from @romania on ig . “What is it about a winter storm that stirs something ancient in the soul? The Vaser Valley, cloaked in its alabaster raiment, offers a tableau of unearthly splendor. Here, amidst the Maramureș wilds, the venerable Mocănița train, a relic of steam and iron, threads its way through the vortex of snow. Each whistle is a hymn to forgotten epochs, each puff of smoke a specter lost in the whorls of a celestial blizzard. It doesn’t merely move through the storm—it communes with it, drawing the heavens to earth in a cosmic embrace.[…]”

Paul Gostielean Photography

Forest in the Carpathian Mountains, Romania

Wooded Carpathians, Ukraine 1920s

Spring on the Mountain Pass by Volodymyr Sydoruk, 1965

Carpathians. Ukraine

Portraits of elderly Polish Highlanders, who still engage in their traditional lifestyle; from the Carpathian Mountains of Southern Poland - Bartłomiej Jurecki