- Portrait of Romanian Woman
I walked, uninvited, into this woman’s farmyard because I wanted to photograph her house. She stood on her porch gazing at me with amazement. I immediately loved the look of strength in her face and hands. I placed her hands on the porch rail and fired away. Today I noticed that in scanning the slide, I blew out the highlights on her hands, so I’ll have to try again, but I can’t ignore her handsome face. So here is a preview.
- Call to Prayers
The monastery at Suceavitsa. A nun calls the community to prayers with an instrument called a ‘toaca’. It is a board with three holes drilled in each end. She raps it with a mallet and the sound cracks across the courtyard and hits the monastery walls with a smack. No one could ignore this sound. It is said that the Turks, when they controlled the area, did not allow bells to be rung and so the toaca was substituted.
- New Humor with haystacks
This is the new Monastery at Humor. There are no frescoes on the exterior. But I love these cute little haystacks the Romanians make. I made a painting out of this slide using Topaz Simplify, Snap Art 3 and actually a few of Faye Sirkis brushes to finish the steeple which I had cut off to get my haystacks.