I said goodbye to Sosnovka last year. From now on, visits here will be purely visual and aesthetic in nature. Still, I still have a project to capture the same places at different times, so a couple of times a year I will still walk the usual route.

I needed to see and photograph what the places I'm familiar with look like after all these snowfalls.

No matter how beautiful it is in winter or autumn, the best atmosphere of the August night will remain in my memory forever.

By the way, I don't think I've been here in the golden autumn yet...

Maybe I'll drop in here a couple more times to replenish those removable repeatable types.

If we talk about the place of power, then, probably, it became Kubenskoye.

Even though I love all places, I'll need to find a new one or figure out what works the most right now.

Lately, I've been going everywhere, traveling, learning something new.

I used to dislike the Gryazovets and Mezhdurechensk sides...now I'm starting to feel something there, but I'll continue to study them in the middle of spring (I need an autopsy of the rivers).

Winter is over (according to the calendar) and it was the best in the last five years!

And February has become one of the top winter months in all my conscious time!

I really want the magic to only intensify in the spring and not fade away all year round.

Oh, well, yes, I dreamed not only of a real snowy and frosty winter, but also of mysticism and miracles....That's it.

And if it's a new version of me, then with it all the places, both old and new, will sparkle with different colors, everything will be from a different angle, under a different prism of perception.

It's time for me to decide for myself which place will be magical and which will not.

I can make any place mystical if I come to it with a certain attitude.

Stop depending on the place, let the places depend on me now.

It sounds pretentious, but in fact it's normal and that's how it should be for everyone – whatever we bring with us to a place, that's how it will be for us.

Let me remind the universe once again: may this year be the most magical, kind, mystical, and fabulous!

Canon R6 mark 2, RF 24-105L