Luminous Landscape Forum
Equipment & Techniques => Landscape Photography Locations => Topic started by: OnlyNorth on February 09, 2014, 05:18:00 am
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It still snows here
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Thank You :)
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Winter makes my life unpleasant...
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Is it a beginning of a new road trip?
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Is it a beginning of a new road trip?
I don't know yet,may be a short one.Thank You as usually!
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So,looking for a good weather and sun I found this picture.Mihai Cantacuzino(Michael Kantakouzenos),a prince from Byzantine Emperors' family was one of the high officials of the Lord of Wallachia.He was high steward(stolnic) and spatharus(cavalry commander and sword of the lord bearer).
In 1690 he visited,with her mother,The Holy Land and St.Catherine Monastery from Sinai Mountain.At that time these territories were under the Ottomans.For Wallachia were hard times- Russia on its right and Austria,which took Belgrade several times,on the left-. Michael being a very rich man, from lord's family, his dignities were"on paper" only,like today. That could be an explanation for his walk,far from the country,in those conditions.
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After he arrived at home,Michael begun to look for a place in South Carpathian Mountains to build a monastery
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St.Catherine was a young Egyptian girl who at the age of 14 became christian.In 307 AD she was tortured and beheaded by the men of the Roman Emperor Maxentius( few years after he drowned into the river Tiber).
400 years later the monks from the monastery of Transfiguration found her corpse on the highest peak of the Mount Sinai and buried it into the church. After that the name of the monastery was changed into St.Catherine's.
Touched by the fate of that young girl,Michael named "Sinaia" the monastery he raised,in1694, here, in Wallachia.
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So, now we know where Sinaï [in the title of the thread] comes from!
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So, now we know where Sinaï [in the title of the thread] comes from!
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Although the monastery has a wall around, there were many robberies upon it.
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Over the entrance it is written : "Lord,bless You our arrivals and departures".
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Definitely any religious place is an attractive point.Over the time,around the monastery it was organized a laic life.
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More and more believers and monks came here so around 1846 a new church was built
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At the beginning of 19th c. Danubian Principalities were under Ottoman and Russian administration,as a result of the numerous wars between the two empires.In such conditions many secret groups working,more or less in their souls only,for the independence of Wallachia and Moldavia,flourished.
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A minor result of those groups of interests could be observed on the church where are more kinds of crosses Greek,Latin and Slavic(that from the tower)
In fact, much more courage was when Michael raised,on the old church-you have seen before-The cross of Stephen The Great( Lord of Moldavia between 1453 and 1504)which was a Latin cross thrust into a half-moon(Crescent).
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When Carol I,King of Romania,decided to build,in 1873,a castle in the neighbourhood of the monastery,the seclusion of this place begun to decrease.Step by step that small village around changed its face into a mountain resort of the highlife and a few are the things which remind the past times.
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When present times look like that,the past times melancholy increases.
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My favourite is the almost black image with the blurred monk in it (I guess its a monk).
Really appreciate your unusual processing of some of the images.
Definitely something original, I really enjoy that.
Cheers
~Chris
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My favourite is the almost black image with the blurred monk in it (I guess its a monk).
Really appreciate your unusual processing of some of the images.
Definitely something original, I really enjoy that.
Cheers
~Chris
I also like the B&W with the monk, it has something mysterious and I also like the fact that the light "shines" only on the essential parts/subjects of this image. It's really an outstanding photo.
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Chris and Francois,
I tell you again you both are too kind.
Thank You.
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Chris and Francois,
I tell you again you both are too kind.
Thank You.
No, no - we are not kind.
Sure - you have some flaws and weaknesses in some images,
but there also is something outside of the mainstream so to say which I really find refreshing.
Just keep on learning and I am sure over time your results will become more consistent.
One could easily bash you for some judgement and postprocessing errors and frankly -
sometimes you post something crappy, but so what - that shall not let one overlook,
that there is something really adorable in your images.
I'm looking forward to what will come up next and in the future.
Cheers
~Chris
P.S.: Just as an example:
In Reply #8 You made a very interesting decision in the postprocessing of this harsh sunlight image, turning it into a surreal scene.
I like that.
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No, no - we are not kind.
Sure - you have some flaws and weaknesses in some images,
but there also is something outside of the mainstream so to say which I really find refreshing.
Just keep on learning and I am sure over time your results will become more consistent.
One could easily bash you for some judgement and postprocessing errors and frankly -
sometimes you post something crappy, but so what - that shall not let one overlook,
that there is something really adorable in your images.
I'm looking forward to what will come up next and in the future.
Cheers
~Chris
P.S.: Just as an example:
In Reply #8 You made a very interesting decision in the postprocessing of this harsh sunlight image, turning it into a surreal scene.
I like that.
Now I am more calm :) ... :) but not silent.
Thank You.
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The democratization of this place meant the access of more and more people to such kind of resorts( especially for Sinaia which is at only 75 miles North from Bucharest).So the dilution of the faith was waited,in the "struggle" with the entertainment's "facilities". Against this opinion,Sinaia monastery remains over. How much time,no one knows the answer.
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Now I am more calm :) ... :) but not silent.
Thank You.
Don't stay silent… You have some gems among your images. I'm a fan!
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Don't stay silent… You have some gems among your images. I'm a fan!
Gems?No,pics only,but thanks for Your opinion!Fan?I'm impressed,thanks again,but I'm not so sure I'll not disappoint You.So excuse me for future disappointments :)
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From a distance,the winter is for me like a cup of champagne. Closely being,the bubbles are crows.
As I said before,I don't like the winter.
Thank You.
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The last image, in my opinion shows one of your strengths -
highly subjective interpretations beyond the limits of the expected and common.
Well done !
Cheers
~Chris
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The last image, in my opinion shows one of your strengths -
highly subjective interpretations beyond the limits of the expected and common.
Well done !
Cheers
~Chris
I could believe You liked it.So I could be glad and tell You "thanks". If you didn't like it I could be less glad but I would tell You the same "thanks". :)
Thank You for Your interest.