Stalker!

View from Detunata

The Milky Way

A very good friend of mine, Eduard, came with the idea to shoot the Milky Way. I never tried astrophotography except some moon shots, so I accepted the challenge. We planed a one day trip, starting at the tailing pond and copper mine near Rosia Montana and finally to Detunata near Abrud, to photograph the amazing basalt columns. We had a very good time experimenting light paintings, long exposures with mixed results. The biggest problem was, that we where a month late, because the center or the core of the Milky Way is not visible in this period, it is somewhere under the tree line. BUT nevertheless this is my best shot of the Milky Way, shot with ISO 6400 at f/4 and 25 second exposure. I learned a few things tho, ISO 6400 with 25 second exposure, even with a full frame sensor,  produced a ton of noise, so maybe shooting at ISO 3200 and boosting the exposure in RAW would give me a better result. Next time I will borrow an f/2.8 lens and take a black frame too, to counter the sensor noise. For best experience look at the image in a dark room.

-- Milky Way -- shot with ISO 6400,  f/4,  25 second exposure

Farkas utcai református templom

Green Mamba

Vajdahunyad Castle Budapest

Area 71 Close-Up

Area 71 - McDonnell Douglas F-15C Eagle 82-016 - Oregon ANG

McDonnell Douglas F-15C Eagle 82-016 - Oregon ANG

McDonnell Douglas F-15C Eagle 82-016 - Oregon ANG landing

McDonnell Douglas F-15C Eagle 86-096 - Florida ANG take off

AREA 71 Airshow

Ecological disaster Roșia Montană / Verespatak II. The Green side.

Underexposed

Ecological disaster Roșia Montană / Verespatak I.

The giant redwood and Sebesvár medieval castle

The scenery ...

 Extreme tools ...

 The giant redwood in Cluj county near Săcuieu / Székelyjó - one of the few in Romania - actually lives in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. Sequoiadendron giganteum is the world's largest single trees and largest living thing by volume, it grows to an average height of 50–85 m and 6–8 m in diameter. This example that we visited is about 30 m high, the height of a 9 story building.

  Sebesvár castle or Bologa castle is the best preserved medieval castle in the region. View from the road.

Râpa Roșie - Red ravine

It is a geological reserve in Alba County about 4 kilometers north of Sebeș. Its walls rise to a height of 80-100 m. Rock formations are naturally carved with very unusual shapes of columns, towers and pyramids formed over centuries of erosion by rainwater.

Happy Easter

Early sunrise - Cluj Napoca - Kolozsvár

Mikoyan-Gurevich - MiG-21 LanceR

Note: Clouds added later in post-production

Note: Clouds added later in post-production

Keszthely - Hungary

Festetics Palace

Keszthely city center - old castle church