[LRflex] Re: Shots of Vienna and Budapest up......
- From: Philippe Amard <phamard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:28:35 +0200
Instant reply - office reopens : did you say Klimt?
did you visit the museum - triple WOW!!!
I'll read the remainder of your message now
Phil...x
Alex Hurst wrote:
>Phil wrote:
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>>Thanks Alex for these nice series - we also liked the two cities when we
>>went there, but your pictures are much better than mine in any case and
>>paradoxically a better reminder of my own trip's atmosphere..
>>I don't know how long you stayed there - I would have liked to stay
>>longer than we did for there are so many beautiful or "exotic" sights to
>>be found at every street corner.
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>Well, it may be of interest that these are roughly 40 pictures out of
>400 or so I took. Some others I didn't include because they're of
>people the Group wouldn't be interested in, plus an awful lot of
>Jugendstil architecture which happens to be one of my passions along
>with the whole Vienna Secession movement - particularly Gustav Klimt.
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>But I was pleasantly surprised ending up with around 10% of shots
>which I thought were worth showing you.
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>>Your pictures are a real apetizer for a second helping/trip.
>>The colours are fine and the churches look so peaceful.
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>Delighted to hear the colours are OK on your monitor as they are on
>mine. I didn't adjust colour balance at all - just brightness and
>contrast a little where necessary.
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>>Did you have raddishes with Gulash (wink)?
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>Funny thing is you get better goulash (gulyas??) in Vienna than you
>do in Budapest. As for the radishes, they were just huge!
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>>BTW: did you try their wines?
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>I assume that question is rhetorical! The best bottle we had was a
>Tokai at a wine bar. I thought these were heavy wines, but this was
>like a great Kiwi (NZ) sauvignon. Pity the Hungarians don't export
>much wine.. apart from Bulls Blood, which we definitely weren't
>interested in.
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>> or did you keep to Pilsner? (mine was
>>Joseph komma nul as I was driving :-( )
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>Our routine is roughly one hour's walking to one hour in a cafe with
>a beer or whatever when you let other people do the walking past.
>Worked well as this time, as it did in Rome a while back. I'm sure
>you noted that the Budapest section ended with food, and the Vienna
>section with one of the best Austrian beers.... :-)
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>>Thanks for sharing your discoveries and sunny photos with us.
>>Keep them coming.
>>Phil...x
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>Will do, Phil - and thanks for the bouquet.
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>Best
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>Alex
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>>Alex Hurst wrote:
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>>>Hi all.
>>>
>>>I've just posted pix from our trip in May this year to one of our
>>>favourite cities: Vienna, Austria. We then took a fast boat down the
>>>Danube for our first-ever visit to the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
>>>
>>>Most of these shots were taken with a Nikon D200 DSLR and my trusty M3.
>>>
>>>Wish I could have taken an SL2, but there wasn't room in my single
>>>carry-on bag... :-(
>>>
>>>Go to:
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>>>http://homepages.iol.ie/~corkflor/
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>>>And click on the Vienna and Budapest links provided.
>>>
>>>Brickbats and bouquets welcome as ever.
>>>
>>>Best
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> >Alex
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