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I love archeology!

PDE

Maria,

If a picture can speak a thousand words there are no words here. It is totally devoid of a story. You need to create that story. That might mean adding some layers. The archaeologist would work away with their brushes painstakingly revealing artefacts or layers of history that makes a field or patch of brickwork relate to the contemporary. This is achieved through deciphering the history and creating the story that the viewer or visitor can find interest in. You are lacking in a story photographically speaking.

Compositionally, there is almost next to nothing going on here for the viewer. Maybe an isolated focus on one small part where your lens picks up so much detail in macro could add to some interest. The present shot has too much of no interest and too little of no interest. Philosophically, that might be an impossible state to be but somehow, you have achieved that and perhaps that is the success?

Yet I feel that you are not aspiring for what I have alluded to. If you are interested in the past bring it to life through your lens. I have not felt any connection with what you have depicted. Help me, help the viewer!

I read a novel about this site, set in the Middle Ages, in Transylvania, when the castle was still a castle, "Negy szel Erdelyben" by Passuth Laszlo, and so I was kind of shocked when visiting the site.

On the other hand, I thought that it is an interesting exchange to just see Roman and Greek ruins. Middle Age ruins are not so researched.