The Iron Gate - DateThursday - SevenDaysOutside Challenge
Iron gate at the front door of a medieval church. This door is mostly closed, maybe it is open only on big occasions.
I can't explain why, but there is something very beautiful in this. Those few stairs after the gate and before the door makes it more interesting.
It's a Lutheran church, built between 1437 and 1488 and is located at the center of a large church fortress. It's the St. Margaret's church of Medias, Romania. Photographing is denied inside, although it's very beautiful.
Check out my #SevenDaysOutside Challenge!
These are the days and the categories:
#WindowMonday – Windows
#DoorTuesday – Doors
#RustArtWednesday – Rust
#GateThursday – Gates
#StatueFriday – Statues
#BrickSaturday – Bricks (bricks only, no pavement elements or cobblestones please)
#StreetlampSunday – Street Lamps
Make sure you write a description of the photo you are posting. Share as much details as you can, like where that statue is placed (in a park, at a museum), what it represents etc. Make it enjoyable.
Use the #sevendaysoutside tag along with the daily tag and tag me, @erikah!
Goes without saying that you can only use your own photos. No paintings, no drawings, no digital art please! There is no prize here, this is just for fun.
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I find this to have a sort of gothic look that really appeals to me! Nice shot. I just have one question.
If photography is not permitted outside, how did you get this capture? Were you being naughty?
Thank you! And sorry, I meant inside, I made a mistake, wasn't thinking clearly last night when I scheduled this post :)
Oh it's ok! These things happen. I laughed when I thought you were sneaking photo captures 😄
I do that sometimes :) I did that at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, although all visitors had to sign an agreement, that they know photographing is forbidden, among many other things :)
I saw some people taking photos and I thought if they are allowed, so am I. It's just that they were diplomats, and I wasn't :D Anyway, I was asked nicely, actually told nicely that photography is not allowed, I said sorry and that was it. I came home with a few photos :D
Hehe, that's an interesting story. I am picturing @erikah doing this in my mind. Somehow, I can picture it very well 😌
Glad to hear that :D
This is a beautiful gate. I'm wondering why they are closing these sites. They are part of the common history and should be shown to everybody. So sneaking a camera or a phone and taking photos does not seem a bad idea. 🙂
Actually only the main entrance is closed, I wonder if they ever open it, maybe for a ceremony or something.
There's a side door that is open to the public. I've been inside, there are caretakers watching the place, once you step in, you're reminded that you're not allowed to take photos!!! Right away, before you can even have a look inside.
Now, this might happen for two reasons. One, to protect the frescoes, but I'm not really sure if a flashlight from that distance can damage them so much. Two, to make money. You know, there are little printed brochures for sale at the entrance, postcards and a bunch of other things. If photographing is allowed, who on earth would buy those? Nowadays everyone has a phone with a camera, right?
I tend to believe it's the second. You have to pay an entrance fee, which is almost $2. So money talks.
I have a very bad experience. It happened at the orthodox cathedral in my hometown. I was with a guest from Sweden, wanted to show her the city. She's never been to an orthodox cathedral before, so we went in and started to take photos. This is somehow a normal behaviour, you want to have some memories and photos to show at home to your loved ones, right? It's just that there was a sign at the entrance saying no photos! And we missed that because we were looking at the beauty of the place.
At that point a cleaning lady came out of somewhere, shouting at us, that photographing is forbidden. I said I'm sorry, I did not know that. This wasn't enough for her. She kept shouting at us, damn tourist, they never pay attention, they think everything is allowed and so on and on, damn tourists!
I was shocked, to tell you the truth. Told my guest to go, we're not welcomed here and we left.
I was thinking. We were in the Lord's house, right? It doesn't matter what religion we are talking about, but each religion teaches about forgiveness, about helping others, especially those in need and so on. We made a mistake, although no damage was done. We asked for forgiveness and yet we were verbally abused. There was no forgiveness for our mistake 🙂
I could go on and on about cases like this because this was not the only incident.
In conclusion, I think in some cases it would be very indicated to rethink the whole role of people like this woman and others who sometimes tend to forget that they're serving God and their role is to help people, not to punish them 🙂.
Yes. It's all about the money, unfortunately. It does not matter if we talk about a church, a castle or a museum.
Something similar happened to me. I was told by a handyman to let my camera at the entrance or to get out. The handyman, not the guide!
I believe these people are trying to show us how important they are despite their actual jobs.
The company I'm working for is quite big. So they had to hire a 5 cleaning ladies. Working with foreign customers, we had different delegations visiting us on a daily basis. I still remember a funny thing.
We had some visitors from the UK and one of the guys (actually, the CEO of a huge company but a very friendly and nice person) spilled coffee during a meeting. It was an accident, something that can happened to everybody. The reaction that one of the cleaning lady had...the screams and the attitude. I've never felt so ashamed as I did that day. It didn't matter that the general manager had a conversation with her prior of this visit. Nothing was important apart from her broom.
I guess this behaviour is these people's way to express their frustrations. Our lady was not happy that so many "young people earn money just playing at a pc". This was her opinion towards our job. She could not stand the fact that working in IT is better paid than cleaning.
It is too bad that people like them make us feel uncomfortable at work or on vacation.
I guess, apart from religion, the education has a very important role.
Love it such a beautiful but simple design :)
That's the idea, simple and beautiful. Sometimes less is more, isn't it?
Yep true simple can be also very effective...i did a @rustartwednesday post the other day do i have to post the link under your post or do you just go and have a look at the posts under the tag @sevendayoutside ??
There's no need to post the link, unless you want to.
Usually I go and have a look, it's just that my life is a mess right now, so ... I might miss some. But thanks for telling me, I'll go have a look.
Thanks for that info @erikah .... sad to hear that i hope whatever it is sorts itself out for you i have noticed your been a bit quiet i know it's easy for us to try and give you comfort and advice but it's only you who really knows what is going on inside you...just one step at a time and try and keep your head up...never give up there are people worst of i'm sure :)
Look after yourself my friend !!
Thank you Angelo for the kind words. My godmother has died, her mother died exactly a month before, so it's hard to lose two dear people in such a short period of time.
I'm not here much, don't really feel like socializing right now. It'll take a while till life gets back to normal again, so I'm going to miss your posts and others but I'm going to make it up to you :)
Am so sorry my condolences to you i feel you my friend go and do whatever makes you feel more at ease and comfortable we will always be here for you remember that , take your time and go and be with your close family talking about the good memories spent togeather always eases the pain :)
Take care my friend.
Thank you! I would take some time off Steemit and go for a walk, practice drawing.
That is quite beautiful! Lovely photo!
Thank you @melinda010100.