Saturday, August 9, 2008

May I come in?

It's so much fun taking photos sometimes! But I have to admit it's not easy to take pet photos. They never stand still.

With this photo I was lucky. There she was...eager to get in the house. She wanted to get inside my house and inside my blog! So, WELCOME her!




Cranberries - Animal instinct
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Sunday, June 22, 2008

The Black Cell (the punishment Cell)



Memorialul victimelor comunismului si al rezistentei - Sighet, Maramures, Romania
THE MEMORIAL OF THE VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM AND OF THE RESISTANCE - Sighet prison, once a communist prison, today a museum.

The victim was locked in alone in complete darkness for hours, days and nights with no food. The floor was full of water so the victim had to stay half in the water with his hands tied to the ground. The hunger, the cold, the uncomfortable position of the victim was nothing compared to the complete darkness of the cell. The victims didn't know if it was night or day outside, didn't know what time it was, didn't know how long they've been locked in there.

If you ever visit this museum and get to this cell, enter it and close the door for one second to "see" its darkness and to realize that one second in this cell is no longer one second.



For me it is the second time I visit this museum. The first time I visited it we had a guide. I will never forget when the guide closed the door of the Black cell behind us, I got so scared. It was like a cold shower and I wasn't alone in there and I knew it was a museum and everything was over. I knew things have changed except for one thing: the blackness of this place.

Two days ago I visited the museum again. This time I was alone and it was Thursday morning. I found an empty museum, or an almost empty museum and of course it was quite scary at a certain point but I got over it. No matter how sad and shocking this museum is I would like to visit it again. I know there are a lot of people who wouldn't like to see it because they find it too shocking or too sad but I can't agree. I think we should go there and read the names written on the walls and look at their faces in the photos, I think we should remember or find out rather than forget or ignore.THEY deserve more.




VALERIU STELIAN ,,DOAMNE VINO DOAMNE"
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Monday, June 16, 2008

Iezer Lake

I finally climbed for the first time Pietrosul Peak, Rodnei Mountains, Romania, on 13th June 2008. I captured this photo as soon as I approached the Iezer Lake! There is something special and strange about this lake, the fact that it has the shape of the Romanian map. If you climb further on the Pietrosu Peak when you turn around and look at the lake from above, you can see it: the romanian map.

It feels great to step on June snow and drink the cold, fresh water of our mountains!




Ducu Bertzi - Floare de colt
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Thursday, June 5, 2008

Negru

This is a photo of my black cat. She was so scared when I took this photo of her and of course so little, just a kitten. Just look at her eyes! It's obvious she has never seen a camera before...



Pasarea Colibri- Pisica Neagra
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Friday, May 23, 2008

MARAMURES, Romania

This is a self made postcard using some of my Maramures photos.It includes Barsana Monastery, Maramures wooden door (details), Marta and her house in Stramtura, a Sacel pot and a girl's portrait taken in Sighetu Marmatiei. The song accompanying this postcard is "Maramures plai cu flori"by Fratii Petreus.







Folclor Autentic Romanesc
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More about Maramures on other blogs here.

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Nichita Stanescu -- Sad Love Song

A beautiful Romanian poem by Nichita Stanescu.

Only my life will die for me, in truth,
sometime.
Only the grass knows the taste of the earth.
In truth, only my blood misses
my heart when it leaves.
The air is tall, you are tall,
my sadness is tall.
There comes a time when horses die.
There comes a time when machines grow old.
There comes a time when cold rains fall,
and every woman wears your head-
and clothes.
There also comes a huge white bird
and lays the moon in the sky.

Saturday, May 10, 2008

window view

Pietrosul Rodnei

This photo will always remind me of
Borsa and its cold winters.



DAN SPATARU - DE VREI SA STII CE INSEAMNA...
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Saturday, April 5, 2008

St. Clement church by the lake Ohrid and the song makedonsko devojce

This photo is the best I took in Macedonia, Ohrid. Sunset was near so that explains the beautiful lighting on St. Clement church .
This song will always remind me of Macedonia!


Photos by DANA GRAD ©All rights reserved.

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