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Nevsky Prospect is the main street in the city of St. Petersburg. It takes its name from the Alexander Nevsky Lavra, the monastery which stands at the eastern end of the street, and which in turn commemorates the Prince Saint Alexander Nevsky (1221-1263). Following his founding of Saint Petersburg in 1703, Tsar Peter I planned the course of the street as the beginning of the road to Novgorod and Moscow. The avenue runs from the Admiralty in the west to the Moscow Railway Station and, after veering slightly southwards at Vosstaniya Square, to the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.
Major sights include the Rastrelliesque Stroganov Palace, the huge neoclassical Kazan Cathedral, the Art Nouveau Bookhouse, Elisseeff Emporium, half a dozen 18th-century churches, a monument to Catherine the Great, an enormous 18th-century shopping mall, a mid-19th-century department store, the Russian National Library, the Anichkov Bridge with its horse statues, and the Singer House.
I’m posting this unedited video from May 2017 as it captures me in a vulnerable moment yet also wanting to go through with stepping out in public dressed as a woman. I was truly torn between real terror and a burning desire to do it.
The backstory to this moment had been building for years. I have always been frightened, indeed terrified, at the prospect of stepping out in public dressed as a woman. I felt far more relaxed and comfortable dressing alone in private in the safety of the home. On some subliminal level though the curiosity and desire to venture out was lurking within me.
Eventually, knowing I wasn’t getting any younger, aged 58 I decided I should at least give it a go. If it proved to be a bad experience then I could go back to my comfort zone and carryon knowing I had at least tried it. My aspirations with my male to female cross-dressing go beyond just dressing up. I genuinely have a desire to pass convincingly as a female. I do not want to be perceived as anything other than being a woman. It is a delusional ambition as I am a man and have physical limitations that work against this dream. Also, I am not feminine and lack good looks. Despite these limitations I do always enjoy my time dressed as a woman so I suppose pushing myself to try being one in a public was something was inevitably was going to try one day.
That day came in May 2017. I wanted to feel confident so I treated myself to hiring a professional make-up artist to do my hair make-up. The lovely and talented Sandra Cormack, based in Dundee in Scotland is also a friend and supportive of my love of cross-dressing as a woman. The double benefit as not only would my make-up be applied by a professional she would also accompany me on my tripod in public.
I adored the makeover shaded on me and felt absolutely amazing. I loved the look and dressed in a denim skirt, wedge heels, a pink top and black cardigan, I felt amazing! I was ready for the outside world; or was I…
Despite sans of wanting to go out in public I as still hesitating. The video captures the moment of my hesitation in getting out of the car. You will hear how Sandra gives me the impetus to step out of the car. I doubt without her gentle cajoling I would have got out. I think my nerves were shredded and I would have driven off. Thanks to her being with me, I did eventually get out of the car. Within minutes she had me going into a supermarket and buying groceries! This was beyond anything I had imagined. I envisioned a quiet stroll around the town square.
I am not going to deny I loved, absolutely loved being a woman out in a public environment and felt great in my make-up and outfit. Amazingly, the world didn’t crash in, it was all on the surface very normal though underneath I was elated.
I am sure I a not alone in my fears of venturing out in public as a woman so I’m hoping in some way the video can help encourage other cross-dressers who have the same fears and concerns I had. I acknowledge, it is a luxury to get your hair and make-up done professionally but it helped me considerably. Walking around the main square in a Perthshire town on. Warm summer late afternoon was just a beautiful moment for me. To say I was thrilled and euphoric would be understating things, I was on a genuine lifetime high. I have to express my thanks to Sandra for gently persuading me to do this.
I suppose I’m hoping by revealing my nerves in the video and eventually stepping out that the underlying thing is we can all do this if we can break the fear barrier.
I haven’t been out in public since then, this is more to do with few opportunities to cross-dress in the intervening years. I now feel the desire to venture out again building with me so I have started to make plans for a trip. I have no idea when I can actually arrange a date for it but I’m quietly excited about it as a feel more confident, despite inability to actually look like a woman, I will do the best I can though and enjoy myself in a more relaxed way than the day out back in 2017.
I definitely feel more at ease within myself now I reached age 63. Being age 58 in the video it was a lifetime of suppression and fear being lanced. I feel the next trip will be a lot less fraught emotionally and I can settle into being Helene for the day.
Prospect is a small fishing community near Halifax. My husband and I stopped there on a sunny September day on our way to Peggy's Cove and I took tons of shots which I never got around to posting, so I finally found a couple to share... a lttle grunge texture from pareeerica
I have posted a couple shots from this station. It's where I usually catch the Q or B train into the city. I wanted to play with the sqaure frame again.
Prospect Place, Battersea. Two of five buildings designed by Frank Gehry & Partners (Executive Architects: Adamson Associates), totally over 700 apartments next to the Power Station. Nearing completion, the flats will need a hefty bank balance to purchase!
London Borough of Wandsworth, Battersea, South London, UK - Prospect Place, Electric Avenue
February 2022
Love Your Neighbours?...Opposite The Battersea Power Station You To Can Buy A One Room Flat For £1,048,000.....
Malgré plusieurs individus très coopératifs, cette espèce est très mobile et rapide ce qui complique la tâche pour lui tirer correctement le portrait ! 😉
A familiar location for me, it's a block from my place. Which makes it a great place to test a new camera. My t3i/600d's shutter jammed (Error 20), and I found a near-new t6 for a good deal in the classifieds.
The prospect of a merchant navy charging up out of Weymouth celebrating 55 years since the end of southern steam seemed like a good excuse for a weekend in the south.
Reality was near heatstroke, a track circuit failure and a late departing tour. Thankfully not too late to loose the shot to the ever encroaching shadows as the evening drew in, but Clan Line eventually showed up hauling its train up the 1 in 50 to Dorchester with ease.
*support coach edited to maroon
This was the home of Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman. 31st January 1942 to 19th February 1994.
He was an English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, gardener and author.
On 22nd December 1986 he was diagnosed as HIV positive. His illness prompted him to move to Prospect Cottage. Here he created his famous garden using the plants that naturally grew at Dungeness.
In 1994 he died of an AIDS related illness in London aged just 52.
There is a poem on the side of the cottage which is the first stanza and the last five lines of the last stanza of John Donne's poem The Rising Sun.
THE SUN RISING.
by John Donne
BUSY old fool, unruly Sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains, call on us?
Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?
Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide
Late school-boys and sour prentices,
Go tell court-huntsmen that the king will ride,
Call country ants to harvest offices;
Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
In that the world's contracted thus;
Thine age asks ease, and since thy duties be
To warm the world, that's done in warming us.
Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere;
This bed thy center is, these walls thy sphere.
Prospect Cottage, built in 1900, was home to Derek Jarman (1942-94), the radical film director, cinematographer, stage designer, diarist, painter, gardener, author and gay rights activist. He moved here in 1986 when he was seriously ill and knew that time was not on his side.
Among Jarman’s films were Sebastiane, The Tempest, War Requiem and Caravaggio; the actors who worked for him included Laurence Olivier (in his last film appearance), Judi Dench, Sean Bean, Robbie Coltrane, Toya Wilcox and Tilda Swinton.
At Dungeness, Jarman moved into his unassuming wooden cottage (which he desribed as 'a beaut, a gem') and set about creating his shingle garden, largely by collecting and arranging flotsam washed up onto the beach in front of the house. He made sculptures from stones and he introduced salt-tolerant beach plants, all to great effect. Today, the cottage and garden are much as he left them.
YT71 GHD is an irizar i6 new to Prospect, Lye in October 2021.
It carries a hybrid megabus.com livery and is seen here at London Victoria heading for the departure area in Victoria Coach Station to operate megabus service M22 to Nottingham.