I try to understand why I like the village from the plain so much, why I love the plains. Contrary to where I grew up, which was also a village but among the hills. Obviously, I love the hill area, the place of childhood remains in our soul but also in our imagination as something like heaven. I wonder about the plain? One explanation I think is that the road to the sea is only over the plains and I associate the joy of the holiday with the view of these plains. I think even…
Strange how you can love what scares you. I love the sea, water but I am afraid of them. I like to swim only when I know that I can touch the ground at least with my toes and when I am in a boat I faint with fear at every movement of the waves ... I think of those who grew up by the sea, how much they would laugh at me, the one who lived only between hills and plains. I can only imagine how wonderful it can be to be at sea at sunset, in a small boat, and without being afraid…
Golden hour at the seaside. I miss it so much, last year I couldn't travel and this year I'm looking forward to September when there are gloomy predictions about the fourth wave of the pandemic.
The beauty of the past can hardly be achieved, especially in construction. Palaces and castles are no longer built so we are left with only those that survived the times. A palace built 350 years ago, of course, it was repaired several times during this period, is the Mogosoaia Palace near Bucharest. Now it's a museum, hotel, and restaurant plus a huge garden transformed into a park. A place open to anyone. When it was built, it was reserved only for one family, the family…
Here, once, was a beautiful tree! Mogosoaia Palace Garden, near Bucharest, Romania.
Yesterday I posted a photo of the sunflower seen from behind. In order not to be upset with me, I have to show the opposite, that is, the most beautiful part. This is a field with sunflowers. It's not for beauty reasons, it's more prosaic. For seeds that are used in oil extraction and in the food industry.
Sunflower is a classic subject to photograph, we see many such photos every day. I thought I'd see a picture from behind, not very often shown (actually I haven't seen any so far).
The small lake is full of lotuses. The reflected sky that makes the water look blue, the round lotus leaves. The flower is hidden by the branches of a tree but revealed by the reflection in the water. One of the images of summer that will accompany me in the winter that will inevitably come
It is the middle of summer and the sea has already become a nostalgia, I look at the photos taken on the short trip to the Black Sea a month ago. Looks like a year has passed since then ...
My wife really liked a statue, in fact, a group of statues, with a poor man climbing a rope to take the moon from the sky. She really liked the metaphor! We can say that it's normal for this to happen. I pretended not to understand the meaning of this sculpture, not another one but I'm sick of heights!
It's summer in Europe, the continent where my little country is. It's summer and I can't forget about lavender. Such a beautiful and useful flower. In Romania, it has only recently begun to be cultivated and the large lavender fields take your breath away with their beauty. I don't have such a photo. I photographed a small bush with a happy bumblebee, probably dizzy from the scent.
Grandparents' house must have fruit (cherries), flowers and be caressed by the sun's rays. It's not the same as when I was a child, half a century ago, but it warms my heart whenever I can get back to a place where I was happy, without realizing that I was happy. I was busy playing games with the other kids ...
There is always the "first time"! Here, my granddaughter Ilinca went to the supermarket for the first time. She was impressed with the size of the store and it was nicer than I expected. A good friend told me that Ilinca will be able to see these posts in years to come and so she will remember this "first time". I hope this happens ...
What a surprise this morning, a small green visitor was resting on a leaf. For the first time in my yard. Well, it's called Phaneroptera falcata, it looks more like a dinosaur name. Interestingly, I read that these insects appeared on earth before dinosaurs. Frightening! I think you've noticed how much it looks like the leaves on it. Perfect camouflage.
Whenever I walk, I take a few steps behind my wife, so that I can freely photograph everything that interests me. That's why my wife is seen from behind in most of my photos. I put the color version and the B&W version and I'm curious which one you think is better. Here in the old center of Bucharest, near a building that is about to collapse but where an antique shop operates. This is called Doamnei Street (Mrs. Street). Soon this building, over a hundred years old, will be…
Oh, how dangerous is rushing! I forgot to put the photo ...
The sunflower, a summer flower that seeks the sun. Whole fields of sunflower, all facing the sun. Every summer when traveling I see such chains, it is really a danger to forget that you drive.
Former Royal Palace in Bucharest, Romania. It's a museum now. National Museum of Art.
The street is in the center of Bucharest. I chose to take black and white photography to give the impression of an old town. The abandoned building is a building with a high risk of earthquake, it should have been repaired for many years but nothing was done. At the first major earthquake, it will collapse ...
A rose in the rain. I think it feels really good. We are not as good, it has not rained for over two weeks and it is extremely hot.
A walk with a certain purpose, that of photographing the sun. Direct photography is difficult and I have neither the best knowledge nor the tools to do so. Because of this I photograph the sun indirectly and I prefer to show the light it leaves on the ground, on buildings, on trees, on people. The Shadow! Where the shadow is, there is also the sun, even if it's not visible. I like the sun and the shade, the perspective, and the silhouette, here is a walk in the biggest park…
I don't know if you can believe it, this small lake full of Egyptian lotuses close to flowering is in the middle of a city with three million inhabitants and 300 m from the lake are hundreds of cars, heavy traffic, and many, many people melted by heat.
Today I saw a photo with a dragonfly in a post by @MarSou and it reminded me how much I struggled some time ago to take pictures with dragonflies. When I was on the shore of a lake to photograph lotuses, a dragonfly flew around me. I ran after her much and I'm glad I managed to capture the image reflected in the lake. Much later, preparing the photo for a blog, I noticed that I managed to photograph the dragonfly, not only the reflection in the water. Do you see the…
Don't forget to participate in the QR code challenge! It's so simple, I learned to send money this way and I'm happy to know how to do it. I think this is the next step in noise.cash update.
Some prefer the open spaces, others prefer the hilly areas and, finally, there are many who prefer the mountains and heights. I grew up in adolescence in hilly areas and, of course, these areas are in my heart forever. But now, in my old age, I prefer open and wide spaces, plains and the sea. The plains and the sea, the road to the sea through the plain and before the rain.
About summer. After a stiflingly hot day, the promise of a refreshing rain is a good reward. I like the deserted roads that seem to lead to the sky ...
Nature gives me the signal to go to sea. The signs that the time has come for the sea are, for me, wild poppies! Because the roadsides and wheat fields are full of poppies when we go to sea. So I'm like Pavlov's dog, if I see poppies blooming my instinct immediately tells me I have to go to sea ...
I would like to get on a small ship and set sail. Unfortunately, there are some small obstacles in front of this desire ... I don't have a ship, I don't know how to sail and I don't even know how to swim!
I don't get tired of summer even if it seems like it wants to fry me. It's beach time!
Caturday. There are many cats in Greece, so they say. I could only check this on Thassos Island, my favorite island. Actually the only one I visited. I've seen a lot of cats. This is one of them, a young one.
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