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Photos, all made by me, about any topic that encouraged me to take the camera out of the bag.
2020

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.

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...
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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...
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2019

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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.

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...
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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 resolution[^1] - 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...
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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...
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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...
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Same morning as the previous image[^1] about the lovely dojo at Stara
Wieś, with it's curving roads across the fantasy Japanese village.
[^1]:

A year later to our previous visit[^1] we repeated our Spring Retreat
with Pa-Kua[^2] 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...
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Galtelli, the old capital of Sardinia has extremely narrow and quite
steep streets, with adorable places to stay at; this is one of them.

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...
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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 wells[^1].
[^1]:

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...
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2018

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,...
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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...
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This is the ourdoor veranda, the engawa of the dojo building itself at
Dojo Stara Wieś[^1]. The building hosts three beautiful areas to
practice martial arts in a place, which resembles their origin quite
well.
[^1]:
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I had the chance from Pakua UK[^1] to spend a weekend at Dojo Stara
Wieś[^2] 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...
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2017

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...
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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 colours.
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.

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...
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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...
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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 Hugin[^1]. I'm extremely...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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2016

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...
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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
Nora[^1] spotted, and they were right about the place: it's magnificent.
We...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.

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...
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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...
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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.

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...
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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...
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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.

Not knowing the place has a winter 'close' our original goal was
visiting Castle Eltz - when we learnt that entry is not possible,
Nora[^1] started looking for alternatives. This is how we ended up in
Cochem and the Castle of Cochem. This is the cat...
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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...
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There was a stormy wind when I took this picture and I was walking for
about 10 minutes before finally taking it; holding my breath that the
two guys in the pier stay where they are until I reach the perfect
angle.
2015

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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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Back when I started taking photographs a bit more seriously I came
across a professional artist: Adam Gibbs[^1]. 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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;...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.

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...
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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.

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...
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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...
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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...
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2014

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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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;...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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.

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
Művek[^1]. 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...
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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...
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Mare Temporis[^1] 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...
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"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...
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I took this at Contrast Festival 2[^1], 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.
[^1]:...
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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.

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...
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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...
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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 Lunsen[^1] 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...
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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.

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,...
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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.

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...
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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.

I'm in love with the Lloyd's Building[^1], especially with the night
lights on. It immediately puts you in an 80s cyberpunk movie.
[^1]:

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.

Dartmoor[^1] is a strange place. It has a very disturbing, very dark
atmosphere while lovely little wild ponies roaming around on the fens.
[^1]:

The Minack Theatre[^1] 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.
[^1]:...
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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,...
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Tintagel[^1], 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...
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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...
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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...
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> 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. --
>
There...
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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 RTS[^1] with Ilford Pan 100[^2] film; I was very pleased and
quite surprised how exceptionally good...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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2013

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...
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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....
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2011
2010

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...
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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...
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2009
2008

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.

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...
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2006

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 :( )

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...
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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.
2005

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...
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2003

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...
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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...
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2002

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...
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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...
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2001

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...
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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...
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