Today’s photo comes from Budapest a few summers ago. I didn’t know this at the time of my visit, but the statue was erected after World War II by the Hungarian people (or maybe the Soviets), and the inscription below it originally read:

“To the memory of the liberating Soviet heroes
the grateful Hungarian people
1945”

Of course, the Hungarians soon came to hate their “Soviet heroes” so in 1989 after the “heroes” were given the boot the inscription was changed to:

“To the memory of those who sacrificed their lives for the independence, freedom, and prosperity of Hungary”.

Posted on April 5th, 2020 under Budapest. Tags: AF-S NIKKOR 24-85mm f/3.5-4.5G ED VR, Nikon D750, sunstar. Comments Off on Freedom Statue

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This was an odd moment at Copenhell a few years back. See the red truck? That’s a Honey Bucket cleaning truck, and the driver didn’t get the memo that a music festival was happening. So he drove right through the middle of the crowd, while Huldre played on, to get to his next Honey Bucket. Super weird.

Posted on March 16th, 2020 under Denmark. Tags: concert photography, copenhell, huldre, Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 20mm f/1.8G ED Lens, Nikon D750, sunstar. Comments Off on Metal Monday

Today’s photo was taken on the Split Rock Trail in Joshua Tree National Park.

Posted on January 22nd, 2020 under Other. Tags: hiking, joshua tree, landscape, Nikon NIKKOR Z DX 16-50mm f/3.5-6.3 VR lens, Nikon Z 50 Z50, sunstar. Comments Off on Rock climbing in the desert on Christmas eve

Today’s photo was taken a few days before the summer solstice, after 10 p.m., on a night that never became dark*, in northwestern Iceland.

Today we are a few days before winter solstice, and I long for those long, warm days of summer.

* More than an hour later, on the same day, at 11:30 p.m., my world looked like this.

Posted on December 17th, 2019 under Iceland. Tags: AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-80mm f/2.8-4E ED VR DX lens, landscape, Nikon D500, sunset, sunstar, Westfjords. Comments Off on Solstice season

Posted on December 12th, 2019 under Oregon. Tags: beach, landscape, Newport Oregon, Nikon 24-120mm f/4 VR G lens, Nikon D750, pacific ocean, sunstar. Comments Off on Depoe Bay