I remember, well yes, I remember, because only six days have passed since then, I remember a colleague's post about a city, Sibiu, in my country, Romania. The colleague is from another country, Bulgaria, Romania's southern neighbor!
Our colleague is a very good photographer, passionate about black and white, in fact, most of his posts are black and white photos. Our colleague's name is and this is the post I mentioned in the beginning: Bollywood in Romania. One of his few posts with color photos.
In this post, our colleague tells how he ascended a tower in one of the central squares of Sibiu, in order to take pictures from a height, and witnessed the filming of some sequences for an Indian movie.
Sibiu is also one of my favorite cities and I have visited it many times. I had intended to ascend that tower too, also to photograph, but I couldn't find the time to do so. I was surprised to see that my colleague from Bulgaria managed it before me.
From this, I got the idea to transpose some of my color photos taken in Huet Square, where the tower in the story is located, into black and white. Both as an homage to and out of my conviction that an old thing looks better in monochrome.
The council tower in Sibiu, was built in the thirteenth century.



The small door in the last photo is the entrance to the tower. It was the entrance to the second fortification belt of the city. The tower is situated between two squares, the most beautiful in Sibiu. Main Square(Piata Mare) and Small Square(Piata Mica). The passage is through these small tunnels.





The hundreds of years old buildings in Sibiu's squares. Notice those small windows on the roofs of the buildings, which look like eyes. It is an architectural element specific to that region and its usefulness is not only to let the light in but, above all, to ventilate the attics of the houses.

This is my entry for the #monomad challenge.


After looking at 's photos again I'm not so sure that "my tower" is the same as "his tower". I'm inclined to believe that he took his photos from another tower nearby.

Sibiu is one of the most beautiful cities in Romania.
For me, it's easier to choose color or black and white. When I shoot in older places, places that remind me of the past, memories, and nostalgia, I like to change the photos to monochrome, especially black and white!

