Ice drift on Lezha river

The Lezha is a river in the Vologda Region, a right tributary of the Sukhona. It flows through the Gryazovetsky and Vologda districts. The length is 178 km.

I've been worried about a new topic lately...or even the mood is so definite – I want to photograph as many different places as possible. I often study the satellite map in search of new places to visit and I wonder what it looks like. I go into the pictures in the search, enter the name of the locality, but if I'm lucky, there will be one or two...but most of the time there is nothing. Yandex and Google, of course, produce different kind of views, but none is true.

I have no plans to capture every corner of the world, which is also impossible. My region where I live, Vologda region, is enough for me. But even here everything is very complicated. The region is large, with an area comparable to that of a small European state. And the difficulty is not even in the area, where 80% is forest, but in the directions.

There are roads in different parts of the region almost everywhere, but due to the large number of rivers and lakes, there are a lot of directions. Directions are what I call highways or roads, branches that lead into the bushes of populated areas. The problem is that these directions are often not interconnected and are often dead ends. That is, you chose a direction, drove through the right places and returned back to the starting point to go in a different direction. I've always loved circular routes, where you can only return to point A by another route. If it's alphanumeric, then we mostly have A-B, A-C, A-D, A-E, and I want A-B-C-D-E-A. There are such routes, but there are very few of them.

For example, it will be impossible to drive through all the districts of the region in a chain or snake, since they are not connected by secondary roads. That's why traveling around the region becomes more difficult. And I want to document every more or less large settlement. I already had a little experience about three years ago, where in three days I had to go around several areas with iconic places and interesting natural places and photograph them beautifully. In theory, it's not very difficult, it's expensive – there will be big runs. It's like the yards of Vologda – in a couple of years you can re-photograph the entire region.

The point here is not about every house or every street, but about conveying the overall picture, the atmosphere of the places. Somewhere a couple of frames will be enough, and in some place you will need a hundred.

It turns out that I want to create a photo bank of species of the Vologda region. And it's in high demand! Almost every week at my work I have requests for views from different parts of the region...which I often don't have.

And one more thing: we need two main seasons - summer and winter. Spring and autumn are also good, but specific.

We need postcards! Summer is always successful, even in cloudy weather. Autumn may still be here, but it's not too late. A bright snowy frosty winter will also be in demand. But spring, especially yellow and gray, is the least of all.