Botanical Garden in Bratislava

Behind the cameraThe weather has been really nice recently in Bratislava so today I decided to go out a bit to take a few photos. But as it is really sunny, I decided to visit the Botanical Garden here. It’s really nice place to be able to relax a bit and get away from the city. It’s also great if you need to take some photos with a nice nature background, like family portraits and such. I did some in the past, and some have been also shared on the blog (for instance here, or here).

A few years back I used to post a selection of photos showcasing colors of spring from there every year, but that was not possible during the last quarantine years, and this year I missed the blooming season a bit due to the bad weather. But let’s catch up a bit today :)

On the side, a little behind the camera shot, that I shared earlier today on Twitter. I’m trying to post there more regularly now, so feel free to follow me there.

Exploring the colors of Spring

And here are a few photos I took today. I went with shallower DOF here, to give them this soft look. All taken handheld with the Canon 70-200 F2.8 lens.

I decided to share them all in a higher resolution (2560px tall or wide) and without a watermark, so if any of you would like to use them as phone/tablet wallpapers, you can easily do so.

Nature in Spring, Botanical Garden Bratislava
Nature in Spring, Botanical Garden Bratislava
Nature in Spring, Botanical Garden Bratislava
Exploring the colors of Spring, Botanical Garden Bratislava
Exploring the colors of Spring, Botanical Garden Bratislava
Nature in Spring, Botanical Garden Bratislava
Nature in Spring, Botanical Garden Bratislava
Nature in Spring, Botanical Garden Bratislava
Exploring the colors of Spring, Botanical Garden Bratislava
Exploring the colors of Spring, Botanical Garden Bratislava
Nature in Spring, Botanical Garden Bratislava
Nature in Spring, Botanical Garden Bratislava
Nature in Spring, Botanical Garden Bratislava

View from the Sky Park towers

Recently I posted a few different photos of the Sky Part towers in Bratislava, so how about today a picture was taken from the top of one of them. This photo is not that recent, so you can still be missing the 4th tower in the background. Either way, it makes for an interesting view. I actually wanted to take the photo a bit later, during the blue hour, but it became so windy up there that day, that I could not hold the camera steady enough. The wind would move the whole tripod around; if I were not holding it, it would blow it away.

Still, this photo is a vertorama, from two shots. Each shot blended from three exposures. Edited in Photoshop. I used the 17mm tilt-shift lens here, and if you don’t know what kind of lens it is, or how it’s used, check out my guide here.

View from the Sky Park towers, Bratislava, Slovakia

Working with a MacBook

It’s been over two years now since I switched to a MacBook. MacBook M1 Pro to be exact. I will write about the switch more someday, but just a bit today. The whole MacBook is just so strange. It’s either fast or pitifully slow. You would not believe how often I see the spinning ball cursor. Just saving a big enough file in Photoshop can make the whole system unresponsive.

And why is the SSD so slow? Saving a 1gb PSD taking a few minutes? Just why. And there is nothing else on the laptop, it’s just a Photoshop machine. Strange. I love how quiet it is and how it’s always on, but sometimes it’s just a pain. Maybe with 32 GB RAM, it would be better. But 16GB looks to be just not enough for Photoshop.

Different view of the Sky Park towers

Behind the camera at the Sky Park Towers in BratislavaAnd for today’s photo, a bit different view of the Sky Park towers in Bratislava. You can almost see all 4 in this one. The 4th is hiding behind the middle one here. I thought of moving the camera a bit to include it more, but it’s still a construction site, so it would break the feel of the photo a bit.

Btw. the 5th one, would be on the right side here, probably not that far in the future, as there is already a big hole in the ground there. But it will be a bit different, as these four are private residences and the 5th one will be an office building.

I quite like what they are building here, as this whole area used to be industrial, if I remember correctly, there was a demolished factory here beforehand. So it was mostly ugly and empty before. You would have no reason to go there at all.

I also shared a photo on Twitter while I was taking this one, so you can see it here on the side. This was taken with the 12mm Laowa lens. It was blended from 4 photos. I had to take two bracket series here, as some people walked in front of my camera and I had to use the other set to remove them from the final photo.

Different view of the Sky Park towers, Bratislava

New skyline of Bratislava

While of the topic of the new part of Bratislava, here is a panoramic view of it. Most of the towers here are less than 3 years old. The whole city part just changed completely.

I took this photo last Sunday, from under the Bratislava castle. I got a bit of bad luck with the sky, probably because it became quite windy in the evening. It just blew away all the clouds. I also had quite the issue keeping the 70-200mm lens steady. So no bracketing here.

This is a panorama from 3 shots.

New skyline of Bratislava, Slovakia

Blue hour at the Sky Park

The modern center of Bratislava changed quite a lot in recent years. There are a few new highrises, huge shopping malls, and other new buildings. The whole area is just different from what it used to be a few years back. There are still many constructions there, but part is complete, so one can start taking photos there.

So for today, here is a photo of two of the four Sky Park towers (SKY PARK by Zaha Hadid). From what I have seen, there will be also a 5th, a bit different, one. But that one is just a big hole in the ground right now. There is not that much space to get further away from the towers, so I used the Laowa 12mm lens to get this photo. Like that, I could get the whole tower in one shot.

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