Archive for the ‘Budapest’ Category
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
A missed deadline is a missed deadline, and a SoFoBoMo book that takes more to complete than the given 31 day period is not a SoFoBoMo book. Such as mine.
What is a failure in SoFoBoMo categories is still not a failure for me. I made my book, and the process of selecting, editing and laying out was… well, it was not fun, but a pleasure, especially when seeing the product. You can download it here , and I will also adapt the menu structure to accomodate the books, as there are now two. And I guess they will not stay alone there.
So, deadline missed, but personal mission accomplished.
Tags:book, fotobook, sofobomo
Posted in Budapest | 2 Comments »
Sunday, July 11th, 2010
Carl Weese’s Pink Fire Plug inspired me to for today’s posting.
Yesterday I was at a wedding, but those 1200+ images are an intimidating amount even for skulling. It was a rural-style wedding, which had lasted already for 11 hours when I left early, so the number of pictures per hour is not that big as the total would indicate. Expect some images from the public part of the wedding during the next days.
Tags:car, fire plug, red, street, urban-details-and-doorway
Posted in Budapest, Hungary | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, July 7th, 2010
Technical University Budapest
Tags:corridor, door, staircase, stairs
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
Gellert hill, Budapest
Tags:cloud, door, fence, garden, sky
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Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
There seems to be still an unimpeded joy of colors you won’t find in Germany. But then, we are far more north, probably with a tendency towards melancholy and graveness. Found in the Jewish quarters of Budapest.
Tags:car, color, door, street, vivid
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Sunday, July 4th, 2010
Astonishing, what an administration can come up which is forbidden…
Tags:glass facade, lantern, traffic sign
Posted in Budapest, Hungary | 2 Comments »
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
Still Budapest, still doorways. Amazing enough that those doors have survived a 100 years or even more, through times when money was an even more scarce resource than now and sensitivity for bourgeouis architectural monuments was certainly not overwhelming. For me it was a bit like delving into the past, or more precisely, swinging between past and presence.
Tags:art deco, entrance
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Friday, July 2nd, 2010
I read this labelling recently on The Online Photographer and I can’t help the feeling that it sounds a tad patronizing – but maybe I am only overly sensitive and don’t want to see such a readymade denomination fitting my own selection of images.
Yet those streets, facades and doors are a substantial part of a city meeting a visitor (or vice versa), and they for sure do this in a defining manner. For me this was the second visit to Budapest, and the first where I had even some hours to stroll without other liabilities, just following my open eyes. It definitely made a difference to walk in a town where I didn’t understand a single word that was talked in the street – it really let me fall back on my visual perception, and this sense was in a certain oscillating motion between the recognition of the many similarities with my home surroundings and the blunt differences in many details. I certainly got into a mood of higher sensitivity for shapes, colors and details – especially those of the urban-detail-and-doorway genre, as they offered themselves so willingly to the stranger.
Tags:doors, opera, sphinx, street
Posted in Budapest, Hungary | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
I have not been in this café, just wandered by. But the situation was just perfect, the lens adequate for the light and my hands steady enough, and so I enjoy this image more and more. I have no idea yet how it will print, those night images are always a bit dangerous and need a fine balance between shadow details and a careful noise supression. I will see how the lab manages this, probably sending two versions and decide afterwards.
Tags:available light, cafe, night, Pilinszky, urban
Posted in Budapest, Hungary | 2 Comments »
