BEAUTY OF THE UGLINESS - a photo on Flickriver

            ꒌ БЛОКОВИ ЈОШ СТОЈЕ – и Београд још увек расте.

► █░▓ I USED TO turn my angry eye to this part of new Belgrade. After all, it has been built in my lifetime, I have seen the landscape deteriorate before my own eyes and I hung out there. Sometimes, the visits were shocking (especially near the river bank). But this mini-Moscow-style scattered tower of Babylon is still there. Still in place. People still live there. I have changed the way I dwell, but they haven’t. So now it looks to me more of a long-term given fact, and, as everything belonging to people, it deserves one's respect and attention, if not love. A comfort is that the new high rise fashions glass from the outside. That conceals the ugly concrete bone structure inside. Also, some less ambitious enterprises finally adapt a more human (and humane) dimensions approach, like with this construction site in the foreground, with five storeys only above the ground floor.

THE WHOLE CONCEPT is nevertheless wrong. The quality of life in such urban conglomerate is low. It can be funny at times but is neither nice nor healthy. I’m sure that if Serbia had more and better roads and rails, the abnormal human concentration and its pertinent flow to Belgrade would end. Serbia's backcountry, towns and villages, the nature, are much nicer and have potential.
 
Plus… There is no other future for this land – or any other land for that matter – than the good, honest food production and consumption. With all the social benefits the more relaxed countryside communities can come up with. 

—These clouds are ending the first cooler day (below 30°C) after a long series of July soaring heat. I’m afraid I’ve run out of nice candid snapshot opportunities now!

The cameraphone capture in 'Pano' mode (with disappointing resolution), edited in Snapseed app.

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Taken in: Serbia / Central Serbia / Bežanija (show map)

Taken on: July 26, 2023

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concrete, high rise, Belgrade, Beograd, Belgrado, Белг

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Camera: Apple iPhone X, f/1.8, 1/213 sec, 4mm, ISO 80 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Apple iPhone X
Aperture:	f/1.8
Exposure Time:	0.005 sec (1/213)
Focal Length:	4mm
ISO:	80
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Snapseed 2.22.412829873
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