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I Spent 10 Years Photographing The Romanian Countryside Which Looks Like A Fairy Tale (New Pics)
In the past years, I have taken stunning pictures of the sunrise and the sunset from different corners hidden from circulated roads or modern cities, in the beautiful region called Transylvania situated in Romania.
I chose to use some photography techniques and post-processing to emphasize the feelings and moods I personally felt in these places. In this series, I photographed fortified churches built by Transylvanian Saxons, mountain pastures, beautiful nature, villages where transport is based on ox and cart, portraying the pastoral idyll of Transylvania.
It’s not hard to see why the beautiful landscapes of Transylvania have sparked the imagination of so many writers. As English travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor wrote in 1934: ‘Transylvania had been a familiar name as long as I could remember. It was the very essence and symbol of remote, leafy, half-mythical strangeness; and, on the spot, it seemed remoter still and more fraught with charms.’ With this quote in my mind, I made a selection of last year's interesting photos, and I hope you will feel the magic from these nature photography shots too.
The hard work of the last 10 years was rewarded with a Sony World Photography Awards 2019 – National Award and the effort to promote my native county worldwide got me the title of “Tourism Ambassador”. Also, if you're interested, you can see my latest landscape photography posts on Bored Panda here and here.
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Dan Lazarovici 6 years ago
It's more like van Gogh as the previous one characterised as such...
Terry Gasca 6 years ago
I'm seriously wondering what filters and settings were used to create this masterpiece.
Emilia Cazan 6 years ago
will be fair if you write in a corner, where was each picture taken! Just a suggestion :)
Diana Crawford 6 years ago
Just say the view is beautiful. Just beautiful! I am throwing a blessed kiss to the universal Creator of things. I want to cry now.
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sharron lynn parsons 6 years ago
What I see, is of course amazing and unique, I have never seen anything like this !!!
István Csiszér 6 years ago
because something like this does not exist in reality - it is a HDR picture
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Liliana CM 5 years ago
Alex ,congratulations!!!I have shared your beautiful photo with your name on Ilmondo,the world in facebook,congratulations!!!Please visit us!!Please if I can not share it let me know!!!!Beautiful country!!!!
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Brenda Owens 6 years ago
It's just chimney smoke,that's all. And I bet the whole place must smell wonderful to.
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Diana Crawford 6 years ago
Wow, the fog is moving slowly above the ground and the fog is in color.
Amy & Orlando Spears 6 years ago
It looks like you're about to walk into a fairytale! Beautiful!
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Monika Soffronow 6 years ago
I can actually feel the calm and sweet sense of enjoyment that stems from being in a beautiful spot and taking a little time out to contemplate the moment. Mmmmm...
Giraffes Inc. 6 years ago
I love everything about this picture, and have one question. What are those stacks? Is it hay?
Diana Crawford 6 years ago
Lovely, I want to be the woman in this image at that moment,,,beautiful.
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Diana Crawford 6 years ago
I was thinking about Portugal or Spain at first. The view is ancient and gives me a feeling of time traveling.
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Daniela-Iulia Balaciu 6 years ago
capturing the spark in time, when the comm-link with other realms is active
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Alan Wilkening 6 years ago
Yes, it’s messing with my head. I was expecting to see a model railroad at first glance.
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Daniela-Iulia Balaciu 6 years ago
it is a painting? it is a page of a beautiful imagination? it is a spark from fairy realm? or is it for real?
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MaryAnn Skutka 5 years ago
Obviously God was focusing His great light from Heaven on a meeting place for His people.
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HalfShelli 6 years ago
The subject is perfectly in focus. The foreground is not, and it’s on purpose.
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Heidi Matsumoto 6 years ago
I'd love to walk along these paths with trees. It's definitely relaxing and therapeutic!!!
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Germina Mocioiu 6 years ago
In China this would be pollution, whereas this photo depicts a misty morning in the countryside. Thus, no pollution! Stop trolling, you are not amusing!
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Quinn Columba 6 years ago
Breathtaking. Any moment, a lilting song will fill the air, and a moment later a wandering minstrel will appear playing a whistle as he joins the morning birdsong.
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Daniela-Iulia Balaciu 6 years ago
if there is the need for ghostly sceneries, they can use these for real, no special effects needed
Brenda Owens 6 years ago
We have these beautiful towns also. You just don't look for them. How come people don't look in their own back yard anymore?
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Al Armstrong 6 years ago
I wonder why people feel they HAVE to comment, even if they have nothing meaningful to say?
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Daniela-Iulia Balaciu 6 years ago
the fight of the powers, no mortal allowed at the scene, only the glimpse of the power caught on camera
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Antonio Ballesteros 6 years ago
i can imagine myself living in this quiet village and loving it.
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MsDenise Corley 6 years ago
Do you see the eyes on that cloud? Now that is something. How many faces do you see?
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Daniela-Iulia Balaciu 6 years ago
they moved faster than the wind, and we're seeing only the dust left behind
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Sherry Klein 6 years ago
This gives the John Cougar Melloncamp song a whole new twist!! Love it!!
Sherry Harvey 6 years ago
Including the graveyard invokes thoughts of the history of life, faith and death in this village.
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Monika Soffronow 6 years ago
Hard work, by hand and muscle strength. This is probably what we are going back to, out of necessity, after a century or so of abusing the land instead of using it, working with it, not against it.
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Daniela-Iulia Balaciu 6 years ago
what's left after the battle (the right side was victorious, the left is still on flames) :) The silence.
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sharron lynn parsons 6 years ago
My love of mountains and with the cabin, I believe I would be content living here, lovely photo !!!
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Trish Babel 6 years ago
This is simply wonderful, thank you ever so much for sharing these stunning pictures of a stunny region of Romania. My family hails from Targu Mures and Bistrita, these pictures made me think of all the wonderful summers I got to spend there!!
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Ella Blackwood 6 years ago
Extraordinarily beautiful photographs. I had no idea that the Romanian countryside was so stunningly gorgeous. I feel like I would just like to walk into your photos and become a part of the landscapes. They felt so alive to me.
Leopoldo Pisanello 6 years ago
I'm a neighbor from Bulgaria and i really love Romania; such a beautiful country!
HellCat 6 years ago
As a Romanian, this collection truly makes my heart sing and my eyes water. We have such a beautiful country, not only in Transylvania, but everywhere. Mountains, hills, rivers, muddy volcanoes, thermal springs, and lots and lots of history. Ancient, medieval and modern architecture, castles and churches, good food. Please visit. Thank you for sharing the collection!
Monika Soffronow 6 years ago
These beautiful photos make me want to go to Transylvania! In most of the photos, the obvious lack of constantly hearing motorized traffic noise as a backdrop adds another wonderful dimension, as does the absence of a lot of light contamination.
Ella Blackwood 6 years ago
Extraordinarily beautiful photographs. I had no idea that the Romanian countryside was so stunningly gorgeous. I feel like I would just like to walk into your photos and become a part of the landscapes. They felt so alive to me.
Leopoldo Pisanello 6 years ago
I'm a neighbor from Bulgaria and i really love Romania; such a beautiful country!
HellCat 6 years ago
As a Romanian, this collection truly makes my heart sing and my eyes water. We have such a beautiful country, not only in Transylvania, but everywhere. Mountains, hills, rivers, muddy volcanoes, thermal springs, and lots and lots of history. Ancient, medieval and modern architecture, castles and churches, good food. Please visit. Thank you for sharing the collection!
Monika Soffronow 6 years ago
These beautiful photos make me want to go to Transylvania! In most of the photos, the obvious lack of constantly hearing motorized traffic noise as a backdrop adds another wonderful dimension, as does the absence of a lot of light contamination.
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