POVESTE CU PRIGORII

http://intufisuri.blogspot.com/2011/10/povesti-despre-prigorii.html

STRONGHOLDS OF ROMANIA

http://2centsaboutromania.blogspot.com/search/label/FORTRESSES

OUR BABY HAS GROWN-GRETHE WITTING LAST PICTURE

Here is a picture of Grethe Witting wreck. 100 years of sailing almost lost.The harsh winter will come soon....I wonder how this old lady will look after the winter's storms.


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LATE NOVEMBER

http://www.valeriucostin.blogspot.com/

CATFISH FISHERMAN

http://valeriucostin.blogspot.com/

HAPPY ANIVERSARY DALIANA

Photographis: Best Virtual Friend Award

DU MACHTS DER WELT HELLER.

SHE'S A PHOTOGRAPHER : LAURA CRISTIANA PANTEA

HER BLOG HERE: http://krissaphotos.blogspot.com/

ASAKUSA TOKYO JAPAN

Made yesterday by ALEX:

http://www.alexcarbune.ro/

SUNRISING IN DANUBE DELTA

http://valeriucostin.blogspot.com/2010/11/barca.html

BUCHAREST THE CRISIS

http://valeriucostin.blogspot.com/2010/10/manifetatii-bucuresti-27102010.html

Dungha photography - aventures in street: Pe magarus

Dungha photography - aventures in street: Pe magarus

BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY

http://valeriucostin.blogspot.com/2010/10/blonda.html

DANUBE IN IMAGES -GALATI IN DANGER TO BE FLOODED

http://turnofftheglory.com/blog/2010/07/05/editie-speciala-galati-dig-si-vrajeala/

LETEA FOREST IN DANUBE DELTA

Fresh images of LETEA forest, sent by my dear friend Alex Carbune, aka Lost Soul:http://lostsoul.ro/
The forest is the most northern tropical forest and has about 3200 ha, being composed of more parts:Hasmacul Mare; Tarla Popii; Schiopul; Crusina; etc.
Here is the only place in Europe where lianes can be found, and also many endemic botanical species, many of them unique in The Old World.
Also here live wild horses, maybe thousands...
I know a man who catches some of them, around 300 once, drive them over the Danube and sells the horses to Italian butchers. The sight of horses swimming from shore to shore of Danube is really awesome...

DOBROGEA SCYTHIA MINOR

Dobrogea or Scythia Minor is the Eastern province of modern Romania, divided in two counties: Tulcea and Constanta. This region had seen a very stormy history, being a crossroad for many tribes, since the beggining of the history. The first well known inhabitants were the Scyths, who were by default fierce horsemen. Not only men were fine riders, but also the women, and the Old Greeks told them Amazons,Ἀμαζόνες or Androktones: killers of men.
http://pygmalionproject.tripod.com/amazons.html
Well, the photo of woman being encapsulated in the old rocks of Dobrogea have something of Scyths barbaric story....

CASTLES IN ROMANIA

TEUTONIC KNIGHT, MONGOL ARCHER AND MOLDAVIAN INFANTRY, WITH HIGH HISTORIC DETAILS, COURTESY OF RADU OLTEAN.
MEDIEVAL WARRIORS BY RADU:http://www.historyarts.ro/afise.htm
TURNUL CHINDIEI DIN TIRGOVISTE.
THE TOWER WAS BUILT IN XV CENTURY DURING THE REIGN OF VLAD THE IMPALER. ONE OF HIS ROLE WAS TO HOLD THE TREASURY OF KINGDOM. THE TOWER IS LOCATED IN THE ROYAL COURT OF TIRGOVISTE, FORMER CAPITAL CITY OF WALLACHIA.

CETATEA SLIMNIC.
SLIMNIC FORTRESS OR STOLZENBURG, DERIVED FROM A FORTIFIED SITE BUILT AROUND 1342, IN THE SIBIU COUNTY, TRANSYLVANIA.
THE FORTRESS HAD SEEN PLENTY OF ACTION, BEING TAKEN BY JANOS ZAPOLYA IN
1529 AND SZEKELY MOISE IN 1602. ALSO, IN 1658 THE OTTOMANS TRIED TO CAPTURE IT, DUE TO ITS STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE IN TRANSYLVANIA. FINALLY, WAS BURNT BY KURUTZ REBELS IN 1706. TODAY IS ABANDONED.

CETATEA RISNOV.
RISNOV FORTRESS CAN BE SEEN FROM A LONG DISTANCE, BEING BUILT ON A HIGH HILL IN BRASOV COUNTY, NEAR RISNOV TOWN. THE FOUNDATION OF FORTRESS WAS MADE BY TEUTON KNIGHTS, BETWEEN 1211-1225. THE FORTRESS WAS SIEGED BY MONGOLS IN 1335, BUT SUCCESFULLY RESISTED.
CETATEA FAGARASULUI. FAGARAS CASTLE.
BUILT IN 1310 BY LOCAL LANDLORD LADISZLAU KAN THE SECOND AND REBUILT BY LADISZALU APOR . IT WAS GIVEN AS A GIFT TO LADY STANCA, WIFE OF MICHAEL THE BRAVE, IN 1600.
THE FORTRESS WAS EXTENDED TO ACTUAL SIZE BY TRANSYLVANIAN RULERS GABRIEL BETHLEM AND RAKOCZY GYORGY THE FIRST, AROUND 1631.. HERE WAS THE POLITICAL CENTER OF TRANSYLVANIA, KNOWN AS THE DIETA.
DURING 1946-1960, THE CASTLE WAS TRANSFORMED IN A PRISON, WHERE THE COMMUNIST PARTY HELD HIS ENEMIES.
CASTELUL BRAN /TORCSVAR/TORZBURG

The Bran fortress was built on a cliff between Măgura and The Hill of the Fortress, its position conferring an outstanding view towards both the hills of Moeciu and the ones from the Land of Bârsa. The building of the fortress was imposed by strategic and economic reasons. The strategic reasons underlined by the expansion of the Ottoman Empire which, by the end of the XIV century, began threatening the south-eastern borders of Transylvania; the economic reasons, given by the fact that the commercial road, one of the most important access ways connecting Transylvania to Wallachia, crossed this area. All these reasons determined the Hungarian king Louis I of Anjou to develop strengthening works of the Bran pass.

MORE ABOUT THE CASTLE HERE:http://www.brancastlemuseum.ro/indexfrm_en.
PHOTOGRAPHS SENT BY ROMEO:http://www.romeohuidu.com/main.php

PELECANS ABOVE DOBRUDJEA'S PLAINS PELICANI DEASUPRA CIMPIILOR DOBROGENE

THE PELECANS ARE RETURNING TO DANUBE DELTA. PICTURE TAKEN BY SEBY, FROM 450 M ALTITUDE, IN CONSTANTA COUNTY.

ROMANIA SEEN BY SEBASTIAN

THIS ONE IS MY FAVORITE.OF COURSE, I WAS A SEAMAN.STILL I AM...
THE SFINX OF BUCEGI MOUNTAINS.
PELECANS ON SWAMP NEAR MANGALIA, DURING THEIR JOURNEY TO DANUBE DELTA.
MARINA OF MANGALIA.
DANUBE DELTA.
CIRKUS.
BEACH ON BLACK SEA SHORE.

TODAY I AM SHOWING SOME PICTURES TAKEN BY ONE OF MY FRIENDS. MY SELECTION IS OBVIOUSLY SUBJECTIVE, BUT YOU CAN SEE MANY MORE ON http://sebyxde.blogspot.com/
BY THE WAY, I WOULD LIKE TO BUILD A JOINT PHOTO BLOG WITH ROMANIAN PHOTOGRAPHERS. ANYONE INTERESTED MAY LEAVE A COMMENT HERE.