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During our stay, it rained on Lanzarote. That is a rather rare event on the island, and it also resulted in quite a few clouds. The good thing about clouds is that if they are nice, one can use them in a photo as a feature.

I've changed the contrast on th…

We were looking for the perfect spot to take photos of another view, only to realize that there are a few points on the island where resorts were built on such an ugly manner that it blocks out the view of the otherwise incredibly area around La Santa.

No…

There are some sandstone formations on Lanzarote, and they are becoming an Instragram location, so taking shoots without people in it takes some patience, but it's worth it.

If you get to La Geria, a vineyard on Lanzarote, before they open, you can sneak to the back of the building, only to be greated with a wonderful view of the inner parts of the island.

I used a 1.4x lens extension, so the real focal length is around 189mm…

Another view on the vineyars of La Geria: beyond the iconic round arrangement of the malvasía grape there are also other arrangements, like these.

There is no backstory with this one, I simply liked the shapes complement eachother.

This was our second visit to Lanzarote; the first one was only 3 days, and we had to skip quite a few things that looked interesting. This time we included them, like getting on a camel.

Camels used to be the main working animals on the island, but nowada…

A morning view of the hills formed 300 years ago by erupting volcanoes on Lanzarote.

In the middle of the 60s, the aforementioned César Manrique, essentially the creator of current day Lanzarote, came back to the island, and created a home for himself. The house which you see is the top level, which follows the traditional architecture of…

This is another view in Jameos Del Agua, next to the café area. In Chinese and Japanese gardens the idea of framing the view exists: whenever one looks out of a window, the landscape should be arranged and sculpted as it was a painting.

While I find the p…

On our first visit to Lanzarote we ended up skipping one large tourist attraction, Jameos Del Agua.

It is one of the attractions created by César Manrique, an artist native to Lanzarote, who built beautiful, experimental locations that blend into the natu…

Blae Tarn is a small, quiet, and rather nice little lake in the Lake District. There are two small issues with it though. The road we took is called "Hardknot Pass" which, unexpectedly, starts with a massive warning sign of the coming 31% (sic!) slopes. I…

Wast Water was voted as one of the nicest views in England - they are not wrong.

The contrast that came out of my Pentax was not perfect, even though it was accurate to the gloomy sky, so I opted for a Fuji Provia 400x film simulation in Rawtherapee.

I took this next to Buttermere Lake in the Lake District; an elderly man started to descend on this incredible looking path. I'm quite happy that there is a person in this picture; I took so many photos of empty roads in forests, and barely any reflected …

In May, after the dreadful lockdowns in England, I followed my wife to the Lake District for a few days; on the first day we took a walk around Buttermere Lake.

Before this one we've only been to the Lakes once, during winter, and to a rather different lo…

This was finally a real waterfall; the previous one I visited this day turned out to be a tiny stream in the middle of nowhere. Pwll-y-wrach is a small nature reserve, quite easy to climb and have a nice walk, even with family.

On my way down from Pwll-y-Wrach, in the distance, I spotted something that on the map was only marked as "hospital". Apparently I stumbled upon Talgarth Asylum, a clinic that was closed only 20 years ago. In that 20 years, it got stripped of the slate on…

I previously mentioned I went looking for waterfalls in Herefordshire, following markings on openstreetmaps. This was above the marked part of the waterfall, where it was mostly a stream, but I liked this part better, than the real waterfall - which, just…

While Nora went on a Japanese woodblock printing course in Herefordshire I had two days to find something interesting around. I ended up pulling up OsmAnd, looking for waterfalls; one of them was marked close to a village called Painscastle.

Well, in the …

We took a small walk from our accommodation in Herefordshire, and the last bits of sunlight somehow came through nicely. I was also testing a new focusing screen in my camera to see if it helps with manual focusing; indeed it does, though my hands need to…

On our way to Herefordshire we wanted to stop somewhere to eat - because finally it's allowed to sit outside a pub instead of takeaway. When we spotted the Plough in Ford, we stopped, though originally because the view was absurdly beautiful. By the time …

This photo is from last year, when the UK rules were relaxed enough to allow some domestic travel, and we went to Snowdonia. We've been there quite a few times, and while we enjoyed it after months of lockdown, the weather was far, from gentle. This doesn…

This is the continuation of the previous walk; Cambridge in fog is quite a wonderful sight.

Misty Albion gets misty a lot, but it rarely gets properly foggy. Fog transforms the world into another dimention: one where sounds are soft, views are mysterious, and where mood swings from one end of the spectrum to the other.

I tip my hat to anyone who…

This is from last December, and I should have posted it for months now. In Cambridge, snow, that actually stays visible is rare; rare enough that with Nora, we usually get up for that one night when this tends to happen - The Night of The Winter.

Well, th…

La Palma is a tiny island with huge mountains, and with spectacular possibilities for outstanding sights.

I've been meaning to post this picture for a while now, but I kept forgetting it. The scene is from La Palma, the Canary Island; if you get up early enough and get to the right spot, there's a high chance you'll be greeted by a constantly moving waterfall…

It's strange which pictures and scenes stay with you. Close to the end of our journes in China in 2019 we were back in Hangzhou, only to learn that it was basically impossible to get into restaurants late in the evening - read: after 20:00. We ended up go…

Another image from checking older picture; this is a renovated monastery in China. Originally we were aiming to visit a huge, quite famous place next to it, called Lingyin Temple - but when we realized that there's yet another entrance fee, we walked away…

On the last day of our 2019 China visit, we had an extra day which we didn't have anything planned for in advance. This was deliberate: on every single trip we ever made we ended up learning about some fascinating places along the way, but in Hangzhou, th…

During the lockdown I decided to browse through some older folders of photographs - sometimes there are pictures that you ignore at that point in time, but on revisit, you see them in a better light.

This was taken in 2016, in Wales; we went there for a l…

Every once in a while, when in you're in a forest, sit down, and wait. Wait until you start seeing and recognizing the hidden things.

A rock troll, guarding the Parys copper mine.

On the edge of Anglesey, there's an abandoned copper mine; a landscape, shaped from the end of the 18th century till the middle of the 20th.

Another lake, another hillside; but this time, with plethora of sheep. And insane lights, but that's normal for Wales.

This isn't the first image I took from the same scenery, but this is the first panorama that is acceptable. At the Lake Idwal parking lot, there's a small road that leads into the mountains; the view is much better for a panorama, from there, than from th…

This is the aforementioned lake from the previous post. I'm rather sure the white house it not abandoned: all of it's windows had a wildlife watch camera.

Always talk to the locals; especially when they have a lovely, very friendly dog, from whom there's no escape. Long story short: we were recommended that once we're up at the lake, take the bridge and the trail that goes next to the abandoned building you…

As mentioned before, I don't think there's a chance to take an image if the bridge only. However, if you're early and patient enough, an opportunity might present itself when only people who actually fit the settings are on the path.

I know the framing is…

I firmly believe that it is now impossible to take a picture of the bridge in Hongcun without people already occupying it to take a selfie. Or a lot of selfie. And one more selfie.

This was taken 07:05 local time, about an hour after sunrise and before th…

Just the sun rising above Hongcun with misty mountains in the background. Nothing special apart from the idyllic and near perfect conditions to feel how China probably was a few hundred years ago.

The Moon Lake is in the middle of Hongcun and is the "belly" of the water system running across the town like veins. It has fisn, snails, shellfish, and a lot of special plants that filter and clean the water.

We tried to get out here early as possible, b…

Want empty streets in Hongcun? Sleep inside the town, because it's loked from visitors till 7am. And get up around 5am. If you do so, you'll meet adorable cats loudly welcoming you and a crispy morning, with unique street views.

If you go somewhere for a week or a bit more it's inevitable to have a Saturday night included. Saturday night at any heavily tourist populated are can be bad, but Hongcun was a lovely suprise: it was lit with lampions, everything was open till 22:00 at w…

There were so many people staring into their phone, or taking selfies - except them. This young couple took a photo of the place, and not a selfie.

Hongcun ( 宏村 ) is a small, old village in Anhui province - and it's location of the opening scenes of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. This fact made Hongcun one of the most frequently visited tourist attractions in China. I saw images from before the movi…

Swarms of tourists are usually bad in a scenic area, but at least in this very case, it shows how well the Emerald Valley is maintained.

There is a good reason why the Emerald (or Jade) Valley is called like that: there are hundreds of different shades of greens all around, including the ponds themselves.

China has a system to rank scenic areas, which takes capacity, beauty, historical importance etc. into account. The AAAAA spots, like Huangshan, are the nicest, largest, most crowded places in China, because everyone hears about them. Regardless of this t…

Our 2019 visit to China was the first time ever that even with patient waiting it was impossible to get a view of the scenery without people. So I kept the people. At least they make the steepness of Huangshan is visible.

The deeper you go into the rear valley, the wilder, the more alien the landscape becomes in Huangshan.

These mountains with the flowers and the spectacular pines are worthy of being the topic of so many chinese landscape paintings.

A view of the rear valley from the scenic route of Huangshan.

A view of the front valley from the scenic route of Huangshan.

It's nearly impossible to properly capture landscape with "deep shadows and brilliant highlights", but I tried to do my best. Non-HDR, multi picture panorama put together with Huggin.

Huangshan is a unique place. It's also vast, surprisingly long to walk, and even after the Golden Week it's still packed with people. Regardless of that it's beautiful.

Tangkoucun ( 汤口村 ) is the small town at the feet of Huangshan mountains - this is where the bus to the scenic area takes you to. If you get here in dark, it's certainly not one of the most welcoming looking places, but it gets a lot nicer in light.

The West Lake itself is a big, open water, but around it, especially in the corners, there are wonderful, smaller areas, filled with lush greens, and sprouting lotus.

The West Lake in Hangzhou is probably one of the most visited tourist spots in the whole of China. Apparently it's true beauty only appears when there's mist and fog around - having had a clear night when we were there, it seems fairly true. Without the m…

Taken at Yunxi Zhujing, Hangzou.

Yunxi Zhujing is one of the less visited, smaller attractions of Hangzhou. It's easy and possible to get there by bus from the West Lake, and it's a nice escape from the swarm of tourists at the big highlights around.

On my attempt to re-create a photo I mistakenly shoot as video - and therefore only have it in a small resolution¹ - I got up early on my second day during our visit to Stara Wieś as well.

No rain, no sleet, lovely sunshine. And cold. And wavy water surfa…

Along the previous picture, this is another perspective on tea house and the sauna building at Dojo Stara Wieś, with a lot of sunshine at a dazzlingly cold morning.

Before saying goodbye to Stara Wieś, I wanted to make an image of the whole little village. This should have been made either earlier in the morning, or much later, at sunset, but when you go there to train, one can't simply run and leave the class to tak…

When you expect the same weather one year apart on the same spot in Central Europe, it usually doesn't work. I deliberately got up 5am to make use of the incredible water surfaces next to the houses at Dojo Stara Wieś, only to realize that this time my co…

Same morning as the previous image¹ about the lovely dojo at Stara Wieś, with it's curving roads across the fantasy Japanese village.

A year later to our previous visit¹ we repeated our Spring Retreat with Pa-Kua² to the magnificent dojo at Stara Wieś. On the contrary to last year's glorious ~23°C, the first morning was gloomy, with sleet and snow. At least it was different...

Galtelli, the old capital of Sardinia has extremely narrow and quite steep streets, with adorable places to stay at; this is one of them.

One of the nicest little beaches on Sardinia, which we got to by a little walk, across the dunes.

Spikes, dry dirt, heat - although it's a bit of an illusion. This was next to a stream, on an area which only gets wet during spring, but it was right next to fresh water.

Gorropu Gorge is gigantic, peaceful, quiet, and quite steep to get to when walking. There are signs up at the top of the hill before starting to descent that it's no a light walk, and I have to admit, it's a decent climb down and then up, but it's worth i…

That piece of driftwood genuinely scared me when I spotted it through the rocks. The moment you move or zoom closer, the illusion disappears.

This little fellow was staring at me after a rain at Sardinia, in a small forest of olive trees, covering ancient ruins of disturbingly sharply designed sacred wells¹.

This is a deceptive image: from all I know, this should be in Ireland. Reality says this is on the semi-island of Sardinia, below Tharros.

There are a couple of abandoned mines in Sardinia - this one was turned into a museum, which would have required hours and guided tour to see inside. We were not that interested to inside, but the view certainly had stereotypical lost wild west feeling to…

On the Canary Island La Palma, unexpectedly, there is a lot of water. Some of this water ends up in the Cascada de Los Colores, a small waterfall of red, yellow, and green streams. Soon the stream becomes mostly red, stays like that for a while, slowly tu…

The very top of La Palma is the Roque de los Muchachos with it's 2426m height. On cloudy days, this is the view - that pointy thing in the distance is the Teide on Tenerife, way above the clouds, with it's 3718m.

The Roque de los Muchachos host a significant amount and rather important astronomy telescopes. Unfortunately visitors are not allowed up here during the night because even that tiny ligth pollution could distort measurements, but it's certainly a unique …

A panorama from Roque de los Muchachos on La Palma at 2426m.

This is the ourdoor veranda, the engawa of the dojo building itself at Dojo Stara Wieś¹. The building hosts three beautiful areas to practice martial arts in a place, which resembles their origin quite well.

I had the chance from Pakua UK¹ to spend a weekend at Dojo Stara Wieś² in Poland. Unexpected as it is, the Dojo is a small village, built for Japanese martial arts, in Japanese architectural style.

While it's not the complete fairytale Japan one might exp…

Just another abandoned, decaying factory in Budapest.

Empty windows, nature slowly taking over, rubble everywhere - a few decades of decay.

Puertito de los Molinos has huge, steep, beautiful walls of rock surrounding it; unfortunately it's more or less impossible to climb down on them. We planned to get here by sunset, but it was pitch black when we actually arrived, so instead before getting…

The road to and from Pozo Negro is quiet, but that doesn't mean there is nothing to look at: it comes all the way along the black fields of lava which started at Malpaís Grande and ended up at the sea at Pozo Negro.

Pozo Negro got about 2 sentences in the guide book for Fuerteventura, and most of those 2 lines was that it has 2 pescados, fish restaurants. Well, it did, in fact had nice fish, and if you're there by sunset, like we were, it also offers beautiful colour…

There is a rather empty road on Fuerteventura, the one that goes through Betancuria, in the mountains, to the south, FV-30. I can certainly recommend taking this route if you can: it's calm, outerworldly, with ravens visiting you at the miradors, showing …

During the past centuries there were numerous attempts to make Fuerteventura greener again - one of them was the Peñitas Dam. Unfortunately the erosion of the surrounding mountains is too strong, pushing a lot of soil into the dam, making the water comple…

The image was taken from the top of Mirador De Morro Velosa, on our way to Betancuria.

When visiting a mirador, one might expect a place to buy coffee next to a magnificent view, but Mirador De Morro Velosa offers a lot more. Besides the panoramic view, the building also functions as a museum about the islands and their origins - and yes, y…

On that black slope you can see small semi-circles of stones: those are humiditiy traps with vine in their middle. Wine from Lanzarote is sweet and very nice, and knowing it's growing on a martinan land makes it even more exciting.

The Timanfaya National Park is a vast wasteland of volcanic eruptions happened mostly around 1730. It is unique, beautiful, looks like an alien planet, and quite dangerous to walk on your own. The road on the left is the route the camels take when going t…

Lanzarote has a unique lake: it's completely green, called El Lago Verde. The colour is due to the different volcanic ash falling into the small lake: all these magnificent slopes around it are contributing to creating that green water.

At the top of Timanfaya National Park on Lanzarote, there is a building, designed by César Manrique, called El Diablo: it uses completely natural hot air coming from the depths of the Earth to cook. This is the view in front of it.

Sometimes the simple, small things, are just as gorgeous: this was in the stream that as flowing down from a gigantic waterfall in Ireland.

Only a small portion of the huge Powerscourt Waterfall in Ireland. The place is beautiful, however, it can get very crowded, so taking images of the whole waterfall is very tricky.

Occasionally it's worth getting off the usual tracks and paths; you end up in abandoned, unmaintained parts of the forest, leading into dark rows of pines all around you.

Irish forests are beautiful, and all the greens collide before autumn sits in.

At the end of a wonderful organised day tour we visited Loch Awe and Kilchurn Castle. We a decent weather all the day - given it was winter in Scotland, I was very glad for it, but the sunset was certainly magnificent.

Sunsets can be magnificent all around the UK, but they seem to be astonishing in Scotland - if you're lucky enough to see the sun. We were, thank fully.

Sunsets have been photographed so many times that when you see one that's truly outstanding you end up finding yourself looking for excuses why you took the picture. It's simple: it was, in fact, beautiful.

We passed this tiny island on our way to Kilchurn Castle and back. Going there, they were simple, grey trees, but when the sun was setting, it was lighting up the branches just like it was the colour of the leaves or the trees themselves. You need to look…

There is a large parking lot in Glencoe where everybody stoppes to take pictures. While the view on the opposite is indeed magnificent, if you turn around, you can see just as interesting and just as beautiful landscapes as well.

Clencoe in Scotland is a manificent place, but it feels incredibly distant from what I'm usually used to. Vast, flowing clouds, close enough that sometimes they are just above your head, snow capped, steep (although not too large) mountains all around.

La Palma is full of these little fellows, curious, fast, beautiful. If you give them some pressed fruit bars, they come very close.

On the first day we arrived to La Palma we only started to look around and arrived into one of the larger towns rather late. This, however, is never a problem for photographers: we walked down to the part of the shore where only one people was fishing - a…

Tazacorte is not a particularly interesting city - although the various, colourful houses are nice -, but the view is exceptional. All those green trees are banana trees; the air is crisp and the sea is magnificent.

I barely ever had any GPS reception on La Palma so it's a little hard to tell where exactly the pictures were taken - pictures indeed, because this is a panorama stitched together from 3 handheld images from a DSLR by Hugin¹. I'm extremely impressed by th…

The South-West area of La Palma is the youngest in terms of volcanic activity; there was a huge erosion in the '70s, which formed the land the way it is today.

Originally we didn't plan to visit this area for too long, thinking it's not as interesting as …

I've seen magnificent skies, but the non-earthy, black volcanic ground, combined with deep blue sky and beautiful clouds is certainly on the list of the outerworld-ish experiences.

I did use a polarizer, but I was only trying to capture what my eyes saw.

Note: always stay 2 additional days at a location than you were originally planning and don't plan anything for that 2 days. So whatever you were unaware of, but about learn during your stay, you can check out on that 2 days.

Unfortunately we didn't do th…

There is a footpath on La Palma which takes you through the moon-like landscape of volcanos - the only problem with it is that with all the black rocks, it can get very hot there. This is a view from the South towards North.

The best excursions and holidays are the ones where apart from the planned, you allocate time for the unplanned, our you're willing to adapt.

We were certainly not planning to go out for whale and dolphin watching, but when we stopped at a restaurant on t…

Sometimes, when you live in a beautiful city, you take it for granted, and overlook all the marvels around you. Unfortunately I barely ever wonder in the center of Cambridge during night, but at one day it all felt so perfect, still, quiet, and lightly fo…

Our third visit to Wales was in autumn, and though I've not yet been there during winter, I can safely state it's always beautiful. Beddgelert is a small community; the name of the place originates from a sad story of a heroic dog. It can offer you magnif…

The surroundings of Betws-y-Coed can offer numerous attractions, from peaks to abandoned mines, but there is a certain little creek which looks like a place out of myths and fairytales: the Fairy Glen. The whole area is a light trip, but it makes a beauti…

It is always hard to take pictures of places you know well: when you've seen places countless times none of the scenery look extraordinary enough to fossilise it for eternity.

Thankfully, there are exceptions. This was taken in Tihany, at a beautiful, sun…

Afternoon sun, snow on the top of the mountains, streams wherever you look - Snowdonia is magnificent during spring.

This was our very first visit to Snowdonia, and I'm glad we went at the beginning of May: only a month later, these little streams dry up for the summer, and while the view is still magnificent, I liked it better with the numerous waterfalls and streams a…

The perfect weather is never only bright sunshine. For us, here, it was some remnants of snow on the top, occasional clouds with the mix of sunshine and a reasonable temperature to walk around. That is the perfect weather.

One can always wish for the perfect weather, yet most of the times, it remains a wish. Not this time.

There is a National Trust recommendation to visit Llyn Idwal, which Nora¹ spotted, and they were right about the place: it's magnificent. We really weren…

When you realise there is a bank holiday coming soon, and you have no plans yet even though weather looks promising, you start looking for options. In our case the usual destination is the Peak District, but it was sold out, so we had to look elsewhere.

S…

Sometimes winter is long; sometimes there is snow in May in Wales. Sometimes one mountain is still covered in snow, when the other reached spring already.

No edit, just crop.

I love prime lens. They are small, sharp, and by removing a step to think about - no zoom - they let you think more of that actually is going to be in the picture. ( Although this may not be true in general, only in my case. )

But primes can become seriou…

There are moments in your life which you never expect, never anticipate to see. Even if you've seen countless brilliant photographs or numerous magnificent movies of nature, you don't expect to see a Buddhist temple, with a monkey family, buried in the cl…

According to the legend, this was the spot where Samantabhadra stopped his elephant to have a rest in a pool on his way to the mountain top - thus the name.

Imagine an ancient monastery, with only a handful a people, up in the clouds, with red walls and f…

Imagine 20km stairs ahead of you and it's already dusk - that is the point you realise you will spend your night at a monastery, but you still need to hurry to get there before everything turns pitch black and you're left with the monkeys.

So when one of …

Qingyin Pavilion it a fairly central point at Emei Mountain: 4 main routes merge here, and it's also the closest place to go and see monkeys from.

It also hosts numerous small/medium waterfalls, such as this one.

Arriving at the top of Emei, at 3099m wasn't as elevating as we expected

• mostly due to the thick fog. Given you're sitting inside a cloud, it is reasonable, but takes away one of the most magnificent scenery you could experience.

However, it certainly r…

This is obviously a crab. What's interesting about it is that it's sitting in reinforced concrete, that was made to look like wood, and that it's currently on a mountain, around 2000m.

This was the second little fellow we met - I managed to scare the firs…

Emei Mountain: the home of the first ever Buddhist monastery in China - according to the legends. Countless stairs with barely anyone on the routes where monasteries are still alive and breathing.

Emei Mountain has countless waterfalls - and besides their numbers, they are huge. During spring, the whole mountain turns green, all variations and combinations of green; the air is heavy, but clean, and the noises of the forest are distant and unfamilia…

I was expecting many nice temples and carefully maintained steps on the front side of Mount Qincheng, but not hundred meter deep gulch; and while I prefer to shoot images like this without people on it, in this case, to show the real sizes.

I think these temples on Mount Qingcheng are always exceptional, but the mist and the rain adds to the mystery for sure.

It's both a bless and a curse to be in a place like this with bad weather: minimal amount of tourists, compared to the normal, but you…

What do you do when you're finally in China, but there's a massive rain over the whole territory that's within range?

You go visit a mountain that is full of temples. Temples have roof, and that is good, and they also have and incredible atmosphere in a w…

Most of the monasteries and temples have areas where people can gather and sit down - for tourists, this can be a bless.

We were at the very and of the day and only a few of us stayed this long, so I could take a peaceful image of the place.

Most of the places which are easy or relatively easy to reach are packed with tourists on many days. It's really hard to make a picture where the people don't disturb the scene too much.

As for the angles: I decided not to cut the image, because it's then…

The Husband and Wife bridge that overlooks the river Min, with the Qinyan Tower in the back. Unlike most of my pictures, this was given a little contrast and color, since we had a hazy, late afternoon, when everything becomes a little too gray.

We weren't expecting this many lights in the city of Dujiangyan. It still stuns me that unlike most cities in Europe, Chinese cities love extensive night lights and since they are mostly LEDs, it's not even expensive.

I have no idea what this building was…

We weren't expecting this many lights in the city of Dujiangyan. It still stuns me that unlike most cities in Europe, Chinese cities love extensive night lights and since they are mostly LEDs, it's not even expensive.

I've never before seen rivers lighted…

We weren't expecting this many lights in the city of Dujiangyan. It still stuns me that unlike most cities in Europe, Chinese cities love extensive night lights and since they are mostly LEDs, it's not even expensive.

I love that even the temple on the hi…

We weren't expecting this many lights in the city of Dujiangyan. It still stuns me that unlike most cities in Europe, Chinese cities love extensive night lights and since they are mostly LEDs, it's not even expensive.

This was a covered foot bridge; most …

We weren't expecting this many lights in the city of Dujiangyan. It still stuns me that unlike most cities in Europe, Chinese cities love extensive night lights and since they are mostly LEDs, it's not even expensive.

The face of happiness when you're eating. There's simply not much more to say; we've all been there.

This fellow was eating with it's back to the people, but soon, everyone else except the two of us left for a few minutes. By that time, I finally got to exchange looks and got a glimpse of it's face.

In Chengdu, most of the things, especially the shopping oriented areas, are open till 22:00, so late night shopping is by default a thing. I believe there is at least one street like this in every major city in the world, but unlike the usual, there were …

Unlike the nightscapes in Europe, nightscapes in China is hard. There will be no straight white and red lines of car lights in Chendgu :)

Eastern Suburb Memory: an old TV cathode tube factory, converted into an art and leisure park.

Sadly, not everything was lively and open: there were areas, like this, where no one was around and none of the pubs and stores were open. The scene however was…

Eastern Suburb Memory: an old TV cathode tube factory, converted into an art and leisure park. The aforementioned gigantic chimney, well lit to be seen during the night.

Eastern Suburb Memory: an old TV cathode tube factory, converted into an art and leisure park.

Those are real windows, with glass, not blanks, and the reflections is about the gigantic chimney behind me. I ended up doing significant perspective correction…

Eastern Suburb Memory: an old TV cathode tube factory, converted into an art and leisure park.

This area was said to be the most authentic part, with all the original parts. It looks exceptional in the night.

Eastern Suburb Memory: an old TV cathode tube factory, converted into an art and leisure park.

Taking photos from an commercial airplane is hard, and I barely ever succeed. This time, probably above the Altai Mountains, I got luck and was able to take some slightly surreal views.

I only modified some colour and contrast here; the effect is due to t…

Taking photos from an commercial airplane is hard, and I barely ever succeed. This time, probably above the Altai Mountains, I got luck and was able to take some slightly surreal views.

I modified some colour and contrast here; also cut some from the top,…

Jinli Street in Chengdu - this is how a shopping mall could have been 2000 years ago. If you decide to visit this place, go late, on a weekday, preferably afte rain; otherwise it's packed with hordes of tourists and locals.

Jinli Street in Chengdu - this is how a shopping mall could have been 2000 years ago. If you decide to visit this place, go late, on a weekday, preferably afte rain; otherwise it's packed with hordes of tourists and locals.

Jinli Street in Chengdu - this is how a shopping mall could have been 2000 years ago. If you decide to visit this place, go late, on a weekday, preferably afte rain; otherwise it's packed with hordes of tourists and locals.

Just before we reached the end of our 2 days descent of endless stairs of Mount Emei, we reached a lake before the Wuxian car park: it had a surreal, still surface, with incredible, dream-like reflections.

This is another view of that morning in Amsterdam, when rain, snow and sunrise happened together.

Starting the day with brilliant sunshine, arriving in the office café to have your first coffee of the day, just to look outside and see rain, quickly turning into snow while still having the sun in the back - I'm not convinced this is normal weather.

It may not seem like, but was taken at a morning, when people started waking up and getting into the city.

I don't usually do this, but I cropped the image a little, dropping the very bottom of red tail-lights, and the very top of not too significant blue…

Same hotel, slightly different view of the RAI station in Amsterdam, at afternoon rush hour, when everyone is trying to get home in their cars.

The only strange feeling it gives away is that this could be in any big city, in any country. Is the future ( o…

On my last visit to Amsterdam I stayed at a different location, much further from the central I usually do. I wasn't expecting to have a view, but for my surprise, I got this.

Much city. Such sky. Wow.

Close to Cambridge there is a place, named Anglesey Abbey. It has a unique surrounding, something called a winter garden: species and plants from all over the world that are the most extraordinary during the not too cold winters in East of England.

Even though this view looks very much like it's an autumn scene it was taken in February. The trick is in the temperature: it was way too warm for a February, much like you'd expect from October, so it resulted in a similar toned forest around sunset.

There are certain colours you believe to be artificial, never to be found in nature. For my surprise, some mosses and lichens have weird, alien level colours, especially when they are combined with dull greys and browns in a winter forest.

This is underneath one of the stairs of Castle Cochem. It's a bit tricky to photograph due to the significant contrast, but it's quite a uniqe view.

The cat of Castle Eltz checking up on it's human visitors.

Not knowing the place has a winter 'close' our original goal was visiting Castle Eltz - when we learnt that entry is not possible, Nora¹ started looking for alternatives. This is how we ended up in Cochem and the Castle of Cochem. This is the cat guarding…

I'd been trying to take pictures like this for years, barely ever resulting in anything usable or even remotely similar to what I actually saw. This is one of the exceptions, and ancient red tree in the garden of Anglesey Abbey.

We were passing by on a street in Cambridge when I stopped to take a picture of the autumn sunset lights. Only after the first shot - which was with the wrong color temperature - I spotted the crow sitting on the roof.

When I took this image there was a constant, stormy wind and the seagulls, despite of their efforts, weren't moving at all, just staying at a single point in space in the air.

I couldn't tell if the guy, holding up the chunk of chips was teasing them, bec…

If you're not from England, you're not expecting to see a silver coloured sheep. That is until you visit the marvellous Lake District and encounter with your first Herdwick.

Fire Fairy by Szabina Fogarasi

Our friends from Mare Temporis asked my wife, Nora Hamucska, to take a few promotional pictures for them for their pretty awesome show, "The Prince and the Dragon" (A herceg és a sárkány).

I could not resist not to take a fe…

Fire Cavalier by Kornél József.

Our friends from Mare Temporis asked my wife, Nora Hamucska, to take a few promotional pictures for them for their pretty awesome show, "The Prince and the Dragon" (A herceg és a sárkány).

I could not resist not to take a f…

The Witch - green fire - performed by fire juggler Szabina Fogarasi.

Our friends from Mare Temporis asked my wife, Nora Hamucska, to take a few promotional pictures for them for their pretty awesome show, "The Prince and the Dragon" (A herceg és a sárkány…

Fire Warriors performed by fire jugglers Marcsi Kertész and Kornél József.

Our friends from Mare Temporis asked my wife, Nora Hamucska, to take a few promotional pictures for them for their pretty awesome show, "The Prince and the Dragon" (A herceg és a s…

Fire Shaman - green fire -, performed by fire juggler István Kertész. Our friends from Mare Temporis asked my wife, Nora Hamucska, to take a few promotional pictures for them for their pretty awesome show, "The Prince and the Dragon" (A herceg és a sárkán…

London has some interesting features.

One of them is the situation when the sun is still up, you're standing at Mudchute Farm, literally next to a pig, looking at Canary Wharf, with lights on already.

(And no, this was not edited, this was the actual view…

In case you've ever wondered what could have been the inspiration behind fairytales; all the stories filled with pixies, sprites, the small people; you probably haven't been to the English or the Irish countryside yet.

There are photographic clichés - there always were photographic clichés, and even if you try to avoid them, sometimes you just flow with it, because there is a reason for their existence: generally, they are nice to see.

In this case there was one single …

After a long while, when we were returning and passing by the same tarn as earlier, the sun came out for a little while, lighting up all the area, including the still present mist on the other side of the lake.

It's a little devastating to realize how eas…

Back when I started taking photographs a bit more seriously I came across a professional artist: Adam Gibbs¹. Since he is also a mounteneer he gets to places literally noone else does.

During our short, three days stay in the Lake District we decided to s…

We were driving back from a long day in Matlock - apparently we're crazy enough to do day-trips involving ~6 hours of driving and including a bit of walk as well - when we spotted a litte road, with two horses, right in front of a magnificent sunset.

The …

I've worked close to this station; used it basically every weekday in the morning and in the afternoon for 9 months, and I've never seen these colours before.

London is beautiful at the end of September.

London is the city of illusions; the city that keeps telling you everything is possible, even if your time and resources are pretty limited for that everything. It's just like the reflection of that construction, which takes way too long and will most pro…

Cankerous posts of an old pier in the lake Traumsee in Gmunden. While the other direction is filled with glamorous, pink-coloured, sunset mountains, sometimes there are other bits and pieces around that can be interesting.

About 20 years ago was a marmot couple, probably the great-grandparents of today's residents live in the lush green lawn more attractive than in the barren sheep pasture of Mandlwand. The two dug the first building under the marked on photo stone and win…

This is the place where marmots live.

They have a impressive taste.

If you wait long enough in Hallstatt at the lake on a day with sunshine and a few clouds, you'll end up with this view.

While sun is setting, this is a usual scene around Altmünster. However, the clouds at the back helped to add to the drama.

Unfortunately the UK is not famous for endless forests and low-population dense areas - yet, there are many small, hidden and beautiful places. There is a small valley in Matlock, which used to be a quite heavy industrial area in the Victorian age; ruins …

The more time you spend on shooting a picture from the same spot the less chance of a good image you'll end up with. Try to plan it first, imagine it in your head and don't make unneeded shoots, like I did when I tried to frame the waterfall.

Trying to capture water is tricky, since many of us will fall into the trap of too long exposure. I've seen brilliant, multi-long-exposure photographs, which I'm way to far to master at this point, but the not-too-long exposure I'm getting slightly better…

No story here. Just feel the picture.

A horrible habit of ours with my wife what in case we spot a sympathetic animal we try to touch it. In this case there was no need for any tricks, the cat walked right up to us and certainly tried to bewitch us to take her home.

Being 200 miles from our f…

Unfortunately I have no idea what species this plant is, but the shape definitely caught my eye. It's living in the "Conservatory" of the Barbican, which is not for music, but a place which looks like a dystopian sci-fi where nature had took over the brut…

This was taken at an unnamed little forest somewhere around Cambridge, in a forest where anyone comfortably could shoot a gothic horror movie; these are branches of a pine.

For years I had trouble cropping my pictures - it felt like cheating. This is prob…

At a nice, April day we gathered some friends to go and visit a now disfunctioning aluminium metallurgy, which, as far as we knew, was turned into something like a museum.

We learned that indeed, it used to be a museum, for about a year, but was sold ages…

The Norwich Cathedral has some very modern, very strange stained glass at the end of the left corridor which renders the area orange and purple during the afternoon.

Nothing special to tell here, except for the story of their leaflets. When you enter a place they usually ask you what language you'd prefer and usually I make the joke that of course Hungarian - for my biggest surprise, they had Hungarian leaflets. Both …

This is a view from a less frequented part of the Barbican. This whole area is like an architecture-history display, but all the modern, straight lines makes it very hard to properly photograph it, especially without a tripod.

If you plan to take really h…

Brustalism, as in architectural style was still present in England in the early 70s - and Barbican is probably the largest piece of it.

It's like a frozen moment of the 70s - and not so surprisingly pretty familiar for those who come from Hungary or any p…

I've taken this years ago. There are days when you just take out your camera, to finally take some pictures and nothing goes as you expect it; not the lights, not the people, nothing. It was one of those days - until I finally turned around, towards the s…

I've spotted these rocks at the Durdle Door - it was not even our original destination, but we picked the Day of the British Summer for our journey, which is surprisingly hot, so we ended up next to the sea. The truth is: I had this picture for 2 years an…

A friend of our's is living on the 16th floor, which, on it's own, does not sound interesting. What makes it interesting is the view down from his bedroom, to the communal area of the building.

Bath is an interesting city - it's unreal compared to the rest of England, out of place and feels truly ancient. ( Not a big surprise, knowing that is still keeping the original, Roman street layout in the old town. )

This is just a small, everyday scene …

Also a shoot from Beachy Head; when the sunset is upon the shore the road gets more and more empty. I've spotted the biker going the direction of the curved road, so I waited till the point I could make this picture.

The reason for the cut is that I wante…

This was the second time I tried to photography these forgotten piles in the Seven Sisters Country Park; this time it was successful.

Sometimes you need a more stable tripod.

Sea-washed pebbles on the shore of the Seven Sisters

I was trying to catch the soft and calming feeling of the Norfolk shores in Britain, so I ended up doing this multi-exposure image of the grass on the beach sand dunes being waved by the wind.

Beachy Head is one of the viewpoints you can see the Seven Sister from - although you need some luck to capture all seven of the peaks in one picture, which I lacked this time.

Sheeps, lighthouse, hills, sunset - all you need for a cheesy countryside picture, yet, I still believe this is beautiful.

When we first visited Beachy Head we could not stay to enjoy - and photograph - the sunset from that marvellous and exceptional location; this time, we arrived right on time. This area is a gorgeous example of The Stereotype Countryside but it's still ast…

The Budapest Zoo had been in a pretty bad condition ~20-25 years ago; nowadays it's probably on the list f the best zoos in the whole world. I've found this in the Palm House.

The Midlands do get some snow and proper winter, but not much. Yet somehow we ended up in the only foggy spot on probably the whole Britain on a Sunday when everywhere else the sun was shining. The trip was worth it regardless of this.

Peak District, sunset, and photographers.

Lud's Church is an astonishingly beautiful chasm in the Peak District.

You have two paths to choose from to visit it and from one of these the place is literally a hole in the ground. I'm glad we choose the other path.

The place itself is similar to Puzzl…

Lud's Church is an astonishingly beautiful chasm in the Peak District.

You have two paths to choose from to visit it and from one of these the place is literally a hole in the ground. I'm glad we choose the other path.

The place itself is similar to Puzzl…

It's been a long time since I last photographed sunsets, but this was something different. On the flight from the UK to Hungary we had this scene, where it was hard to tell where the sun actually is. It was 14:50 local time, therefore the real sunset was …

I had a day out in London, visiting a few markets around Spitalfields. When I headed back to the station the sun came out for a few moments from the clouds and the street was nearly abandoned.

Just a bunch of chimneys on top of the concrete block houses in Hungary with a nice sunset in the back. To be honest, it's a rare scene. This was photographed from my parents window and during the decade I lived here, I've barely seen anything similar.

We visited the very middle of the Peak District in the middle of November, hoping that there are still a few, bright autumn colour trees around - we were wrong. By this time of the years the Peak District is already in the winter state, so instead of phot…

Sometimes the rude weather we got in Huanglong (黄龙) lightened up a bit and showed us the pines on the mountainside.

There is one waterfall in the Shunan Bamboo Sea (蜀南竹海国家公园) where it's possible to walk behind it; it's definitely a different view and feeling compared to the front views.

During our day in the Shunan Bamboo Sea (蜀南竹海国家公园) we had a thick fog. From one point of view it was bad that we could not see many of the marvellous waterfalls but on the other hand the mist gave a unique, mistique and remote feeling to the place.

For someone not speaking Chinese at all getting to Shunan Zhuhai, the Bamboo Sea is not as easy as it seems, but due to the kind and helpful locals, our visit turned out fantastic.

The Shunan Bamboo Sea (蜀南竹海国家公园) is a large, true bamboo forest: trees are…

The day we visited Huanglong Valley at first we got snowing. Since we started at ~3800m it's not that surprising that later it turned into sleet and rain. This is how Huanglong Ancient Temple ( 黃龍古寺 ) looks on the inside when it's raining.

Huanglong Valley (黄龙沟) is a scenic area in Sichuan with countless, bright blue and green ponds and astonishing waterfalls.

This is theMarvellous Flying Waterfall (飛瀑流輝) in autumn. It's usually photographed from the other side, but I've found this composit…

We saw the beautiful Anshun Bridge (安顺桥) from the distance from the bus when we got back to Chendgu (成都) late in the night. Next day we decided to visit it; during the time we were prepairing to take the pictures a photographer lady told us that it's much…

A closer view of Anshun Bridge (安顺桥) in Chendgu (成都). Many thanks for the photographer lady who told us that it's much nicer from the other direction. We followed her through the Halloween-themed party places on the riverside and I have to admit: it is be…

Jade green pond in Huanglong (黄龙). I never really believe these colours exist without any alteration to the pictures, but they are real. Huanglong is one of a kind with it's fairytale ponds.

A view somewhere near the Bonsai Pond in Huanglong (黄龙), with a not-too-bonsai size, autumn colour fir and the unbelievably blue pond it's growing out from.

Ponds in Huanglong; these blue ponds are said to be the scales of the giant Yellow Dragon that valley is named after.

The hundreds of years old Huanglong Ancient Temple from the shore of the Multi-Coloured Ponds in a bit of a snow.

Even though this is not the weather you wish for at a visit to a natural phenomenon it certainly has it's own magic when you see these places…

Peacock Riverbed is a part of the Five Flowers Lake of Jiuzhaigou Valley (九寨沟). It has lots of dead trees in deep, rich green-blue water, which changes hue when you're walking around it.

Taken at the Multicoloured Lake of Jiuzhaigou Valley China, lake, Jiuzhaigou Valley (九寨沟), Sichuan, autumn; with all the reflections of the autumn colours, the blues of the water, the small tree on the tiny island on top of a dead, underwater tree it is a…

The Panda Waterfalls is the one falling from Panda Lake in Jiuzhaigou Valley (九寨沟).

We had only one day in the park - where one could easily spend weeks - and we wanted to visit both valleys accessible. Unfortunately we were in a bit of a hurry by the we …

Scene from the Primeval Forest bus stop in Jiuzhaigou.

We had a very limited time at this point: it was getting late and we both started to feel dizzy due to the rapid changes in the altitude - the spot I've been standing at is at approximately 3000m.

It …

The Five Coloured Pool in Jiuzhaigou Valley (九寨沟) is the biggest attraction. It's a small lake with 5 different tones of rich blue, a blue which is very, very rare. The crowd is pretty bad around the lake, especially in the middle of the day, so brace you…

This view was on of the reasons why we ended up going to Sichuan for our honeymoon: Nuorilang Waterfall, in Jiuzhaigou Valley (九寨沟)...A long time ago, in one of the Chinese chophouses in Hungary, there was a calendar with a picture of this view. Unfortuna…

Part of the magnificent Nuorilang Waterfall in Jiuzhaigou Valley (九寨沟), Sichuan. The water drops from a lake, half covered with plants, so it seems like falling out from the field itself. ..It's nearly impossible to avoid the crowd, but during autumn, at …

This is the view of Rhinoceros Lake in Jiuzhaigou Valley (九寨沟) when autumn arrives and all the trees changes into different, burning colours around it. The footpath on the opposite side of the road is nearly empty; if you want to escape the crowds and hav…

Rhinoceros Lake is just one of the lakes in Jiuzhaigou Valley (九寨沟), in Sichuan, China. It has a deep, fascinating green-blue colour which reflects the autumn painted trees miraculously. The footpath on the opposite side of the road is nearly empty; if yo…

We spent a day in Jiuzhaigou Valley (九寨沟) in Sichuan, China. After the first shock of immense amount of tourists at the front gates the walk path beside the beautiful Rhinoceros lake turned out to be nearly empty. This reflection was photographed there.

This is real. There is not a single piece faked on this view. A view from the footpath on the left side of Rhinoceros Lake in Jiuzhaigou Valley (九寨沟).

Nowadays you have to take the bus in the valley at the front gates. To find this view jump off at the fi…

Taken ad Rhinoceros Lake, in Jiuzhaigou Valley (九寨沟) in Sichuan, China, At first, even in real life, it was hard to tell reflection from origin.

This is the view you get if you wake up early enough in the freezing cold and walk out from your unheated room in Zanghzha, the city made for tourists besides Jiuzhaigou valley.

(We did have heated bed, so sleeping was not an issue.)

The Qingyang Taoist Temple in Chengdu (成都) is rather a small, ancient village than a temple, from the eyes of a European. This old lady was keeping the incense holder clean and tidy in front of a shrine.

Mount Qingcheng (青城山) is a sacred mountain - and so a popular tourist attraction - close to Chengdu, in China.

Instead of going to the much more crowded front mountain, we decided to go to the rear, wilder and less touristy back mountain. It was definitel…

In case you climb the rear peak of Mount Qingcheng (青城山) there is a small lake in the way. The only option to cross it is to jump on the ferry which goes from one side to the other. Be careful to reach the last one: after it gets dark, the ferryman goes h…

The original plan for our trip was to visit South Wales, but we decided to turn South after Cotswolds to get to the sea as fast as possible due to the very warm summer day. So we ended up visiting the Durdle Door.

Surprised Snowy Owl in Linton Zoo.

Deer in autumn Richmond Park with a starling on it's back.

Red deer in autumn Richmond Park

Silhouette of a squirrel in Greenwich.

Thanks for a kind security guard, we were able to use the Malomudvar, and old, early 20th century mill as our background when we took some pictures for and LD50 ( a now inactive community site ) gallery.

Thanks for a kind security guard, we were able to use the Malomudvar, and old, early 20th century mill as our background when we took some pictures for and LD50 ( a now inactive community site ) gallery.

There is a relic in Budapest from a previous era, called Csepel Művek¹. During its good ol' days, it gave work to 20 000 people, had its own infrastructure, internal post network, and so on.

Sadly half of it is abandoned, including some large halls, aband…

This is one of the rare images I took with an analogue machine. The original is colour, but I knew this was going to be a black and white one in the end. The scan of the negative was done in a common quick lab, the black & white conversion by Rawtherapee.…

Mare Temporis¹ is a historical re-enacting group, focusing on medieval Europe with some occasional additions. This scene was captured at an event in February, held at an artificial ice-skating place to celebrate the 500 year anniversary of crowning the fa…

"Szabad ötletek jegyzéke" ( Catalogue of free thoughts ? ) is definitely the most depressing, most intimate work of the Hungarian poet, Attila József. A shadow theatre decided to make it a recitation with some additional tones: projected, live action back…

I took this at Contrast Festival 2¹, an alternative festival took place a few years ago. Surprisingly after the sun went down it became much easier to take pictures; most probably because the coloured lights became more visible.

Budapest has some fairly abandoned locations, including most of the areas of the old abattoir. This is a still in use, working electricity-distributor box.

In Zandaam, The Netherlands, we've came across a few barrels right next to one of the windmills.

I've been in storms, seen storms; many kind of them, but not ever before or since one like this. The clouds where shining, like strobes or light bulbs, without a sound. It was terrifying and magnificent at the same time ( and also impossible to photograph…

In 2006 I was lucky enough to be part of a 16 bus-trip in Norway. I've seen miraculous places, including the small town of Røros, with it's abandoned copper mine and the leftover hills of it.

Original target: South-Wales. After getting out of the car in Costwolds, we decided to turn down and visit the sea due to the nearly 30 °C outside. Incredibly cold water, beautiful location and view, crazy tourists in top of the hill.

We reached the Norfolk lavender fields just before sunset, which gave us nice gradient backgrounds. If you ever plan to visit the lavender fields, do it in July; that is the time when they are the most beautiful.

Red Admiral butterfly feeding on Norfolk lavender. Slow and calm, probably due to being soothened by the lavender :)

An European Peacock Butterfly sitting on a lavender in Norfolk. The are quite slow and relaxed, probably due to the soothing effect of the lavender :)

Originally we wanted to take a photo of the waterfall in the background and only spotted the white skull when we reached it very close.

We spotted the waterfall from the tourist path way above; the slope was surprisingly steep downhills, but the view was worth it.

Working at a Friday after the Christmas Party of the company is not always the experience we're looking forward for; except when we're granted with views like this, a sunrise on a gloomy morning, where our Sun looks dying and sick above Amsterdam.

I've captured this in the Slovak Paradise and this is probably the only photo with the Nikon D80 that ever reproduced greens nearly at the same level a Fuji does.

This was the scenery that made me start taking photos seriously. During a few days of skying in Slovenia, at one of the mornings I saw these threes at the top of the mountain: all of them frozen in ice, all beautiful and surreal, with untouched snow, and …

Norra Lunsen has some deep, truly black waters where it's hard to tell the reflection apart from a normal view. This was the place where I finally understood, why the "little duck bathes in black lake" in a childhood verse.

Norra Lunsen¹ is a nature reserve right next to the Swedish city, Uppsala. A while ago they decided to restore the original, marsh state of the area. You mostly walk on wooden planks and the green "meadow" below you is not grass; it's pitch black water co…

Richmond Park in London is a magnificent place, at any time of the year. All the autumn colours, the deer blending into the fading browns and yellows; and scenes like this, scenes with emotions, scenes that makes you stop and wonder for a while.

Blurry was trendy, so I made it blurry. And the wind of course was blowing too hard not to do so.

There is a romantic period graveyard, St. Marx Friedhof, in Vienna. I was reading a text on the history of the graveyard and by looking up from it I saw this "tree", this witch, guarding the dead.

During our visit to the winter Peak District, I saw this tree - I'd rather say, this dryad, this wood nymph. No wonder there are that many legends and myths of woodland creatures.

We arrived in Norra Lunsen, a natural reserve in Sweden - according to the local tourist information, it's the middle of nowhere yet it's literally on the edge of the city. After sitting down it only took a few minutes to notice all the small, living thin…

Ferns leaves are natural fractals; little miracles of the world.

Lichen is common in a fir forest, but I rarely encounter this much covered cones.

At the London Wetland Centre there is a small area that resembles Iceland, with a wall made of stones and lots of moss. I've found this little, orange mushroom there.

Pine branches that reminded me a fairy king, giving order to the audience.

A black, frost-bitten berry that reminded me way too much of "Earthworm Jim".

We had some moss growing in the same pot the red mint is living in, so I took a few shoots. The colourful spots in the background is the mint itself.

Shoot with an 50mm 1.8 + Raynox DCR 250.

While the Holland tulips are world-famous, the Norfolk tulip fields are quite nice as well. Sometimes the beautiful, single colour rows are spotted with different dots of odd ones out :)

When we'd read about the tulip fields in Norfolk, we immediately wanted to visit them. Lucky with the time of the year, we managed to get there, although finding it is a bit tricky: you can spot them from the highway, but finding the road that actually ge…

Beauty of Norfolk: when you can walk ~5 meters close to 3 baby seals and take a picture like a boss.

There are some shores in Norfolk where you can literally walk right next to the seals, all year long.

They are lovely creatures - as long as you keep your distance -, especially the fat little babies, just lying, sleeping, playing around.

The Peak District is about what it's name states: peaks. During the winter, it's nearly abandoned, with only a few enthusiasts out there, it's quiet, peaceful and beautiful.

Watching the sunset from the top of a hill is always beautiful, until you realize, you'll need to get down in the dark.

But is was definitely worth it.

Still bright, blue sky above the peaks could even be called a common view - but not with the Moon shining bright already.

Foggy night, skyscraper construction site, all the post-apocalyptic scene you can wish for.

I'm in love with the Lloyd's Building¹, especially with the night lights on. It immediately puts you in an 80s cyberpunk movie.

I've worked a few month in the City of London; some of the buildings you see during the day become very different during the night.

Dartmoor¹ is a strange place. It has a very disturbing, very dark atmosphere while lovely little wild ponies roaming around on the fens.

The Minack Theatre¹ is a surreal place: until you learn it's story you're sure it's a leftover from the Greek times.

It's surrounded with Mediterranean plants, the sea is deep blue and green. These are the cliffs right behind the stage.

At the bottom of Wales where the border meets England, there is a large forest - UK large, not Germany large - named Forest of Dean. Nearly in the middle of it there is a small area, Puzzlewood, which preserves the ancient times.

It is a small, maze-like …

Tintagel¹, the mythical birthplace of King Arthur has everything you'd ever need to shoot a complete movie: sea, waterfall, ruined castle, caves, which disappears with the high tide, green land. It's magical, beautiful and lovely; if you have the chance, …

We all know that at every end of every rainbow, there is gold from the leprechauns. This leprechaun found a pretty safe spot for his wealth.

Norther Ireland is strange, especially when in comes to rainbows. We were on the road, right after a strong rain and soon after we saw this scene. The shadow is from the mountain that was right behind us, but is perfectly met the end of the rainbow.

We were heading back from the magnificient Antrim Coast through the very distant feeling Glens and stopped for a little rest in Ballypatrick Forest.

Soon after we started walking, we spotted a stag, right in the last lights of the sun. It was kind enought…

Long before this place was "featured" on Game of Thrones, we spotted this place with the help of the images in Google Maps.

We already had an approximate plan what to see and visit in Northern Ireland when we were planning our trip when an image of the Da…

part of the castle including the kitchens fell into the sea; seven cooks went with the kitchens but an itinerant cobbler was said to have survived in a corner of the vanished room. -- http://www.northantrim.com/dunlucehistory1.htm

There is also a small,…

Conceptional shoot to touch the feelings of the 40s. Concept: Boglar Olah, http://peruzzi.hu/ Model: Nora Hamucska

Conceptional shoot to touch the feelings of the 40s. Concept: Boglar Olah, http://peruzzi.hu/ Model: Nora Hamucska

Conceptional shoot to touch the feelings of the 40s. Concept: Boglar Olah, http://peruzzi.hu/ Model: Nora Hamucska

Conceptional shoot to touch the feelings of the 40s. Concept: Boglar Olah, http://peruzzi.hu/ Model: Nora Hamucska

We decided to have a special photo excursion with some friends by all of us bringing an analogue camera beside the digital ones. I brought a Contax RTS¹ with Ilford Pan 100² film; I was very pleased and quite surprised how exceptionally good this film is.…

Part of a fantasy set based on the feeling of “runaway” at Hungarian National Graveyard, Budapest, Hungary.

Model: Nora Hamucska

Part of a fantasy set based on the feeling of “runaway” at Hungarian National Graveyard, Budapest, Hungary.

Model: Nora Hamucska

Part of a fantasy set based on the feeling of “runaway” at Hungarian National Graveyard, Budapest, Hungary.

Model: Nora Hamucska

Still in the Slovak Paradise we decided to have a bit more relaxed day ( most of our clothing needed to dry anyway ) and take a look at a small town’s architecture. For that, we needed to cross the mountains on a very, very winding very small road, which …

This scenery is in the way from Stratená to Dobšiná, the Ice Cave, and this was the exact location where we found some bear footprints on the ground. I was pretty scared to stop taking pictures, but the view was just too majestic to leave it behind withou…

Whenever I have the chance to visit a “proper” pine woodland I try to find the small streams, hidden in the depth of the forest. It usually involves getting off the trails ( although finding the trails in the Slovak Paradise might be a problem in itself )…

After we've experienced one of the heaviest rains I've ever seen the firs slowly started to appear from the mist.

I had to ask Nora to hold my rain poncho over the camera and the tripod while I took the picture, since the rain was still falling and the D8…

The Slovak Paradise is a mountain area in Slovakia, Central Europe. We visited it in the summer ( I know, the pictures look like it’s autumn ) and had some wonderful trip around.

We even found some bear footprints which is pretty frightening when the two …

During our few days in Ireland we visited the Wicklow Mountains. Unfortunately there is one single bus to the place which does not leave early and our time was very limited; if you can, go by car.

These very taken in May, so the colours are the spring col…

Kevin's Kitchen, ruins dating back to the 12th century.

This is not HDR; the lights are actully like this in Ireland most of the time.

We were just about to leave the magnificent Wicklow Mountains behind; the bus was about to leave in 10 minutes. I was qu…

An abandoned building's window in Budapest. This was part of my regular views from Kandó, when I worked there, so it wasn't a problem to wait for ideal light.

Taken at a concert in Szikra.

Watchtower beside the railways in Budapest.

Sunset behind the rooftops of the I. district in Budapest.

I've found this little fellow on an autumn excursion; I've never seen a purple mushroom before this.

"Flowers" of a moss. I brought my camera with me to work a few times when I walked from the office through a hill in Budapest; I've found these on a small fence.

One of my previous workplaces was located very close to Tabán in Budapest and sometimes I walked a fair distance to clear my head. There was a location during the walk where I regularly saw moss and small snails so I decided to take my camera with me a fe…

When the October weather reached it's peak beauty, I decided to get up early enough to catch the sunrise in the Hungarian National Graveyard. Though I ended up with miraculous images, it was a bit cold, and I wished sunrise would last much longer.

This pa…

Old and brown pine needles. I took this photo when I decided to sit down and wait at Norra Lunsen, until I started seeing the small, hidden world around me.

Just a macro of a flower.

I shot this macro of some ice crystals during a skiing, which turned mostly into trekking due to the lack of snow and proper cold in the Austrian alps.

A butterfly with huge eyes hiding from the camera in the grass.

I needed a background for winter greeting cards, this is the outcome.

Two Mantis prepairing to fight; I had a talented biologist fried to whom whe jokingly said "oi, go and fetch some praying mantis!". And he did. Within 5 minutes, he was back with three. I couldn't even spot a single one on my own.

Just a casual workout day for Mare Temporis, back in the 'ol days.

Legend says King Matthias was crowned on the ice of the Danube - háromszor repült az korona az égbe / háromszor szállt rája, Mátyás szép fejére. 500 years later our group, Mare Temporis, was invited to do some performances; this time, on ice. If anyone ev…

My sister sat down for a moment to have a bit of rest; she never was a fan of monasteries.

A symbolic white pigeon sitting in front of lattice window.

Two woman talking in the shade of a temple door; taken in Sicily.

Clock of a temple tower in Sicily late afternoon.

Lisefjord: 1000m vertical wall of rock. No, there are no fences.

An inmense valley with a river in the middle in Norway. I don't know how it's really called; the title is only for the image.

Cascading, zig-zag waterfall. It was in the same town where I tasted the unforgettable Norwegian cheese. That's not a compliment.

Symmetrical fjord with it's reflection. (Good luck capturing that level of dynamic range with a bridge Fuji :( )

I had the opportunity to visit a glacier in Norway; this area was part of the visitor center.

A mountain with fume and it's reflection in Norway.

Waterfall of a small but powerfull torrent. One of our accommodations was located in the close viscinity of the perfect place for me to experiment with long exposure on water, so for those learning to do this: sit down, and take your time to try out as ma…

Huge jagged mountains named the Wall of Trolls in Norway. I waited for quite a while to have the clouds clear enough to have a view of the immensity of the place.

Fisherman's cabin beside the North Sea.

An underground waterfall in Norway, named the Temple of Trolls.

A small waterfall in Norway. The water was so clear that I decided to taste it, regardless the risks. I was nothing special, and I did not get sick.

A small alley in Split, Croatia.

Locust cleaning itself.

One if my early attempts at macro photography. The Fuji S5500, even though it was a bridge camera, had the option for filters, and was capable of taking surprisingly decent macros that way.

Over 15 years ago I took photography course. This picture was made with a Contaxt RTS, on analog film, with a surprisingly cheap push/pull zoom lens, and I still love the outcome.

Over 15 years ago I decided to take a photography course to put an end to the mess I had in my head about the technical part. This picture as made with a Contaxt RTS, on analog film, part of the studies. The Castle on the picture is a part the Castle Vajd…

A view of the the Cistercian monastery in Vyšší Brod.

In the early 2000s my family joined some canuing trips organized by the Bohemia Baráti Kör. Every odd year, the trip was on the Moldva, every even, on some smaller rivers. The Sumava part of the Moldva, just after it's source, is under heavy protection, a…

I believe this image was taken at the beginning of 2003 (and, given the time, this was analog film; a rather cheap one as well, sadly). We arrived at our sky camp, in Italy earlier, than expected, in a beautiful weather. Given this was with my high school…

During my elementary school, our go to ski "resort" was Donovaly. It's small, it's cheap, but at least we knew it well. One morning, when I turned around, I saw sea of clouds for hte first time in my life. Unfortunately the camera with me wasn't half dece…

If I'm not mistaken, this was in 2002. My high school brought a rock opera to stage - István, a király -, all live: musicians, choire, dancers, everything. At that time, I was tech support behind the production. Somehow the school successfully applied for…

In 2000, we had a family vacation on Corfu. I experienced things never before: hairdryer-like hot wind in the night, scorging heat from the pavement in the afternoons, a lot hotter, than the sun itself, gyros as a starter. It was a good trip, with some sp…

Sunset in the trees at the river Hernád; this was taken on a canueing trip in (I think) 1999. Cheap analog film, of course.

I think this is the first image I ever took I was proud of. I vividly remember the setting: I was sitting on top of the fence, waiting for the sunset moment I wanted to capture for a while. I'm a bit unsure of the year - I believe it was 1991, which makes…