Budapest Jewish Quarter
This huge designer advertisement is applied to the wall of an apartment building that stands to the side of one of the entrances to the old Budapest, Hungary Jewish quarter.…
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September 8, 2017
Perfect Dandelion
It's great to be home again after my interesting photographic tour of Romania, with domestic quests on hand like finding the perfect dandelion core!
September 6, 2017
Umbrellas over Bucharest
The Old Town of Bucharest, Romania seems like a really happening place. When the lights go down, the action comes out, and most likely, as Arlo Guthrie put it in…
September 4, 2017
Bran Castle
Bran Castle was originally a kind of customs checkpoint guarding a mountain pass. Perhaps because of its rugged appearance it has become associated with the Bram Stoker Dracula story, although…
September 2, 2017
Big Facial Hair
When a man reaches a certain age, and perhaps has become a bit of a family patriarch, he should be allowed to let his hair grow any way he wants.…
August 31, 2017
Modeling a Wedding Skirt
This Roma girl is posing with her big sister's wedding skirt, as if trying it on for size. Soon the younger sister will leave school. She will have had a…
August 31, 2017
Dracul’s Birthplace
Above a bar in the Citadel of Sighisoara in remote Transylvania is a room where Count Dracula was born. Or, so it is claimed. For five Romanian lei (a little…
August 31, 2017
Gypsy Family
This gypsy family has four kids, just as mine does (I showed them photos of my kids). The three sisters are shown in the rear, with their brother (the youngest)…
August 31, 2017
Home-Made Nail
As I watched, this village blacksmith made me a nail the old-fashioned way---by hand---to take back as a souvenir to America.
August 31, 2017
Portrait of a Gypsy
There are about 500,000 Roma---"gypsies"---living in Romania. This is about 4.5% of the population. These are a proud people with a very distinctive and colorful culture, many with very limited…
August 30, 2017
The Charcoal Maker
Alec is a charcoal maker. He spends about eight months a year living in a camp in rural Romania that is off a dirt road off a dirt road. No…
August 30, 2017
The Eyes Have It
Here in Sibiu, Transylvania they build the roofs high and steeply pitched. To let ventilation and light into the attic spaces these stylized "eyes" have traditionally been added to the…
August 29, 2017
Village Blacksmith
In this photo, the village blacksmith is showing the superiority of his handmade bespoke horseshoe (the one on his left) compared to a store-bought horseshoe (shown on his right). I…
August 28, 2017
Two Views of Corvin Castle
Corvin Castle, in the city of Hunedoara in Romania, is one of Europe's largest castles. Originally from the 1400s, it has been partially destroyed and rebuilt a number of times,…
August 27, 2017
Something Old and Something New
The ruined castle is Cetatea Trascaului, near Coltesti in Hungarian-speaking Transylvania (Romania). The image that looks like something out of science fiction (below) was captured at the bottom of a…
August 26, 2017
Daniel the Guide
This is Daniel, my guide to all things Romanian. He is mugging it up at the Hotel Castel Dracula. Even though he hates the whole Dracula schtick as phony and…
August 26, 2017
Sunrise in Rural Romania
Got up early this morning. Actually, got up and out before it was morning and things were still inky black with darkness. The point was to photograph sunrise in rural…
August 25, 2017
Daniel Les
This is Daniel Les, a well-known Romanian potter whose studio we visited in Baia Sprie, Maramures, Romania. You can see the hands of the potter at his craft by clicking…
August 25, 2017