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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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    sharron lynn parsons
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    What I see, is of course amazing and unique, I have never seen anything like this !!!

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    WallFlowers
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So peaceful...and such an eye for details

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    Erika Drewke
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It looks like something from a claymation movie! so surreal!

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    Giraffes Inc.
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Magnificent. It's like a pre-industrial paradise!

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    Quinn Columba
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love the tree:house ratio in this village.

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    Quinn Columba
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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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    MsDenise Corley
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do you see the eyes on that cloud? Now that is something. How many faces do you see?

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    Darlene Girard
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Really captures the magic in the early light....beautiful!

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    Daniela-Iulia Balaciu
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    they moved faster than the wind, and we're seeing only the dust left behind

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    Aziz YAŞAR
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Hımmm, Really, These all pictures are looking good. Congratulations.

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    Monika Soffronow
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    guarding the earth, to not have the sky collapsed

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    Diver Driver
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I imagine a nice rustic stew with sourdough... awesome pic.

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    sharron lynn parsons
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    My love of mountains and with the cabin, I believe I would be content living here, lovely photo !!!

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    Jeri Woodrow
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I want to live in the house with smoke coming out of the chimney!

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    Ion Bucur
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    6 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wonferful. Maybe you may add another from Moldavia, Muntenia, Danube Delta.

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