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© Copyright 2003 James Etheridge

Garden of the Palace of the Bulgarian Royal Family


antonio.giacomo

It was a depressingly dull day, and it was very difficult to extract any sort of colour from the negative, despite it being an ultra high saturation film.

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I can see that it would look very beautiful on a nice day. This is

ornamental, but the rest of the large estate contains a wide variety

of botanical specimens. Some suffered badly during the drought. The

land was given by the church to the first King of Bulgaria, because

he had nowhere to live. Then, despite nationalisation and the

Communist regime, the Royal Family still retained the right to use

the palace. Now it is used by the Government. The irony is that the

last King of Bulgaria is now the current Prime Minister. Again, I

think that the category should be journalism.

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Antonio, if a simple photo of a park or garden needs so much explanation, why should it be journalism? Yes, the issue of Prime Minister Simeon Saxecoburggotski having regained his former estates is a highly sensitive political issue in Bulgaria, but a single photo alone does not tell the story. If you showed, for instance, the prime minister in the garden, it would be different. This is also true for your picture of the mosaic in the Ceausescu villa (although I acknowledge that it would be difficult to put late Ceausescu into the picture).
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