By night

The Old City of Bucharest can be very animated by night, especially if is close to the week-end and more so if a festival takes place there (now it was the International Theatre Festival, B-FIT)

We love the old city, right?

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Hipstering around

There is a saying "you are not a photographer, you are just a kid with a Nikon" used to ridicule the people who use a camera but not using their brains or learning anything. For some, it can be enlarged with "you are not even a kid with a Nikon, you are just a hipster".

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Why Wiki Loves Monuments?

I take part, and I am also an organizer, in the Romanian Wiki Loves Monuments photography contest, where we try to get people contributing photos of historical monuments to Wikipedia. The things are not all roses, photos below, taken in the old city of Bucharest, the most important touristic area from our capital city, are a proof of why something like it is badly needed. Our history, our culture, our identity, they are going away due to carelessness and/or greed. We can at least preserve their image.

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Bucharest like Rio

B.FIT, the Bucharest International Theatre Festival, closed with a big parade, part of it was the parade of Latin dance schools, with samba, salsa, capoeira, bachata and more. There were some costumes making you think of Rio de Janeiro.

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The hard life

Life may be hard next to a pregnant woman: after a copious lunch a small desert may be craved, but as everything looks so good, you have to chance to end-up with double the quantity (here 4 cakes for 2 people). And since she can't eat it all, you will have to be the hero and take care of more than half of it. Is more fun when you are an appreciator who can't pass a good dessert.

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Let's get out in Bucharest, celebrate with WLM

Those days, 13-16 September 2012, is the celebration of Bucharest, called "Bucharest Days", 553 years of known existence. Is a very good opportunity for us to get out in the street, take photos with some historical monuments and put them in the Wiki Loves Monuments photography contest.

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Heart in the Sky

Sky, clouds, a hole in the clouds and a bit of imagination. You can see anything you want in the cloud shapes.

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Pumpkin

I feel like playing on words today, so will continue on the same line, I guess that is not the pumpkin you are looking for.

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Hotness

I am quite sure my readers had a different expectation seeing a title like "Hotness", but surely they are hot and I like trolling sometime :D

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Four

Weird shape for this tree, with two clear 90° angles, it have the look of the digit 2. Seen in the Cincșor village, Sibiu county, Transylvania, Romania.

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Autumn again

Leaves started turning yellow and orange, soon they will go even red and brown. It's autumn again.

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Cârța reloaded

After a hurried visit a few months ago, I had the opportunity to re-visit the ruins of the Cârță Cistercian monastery, for a deeper research and some Wikipedia photos.
I was impressed to see how trusty and open the people there are: the monastery is locked, so a neighbour just gave me the key so our small group was allowed to roam free inside the ~700 years old historical monument, we had only to give it back when done. I guess we look trusty.

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Photo session... with the phone

Every model is proud to have her image taken by a skilled photographer. The two had their photo session with the phone on Lipscani and it took maybe half an hour, if not even more. I'm curious to see the result.

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Directions

Just a random shoot near Piața Romană of Bucharest, I don't think there are two faces pointing the same direction.

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Wiki, Wiki, Wiki

In the last few days I was silent, with no pics posted here, that's because I was busy with the Wikipedia photography contest, uploading my own pictures (as I am a member of the national jury, my photos won't run for any prize, just enrich Wikipedia and illustrate the historical monuments in Romania).
Most of my picts are about cave churches in the Argeș county, medieval fortified monasteries in the Sibiu county, cave sites in the Buzău county, but there is also some Brâncovenian architecture and some other things (Sighișoara, wooden churches and such).
Hopefully while the campaign last, until the end of the month, I will be able to take and upload a few more, but don't expect the number increase to be dramatic, currently I am at the count of 365 images, which gave my 15 minutes of fame (I briefly was one of the 10 top world uploaders) and raised the Romanian quote close to 1000 pictures (hopefully, we will reach this milestone later today, in less than one week after the competition started).
I did my share and will work more on this until the end, how about you? Come and take part of the fun!
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