Megalomania Photo | TrekEarth

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Yet another postcard of Ceausescu's mad monstrisity, all I had time to see before my plane home on a fleeting visit.

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snunney (35464) 2008-05-29 8:05

Hello Richard,
An excellent composition of this megalomaniac's palace with superb detail.

Buin (38258) 2008-05-29 8:28

Hallo Richard!
A wonderful title - and photo as well ... and always again it is possible that despots like him come into power. It's obviously a human phenomenon. An impressive picture and a contribution in the sense of TE!
Greetings from hot and sticky Germany!
Frank

chinchini (27805) 2008-05-29 8:38

Bonjour Richard,
Colossal palais du trop célèbre despote. L'ensemble est quand même grandiose et ton image pointue présente bien les détails d'architecture.
Bien vu !
Pierre

ncosmin (936) 2008-05-29 8:57

Hi Richard,
The title it is perfect for this building.
The huge house it is a symbol of evil and abuses of the communist regime in Romania.
At this building have worked a team of 700 architects and 20.000 workers 24hours from 24. Due of poor safety conditions many workers died.
On the large surface occupied by this building there was a lot of nice building with historical value. All of them have been destroyed or moved. thousand of people have been relocated from this place.
It has 80 meters high, 92 meters in underground, the surface 330.000 square meters, the second place in the world after Pentagon.
The cost was severals billions of dollars, nobody knows exactly.
regards,
Cosmin

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wautersw (3603) 2008-05-29 13:43

Hi Richard,

I've been there some years ago and it's hard to capture the "madness" behind this (ugly) buidling. You picture gives us a nice idea of the vastness of this building but in real life it's really incredible. Good POV and excellent colours and sharpness. TFS

Wolf

jhm (83328) 2008-05-30 0:31

Hello Richard,

I see your 900th picture on TE, this is a milestone, still hundred than have you the top ten attained.
It castle of the insanity, but as photographer excellent for made good picture.
Perspective and quality are superb.
Yet another postcard of Ceausescu's mad monstrisity.
Very well done.

Best regards,
John.

avene (11138) 2008-05-30 4:16

hello Richard,
apt title, I was recently reading about Ceausescu in "Bad guys" (quite interesting book about dictators, serial killers and other "bad guys"), and I did imagine the palace to look something like this. seeing this shot and reading the very useful comment by Cosmin I can only say that this is pure madness, to ruin historically important buildings to have this monstrocity instead. I realise that simply as a building this palace is quite imposing, but it's the legacy that makes it ugly.
as to the photo - excellent light management to have the whites pure white and all the other colours nicely saturated. very nice work and important post.

with best regards,
Kristine

Isabelle (9014) 2008-05-30 4:37

it´s amazing. the architecture is absolutely beautiful and elegant (is it marble?)
but it´s impressive anyway. a place crowded with phantoms.

talking about megalomania, the taj mahal came to my mind...

tomescuc (2837) 2008-06-01 0:07 [Comment]

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jrj (34779) 2008-06-12 5:40

The white palace captured well here R. in a little different angle than usual. Impressive building and strange to think that there is just another part of the same size under the ground and on all 4 sides (facades)

kpav (5025) 2008-06-18 14:57

Hello Richard, the clarity and sharpness of your shot are impressive. Great architecture shot and a clever title. Thanks for sharing.
Best regards,
Kostas.

faubry (32419) 2008-06-29 9:41

hello Richard, a bad an sad time with this dictateur... anyway a good photo with a good diagonale
soon
francine