Budapest 2013-03-19

Above the clouds on the flight to Budapest...

and beneath the clouds when approaching Budapest - luckily, the clouds disappeared until afternoon.

Vajdahunyad Castle

Vajdahunyad Castle

Buda Castle

Buda Castle

view from St. Stephen's Basilica of Matthias Church and Fisherman's Bastion

Matthias Church

Fisherman's Bastion with statue of Stephen I

Parliament Building

Central Market Hall

National Museum

daytrip to Paris with TGV 2013-03-14

End of January Deutsche Bahn and SNCF sold return Tickets to Paris for just 50 € on the occasion of the 50-year anniversary of the Élysée Treaty (Treaty of Friendship between France and Germany). A good opportunity for a daytrip to Paris, as the TGV (French high-speed train) travels between Stuttgart and Paris in 3:40 h.

TGV in Gare de l’Est (Paris East station)

view from Tour Montparnasse: Eiffel Tower and La Défense business district

Dôme des Invalides

Palais du Luxembourg

Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre

Notre-Dame de Paris

Palais du Louvre

Axe historique

Dôme des Invalides

Eiffel Tower

miniature airport 2012-04-11

The miniature effect of these images is due to their shallow depth of field. In that case the effect was created using digital image manipulation program GIMP. It mimics the look which can be created with a tilt-shift-lens (tilting the focus plane), thus this style can be reffered as "fake ts".

Berlin Tegel Airport will be closed when the new Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BBI) opens on 3rd June, 2012. It was the busiest one among Berlin's former airports then.

sunset in Rome 2012-03-28

The silhouette of St Peter mirrors in the Tiber.

statues on Ponte Sant'Angelo and cupola of St Peter