Back from Prague

Just about a hour ago I returned from Prague. I have to say, the weather was horrible. I think I went through all the four seasons in two days. It was raining, overcast, heavy fog, sunny, cloudy, windy, clear sky and for a while it was also snowing. The weather really changed each hour. One god thing though, booth days the sunset was just stunning. In the end, I slept through the day, and took most of the photos in the evening. And I think a lot of them will be very nice :) So here is the first one:

The blue sunset in Prague

I just can’t resist going to the top of any tower I see. This time it was the tower of the Charles Bridge in Prague. For a while I was alone there, as there is no elevator, and only few tourists want to go up the stairs. I suggest to look at the bigger version of this photo. There is just so much in it.

Cloudy sunset in Budapest

Not the most colorful of sunsets. The cloudy sky made the photos look really grey. I punched the color a little, but I don’t want to go further, as it will look unrealistic to me. At least the view was nice :)

Bratislava city center

I love it when I have two such contrasting colors in one photo. Like in this one, blue and red. This is of course another photo from top of the New bridge. They are actually going to rename the bridge soon. I have no idea whats the point of doing this, as all people are used to call it the New bridge. Probably just some politician has to show that he is doing something. Really pointless.

Inside the Matthias Church

Very nice and detailed church this is. Too bad it’s currently under reconstruction, so what you see here is almost everything what is not covered up. Everything else looked like a construction site.

Destination Prague

So another weekend, another trip. This time it to Prague. And as the last days were warm and very sunny, the weather during the weekend will probably be horrible. Let’s see :)

Flickr Explore

So in the last week I got 4 photos into Flickr explore selection, and I didn’t even noticed :). But the fifth got to number 26 and I noticed. It was this one Calling Batman. I noticed that a lot of people react if you give your photo a funny name, I have to do this more often.

Fisherman’s Bastion

Too bad it was closed, but still it looked like a fairy tale castle. I waited in front of it until there were no people and took this shot. I had to do a lot of retouching, as I had to remove all trees from the boarders of this shot, because of the heavy wind. I keep the colors quite soft, as it was a clouded and colorless evening and I don’t want the photo to look unnatural.

I also did a little lens correction on this photo. I was standing quite close to the Bastion, because of a construction side fence behind me, so it distorted the photo quite a lot. I don’d do this usually, as I don’t mind the distortion, but it helped to remove unwanted branches from the corners of the photo.