Life In Photos

Today I'd like to show you the rest of the photos I took at the photo exhibition in 2023 and have never posted them. Going through these photos gave me an idea about what to do next, regarding photos. I mean I had this idea for a while, but somehow it always gets postponed.

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I see a lot of photographers on Hive are posting street-life photos, portrait photos taken of people secretly. I love these, but I'm hardly ever brave enough to do it myself. However, in the upcoming two weeks or so, this is going to change (I hope). Let's see if I can pull it off, but now let's get back to the exhibition I was talking about as I have some amazing photos to share with you.

Not long ago, during my visit to the Transylvanian Crafts Festival, I took a photo of a lady spinning yarn, but that was just for the visitors. I don't think she's doing that at home, I think it was more like a demonstration for the show. This lady on the photo however is not doing it for the camera. She is doing that in her everyday life, which makes the photo more authentic and more valuable. Look at her face, no posing, no acting, no grimacing for the camera, like people do these days.

I'm not sure if the photographer was photo hunting or it just happened to be in the right place at the right time, to capture the lady in action, but the shot is priceless. The lady's generation is the last one and soon there will be not many to do this activity manually.

I love this a lot! I think you could see the house at the far end in my post here, but I'm not entirely sure it's the same house. It doesn't matter though.

I love everything about this photo. The house covered with green grass, the beautiful wooden door, the small wooden house, the angle the photo was taken from and how the photographer framed it. Lovely.

I don't like to use big words, but this photo speaks volumes. If I were to use one word here, that would be "history". That cross is hundreds years old. You don't see those nowadays as modernization took over and marble is what people order. Honestly, I prefer wood, but it'll be up to those left behind.

Back to the photo, imagine how old the cross could be and imagine the when those people, ancestors were buried there.

I would call this portrait "happiness and simplicity" or "simplicity and happiness". So many think the two can't go together, but they are wrong. Look at the lady's face. Every wrinkle can tell you a story. It's a lovely portrait.

These portrait photos are pretty hard to take as genuine people are less and less. Kids at a very young age are taught to smile, to pose for the camera, to look good. Then later when they look at the photos, they are telling themselves how happy they were back then, which is pretty stupid. Don't even get me started on photoshopped bodies and stuff like that.

What is life? So many would tell you life is money, luxury and fame. For them, this is life and I bet you, they I happier than most. Different generation, different mentality, different values.

A monochrome village shot for those who prefer colors out of the picture, literally.

This is a scene that I will always be envying. I'd call it "untouched nature" and the reason it is so difficult to capture it is that winters these days are so mild, compared to when I was a kid, that we barely have any snow. You have to go up in the mountains to get some snow, and even so, only if you get lucky.

When I was a kid, I remember we went to spend some time at my grandparents and that's when we had this kind of snow. It was a real pleasure for us, not so much for the adults. Imagine being locked in your home for the majority of winter months.

From photographic point of view, a scene like this worth a million. Look at those rooftops, covered by show. Love it.

Another fantastic shot and even though I'd have a lot to say here, I'll leave this one for you. Tell me what this photo tells you, what you see here and what you'd call it. Love it! Again, this is where monochrome is totally justified and perfect to use.