Madrid sunrise

I took this very colorful photo while I was in Madrid earlier this year. I took this directly from the balcony of my hotel room, during a sunrise. It’s really great how late the sunrise in Spain is, as they use the same time as central Europe, but are much more further to the west :)

Contest update

The contest I announced a week ago is still running and everyone can still enter it. Here is a little overview how it looks until now :) To see how you can enter, the rules are here.

Elisabeth Bridge

I took this photo when I was returning to my hotel while in Budapest. A little late for any color in the sky, but the reflections in water looked great :)

Center of Bratislava

If I took this photo 50 years earlier, there would have been a synagogue standing right next to the cathedral, with a whole city part in the place where there is the entry to the New Bridge. You have to wonder, what were those people thinking, when they destroyed such a part of the city history. Stupid communist .. :(

In the zoo

You hear a lot that you don’t need more megapixels in your camera. But than you try to take a photo like this in a Zoo, and you only have a 200mm lens. So in the end, you have to crop your photo, and crop it a lot. This is almost cropped from the 100% view. And I would have cropped it even more, if my camera had more than 22Mpix. I really think that it’s much easier to carry a high megapixel camera than a 500mm lens :)

Btw. This was taken through a glass wall :) I had luck for no reflections :)

Sunset in Prague

Can you imagine having a beautiful sunset, great location which allows tripods, great view of Prague.. and then having a double glass window in front of you, which is very dirty, and lights behind you, which cannot be turned of and create a lot of reflections on the windows. It was so frustrating. At the end I lowered my camera, so its close to the ground and hang my shirt from a railing above it, so it blocks as much of the lights as possible. It helped, but still this shot could be so much better.