All Abroad the Fail Wheel: Visiting the Chisinau Amusement Park with My Cousin.

Sunday my cousin and I went to the local amusement park. We’ve been planning to go for years, but something always got in the way.

Our main destination was the Ferris wheel. A tiny metal construction compared to all the well-known monsters, but an exciting prospect nonetheless.

 

I’ve been told it’s as tall as a 5-floor building. Somewhere else I read that it’s as tall as a 12-floor one. I don’t know. How tall is a single floor on said hypothetical buildings? The information about this ferris wheel in Ukraine (that looks suspiciously similar to the one in Kishinev) says it’s 35 m tall.

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Bug Colonies, Ducks, and the Sun.

Below are some photographs of Goian on a hot, hot, hot summer day. Quite the contrast to the photographs of early winter mornings that have become a staple around here thanks to my dad.

Thing is, Villa is beautiful whole year round. If you ever visit, I’m sure you’d be inclined to agree.

I’ve read somewhere that when photographing a body of water, unless it’s your intention to be experimental, it’s always best to have the horizon perfectly parallel to the photo frame. No matter how many times I photograph this particular view, it never comes out parallel.  Probably because two rivers merge into one somewhere there.

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