Cuisine Plein Air Photo

Photographer’s Note

Ghimes Faget [in Hungarian Gyimesbukk] is a silent little village deep in Romania. Here go railroads through Eastern Carpathian mountain from Transylvania to Moldva. Mostly Hungarian tourists visit this place because once here laid the "thousend-year-old boarder" of Hungarian Kingdom until 1918.

Under the ruins of castle from 17th century
nowadays hardworking, poor people are living in their little houses among forests and fields of Ghimes mountain. Stormy 20th century sometimes redrew the map of Europe but in these days people are living in very similar way to their grandparents.

I chose this title, because local impressionist artists about 100 years ago, like Imre Nagy made some nice "plain air" paintings with similar object, while currently this kind of "cuisine plein air" is not the same fashionable barbecuing what you mean on it in rich Western Europe but an everyday routine, not a funny party but real life.

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saxo042 (15544) 2009-06-09 8:00

Hi Jalab,
An interesting composition where you have a distinct line from the pots, angled agaist the line of the roof. Some coloured spots ligthen up the capture!
Kind regards
Gunnar

Ola_Kwiatek (2416) 2009-06-09 8:28

Nice picture. Wonderful natural light and colors. Good sharpness.
Cheers

JudyR (821) 2009-06-09 9:59

Delightful composition, bright colors, interesting drying-rack! Your background information made this all the more interesting. Thank you, Judy

cobra112 (11414) 2009-06-09 11:41

Hi Jalab. Good idea and interesting DOF. Amazing light to exalt green's tones.

Roberto

dta (5000) 2009-06-10 2:02

Hello JAleb ,
Really interesting ! The subject speaks to me . Romanian life seems to be very traditionnal . But may be , it was the same in France 50 years ago . "Cuisine de plein air" looks like a little "exotic" , for some ones . But , when we live in the countryside , it is sometimes more easy to do the washing up outside . On the same hand , wooden constructions (fences , houses) looks poor for some ones , but very nice for other ones .
It is a little difficult to explain my feeling in english language .

Best regards
Denis

John_F_Kennedy (31263) 2009-06-10 4:50

It is interesting view. Good idea. I like your colours and light.
Best wishes,
Achim