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In Albania 3

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alexander stefanatos

Premium (Pro), thessaloniki

In Albania 3

Albania
Albania is mostly a mountainous country but with beautiful also shores in Adriatic sea that remained sealed for tourists and completely unexploited for more than half century especially during the period that the country remained in a strict communist grip from Enver Hoxha. After 1990 the country started surfacing...
The majority of villages are perched on mountains or slopes, very poor and with the locals struggling even for the bare everyday necessities.
In the photo one more of them.

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Inez Correia Marques 22/12/2014 19:20
Wow! amazing view from above.... it seems so hard ... but maybe life there is muche more fulfilling with more meaning!
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s. sabine krause 22/12/2014 16:43
what barren, "godforsaken" land!! what hardy and unwavering people it must take to settle in it, and literally blend into the rocky hill! an eye-opening image for me, alexander, as i must admit to know far too little about albania and its people! amazing, how this shot here differs in mood from "In Albania", the latter oozing magnificence, pride and glory, which i guess is due to the splendor of the mountain range, the light, and the naked tree branches reaching into the image in an almost protective way! greetings, sabine.
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Adele D. Oliver 22/12/2014 3:47
I like this composition here with the three layers of
interest and the view from above making the town
look like it is filled with toy houses .... so barren
this hills in the background - hard living !!!
greetings, Adele
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Sue Thompson 21/12/2014 16:55
a superb scene, but who would ever know of the hardships the eople have to suffer.

:))
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SINA 21/12/2014 13:18
Ein grandioses Foto dieser Landschaft dieses Landes
das mich lange schon interessiert
es einmal zu bereisen
lieber Alex
hab einen schönen geruhsamen Sonntag
Herzlich Sina
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Harold Thompson 21/12/2014 12:35
Good scene showing the township in the fg
:-)) Harold
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