In reply to Message (54461.1.1.1.1) Re:Lot of good ones here for a variety of tastes.
By MK -
wamtec@comcast.net
Wed 30/05/12 15:51:41 GMT
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As far as I know....nothing happens in the Spring in any of the Russian cities.....cos it is far too cold.
All the wetlook happens starting in mid to late May and ends in early Septermber......weather permitting.
When you have good weather in Russian, the shooting season is from May until August.
However, when you have bad weather in Russia and it is too cold, as seems to be the case this year, then nothing much happens in May at all, and this is what appears to have happened so far this year, cos my camera guy Vlad in St Petersburg has been to the fountains several times this month and he tells me it is far too cold (only 7C) and nobody is going in the water. Likewise, nothing much has happened in Moscow so far this year, cos the Last Bell events in Moscow this month were a dud, due to cold weather. As you can see from UFAs footage this month, people are only wetting their feet cos it is too cold to immerse themselves. All the Last Bell pics you have seen on Russian websites this month seem to come from Kiev in the Ukraine or other Russian cities, cos there has been nothing happening in Moscow or St Petersburg so far this year, cos the weather is too cold.
Hopefully the weather will get warmer next month and things will start happening next month.
But nothing happens in the Spring in Russia....not unless you engage in those ice water polar plunge events.
This is one of the reasons I do not travel to Russia to film wetlook events myself, and instead I normally go to Thailand, cos Thailand is a 100% guarantee of hot weather and loads of wetlook to see, whereas Russia is a crap shoot where everything depends on the weather, and that is unpredictable, so instead of going to Russia myself I hire local camera guys who live in various Russian cities and they can go to the fountains whenever the weather is good.
Actually, I just checked the footage that Sergey sent me that matches to those pics, and he sent me those scenes on video in the summer of 2010, not 2011....so those scenes are from 2 shooting seasons ago...not recently shot.
MK
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