Snow in the city

It seems that we will never have the same cold, snowy winters anymore in Budapest as we had in my childhood. I remember, that around the middle of November we were throwing snowballs and building snowmen twenty years ago... It is quite shocking to think about this... firs of all because I just realized how long time ago was that and on the other hand I started to act like a grandpa, thinking about the "good old times".

Whatever... getting back to the point it was snowing last week so I grabbed the camera and took some photos. I tried to capture the light, the clean air so I tried to make high-key like photos in Városliget.

Holiday on the countriside: Badacsony

Me and Anuta took a few days off in the beginning of October to rest a bit after the last 3-4 months with full of works, thesis writing. We got a 3 days long wellness treatment in Sümeg, Hungary from my family so we just completed the package with a short get-to-know-Western-Hungary trip with a few stops. The first one was Badacsony which is a small town next to lake Balaton. It is famous of the wine production so we checked this.

Grey October

The sun was shining so bright on Sunday that it would be a crime to stay home and sit on the sofa. So I called a Friend of mine, Irma to grab her camera and invited her to a photowalk.

We met at Újpest-Városkapu and walked to Népsziget. Until we reached the island through the not used train bridge all of the lights were gone, everything was gray and plain which made our photo shooting a bit harder. I would like to collect more colorful autumn photo but I had no chance…

Phil and Rasputin – still-life from Margaret island

I’m on holiday. It feels very good, don’t really remember when was the last time I did nothing… especially for almost two weeks… A long time ago… So, I’m on my holiday and I have decided to take as many photos in this period as many I just can. I started it on Monday after we bought our morning coffee at Mad Dog Café. By the way IF you like fabulous coffee, cozy places and the friendliest service it is highly recommended to you to visit it!

I entered the island from north on Árpád-bridge because the renovated music fountain and Japanese garden were the most interesting to me.

Start - vol.2

Hi everyone who did not forget the blog and got surprised because of the new post. Well, my last photos were posted hack of a long time ago but I have a good (?) excuse... I didn't have that much time... 2013 was as fast as a TGV but it was an awesome, happy year. The only thing that I didn't have time for was photography... at least not with the camera. Instead of that I have taken tons of photos with my iPhone and uploaded them to Instagram. I did it because I had a 365 day long project: I have tried (and managed to do so with a good percantage) to take a photo every day like a photo diary.

It was quite logical to select some of them as a first step of restarting my blog both in Hungarian and English.

Velence, Hungary

I have to catch up with myself… I have mentioned in my last post that there are some stories which I would like to share with you.

The next one is the tale of our short trip to Velence, Hungary. I think it would be the best if I tell you a little about the lake.

Reed

Lake Velence is the third largest lake in Hungary with its 26 km2 area. It is located near to Budapest and it can be easily approached by car or train. This map shows you the location of it. The lake is very shallow so the warmth of it is around 26-28 °C in the summer. Lake Velence is a popular beach and there is a cable wakeboard opportunity there as well.

And now let the story begin…

I’m fine

I did not write a single word into the blog since Christmas because I had lots of stuff to do: school and work. I had exams so I had to learn in my free time.

Now I am finished for a while so I grabbed my keyboard and I will summarize the last month in the next few posts.

Star

Colourful Advent

I met with my friends from indafoto on Thuesday. The meeting point was at Deák square (it is the core of the city) and we planned a short walk in the biggest and most famous Advent Market of Budapest.
After a short conversation and a cup of hot wine we started taking photos. I can not tell much about the event. I think everybody knows exactly the atmosphere of this kind of markets: the scent of mulled wine, fried sausage, scone and bugler cake mingle with the fragrance of incenses. I love the colours of the lights and gifts. Really exciting forms, lights, bokehs are there.
I finish the writing because the pictures are much more efficient to show you the feeling.

Rainbow

All Souls' Day

Between memories

I am late... I have so many things to do so I am late with everything. I had no time to write this post until now.
I have never been in the cementery after dark before. This year I was twice. Second time my friends Irma, Tibor, Gyuri and Dani were with me. Irma has brought her husband too.

The devil's cat - Zizi

The fellowship of the indafoto

Panorama of Dobogókő

Me and some user from indafoto.hu had an excursion into the Pilis. It is a hill near to Budapest, Hungary. We had a wonderful weather and the lights were perfect for a group of photographer.

Stranger Nr7

As I mentioned I had a busy Wednesday... I was late from the dance wit WherethehellisMatt but I managed to capture four strangers. To tell the truth there were eight people but they were some kind of couples. It is my new record.
The seventh were Anna and János. They were there because of Matt. I hope they could dance in the official film. They asked me to record them with Matt so they have a personal video.

100 strangers, 100 Personalities, 100 Stories in 365 days

Matt from youtube danced in Budapest today.

I decided to see the event and I brought my camera too. Unfortunately I was late the recording of the dance but I had luck with my 365 days project.

I met with Joe and Charles in the Castle. They agreed to participate in my 100 strangers project. So I took some pictures of them. The focus on the photos was not the best but I did not want to miss this picture from my collection. I will be more precise next time.

Here is the photo:

Thank you guys!

100 strangers, 100 Personalities, 100 Stories in 365 days - 2nd part

The project is continued with Anthon and his family. Two strangers in four days. Everthing is OK.

100 strangers, 100 Personalities, 100 Stories in 365 days

I had an idea... it began with an article on the flickr blog a few weeks ago. I decided that I would do it. As Barney Stinson would say "Cahllenge accepted!". I decided that I would do it within 365 days. It's not an impossible mission. I have to ask a stranger to be my model in each 3,65 days and I have to persuade him or her to tell me something about his/her life.... Would it be difficult? Eventually we live in a big city (in Hungarian scale) where people don't speak to each other and they are mistrustful... Our parents taught us not to speak to strangers...
This will be my challenge in the next 364 days. Plus I don't want to be boring and I'd like to introduce many different people. We will see...

So I met this girl yesterday and the countdown was started. She read a book from Vavyan Fable (a Hungarian writer) in a small park between the Western Railway Station and a new office building. We spoke about school and job (I have to improve my subjects!) than she approved a photo although she doesn't like to be photographed. Than we said goodbye.

It wasn't easy. I was embarrassed but the photo was taken thanks for Stranger Nr1!

Birth of a building 1 - Construction pit shoring/preliminary works

This series will show you one of my first construction. This topic is a bit far from the title of the blog but this is a part of me too. So I will give you photos and descriptions about the works.
I can follow the formation of the built environment from the first line because of my job. In my posts I will inform you about a birth of a building in Budapest. I hope you will enjoy it.

Lets see...

We would like to built a 10 m deep construction pit in the middle of Budapest. It won't be an easy task because there are residential, diplomatic buildings and offices in the neighborhood.

Normafa

Tibor asked me whether I had liked to join them to take a short excursion to Normafa. I had... Normafa is a popular place in Budapest. It is in the hills of Buda. It has a nice panorama to the city. I really recommend taking a short trip there if you visit Budapest.
We met on Moszkva square (it's new name is Széll Kálmán square but the most people call it just Moszkva). Gyuri was late... a lot... After he got there we took the bus (21) to Normafa.

Coffee break

Coffee break, a gallery on Flickr.

Browse it with a morning coffee! :)