--- /dev/null
+---
+postid: 07e
+title: Hermannstadt, part two: the huge-ass photo shoot
+date: October 27, 2018
+author: Lucian Mogoșanu
+tags: in-the-flesh
+---
+
+We start precisely where we [previously left off][cluj-to-sibiu],
+i.e. on Strada Cetății:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/cluj-21.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/cluj-21-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-33.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-33-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+This second take won't delve too much into descriptions -- I believe the
+[previous Sibiu post][hermannstadt] has more than enough details --
+instead I'll do the exercise of giving the reader thousands of words
+with short annotations to sift through. This being said, let us proceed.
+
+The inner court of the Altemberger house:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-01.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-01-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+Views from the Small Square:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-02.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-02-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-03.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-03-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-04.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-04-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+Statues near the Tower of The Stairs and the Winekeller, experimental
+shots:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-05.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-05-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-06.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-06-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-07.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-07-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-08.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-08-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-09.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-09-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+The main tower of the Evangelic Church, as seen from a small square
+below:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-10.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-10-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+A very basic outlet:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-11.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-11-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+A wide shot of the sunset over Sibiu, taken from Centumvirilor:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-12.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-12-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+A face watching me from a window on A.D. Xenopol:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-13.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-13-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+Various objects on the same street:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-14.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-14-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-15.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-15-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+The Orthodox Cathedral, view from A.D. Xenopol Street:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-16.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-16-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+The New Face of the Multilaterally-Developed New Man, a table inside a
+tent somewhere downtown:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-17.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-17-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+Various shots taken downtown:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-18.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-18-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-19.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-19-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-20.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-20-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-21.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-21-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-22.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-22-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+Love; metals iz life:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-23.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-23-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+Entrance into the Large Square, from Arhivelor; an experimental piece
+further down the line:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-24.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-24-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-25.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-25-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+The Emperor of Romans:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-26.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-26-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+Photos from the Dumbrava natural park at the southern border of Sibiu:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-27.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-27-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-28.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-28-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-29.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-29-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-30.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-30-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+Autumnal colours:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-31.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-31-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-32.jpg"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/10/sibiu2-32-thumb.jpg"> </a>
+
+And that's about it for now. At this point I was sure this was going to
+be the last of autumn's sunny days, but as soon as I got back to
+Bucharest, I did a few more photo sessions which are now brewing in the
+virtual darkroom. So see you again in a couple of days!
+
+[cluj-to-sibiu]: /posts/y05/07d-klausenburg.html#selection-293.256-293.297
+[hermannstadt]: /posts/y05/079-hermannstadt.html
--- /dev/null
+---
+postid: 07f
+title: Bucharest, part zwei: Herăstrău, Cotroceni
+date: November 4, 2018
+author: Lucian Mogoșanu
+tags: in-the-flesh
+---
+
+Analiză pă text:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-01.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-01-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+In the near plane, the reader can readily observe the Herăstrău
+lake. The name Herăstrău doesn't really have any deep meaning, it's just
+an alternate spelling for ferăstrău/fierăstrău, which literally means
+"saw": the Colentina river once hosted sawmills and the Herăstrău lake
+is part of that stream, and it even has a small reservoir, and that's
+that. Anyway, the lake covers a pretty large area (about 70 hectares,
+give or take), so it's well-suited for small boats, while the paths
+going around it make a good circuit for jogging, cycling and the likes,
+if only it weren't so damn crowded.
+
+In the far plane, behind the lake and the park, lies the so-called House
+of the Free Press, ex-Casa Scînteii, home to the printing presses which
+brought forth the official party newspaper, Scînteia, back in the days
+of the [shoemaker][shoemaker], and the dude before him -- The Spark
+coming from The Spark House, y'know.
+
+In fact, Romania not only had a [Stalin City][stalin-city], it also had
+a Stalin House (Casa Scînteii) and a Stalin park (the Herăstrău
+park). Nowadays Stalin park is also named -- actually, it recently got
+officially renamed King Michael I park, because the guy died recently
+and the local orcs decided they should name some stuff after
+him... which has no relation whatsoever with the fact that the park was
+also at some point named after Carol II The Priapist.
+
+Below, more of the same. Some people were kayaking on the lake that day;
+and as the reader can see, there are other big buildings surrounding the
+lake. Point: not only the communists had a mania with building
+mastodons, mkay?
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-02.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-02-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-03.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-03-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-04.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-04-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-05.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-05-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-06.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-06-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-07.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-07-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+Further below: really colourey autumn colours. Really, it's been a
+beautiful sunny autumn all over the country these past few weeks, I for
+one welcome all this global warming that keeps warming "our" globe.
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-08.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-08-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-09.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-09-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+Above: a cat sitting in a tree, bein' all curious about this guy and his
+black object pointed at it. Frickin' humans, I tell you. Below, a nice
+alley and more autumnal excretions.
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-10.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-10-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+Speaking of nice colours, take a look at this one (click the photo for a
+full view):
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-11.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-11-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-12.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-12-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+Above: ducks ducking on the lake. Below: a very modern clock from Bodet,
+followed by a most likely defunct surveillance installation from Big
+Brother.
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-13.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-13-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-14.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-14-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+We leave the park, and wandering through the neighbourhood, we notice
+this:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-15.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-15-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+Analiză pă text is left as an exercise to the reader.
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-16.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-16-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+Further down the street, one can find the Cașin monastery (pictured
+above). The architecture is quite something, if you're into that kind of
+thing. I don't know where this "cașin" comes from (there's a place with
+the same name and a river flowing somewhere in the Moldova region), and
+I bet neither do expert etymologists.
+
+Moving on to other autumnal images, remember the
+[botanical garden][gradina-botanica]? It doesn't look particularly
+spectacular in the autumn, as they were already preparing the seeds for
+the winter and the next spring... Except, it does look really nice in
+places:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-17.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-17-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-18.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-18-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-19.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-19-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-20.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-20-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+Right in the garden section that lies under Cotroceni, I found this
+small pond with wild ducks swimming about and posing for photos:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-21.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-21-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-22.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-22-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-23.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-23-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-24.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-24-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+The fixed lens did wonders here. Also, here:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-25.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-25-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-26.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-26-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+That last one is from that very same
+[Japanese garden][japanese-garden]. Below, the alley of the system; we
+got the system [to fuck the system][the-system]:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-27.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-27-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-28.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-28-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-29.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-29-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-30.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-30-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-31.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-31-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-32.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-32-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+Above, various flowers (mostly rosaceae) bombing my photos. Below, other
+various flowers:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-33.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-33-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-34.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-34-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-35.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-35-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-36.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-36-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-37.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-37-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+Aren't these last ones really weird? Anyway, leaving the Botanical
+Garden, close to the Presidential Residential (not pictured here), one
+can find the Carol Davila university (pictured below, among wires,
+streetlights and trees).
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-38.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-38-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-39.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-39-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-40.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-40-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-41.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-41-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+Above: houses and places in the Cotroceni neighbourhood. Below: a view
+of Cotroceni, including the [central emergency hospital][universitar],
+some apartment blocks, Casa Radio and many automobiles crowding the
+town.
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-42.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-42-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+Further to the right from the same spot, one can notice, in order, from
+left to right: the moon, the so-called People's House (nowadays the
+Palace of the Parliament) and the yet-unfinished Cathedral of the
+People's Salvation.
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-43.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-43-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+Yes, you read that right: the Cathedral of the People's Salvation,
+that's how they call that huge motherfucker. This church business is
+[still][church] going strong around the place, what. Anyway, that spot
+was a pretty good one otherwise, so here are a couple more noisy photos
+taken from it:
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-44.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-44-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+<a href="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-45.png"> <img align="middle"
+class="thumb" src="/uploads/2018/11/bucuresti2-45-thumb.png"> </a>
+
+This kinda, sorta concludes the photo series started back at the end of
+July/[early August][hermannstadt], then broken by two months of silence
+during September and [the first part of October][heraklion], followed by
+the torrent of stuff that I'd gathered in the meanwhile. I bet it's not
+the last series either, but finally, our spyked of the plains has had
+enough of being a walking being and can finally return to being a
+thinking and productive one.
+
+[shoemaker]: http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=shoemaker
+[stalin-city]: /posts/y05/07c-kronstadt.html#selection-91.114-91.278
+[gradina-botanica]: /posts/y04/070-bucharest-botanical-garden.html
+[japanese-garden]: /posts/y04/070-bucharest-botanical-garden.html#selection-276.0-276.1
+[the-system]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WmiNtL6fx0
+[universitar]: /posts/y04/070-bucharest-botanical-garden.html#selection-351.0-351.59
+[church]: /posts/y03/05a-july-theses.html#selection-766.0-766.1
+[hermannstadt]: /posts/y05/079-hermannstadt.html
+[heraklion]: http://thetarpit.org/posts/y05/07b-heraklion.html