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Janos Hegy is the city's highest hill. It is 527m high and offers wonderful views, especially from the tower at the top.
Shots: 169. Camera: Nikon D70s + Nikkor AF-S VR-70-300mm F/4.5-5.6. Focal length: 450mm. Image size: 80800x6278 pixels. |
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Budapest city view from opposite river side |
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Geolocation parameters set really tight. Check out in Google Earth with show buildings on and play with transparency ...!
Night pano taken with Pentax K20D+Pentax 50-200 lens (at 50) |
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Looking East at the Pest side of the Danube waterfront. Photo was made from the Fishermens Bastion on the Palace Hill. Margaret Island (Margit Sziget) at the far left. Parliament at the center. Chain bridge (Lanc Hid) is the first bridge to the right (south) of Parliament.
TECHNICAL The dynamic range of light due to the sun setting behind me was a big issue. The Hill I was on shadowed the foreground with the setting sun. Expose a stop or 2 lower and risk overexposing Parliament? Made even more difficult as the shadows were approaching Pest as the sun was setting. With the camera panning left to right the foreground shadows deepen going towards the right. Is the striping g due to vignetting? Pls comment as I thought vignetting was usually present at wide rather than telephoto settings. This pano has diffraction limited resolution due to F8 aperture and sensor size. |
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Go to www.sitopano.net |
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Go to www.sitopano.net |
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Budapest, rain over the city. Shot with K20D pentax 50-200 lens (@50mm)
Geolocation is set, it is quite accurate, check overlay in Google Earth! |
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Óbuda (sometimes written in English as Obuda) was a historical city in Hungary. United with Buda and Pest in 1873 it now forms part of District III of Budapest. The name means Old Buda in Hungarian (in German, Alt-Ofen). The name in Croatian and Serbian for this city is Stari Budim, but the local Croat minority calls it Obuda (the name "Budim" they use for the fortress in Buda).
The island (Óbuda Island) next to this part of the city today hosts the Sziget Festival, a huge music and cultural festival. Its centre is 'Fő tér' (Main Square), connected to a small square with a sculpture of people waiting for the rain to stop. It is accessible by HÉV ('Árpád híd' station). History: Settlements dating from the stone age have been found in Óbuda. The Romans built Aquincum, the capital of Pannonia province here. Hungarians arrived after 900 and it served as an important settlement of major tribal leaders, later kings. Béla IV of Hungary built a new capital after the 1241-1242 Mongol invasion in Buda, somewhat south of Óbuda. On January 1, 1873 it was united with Buda and Pest to form Budapest. The Obuda Jewish community, dated from the fifteenth century, was wiped out by the Ottoman conquest of 1526. Jews, not permitted to live in Buda, returned to Óbuda in 1712 under the protection of the counts Zilchy. In 1837, the Jewish community built a handsome classical-style synagogue entered via a portico whose high pediment is supported by six large Corinthian columns. This is still standing and now is used as a television studio. The Jewish community grew and prospered until the Shoah. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93buda |
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Panoramic view between the Castle of Buda and the Elizabeth Bridge
http://360world.eu |
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Hosok tere (meaning "Heroes' Square" in Hungarian) is one of the major squares of Budapest, Hungary. It lies at the end of Andr�ssy Avenue (with which it comprises part of a World Heritage site), next to City Park.
It is surrounded by two important buildings, Museum of Fine Arts on the left and Palace of Art (or Art Exhibition Museum) on the right. On the other side it faces Andrassy Avenue which has two buildings looking at the square ? one is residential and the other one is the embassy of Serbia (former Yugoslavian embassy where Imre Nagy secured sanctuary in 1956). The central site of the square, as well as a landmark of Budapest, is the Millennium Memorial (also known as Millennium Monument or Millenary Monument) with statues of the leaders of the seven tribes that founded Hungary in the 9th century and other outstanding figures of Hungarian history (see below). The construction of the memorial was started when the one thousandth anniversary was celebrated (in 1896), but it was finished only in 1929 and the square got its name then. |