[Leica] Nathan's PAD 24-25/8/2021: Budapest vignettes

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Nice. The last one for me

Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 10:24 AM Nathan Wajsman via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

> We are taking a city break in Budapest this week. We have been here since
> Tuesday and are flying home Saturday morning. It is basically the first
> visit for all of us; I was here with my parents as a 10-year old but
> remember virtually nothing from that visit, and my wfie and daughter have
> never been here before now. It is proving to be a magnificent city, with
> impressive buildings and art, but also charming and very lively. Like other
> places in Eastern and Central Europe, it is also heavy with history. Five
> images from the first couple of days.
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> One of the principal streets in the Jewish quarter is called Kazinczy
> Street. It has many bars and restaurants; we spotted this couple
> promenading their very impressive dogs:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-NvQFBBP/A <
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-NvQFBBP/A>
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> The Dohány Street Synagogue is enormous, the largest in Europe and the
> second-largest in the world (the largest is in New York). The Jewish
> population of Budapest is substantial, around 100,000, but most do not go
> to services regularly, so this place is only full for the most important
> holidays. But it is magnificent, and behind it are several moving memorials
> to the Budapest ghetto, including a mass grave of more than 2000 people
> found dead when the Soviet army liberated the ghetto in January 1945:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-jHgtQgL/A <
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-jHgtQgL/A>
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> Shoes on the Danube Bank is a monument to a group of Jews who were
> executed on the banks of the river by the Fascist Arrow Cross militia in
> early January 1945, just a couple of weeks before the liberation of the
> city. The memorial was created in 2005 and is visited by many. People also
> leave candles and flowers amid the shoes:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-w6j2B93/A <
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-w6j2B93/A>
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> Something amusing, spotted by my daughter as we were walking around:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-SDXpvKz/A <
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-SDXpvKz/A>
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> Conversation on a balcony, on the edge of the Jewish quarter:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-z2XKzQs/A <
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-z2XKzQs/A>
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> Much more to come. Incidentally, these are full-size JPGs that I shot in
> the Fuji X-E3 alongside the RAW images. They seem to work quite well,
> certainly for images with good light.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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