Clever! I really like the result!

WOW! How beautiful it is. Looks cold and wet :)

looks like an artwork with the postwork, Nikolais! a soulful capture of urban impressions 😃

Fantastic street scene!!

WOW !! Absolutely wonderful picture and manipulation !!

I like the rainy, cloudy, wet atmosphere. It makes me miss Seattle in the winter! The little bits of rainbow color here and there give it extra shimmer. Terrific result!

Thanks so much, Tara! I walk here a couple of times a month towards the office (most of the time I work remotely via my comp). It looks quite different in rain, so I couldn't help pressing the button.

This has the trademark of your style, which is fascinatingly impressive and when enlarged, there is so much to explore in your art, the reflections on the wet street, the green traffic-lights, the balconies on some of the buildings and all in all the hustle and bustle of the big city-smoke... as if I am experiencing the whole atmosphere and that is what it means to me, just like BEING THERE !

BTW - I did love the 'beggars' image very much, what a revelation that was to me, how the other half lives ! - an amazing photograph, no wonder you felt obliged to immortalize him here - I would have done the same, thanks for sharing all images here, all 3 so very different from each other...

Also, it's been the Month of remembrance, since Lena's passing - already 5 years ago, it's hard to believe Nikolay...

Brit, many thanks for your kind care and remembering me. Time compromises emotions, mostly leaving the good ones.

Your re-interpretations of cities, with Corel Painter, are unique. You give a gently dripping inward 'seeking' to these shots, as if you penetrated the surfaces and found these flowing memories inside. Some are dark, some are illumined. And you turn a pavement with lights into a rain-drenched pavement, more emotion gently dripping into the canvas (so to speak). The electric lines above---horizontal---make fine counterpoint to your often very vertical lines in these urban shots. And the angle makes it feel like the city is on the go, angled and moving well out of frame. Amazing transformation...and the modern building in the background---with that grid-like circular 'fence' facade? is a great punctuation mark to the whole. Man, you do urban environments penetratingly...I could look at these types of shots forever. In fact, your Corel Painter transformations of urban imagery could be a book unto itself. (And btw, I love Brigitte's responses to your work. She has great depth of feeling and reflection, and really resonates with your art.)

Well!!!! You left comments off for the "ah, it's spring again"---perhaps you didn't mean to, but I'll leave my comment here, just as Brigitte did. First, you caught this man in a very determined gaze---like he's going to beat his homelessness, or destitution, no matter what. And yet he has pain in his face, and fatigue. Fine human capture, Nikolay. And great color, with a deep, pulling, reddish rust-brown. "Pulling"---i mean the color pulls at us, the way life pulls at this man. I've worked with missions and homeless shelters, I've seen these faces many times over; this man has a very heavy, lived-in coat, and his hands are blackened by life, and you caught him in an amazing position, over a ledge, with wonderful angles behind him. If this was a spontaneous shot, your eye took you to a great shot immediately. A portrait of someone with a lot of will, and a portrait, in great deep hues, of a snippet of your city as it rises out of winter. Congratulations on finishing your apt work! I hope your place sings for you now...

Thank you kindly for your response, detailed as always, that always gives a new dimension to the work in question. Most of us, including me, are fair-weather-photographers and long for deep contrasts between the city's lights and shadows. However, water changes the town scenery immensely and it's really worth shooting, even though we often hate to expose the camera. About the beggar: it was a cool and windy day and then came that warm break. I was sure he enjoyed it much more than I did. I also loved the way you describe his coat. It looked like his only home.Thank you so much again, Mark

Many thanks to you all for your kind words about my modest efforts of trying to turn my inner thoughts and emotions to 2D images..

this is ART ! congrats