A church of Skete of St. Nicolas the Wonder-Worker, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
Interior of a church of Skete of St. Nicolas the Wonder-Worker, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
Pier of Skete of St. Nicolas the Wonder-Worker on southern side of Nikolsky Island, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
Cemetery of Valaam Monastery, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
Brown cat near the entrance of Valaam Monastery, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
Some yellow flowers in Lower Garden of Valaam Monastery, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
Entrance of Saviour Transfiguration Cathedral of Valaam Monastery, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
View of Saviour Transfiguration Cathedral of Valaam Monastery, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
Interior of Saviour Transfiguration Cathedral of Valaam Monastery, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
A park opposite to Laborer s House of Valaam Monastery, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
Domed hall of Saviour Transfiguration Cathedral of Valaam Monastery, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
Golden marguerite (yellow chamomile, Anthemis tinctoria, Russian name Pupavka) at the slope near the entrance of Valaam Monastery, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
Small island beside Monastyrsky Island, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
View of Nikolsky Island from rocks beside Monastyrsky Island, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
Small rocky island south-east from Nikolsky Island, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
Southern side of Nikolsky Island, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
Granite rocks beside Monastyrsky Island, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
Western side of Nikolsky Island, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
Forest on rocks beside Monastyrsky Island, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
Pine forest on Monastyrsky Island, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
Eastern side of Nikolsky Island, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
Monastyrskaya Bay from southern side of Nikolsky Island, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
View to the north from a shrine on Nikolsky Island, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
Rocks south-east from Nikolsky Island, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
Knotted pearlwort (Sagina nodosa, Russian name Mshanka) on rocks south-east from Nikolsky Island, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
Marsh lousewort (red-rattle, Pedicularis palustris, Russian name mytnik) on southern side of Monastyrsky Island, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
Flower of marsh lousewort (red-rattle, Pedicularis palustris, Russian name mytnik) on southern side of Monastyrsky Island, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
Warning "Entrance only for Blessed" in a forest at Main Monastery Road, on Valaam Island. Karelia Region, Russia, July 23, 2015
St. Nicolas the Miracle-Worker Church in Kotly Village. Kingisepp Region of Leningrad District, Russia, January 4, 2016
Interior of St. Nicolas the Miracle-Worker Church in Kotly Village. Kingisepp Region of Leningrad District, Russia, January 4, 2016
Wooden house at 13 Sovietskaya Street. Sortavala (Karelia), Russia, September 19, 2015
Bank of Finland (Suomen Pankki) office building built in 1915 by architect Uno Werner Ullberg, now National Bank of the Republic of Karelia. Sortavala (Karelia), Russia, September 19, 2015
Old suspension bridge. Shlisselburg, Leningradskaya Region, Russia, July 27, 2012
East beach in Orekhovy Island. Shlisselburg, Leningradskaya Region, Russia, July 27, 2012
World War II memorial in Shlisselburg Fortress. Orekhovy Island, Leningradskaya Region, Russia, July 27, 2012
A cat at the entrance of wooden Orthodox Christian church in Sapiornoe. North from Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 23, 2015
New (Narodnaya Volia) Prison in Shlisselburg Fortress. Orekhovy Island, Leningradskaya Region, Russia, July 27, 2012
Passages of King s(?) Tower in Shlisselburg Fortress. Orekhovy Island, Leningradskaya Region, Russia, July 27, 2012
Cell of New (Narodnaya Volia) Prison in Shlisselburg Fortress. Orekhovy Island, Leningradskaya Region, Russia, July 27, 2012
Underground chamber of King s(?) Tower in Shlisselburg Fortress. Orekhovy Island, Leningradskaya Region, Russia, July 27, 2012
Ruins of Fourth Wing of the prison in Shlisselburg Fortress. Orekhovy Island, Leningradskaya Region, Russia, July 27, 2012
Golovin Tower of Shlisselburg Fortress, view from a boat. Orekhovy Island, Leningradskaya Region, Russia, July 27, 2012
Cathedral of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist in Shlisselburg Fortress. Orekhovy Island, Leningradskaya Region, Russia, July 27, 2012
Foot bridge in fog on Love Island in Gatchina, a suburb of Saint Petersburg. Russia, September 27, 2015
World War II memorial inside Cathedral ruins in Shlisselburg Fortress. Orekhovy Island, Leningradskaya Region, Russia, July 27, 2012
Typical wooden house in Maloe Zabrodye Village near Orzhitdy. Lomonosov Region of Leningrad District, Russia, January 4, 2016
Iron foot bridge from Zakharov Island on Beloe Lake in Gatchina, a suburb of Saint Petersburg. Russia, September 27, 2015
Kirova Street. Sortavala (Karelia), Russia, September 19, 2015
Empty Island in Catherine Park, near Marble Bridge. Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo), south from Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 24, 2015
Wooden Orthodox Christian church in Sapiornoe (Tserkov Konevskoy Ikony Bozhiey Materi, built in 1994). North from Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 23, 2015
Fountain of Kirova Square. Sortavala (Karelia), Russia, September 19, 2015
Garden near Zavodskaya Street. Sortavala (Karelia), Russia, September 19, 2015
Sovetskaya Street after a rain. Sortavala (Karelia), Russia, September 19, 2015
Old house at 13 Sovietskaya Street. Sortavala (Karelia), Russia, September 19, 2015
White cat at 10 Karelskaya Street. Sortavala (Karelia), Russia, September 19, 2015
View from Zavodskaya (Factory) Street. Sortavala (Karelia), Russia, September 19, 2015
Cliffs near a quarry in Ruskeala Mountain Park. Karelia, Russia, September 19, 2015
Marble Bridge and Empty Island in Great Pond in Catherine Park. Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo), south from Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 24, 2015
Wooden cross in cemetery of Holy Annunciation Nikandrova Desert Monastery (Svyato-Blagoveshchenskaya Nikandrova Pustyn). Pskov Region, Russia, September 8, 2013
Inundated marble grotto in Ruskeala Mountain Park. Karelia, Russia, September 19, 2015
Ahvenkoski Waterfalls A Zori Zdes Tikhie near Ruskeala. Karelia, Russia, September 19, 2015
Abandoned marble quarry in Ruskeala Mountain Park. Karelia, Russia, September 19, 2015
Marble rocks near a quarry in Ruskeala Mountain Park. Karelia, Russia, September 19, 2015
Marble cliffs near a quarry in Ruskeala Mountain Park. Karelia, Russia, September 19, 2015
Garages at south-east end of Sovetskaya Street. Sortavala (Karelia), Russia, September 19, 2015
Wooden door of Antelope Quarter on Aleksanterinkatu Street. Helsinki, Finland, July 18, 2015
Fire Station from a corner of Karelskaya and Vyaynemyaynena streets. Sortavala (Karelia), Russia, September 19, 2015
Garages near Sovetskikh Kosmonavtov (Soviet Cosmonauts) Street. Sortavala (Karelia), Russia, September 19, 2015
Old railroad service building at 3 Vtoraya Pristanskaya Street. Sortavala (Karelia), Russia, September 19, 2015
Rocks of abandoned marble quarry in Ruskeala Mountain Park. Karelia, Russia, September 19, 2015
View from southern shore of an inundated quarry in Ruskeala Park. Karelia, Russia, September 19, 2015
Large rocks near marble quarry in Ruskeala Mountain Park. Karelia, Russia, September 19, 2015
City Library (old Town Hall, 1885) at 18 Lenin Street. Sortavala (Karelia), Russia, September 19, 2015
Ruins of a bridge to Kubensky Island near Stony Trail (Kamenistaya Tropa) in Kivi Park south from Chulkovo, west from Vyborg. Russia, July 27, 2024
Wooden log gate and boardwalk of sacred radon spring of Alexander Svirsky in Holy Annunciation Nikandrova Desert Monastery (Svyato-Blagoveshchenskaya Nikandrova Pustyn). Pskov Region, Russia, September 8, 2013
Bridge over Oredezh River near Kezevo. Siverskaya south from Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 20, 2015
Wooden log walls of Hvittrask Museum (studio home of the architecture firm Gesellius, Lindgren, and Saarinen). West from Helsinki, Finland, July 18, 2015
Kaymanova Street near a corner with Zavodskaya Street. Sortavala (Karelia), Russia, September 19, 2015
Worker s dorms in village of Kirpichny Zavod (Brick Factory) near Posiolok, north from Vyritsa, 50 miles north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, July 18, 2012
Former Sortavala Lyceum (Johan Jacob Ahrenberg, 1901). Sortavala (Karelia), Russia, September 19, 2015
Marble fragments in abandoned marble quarry in Ruskeala Mountain Park. Karelia, Russia, September 19, 2015
Foot bridge of Oredezh River near Rozhdestveno Village. Gatchina District of Leningrad Region, Russia, January 6, 2016
Northern part of Marble Lake (inundated marble quarry) in Ruskeala Park. Karelia, Russia, September 19, 2015
Monument of Russian communist revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) (2010) in a public garden near Town Hall. Sortavala (Karelia), Russia, September 19, 2015
View from western shore of Marble Lake (inundated marble quarry) in Ruskeala Park. Karelia, Russia, September 19, 2015
Newport Bridge at sunset, view from Taylor Point. Jamestown, Rhode Island, July 2, 2004
Newport Bridge at twilight, view from Taylor Point. Jamestown, Rhode Island, July 2, 2004
Fall colors at northern part of Marble Lake (inundated marble quarry) in Ruskeala Park. Karelia, Russia, September 19, 2015
Lower Summer House of Nicolas II in Alexandria Park. Peterhof, a suburb of Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 27, 2016
Newport Bridge and Narragansett Bay at sunset, view from Taylor Point. Jamestown, Rhode Island, July 2, 2004
Decorated wooden panel with figures of men in Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 19, 2015
Island on Nizhniy Pond in Oranienbaum. Lomonosov, west from Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 24, 2015
Old wooden bridge over tributary of Alligator Branch of Lake Raven in Huntsville State Park. Texas, October 16, 2010
Decaying wooden bridge over tributary of Alligator Branch of Lake Raven in Huntsville State Park. Texas, October 16, 2010
Wooden foot bridge in area of Alligator Branch of Lake Raven in Huntsville State Park. Texas, November 23, 2012
Trim s Pond from Beach Avenue bridge in Block Island. New Shoreham, Rhode Island, April 24, 2004
Wooden fence of a small foot bridge in ultraviolet light in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 6, 2024
Goat Island Lighthouse and Newport Bridge in "Arctic sea smoke", view from Goat Island connector. Newport, Rhode Island, January 22, 2005.
Cape Cod Canal and Railroad Bridge, view from Hog Island (now part of Mashnee Island). Bourne, Massachusetts, February 14, 2004
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