Category Archives: Romania

Springtime

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Romania 2012 A Gypsy man wanted to show us his horses. We agreed and we waited on the village street. He turned one horse loose and held tightly to the bridle of the other. The horses expressed their happiness by … Continue reading

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Grafitti

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Utah, U.S.A. 2013 Look closely and you will see several handprints on the underside of the rock ledges. These are called ‘negative handprints’. The hand is outlined with the paint rather than having the hand print done by placing a … Continue reading

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Inspiration from a Kitchen Calendar

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Bukovina, Romania 2012 I turned the page of my kitchen calendar on December 1, but didn’t pay attention to the picture until a day later. Each month shows an impressionist painting and December showed a single haystack painted by Monet. I was … Continue reading

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Romania As It Used to Be

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Romania 1989 A bus carrying Romanian villagers had broken down on a mountain road. The villagers piled out with their bundles containing homemade sausage, cheese and bread. They didn’t forget to bring the bottles of palinka, an apricot brandy distilled … Continue reading

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Romania’s Voronetz Monastery

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Romania 1989 Hard to believe that twenty-four years have passed since I shot this photo. Ceausescu had recently been dispatched to his reward and Romanians were giddy with the prospects of freedom. So giddy that my husband and I were able … Continue reading

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Man in Window

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Bucharest, Romania 2012 The rain had stopped. People surged back into the narrow streets after huddling under the eaves of the historical old buildings. This man stared from his window on an upper floor. He is old enough to remember … Continue reading

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Beware!

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Romania 2012 I couldn’t resist making this photo into a low-key black and white to give it a hint of sinister mystery. Actually, some of the families along this road made brooms to supplement their incomes. We stopped at one house … Continue reading

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Fantasy

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Bucharest, Romania 2012 I had a couple of days in Bucharest after saying good-bye to my guide, Daniel Gheorghita (http://www.covinnus.com/index.html). It was Easter weekend and almost everyone was spending the religious holiday with family and friends.  I walked the deserted neighborhood streets … Continue reading

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Rural Romania

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Transylvania 2012 There were many “highlights” on my trip through Romania, but I must say staying at the Kalnoky estate was one I’ll never forget. (http://www.rosemarysheel.com/archives/kalnoky-estate) Daniel, my guide, (www.covinnus.com)  and I met early to take a photo walk through … Continue reading

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Gypsy Village

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Romania 2012 Have you ever seen some of Van Gogh’s early drawings? He couldn’t get the hang of perspective. His drawings looked a lot like something you or I would draw. Then he learned about and decided to buy something called … Continue reading

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