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Fantastic shot! For photographing bears, I can also recommend Romania. Plenty of Carpathian brown bears over there. I have seen several myself. What equipment did you use, for your shots? In particular which focal length, how did you get close enough, how did you stay safe from the animals?

Tough guy living outthere presumably alone ar maybe with one or two more companions. I've met sheperds in Romania leading a similar lifestyle in remote mountains. Western Europe has mostly lost these sort of people. What a pitty.

These are things that I dream of doing but don't quite dare to. I do some lighter mountain trekking myself to altitudes of up to 2500m, but these things look like a dream to me. This is what I call real mountain climbing, where the human endurance, courage and determination make the difference and not the sofistication of equipment or technology, let alone taking the cable car to the peak, drinking a bere and coming down with the same. I admire your ways!

Check out my Romania photographs. They are not quite like this, but they also show a more particular lifestyle. You could enjoy them. Have you published your photographs anywhere?

How do you get to these places? Are you a professional of some sort who has to go with his job?

You seem to be a real adventurer, with the spirit of dicovery, like in the days of the great explorers of the 18th-19th century! I would like to see more of your photographs from the Caucasians. I've only got as far east as the Charpatians in Romania and maybe I don't quite have your courage... But the Caucasians seem to be wonderful and I would love to see more of them.

What an incredible wild place! I almost envy you that you have the chance to enjoy and photograph those places.

I use a Rolleiflex myself and I know that scans just cannot render all the wonderful details and shades and tones that this camera can record. Wonderful picture and Russia is a great treasure chest to be discovered. It's a world of it's own and I think a lifetime would hardly be enough to visit everything.

 

Best regards, on one day I maybe also make up my mind and visit Russia.

Not the walls of the house are slanted, but the roof. What you see is a typical, traditional transylvanian house, most probably from a saxon or hungarian village or maybe saxon city. What you see is only the attic and roof of the house, the living spaces of the house are underneath the lower edge of the picture, therefore not shown. What you thought were the walls of the house are in fact the outer sides of the very steep roof, also typical for the region.

 

Best regards

Beautiful!

Beautiful!

Your presence here is a blessing Roy. You can be a "how not to do" example for everyone. Hadn't you been here we couldn't fully appreciate the attitude of those people who come up with something constructive.

Thanks Roy, very helpful again. It is also easy to say bad things about other's photographs anyone can do that, even you! Maybe you should spend more time posting some of your "reference" photographs here on photo.net. You surely had the time to take more than one picture in 15 years of professional carreer. Or if not maybe you should be busy with taking those pictures and not saying bad things about the work (that you apparently haven't done) of others.

Thanks again for your constructive comments Roy! This helps me a lot to improve my photography. I can also take good inspiration from the one photo posted in your portfolio!

I would like to see more than just one photograph of yours. It is easy to state that you've been a professional for x years, and give bad opinions on others pictures. Why don't you show, how it should be done? Is this one picture the result of 15 years of professional photograhy? That can't be called a succesful carreer, can it?

The house is indeed in a narrow space sorrounded by trees and at the base of a hill. One of it's corners (the right side of the image) is partly digged into the hill). There is one more possible view, but with the moderately wide angle lens that I had at the time (Zeiss Flektogon 2.4/35mm) I couldn't frame the house entirely. This was also the angle apart from the other, that I just mentioned which best conveyed the character of the house.

 

Thanks for your comment.

I was walking around with mz camera in The Hague when I went by this

passageway to the courtyard of a house close to the city center. I saw

the bycicles in this beautiful backlight and I couldn't miss the

chance to take the picture. I hope the photo is not too dark, I simply

have difficulties to set the brightness properly. It always changes

when I upload the image. What do you think?

I don't like the flashlight, it's flat and produces ugly tones. I wonder how people can find these tones nice!?

Excellent

These are two gipsy youngsters who took part at the animal market in

Parajd (Praid), Transylvania. Since these people live in isolated

regions where photographers are a rare sight they were not very happy

with my presence. This agressive look was intended to me and my

camera.

Reminds me a bit of the paintings of Nicolae Grigorescu.

This is the view of a Hungarian inhabited village in Transylvania. In

the background you can see the baroque calvinist church and in the

foreground a hay-cart which is a common sight there. People have

horses, cows and they need the hay for winterfood for their animals.

The village is typically Transylvanian sorrounded by hills and

forests.

The name of the place is not "Sinia" but instead "Sinaia".

There is enough contrast on my screen.

I shot the image in a small town in Transylvania. There was an animal

market and people came from all over the country to sell or buy. It

was a very busy day, many gypsies also came. Some of them (like these

in the image) were quite drunk and they were chasing their poor

animals all around the place. The horses were also very nervous

because of the many people and vagoons and more seldom, like here

trucks or smaller automobiles. These kind of scenes were quite usual

on that day, in the village housing the market.