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Bulgaria is crying! Today, at the age of 103, after a brief illness, Grandfather Dobri died - The Bulgarian Saint from Baylovo (July 20, 1914 - February 13, 2018). Bright Way to His Soul!
Beautiful moon night - a look from my terrace... The red moon... and the late arriving plane at Sofia Airport... I made this picture about half an hour ago. It's approaching midnight...
My new stone addition... I adore stones - all kinds. For many years... decades I collect stones from the most common to not so ordinary... from different parts of the world. One of my favorite stones is petrified wood, which I found in a river of Vitosha Mountain. When I put it in the water he "comes alive" and becomes a magical beautiful stone. I had an interesting experience at the opening of my stones. I have fossilized fossils which I am finding of amazing places and they are millions of years old...
Looking at the lakes of Malyovitsa, Rila Mountain. Photography of my son Oleg and his wife Trayana... Malyovitsa is a peak and ski resort in the northwestern part of the Rila Mountain in southwestern Bulgaria. It is 2,729 m high and is one of the most popular tourist regions in the mountain. The Malyovitsa region is the cradle of Bulgarian rock climbing and mountaineering. The first organized expeditions were made in 1921-22 by tourists from the town of Samokov. The imposant north wall of the summit was first climbed in 1938. That was the greatest success of Bulgarian climbers for its time and is deemed as the date of birth of Bulgarian mountaineering. Later other walls in the region were climbed too with the most difficult routes being made in the 1970s. In the last 15 years, Malyovitsa region has become very attractive rock-climbing district with the possibilities it gives for mountaineering and sport rock climbing.
Photography of my son Oleg and his wife Trayana. Urdinite Lakes group of lakes of glacial origin in the Rila Mountain. They have not developed as a tourist attraction as well as Seven Lakes because they are located in the most inaccessible parts of northwestern Rila. Urdinite lakes are located in the western part of Urdina circus between Damga peak (2670 m) at the northwest and Dodov Peak (2661 m) to the south. They are six in number and have the following names - Dry, Fish (not to be confused with Fish Lake by the Seven Lakes), Triangle, Botanical (Drowning), Big Panitza and Little Panitza. From Urdinite Lakes expires Urdina river which is a tributary of the Cherni Iskar (Black Iskar River). Black Iskar River runs about 15-20 meters from the new property and house of my son Oleg in the winter resort Govedartsi.
En route to Samokov and Govedartsi... This photograph I made it out of the car my son Oleg, while traveling to his new house in Govedartsi in Rila Mountain about 80 km from Sofia...
The wild horses in Rila Mountain. Photography of my son Oleg and his wife Trayana.
This photograph was made today by my son Oleg and his wife Trayana... Musala (from Arabic through Ottoman Turkish: Musalla, "near God" or "place for prayer" is the highest peak in the entire Balkan Peninsula, standing at 2,925 m (9,596 ft). The summit of the Rila mountain range in southwestern Bulgaria, Musala is the highest peak between the Alps and the Caucasus and the highest in Eastern Europe bar the Caucasus. With a prominence of 2473 m, Musala is the 7th most prominent mountain peak in Europe.
I decided to play around a little and the result is this collage with my "last" picture...
Sofia over night - view from my home. Picture taken with the camera Sony Xperia Z3 This is my first picture taken with this camera...
I and my pets - cats Koko-Nick and Lara (2015).
Tribute to the victims of terrorist attacks in France!
Sunrise over Sofia from my apartment... This photograph I made with camera on my antiquated mobile phone Nokia 3120 classic.
Monument of the Unknown Soldier in Sofia * * * Monument which embodies fully the heroism of the Bulgarian nation and over time has become a sacred symbol not only of the Bulgarian army, but and the Bulgarian state. Located to the early medieval and my favorite basilica "St. Sophia"; and close to the cathedral "St. Alexander Nevski". The monument consists of a sarcophagus, which consists of 15 cartridges with the sacred land from all parts of Bulgaria. It also kept the remains of unknown soldiers from various historically significant places, thus the monument became a symbol of honor, patriotism and sacrifice of all Bulgarian warriors who fell in the defense of the Fatherland, no matter when and where it is happened. Behind the sarcophagus is placed the eternal flame that was lit with the sacred flame brought from Shipka. (The battles of Shipka peak (1877) during the liberation war of Bulgaria from the 500 years of Ottoman rule was involved and my great-great-grandfather. Afterward my great-great-grandfather also participated and in the Serbian-Bulgarian War of 1885. My great-grandfather died near Odrin in the Balkan War in 1912. Both my grandfathers were involved in World War II against Nazi Germany, one of my grandfather was involved in the fighting on the river Drava in Hungary and the other my grandfather was reached with the Bulgarian army to Vienna, Austria.) The eternal flame symbolizes the relationship of the present generations with the past and show reverence to the descendants of our great ancestors. The rear is a memorial plaque on which are carved the immortal poem of the great Bulgarian poet and writer Ivan Vazov: * * * "Bulgaria, for you they died, only you was worthy for them and they for you worthy, Mother, were! And your name only as quietly saying, they were dying without fear." * * * On the plate are also placed two crown that show reverence and gratitude to all Bulgarians to characters worthy fulfilled our duty to our country and died in the battlefields for her and for us, their descendants. In front at the very approach to the monument lying bronze lion and a watch over the fallen heroes as they watch over Bulgaria and as the spirit continues to watch over us. The official opening of the monument of the Unknown Soldier consists of 22 September, 1981 - Independence Day of Bulgaria and 1300 years of creation and official recognition from Byzantium... (Eastern Roman Empire), with the Peace treaty countersigned by her, of the Bulgarian State (autumn of 681). * * * The photography I have made on November 4, 2015 with the camera on my very old mobile phone Nokia.
November 4, 2015 All the photos I made are with my mobile phone - 8 year Nokia.
A few days ago I had a little free time and his "I played" with some of my photographs from this year. These are some of these my "creations"...
Me and my cat Lara (2015) (Collage)
That's me - a collage