Praying at Peștera Moșului (Old Man’s Cave) at Cetățuia (Negru Vodă) Monastery. This cave is a medieval Romanian (Vallachian) church built on the place of an older, ancient Dacian holly place and for a long while there were hermits living in isolated caves around.
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No, is not the bridge of starship USS Enterprise and there is no captain Picard around, this is the dispatch center of the Bucharest subway, it was open to the public Saturday at the 32 years anniversary, since the first station was opened.
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A trip with some friends in the Old City, a visit to an antique store, Iulia wanting to play, a lot of GIMP due to shooting in low light and here is this vintage session:
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It was kind of frustrating to promote the Wiki Loves Monuments, make video tutorials, organize photo walks, but not upload any photo (I can’t and I won’t enter the contest, since I am organizer and judge). Until the solution stroke: there can be a photo category for organizers, which is counted for the total and seeding data, but not entering in the contest. Relief! A first batch is up, more are to come 🙂
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It seems I can’t pass trough the old city of Bucharest and keep myself from taking photos, especially in such beautiful light, right before the sunset. Here are a couple of details: a street light and a balcony.
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The Râșnov citadel in pretty much in ruins, but still some parts of it are somewhat functional, like this little alley leading to a couple of souvenir shops. Too bad for the modern ice-cream sign, otherwise one may have a medieval feeling.
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Two nazi soldiers and a MiG 15 in the background, that’s quite a history mismatch surprised in the backyard of the Military Museum of Bucharest for the “museum day”, when the access was open, demos and parades with old costumes happened. And they had beas from the cauldron, military style!
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There is no war, the tanks are sitting at the Military Museum for decades, the vegetation conquered them. Still, the love part is lacking to a great degree…
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In the Chindia ruins complex, past the old church there is another church, a smaller one, with a graveyard on the side. As the castle was ruled, among other voivods, by Vlad Dracul (Drăculea) and his son, Vlad Țepeș (the Impaler, the famous Dracula), I like to call it Dracula’s Backyard, since for sure it was the backyard of the two Vlads.
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Part of the complex of the voivodal palace in Tirgoviște there is the old church which has inside remainings of the old orthodox mural paintings:
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Being in Tîrgoviște for Tudorița/Paștele Cailor, couldn’t miss the ruins of the voivodal palace there (last time when I visited it, it was… back then in primary school). It made me a bit sad for hot having my sword handy… but since it is a museum, they would have not allowed me anyway.
There is the old church, with old painting on its walls:
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Seeing the St. Michael cathedral in Brussels, it was the first time when I had the opportunity to visit a Gothic cathedral and, the raging atheist I am, I was impressed by it: the architecture, the majesty, the stained glass.
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From a visual point of view I know I should have used GIMP to remove the black wire from the background of this photo, but those wires are pretty much the Bucharest’s signature these days, even if the old fashioned clock make you think at long go times.
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This weekend is supposed to be the peak for the 550 anniversary of “Bucharest Days” and I plan to be there and take photos, still the weather will have the final word: the forecast for Sunday, the most important day, with fireworks and stuff is supposed to be rainy (showers, probability 60%) and Sunday is expected to be good.
The shooting opportunities must be plenty, as attested by this preview from last week-end when the festivities began
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The ugly to hot ratio at a tourism fair is high, probably because the booth babes are supposed to talk with the public, not only to sit on display like at a car show (…or it was yet another effect of the economic crisis?), but a booth for Malta vacancies was putting quite a show: they had to bikini babes posing (unfortunately, in the hours I roamed around only the brunette was "working").
They also had a couple of guys in heavy armours, posing as knights, without Malta crosses and with a shiny cardboard background, so not very realistic but still some effort.
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