That month in the Austrian capital, he took three pictures depicting the blessing of the first tricolor flag belonging to the Central National Romanian Council, in the presence of General Ioan Boieriu, of political leader Iuliu Maniu and the assembled troops.

Arriving with a delegation from Galtiu around 11 a.m. on a cloudy day, he carried his camera,[1] then about fifteen years old,[5] in a sheepskin bag, his tripod and glass plates on a bicycle.

Three showed the assembled crowds, and the other two the podium from which the act was read in public by the politician Aurel Vlad and the Greek-Catholic Bishop Iuliu Hossu.

[1] That day, he took fourteen pictures in all; he later explained that he was unable to take more because the glass plates were expensive and heavy, and the poor light required people to stand still for his shots.

[3] Other copies were sent to leading figures such as King Ferdinand, Prime Minister Ion I. C. Brătianu, Maniu (by then president of the Directing Council of Transylvania) and General Henri Mathias Berthelot.

In 1924, following an audience with Brătianu, he managed to obtain funding for continuing the painting at the Alba Iulia Orthodox Cathedral, which had been abandoned after the coronation in 1922.

The photographer noted that he had been forced to sell other pictures due to financial need, earning money from the special glass they were made of.