Sensational photo session english

Sensational photo session



When you are connected with the energy of a UNIVERSE, everything is possible! For a while I wanted to do a photography session with a classical ballet people, ballerinas, spirit of a classical dance, but chance had newer came until now. Somehow, a photographer from the Mariinsky theater in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sila (Sveta) Avvakum, contacted me and we became friends. When she found out that I may will fly to St. Petersburg, she offered to have a session of photography with one of ballerinas, but closer to the date of shooting, four dancers expressed their wish to participate. We’ve met In cafe to discuss about the details: where, what a costume, outside, inside, lighting, renting the camera, (I carry only iPad and smart phone and she suggested me to rent a camera), getting the assistance, what would be expense, etc. I came to Russia only for few days and had no concept in my mind what and how to do shooting. It was no one around to get help. Sveta, photographer of Mariinsky Theater relied on me from pint of decision on where and how. She arranged dancers participation. Tomorrow is a free day in Mariinsky and two dancers - Dasha and Lea are coming at 12 noon and one more couple-Vlada and her partner Maxim are coming at 5pm.
I traditionally sleep very well. I touch pillow and I’m out of this world. All good ideas UNIVERSE suggests to me during the meditation in the morning, but I must lie on my back with the closed eyes and get connected. Sometimes it takes full two hours before visualization comes through.
Now I’m talking about TODAY (the shooting is today and I’m wating for an idea). I want this shoot to be unique, original, successful, exciting, beautiful, positive. I have newer met two dancers, but I’ve met Vlada and Maxim, wonderful, enthusiastic and good looking young people.
Here it is: I woke up at 6am, knowing that if IDEA will come, I have to have time before the shoot to realize it physically. THE TIME IS ONLY TODAY. Today is July 24 and I fly away on July 28, but I have to get ticket to Moscow for 27 of July. Two days left.
Here it is. IDEA ARRIVED Around 8am.  “WE MUST SHOOT AT HERMITAGE MUSEUM”.
It is easy to send an idea from the UNIVERSE, but let’s try to realize it before 12 noon. I called Sveta, and shared “my” idea. She said that I have to write a letter of a request and this letter will travel through a beurocratic channels and finally I will get mail from Hermitage Museum in about a month if a shooting will be permitted.
Now I’m wondering how Universal Energy will structure realization of it.
Relying on a law of “objective and subjective”, what I can do only, is “to do my best”. It means I have to start my action. My plan was to take a letter from a director of Hermitage Museum written to me with the appreciation of my book “Reflections”, gifted to this Museum. It means I have to go to a museum through “service” door and find a secretary of the museum. I have to be there early, let’s say at 10:30, latest at 11 am. I have nothing to be dressed appropriately. My shoes were Mexican macassines made from fabric, black sax, not matching the summer hot sunny day, Chinese casual pants in which I travel, shirt which was sown by me many times  and black back-pack which I found in garbage can in decent condition, but I have to glue inner pockets in it.
Huge lines of visitors from all around the world lined from the corner of the building to the side entrance. I went to a service entrance about a quarter mile away from the Main entrance.. After passing metal detector, someone directed me to a second floor to someone who can help. There this “someone” passed me again downstairs, where I  was before. Very polite women who acted as a coordinator called a lawyer of a museum, who suggested me to go to a second floor where I already was minutes ago. “Coordinating” women called someone ells and asked me to wait about 10-15 minutes.
During that time I and she had pretty open conversation about private family issues and it made her very happy. She shared with me details she had newer had chance to share with no one around. Finally another very pleasant women came downstairs and they whispered to each other something I must not heard. This new women asked me to write a letter with an explanation of why I came here and what I want to do in the museum. I did that on a clean sheet of paper “coordinating” women gave me from her unique collection of simple white paper. Than I fallowed through a long corridors to a secretary of a Director of Hermitage Museum. There I did not have to wait long. In about a minute an elderly woman came out from a director’s cabinet, greeted me with the respect and asked about my intentions. I pulled out from my back pack a letter signed by a director and newly written letter of my intention. She carefully was reading it which took little time because I wrote it with the big letters and so clear that anyone could understand my writing. She signed the letter and in the corner added a suggestion not to district visitors during the photo shoot. I received an entrance permit for 4 visitors to go in as well. I asked her if I can take a photo of Mikhail Borisovich Peotrovsky with me and she went to his cabinet. Door opened and director himself invited me to come in. We shake hands but he said that must fly away from Sankt Petersburg an a few hours and doesn’t have time for a photo. “Perhaps some other time”,  he said. I stepped out with the permit. As soon as I stepped out from the Museum, Sveta called on my phone. Two our models-dancers are waiting for me around the corner.
I became pretty hungry not having any food since I woke up. Sveta called her close friend who is a photographer at this museum. He came to meet us inside. When he looked at our two beautiful models his face shined up. “What a beautiful girls!”, he acclaimed. We went to a cafeteria where only workers of Hermitage are coming to have food. There was much lower prise, relating to what people pay outside of this place. Besides, he had 10% discount rights . Naturally, it was my treat and now, after good tasty lunch we could do our shooting.
We all were so excited that spent 5 and a half hours shooting inside. But at 6pm another couple - Vlada and Maxim already were waiting for us to start shooting outside. We ended around 8 pm, starting new friendship with amazing young people from the Mariinsky Theater, one of the best theaters of the world.

Григорий Гуревич, копирайт, 24 Июля, 2018 года, Санкт Петербург, Россия.