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eibesdorf/ighisu nou/szaszivanfalva. A lady with silver hair opened

us the gates to show us the miracles behind the meter thick wall.

eibesdorf/ighisu nou/szaszivanfalva, 14th cent. gothic church with

some old stone decoration visible here and there.

i prefer this version against the sepia, i think. It has a good atmosphere. The sepia version is almost like a painting, something else is also done to it i guess...

:) it makes me hungry. I think that means it's a succesful shot.

interesting...this has a very dynamic composition...it's almost like the house is also moving towards me. Very nice.

zied/veseud/vesszod, open songbooks and lose pages everywhere

inside. Some of them are from the beginning of the 1900's. The usual

spiderwebs over them, and all kind of rubble and dead bugs. Comments

are welcome.

thanks Jeff, and thanks Erin, for taking time to look and write some comments... More photos to come on this subject; slowly as i am scanning them i will post some newer ones.

zied/veseud/vesszod has a half-devastated small saxon church. Many

things broken or missing - especially the people. The cross is nex to

the altar, or, better said what's left of it. An old fellow was more

than happy to show us around inside. Comments and observations are

welcome.

mergeln/merghindeal/morgonda, the wooden stairs lead first to the

clockwork, then to the bells. The stone loads [some 20 kg each] have

to be raised at least once in 36 hours to make the clock tick. Can

you see the giant pendulum swinging up there?

mergeln/merghindeal/morgonda, the old lady took a long walk to open

the gates for us. The church, from 1280, is in surprising good shape,

with the clockwork working and wound up every 24 hours - see next

image. Your comments are most welcome.

wurmloch/valea viilor/nagybaromlaka, the bells and clockwork are

fully functional. A swiss 'klockmeister' travels through these

churches and repairs the clockwork one by one. He is about 30, his

wife and kid [about 2 y old] stayed with him when we've met him in

Alzen. Your commenmts are welcome.

Your thoughts are welcome. See below for details.

i think i like these abstracts most from your photo.net 'offer'. Great work.

a closer look with a 135mm. comments are, again, welcome.

this fortified church in wurmloch/valea viilor/nagybaromlaka

celebrates its sevenhundredth birthday this year. it is slowly

restaurated by a very friendly volunteer guy from germany. peculiar

tower, quite different from the rest he have seen.

 

i had to run across the road - we were exiting the gate just a minute

earlier - ,squeak and snap quickly before the galloping horses would

have ran out of the frame. the 17mm ultrawide angle contributed to

this considerably. your comments are welcome here as well.

light and tones work well with the style of the subjects. Great try!

Was he right after a good laugh? Nice portrait!

Why dod you love this moment? What exactly did you like about it? What made you take this image? Just curious...

Please take your time to check the rest of the photos in this

folder. Thanks for any comments.

Comments welcome here too. More images on the subject of fortified

churches in this folder.

Please check the rest of the folder for more images and info on this

project. Many thanks for your comment!

Your comments are most welcome. Please check the rest of the folder

too, if you have some time.

Birthalm, you can visit almost all the small and large rooms with all kind of small and large old things inside. However, you pay a fee for doing that and you bear with bored "guards" who are very inventive when it's about finding a reason why you are not allowed to photograph.

Birthalm/Berethalom/Biertani. A very well kept church and fort, since the 13th century, of high religious and strategical importance. This is reflected in its size as well. After series of robberies, many of the old relics from the surrounding "kirchburg"s are gathered and kept here, to prevent further "export" of these.

It's possible to climb most of the wooden towers in these fortified churches. Some of them are very tricky, though. Slippery steep ladders of centuries-old wood, small holes to crawl through trying not to bang your head. But it's worth it. The view is something like here above, as far as a 17mm small-format lens can render the reality...