Locks, locks and more locks

Looks like the love locks are becoming more popular each year. I have seen them already in so many cities. And I quite like them, as they make a nice subject for photos. Only thing I hate, is when people attach them to historical statues and architecture. Like on the Charles bridge in Prague. That’s a really stupid idea in my opinion. It just damages a piece of history. This is of course not on the Charles bridge, but few streets away from it.

Karlovy vary reflection

I took this one in Karlovy vary, a beautiful spa town in Czech republic. A really nice town, but it looked a little dead to me. I don’t mean that there are no people, there were a lot of people there, but it looks like nobody really lives there. In two hours of walking around the city I haven’t seen a single grocery store, one ATM.. and similar.. just restaurants, souvenir shops and hotels… you feel really strange in a town like this.

Resting room in Hungarian parliament

This is one of the side rooms in the Hungarian parliament. As I understand, it was used by the dignitaries to rest in between sessions. There are actually two there, almost same. Just in a different color and with different statues. I will of course add a photo from the other room sometimes later :)

The beauty of Austria

I can’t even imagine how would this look during a nice sunset… really a place I have to revisit. Even during such a cloudy day, and even when it was raining, the view was stunning.

I was thinking of adding more contrast and color to this photo, but then decided against it. Like it is, it gives me the same feeling as what I have seen that day. A cloudy, rainy day is not defined by saturated colors :)

Sunset above Budapest

This one was taken from the top of the St. Stephens basilica in Budapest, during one very cold sunset. I had to hold the camera most of the time, as it was too light to stand still in the heavy wind. The sunset was a little more colorless than I hoped, so I thought it will be better during the blue hour. But as the tower has very strong flood lights, once those were one, no further shooting was possible.