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Category Archives: Photography
“The Life of Pie”
In my house, The Life of Pie is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short”, as Thomas Hobbes would have put it. Well, this was definitely better than the film which had no pie in it at all.
Posted in Books, Cinema, Food, Philosophy, Photography
Tagged Ang Lee, Cinema, Leviathan, Life of Pi, movies
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Basketball in the Mountains
(Photographed in the Durmitor mountains in Montenegro.)
Video Blog: Quiet Forest
You city folk, office workers, commuters, parents of noisy children and fighters in the Syrian civil war must be longing for a peaceful, quiet forest like this. Specifically for you, I recorded this quiet forest video: But what was that? … Continue reading
How do you write ‘Drugstore’?
– “Boss, how do you write ‘drugstore’?” – “The way you pronounce it.” (Photographed in Podgorica, Montenegro.)
Mountains in the Clouds
My last glimpse of the mountains of Montenegro, after departing from Tivat.
Welcome to Serbia!
At the airport in Belgrade, I spotted this poster. That shows a welcoming culture! Two weeks later, it had been removed however.
Posted in Human Rights, Immigration Law, Law, Photography, Serbia, Travel
Tagged asylum, Belgrade, Human Rights, refugees
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There used to be a village…
… but now there is only a cemetery left. Those are the graves of the victims of the Sărmașu massacre committed in 1944.
Posted in History, Holocaust, Hungary, Photography, Romania, Travel, World War II
Tagged Camarasu, Sarmasu
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Winter is here.
(At Călimani National Park in Romania.)
How fast are trains in Romania?
Romanian trains are so slow, that when you get to a train crossing and you already see the train approaching, you can still safely cross the tracks. Even on a bicycle.
The Happy Hermit 