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abstract, art, dandelion, fountain, kaleidoscope, lines, mono, Orastie, photography, Romania, sculpture, silhouette, water feature, wires
For those joining me on a rerun of my recent travels we finally leave Hungary behind and head into Romania. First stop is the plain, but pleasant, little town of Orăştie in south western Transylvania. We arrived too late in the day for any real exploration and had to make do with a quick look around as dusk descended before finding somewhere to eat. I was struck by the patterns made by the tangle of wires from a telegraph post and took this shot with the intention of having a little more fun with it later in Photoshop. Bit of a kaleidoscope isn’t it?! 
Further on, a few locals had gathered on the square outside the Town Hall, their children playing in one of the best water features it’s been my pleasure to see. Basically a giant dandelion, it had an incredible lightness to it but with enough presence to make you stop and look – wonderful! 
I rushed back the next morning before we left to try and get a better shot but the water was off and I was so disappointed that I didn’t even raise my camera. I wish now that I had but hindsight is a wonderful thing. How many photos there are in my memory that I didn’t take and wish I had – you’d have thought I’d learn by now!
(All images are copyright to Noeline Smith)
I like these very much Noeline. I can imagine that water feature was quite something. I’ve had exactly the same experiences, not taking a picture that I wished I had. I have a 64GB memory card that, even with the D800′s huge RAW files, gives me 798 shots. There really is no excuse unlike when using film. Note to self, if in doubt, take the picture.
That’s a HUGE card! I tend to use a handful of smaller ones, but even so there is memory to spare – hence giving myself a hefty kick in the shin. All I need to do now is remember next time – but how many times have I done the same thing …..
I think having a handful of smaller cards is probably a good idea but touch wood, I haven’t had a card fail yet. I do have a spare 32 but I figured the bigger card would be useful for time lapse which I hope to experiment with at some point.
I look forward to seeing those
I can well imagine the wry smiles of your viewers. We’ve all been there – more than once in most cases!! Your top image is good fun, but even the individual images make quite complex patterns.
I got hooked on telegraph poles and ended up taking quite a few shots of them
The patterns were incredible and found myself walking around looking to the sky more often than was probably sensible!
I hope there is a break for Christmas Noeline, I just wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas and hope that you have a great day.
Many thanks Leanne. I’m afraid I was overwhelmed in the run up to Christmas with too much to do and not enough time to do half of it in! Hope you had a great day and all the best for 2013.