice day,
JB.

a-lee (426) 2008-11-23 13:49

hi sergiy;
Superb POV, DOF with wonderful light .
I like this picture.
Very well done
a-lee

hay_kes (28562) 2008-11-24 23:35

Hi Sergiy,
Very beautiful night shot vith excellent architecture.TFS.
Regards,

hAyAti

SAMANDI (302) 2008-11-25 4:57

Hi Sergiy
Its an attractive shot n you captured it well with good light management ..well done..TFS - 10/10
-- SADEGH --

jhm (83035) 2008-11-29 6:48

Hello Sergiy,

A splendid contrasted through the lovely colour of the building against the black sky,
Composition and colours are very real, good presentation.
Very well done, TFS.

Have a nice weekend,
John.

daddo (11419) 2008-12-04 0:20

Zdravo Sergiy. Incredible colours and a fine architectural creation. The surrounding black makes the rotunda look like some semi precious jewel assembly. Interesting note. Pozdrav. Klaudio.

Uhu (7422) 2008-12-04 8:16

Шикарная фотка! И объект интересный, и подсветка удачная.

lysy (212) 2008-12-09 8:05

Hello
Good Job
Great colors and contrast
Best regards

Atousa (3456) 2008-12-14 7:50

Salam Sergiy,

You managed the light very well here .. I also like the chosen pov , inclusion of the people n the dark background ..it really looks magnificent..TFS
Best regards, A

vasilpro (9134) 2008-12-19 3:30

Hello Sergiy,
Beautiful lights and colors. Very good manage of the lighting conditions and nice composition. I 'll prefer the photo without the man's silhouette.
Best regards, Vasilis.

paura (38864) 2008-12-20 15:28

Sergiy,
Lighting management is really nice here. Very beautiful place in your well composed photo.

Well done.

Paulo

clio (22887) 2008-12-27 14:46

Bonjour Sergiy,
I like very much this tower which is a beautiful example of the architecture of the 1940s. The show of the lights which changes must be very beautiful.
Your work on the WS is excellent, neatness, colors, centring, very beautiful luminosity also,
bravo!
Have a nice evening
Diane

syrus_persia (2216) 2008-12-27 22:41

Salam Sergiy
Thanks for your comment.I like this night shot, very nice light and moody atmsphere.
Happy Christmas
cyrus

Juntas (3442) 2008-12-28 7:11

Hi Sergiy. Great night shot with beautiful colors and good light. Well done on the WS too. Regards. PAulo

maloutim (3995) 2009-01-04 4:12

Hi Sergiy!
A very elegant rotuda of which you captured the illuminations with a lot of talent! It would be nice to see a photo of it illuminated in other colours too!
The note is also very interesting with a lot of details about the hitory of the place and the technology of the illuminations!
Thank you for sharing.
Marie Louise.

denisn72 (7033) 2009-01-04 7:02

Hello Sergiy
Amazing colours for that night picture. The exposure time is excellent. Great architecture, style, details and colours of this monument lit in a great way. Good work and thanks for sharing.
Best regards
Denis!

envisage (199) 2009-01-05 3:06

Hi Sergiy,

A wonderful night picture, great colors and composition. Nice POV and good capture.

TFS and HNY 2009!

Sreya

LeeLoo (5218) 2009-01-08 3:18

Dear Sergyi Lushpenko!
Amazing church.
Wonderful light and dark.
Ideal background.
Nice colors.
Original job.
TFS!

loves_summer (763) 2009-01-11 13:33

Hi Sergiy,
I like this nighttime shot with the glowing colourful lights that showcase this structure so well. Good sharpness and informative note.
Thanks for sharing!

jafadabret (40043) 2009-01-19 11:43

Bonjour Sergiy.
C'est une belle photo de ce monument très coloré dans la nuit. J'aime le graphisme très pur souligné par des couleurs superbes.
Jacques

archimatica (13290) 2009-01-25 4:06

Hi, Sergiy.
Great picture and great ws.
I like very much this monument.

Regards
Renzo

ku-fotak-chtik (1132) 2009-01-28 4:15

Hi Sergiy, I think that you captured the monument very well. I would probably choose capturing as portret format, because it would give you more space on the top which this picture needs. Another thing is recomendation of using a tripod and setting up F/ stop at least to F/8 to get longer time. Then you wouldn't have disturbing people in this picture.

I hope that you don't mind my critique.

Kind Regards Jiri

MLINES (10918) 2009-01-31 14:03

Hi Sergiy, An excellent night photograph which is sharp with good colours. The people show the scale of this rotunda. TFS. Murray.

mkamionka (4754) 2009-02-02 2:58

Very interesting object and as an art this shot is great, however as a postcard I would again prefer to has a blue hour means less black but more dark blue sky.
M

Naca (374) 2009-02-07 4:24

ZDRAVO SERGIY!!JAKO LIJEP RAD..TEMA ODLICNA...SVIDJA MI SE OVA FOTOGRAFIJA...JAKO LIJEP RAD!!POZDRAV.

josepmarin (33917) 2009-03-16 12:35

Hi Sergiy,
I like the effect of light and color in this difficult night capture, with a good graphical result.
The strong contrast of the colors of the lighting of the monument with the darkness of the sky that surrounds it, creates a beautiful composition.
Best regards,
Josep

skippy007 (7243) 2009-09-28 7:02

Hello Sergiy, Good colours in this night shot, I had a look at WS version, I think it is an improvement. I like the contrast of the rich colours & black BG, I wonder what it would look like in the blue hour. Nice one.
Thanks
Regards
Santo