Lighting up your day... - a photo on Flickriver

            Sovetskaya is a pedestrianized street  and one of the few shopping streets of the city of Brest in Belarus. It also hosts a touristic high light of the city. It's an old ritual of lighting and extinguishing street lights. Every day, in any weather condition a lamplighter, wearing a special uniform of the times of Peter Alekseyevich Romanov (aka Peter the Great), lights 17 lanterns. With his ladder he lights or extinguishes each kerosene lantern with the flick of his wrist.

The tradition of lamp lighting on Sovetskaya dates back to 2009, the city's 990th anniversary. When the lamplighter finishes all kerosene lamps, also the electric street lights are turned on. 

Tourists can take photos with the lamplighter. And as with many of these kind of traditional garments or costumes, rubbing the buttons on his old style jacket allows you to make a wish. Of course a couple of Belarusian ruble can facilitate speed-up the process even more...

The time of lamp lighting changes according to the time of sunset, you can check the time on the special clock at the beginning of Sovetskaya.

Technical stuff
I took this photo with a Canon G9. Post-production was done with CS6. It included color toning, high pass filtering and cropping.

Taken in: Belarus / Brestskaya Voblasts' / Brest (show map)

Taken on: December 23, 2014

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