The Sunday walk has become a habit and a consequence of the retreat. From my childhood, 55-60 years ago, I remember when going out on Sundays was mandatory. In a grey period of life, when the whole week was for work, I mean parents, Sunday was for relaxation and fun.
The cheapest fun was walking and, maybe, a beer and soda. Old times, hard times but now I realize how nice they were. Parents live and childhood remains the best part of life, but we know that in adulthood!
Now, when any day of the week can be Sunday, I like to walk (and do other things) downtown only on real Sunday. I live on the outskirts and there is a big difference between the outskirts and its center.
Usually, every Sunday has this schedule:
My wife does part of the trip and I am on the subway, then a walk down Victory Avenue, our favorite boulevard, to a small monastery, the 300-year-old Stavropoleos Monastery. Here follows a break of about an hour while the wife attends the service. A short walk follows which takes us to the café. We take another break for rest, relaxation, and an excellent cappuccino.
It takes us about an hour for our coffee break. Another walk follows as we pass through or near the University Square, and end up on the city's central boulevard, Boulevard Magheru. It used to be our favorite boulevard but the lack of care from the municipality has made it fall in our preferences. Anyway, we walk on this boulevard until the Roman Square. This is not a big square but a classic meeting place for us who live in Bucharest.
This route I have revealed here can be documented with many photos, which I will do next week. I will use this text and new photos to fill in the picture.
Today's black-and-white adventure is in Roman Square, Bucharest, Romania. I'm waiting for my wife who walked into a shop, just for a minute!
Well, I guess you know how long a minute a woman spends in a clothes shop is.
It takes as long as it took me to look at the window, the market, the people, and the birds. Long enough to try to understand something of their actions, then to try to capture in photographs what I saw.
About 15 minutes!
This photo was the first one I took. I love the photos of shop windows that mirror the image behind the photographer.
This photo includes a few elements that will appear in the photos that follow plus the reflected image of the photographer. I took a selfie of sorts, that selfie that was accessible even before smartphones came along.
What caught my eye while waiting outside the store?
The Square and the People.
The young man is in an unusual position, he probably doesn't like the benches. On the left, another young man seems to be trying to take a selfie without using his smartphone.
Two young men and a dog enter the frame. They look like friends and even more than that...
On the benches humans rest, look at their phones, and even read!
A lady reads and that seems unusual. I see fewer and fewer people reading books. I haven't seen myself reading books for a long time either...
Our phone... our master!
I don't think the young rocker sees where he is stepping and the balls of yarn seen all over the market are very dangerous. I've stumbled many times.
I've seen some unfortunate beings. This is where the pigeons gather to eat.
A law just one day old forbids feeding pigeons. They don't know this and wait in bewilderment as people don't throw food for them.
Later my wife showed up and we got off at the subway. In less than an hour, we'll be home.
Sunday's ride is over.
This is my entry for the #monomad challenge.
This is a fun one, but true hahaha :))
I think B&W photos will be always something! They have a special aura. Great shots, I surely enjoyed them and see a little of Bucharest!
Thanks so much, @missdeli!
I remember you saying that you write for yourself, for your pleasure.
I, like you, also for pleasure. I chose to join Steemit, almost 7 years ago, just for the opportunity to make money online. I started trying to make money online more than 15 years ago. It seemed miraculous to me that I could make money working from home, just with my PC. Until Steemit I lost more than I gained, plus years of sleepless nights.
I didn't think I would be able to write a blog and the beginning was very hard. Over the years, I started learning and started to enjoy it, I forgot about the money. I wrote a lot. I did a calculation and it turned out that in the last almost 7 years I wrote a blog every less than two days. I haven't been that consistent with anything else in my life... I've (almost) always written with pleasure and for pleasure...
All this long story to tell you this:
I enjoyed this last post of mine, I enjoyed writing it and putting it together. It interested almost no one.
I'm so glad you liked it. I'm glad you liked it because I know you write for pleasure and I think you saw that I wrote this black and white story for pleasure too.
Yes, I say that sometimes in my posts and that's true. I also think 99% of all these people here are for the earnings. You can't deny it, not you! I mean all of us. But Idk....I think you can feel the ones who truly love to write and the ones who are passionate to blog about different things.
WOW! you wrote a lot of posts! Really WOW! I also have 6 yrs on the platform. In January there were six, actually. But I wasnt that consistent as you have. It was hard for me to focus on writing blogs on the chain since July 2018 until...let's say 2021. That period of time...I shared too little. Anyways I also joined steem because there were crypto involved and I thought that is something I would enjoy doing. Writing, I mean. I already had the passion to take photos with My PHONE ofc😁🤣, and I thought why not sharing those and earn some money?
But now...I don't know. It changed a lot the way I see things. With every post I write, I am fully in! I can't post it if I don't feel I did my best!
I dont comment just for the sake of commenting, you know that. I really enjoyed it, I really thought its nice to see a post from Bucharest and your writing made it easy to be enjoyed! And I also love B&W photography so...ANd Yes, I noticed what you wrote!
I agree with you.
Beyond the possibility of getting paid for writing, which I still find unbelievable, I have another reason to be active in Hive. I was afraid that after I retired I would have nothing to do and would get bored. I've seen a lot of bored and useless old people, I feared I would suffer the same.
Now I have found that I am not threatened by boredom and that I don't have enough time for everything I want to do.
What I find remarkable is that we have evolved and learned here to write and set up a blog.
I remember when I first saw a post of yours. I don't remember what year, but I remember that you posted many, many photos, too many photos.
In the meantime, we all learned the measure, and we gained experience.
At this point, you write some of the best blogs here. The text and graphics. I like them a lot and you can see that many have noticed these blogs.
You must be pleased.
I enjoy reading them and thank you for that!
Capturing moments, moments of people in everyday life is what makes these photographs so special, I really liked the end ones where the pigeons and the people walking. They are beautiful!😍
You said it very well... "capturing moments". That's what we do when we photograph.
Thanks for noticing that!
Life, a collection of moments.