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Latvia's highest point is Gaizinkalns (knowledge mountain), between Madona and Ergli.
The view should be beautiful, but you cannot check it because the tower is in a terrible state, and looks like it will collapse every second. Gaizinkalns is 312m high, and this came as a suprise to me, I expected it to be a lot higher.
The view from the mountain is blocked by the trees, only one view is possible, along the skislope, and that view is already beautiful.
The tower itself is not that old (in fact, the tower was never finished), but gives clues to the quality of building just before the Soviet Union collapsed.
In Latvia, the older the house, the better the quality . . .
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Sveiks, Davids! It's nice to see a photo from you again.
The tower is indeed in a deplorable state. In the Soviet era building materials were next to impossible to get, so many shortcuts were used to finish construction on a building. When I visited Estonia in 1979 I was apalled at how buildings were being put up.
I like the diagonal angle you used in this composition. It really gives the impression that the tower is about to collapse. I added your photo to my "Demolition by Neglect" theme.
Great document, great note,David.
George
There'll be another examples like this, regardless of political system.
Unlimited is one's ego and incompetence in ceativity.
Communism made that incompetence to fluorish,though!
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