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Climbing above Budapest.
by Tamás Rizsavi
For 6 years I’ve been climbing Budapest’s most significant buildings, towers, monuments and everything I can to shoot the perfect pictures about my hometown.
Real love and passion!
I even risk my life to take pictures of my hometown in unrepeatable lights and from unbelievable heights.
I try to take pictures in different lights and weather conditions because I would like to show everyone how beautiful Budapest is.
Originally I am a train driver but my true passion is photography.
With that, I would like to show the world how proud I am of the place where I live.
More info: Facebook
Source: I Risk My Life To Photograph My Hometown Budapest From The Best Angle | Bored Panda
A Copperplate view of Pressburg by Hogenberg 1535-1590.
This colored copperplate view of Bratislava (Posonium in Latin, known as Pressburg during the period of the Austrian and Austro-Hungarian Empire) is the oldest and best-known popular depiction of the city.
The creator of this edited copy of the print was the German master Franz Hogenberg (1535−90).
At the time the print was made, Bratislava was the capital of Hungary and was also a coronation city of the Habsburg rulers.
The view depicts the Danube River, dominated by Bratislava Castle, which was a seat of the Hungarian part of the Habsburg monarchy until 1780.
An interesting note in the upper-right part of the view mentions Wolfgang Lazius (1514−65), who was an important Hungarian humanist and cartographer and the author of the second oldest map of Hungary (1556).
In 1593 this view was used in the book Civitates orbis terrarum. Liber quartus urbium praecipuarum totius mundi (The cities of the world. The fourth book of the principal cities of the world), published in Cologne by Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg.
via Pressburg, Posonium, or Pisonium, a Hungarian City as Depicted by Wolfgang Lazius – World Digital Library.
View of a Frozen Danube River.
Photograph by Tamás Rizsavi
In Budapest’s heart the Danube river is rarely seen in this frozen state.
It occurred 5 years ago last time, this is why it’s a special moment.
It was worth being out in the -20 C degrees to capture its beauty.
More info: Facebook
Source: I Captured The Rare View Of The Frozen Danube In Budapest | Bored Panda
‘Fairy Tale Lake’, Szodliget.
“This little lake is a part of my life,” writes Your Shot member Gabor Dvornik, who lives half a mile from its location on a natural reserve in Sződliget, Hungary.
“I shoot here nearly every month, sometimes every week.
It has a very special air in every season, but to have a nice, misty day is rare, as wind is always present due to the nearby Duna River.
”Seeing the fog during a last glance outside the night before, Dvornik slept only three hours to make it to the lake for a “dream” shoot. “It was utterly ghostly and very moody out there,” he writes.
“I felt like I was in a fantasy tale, in an enchanted land.
I was so euphoric that I made around 500 captures and walked around the lake two to three times.”
Source: Photo of the Day – Best Photos of 2015 – Photo Gallery – National Geographic
Golden-bellied mangabey monkey born at Budapest Zoo.
Golden-bellied mangabey monkey born at Budapest Zoo.
Photo: A small baby monkey scratches the head of an adult monkey. Only 12 zoos are believed to have golden-bellied mangabeys. (Attila Kovacs/MTI via AP)
A rare monkey only held by a handful of zoos around the world has been born in Budapest, bringing the total in captivity globally to 27.
The baby golden-bellied mangabey, whose species originates in the forests of West Africa, was born October 22.
Budapest Zoo spokesman Zoltan Hanga said on Friday the infant had not yet been named or its gender determined because keepers did not want to disturb the monkeys’ intimacy to inspect the newborn.
Mr Hanga said only 12 zoos have golden-bellied mangabeys.
