The summer is still hot in Hungary but the Folk Dance Festival is over. Each year - since 1996 - you can see very exciting shows in the city center of Székesféhervár (where I work). This blurred impression is very sweet to me because you can create photos with less sharpness. But some detail is still sharp otherwise you don't know what do they do.

This horse (and their friends) can be found in a farm, in Cegléd, not far from my birthplace. The farms are getting popular again around the town. So, I could take very beautiful domestic animal photos in 2010, before this June. I only took my telephoto lens there (40-150 mm ,   f/4-5.6) and I really didn't need to use my flash gun all day. That was an easy exercise to me.

Hello Mr. Camel! I made that portait about this funny animal yesterday when I was in the zoo in Veszprém. with my girlfriend. There was very good weather in the town and we visited the interesting animals. I also wanted create nice pictures, some of them became great like this one. I spent more than four hours with one little pause.

When summer comes, the thunder is coming more times. This is great time to shoot in the evening flash of lightning. I made this picture with a tripod, 15 seconds shutter time and f/11. This time the ISO amount was 100 because the photo would be too noisy.

This is Castle Devin or Dévény in Slovakia (still the trip in Brno :). Halfway we visited this castle where it' used to be the border of Austrian Empire and Hungarian Kingdom. Now it's border of Slovakia and Austria. The ruins are now being a museum, you can visit it on a 80 meters high hill from April to November. It is only 13 km far from Bratislava, the historical center of capital of Slovakia.

 

Last weekend I visited Brno in Czech Republic. Unfortunetaly, I had a little time to visit the city center. I saw the most important building like this one: Saint Peter and Paul's Cathedral. in the Petrov Street. Because it's a well-known building I create a photo from a more interesting view. A polarization filter was a must - as you can see I had a very good weather there - fortunetaly.

Magdi Rúzsa is a famous Hungarian singer who became the winner at Megasztár 3 in 2006 and 9th at Eurovision Song Contest in 2007. The photo I made in my birthtown Cegléd one and half week ago. The live show was great and I like those songs who she sings (the English ones, too :)  I made this photo in the crowd, of course, I had no photo pass. Fortunetaly, I could use my flash gun and high ISO also was my friend.

This cafe is located in Székesfehérvár and it calls Műhely Kávéház (Workshop Cafe). I was at an opening of an exhibition that made by those classmates from the college where I studied before. It was early december that's why you can see many coats there. I used no flash, but I used high ISO. The amount was 800. In the original size of the photo you could see much noisy parts - no one wonders about it, even I hadn't used tripod there.

After some weeks break I uploaded a photo from last summer. This electric cable is not far where my girlfriend originally lived. After the sunset you can make interesting photos about the landscape but you can see the bulidings' shape, too (the shape, not detailed parts!). This photo became a bit bevelled but I like the mood.

This is Károlyi Mansion in Fehérvárcsurgó. It's about 20 km far from where I live. The mansion is getting more and more beautiful because there is a recovery of the building. You may visit the whole building in two years - now you can visit the left wing of the mansion. Fortunetaly, it was a 'hot' and sunny Saturday in middle of November because here is unusual that the temperature reaches 20 °C/68 °F. But the weather was very pretty :)

More information: http://www.karolyi.org.hu/