Hi, everyone! Welcome to mybeloved.camera. I have been pretty fortunate when it comes to business travels. I shifted some of the work from the team in Budapest to India while ago. As my team expanded, I hired a couple of people in Prague during the pandemic. After two and half years after I hired the first person, I finally had the opportunity to travel to Prague Czech Republic. It was my first time visiting Prague, and I only had a few days to spend there. But I found some time to walk around the city to photograph this beautiful city.
Hi, everyone! Thank you for visiting mybeloved.camera. I had the pleasure of taking another business trip to Budapest Hungary in July 2022. This trip probably would be the very last trip I take to Budapest for business. I have shrunk the operation of my team there and moved to elsewhere over the past few years. Due to flight changes, I ended up with a free Saturday in Budapest. It was extremely hot and humid. There were a lot of constructions including the closure of Széchenyi Chain Bridge. But I walked around photographing familiar sites in a day light.
Hi, everyone! Welcome to mybeloved.camera. Yes, it was 10 years ago. I have been going through my photographs and reorganizing/rewriting my blog posts and came across some photos from my first visit to Budapest. The reason I started photography was to capture the pictures of my kids and send them to my parents living away from me. But I have to say taking pictures while traveling, especially on my business trips was the reason I really got into photography. I have to say this trip back in March 2023 started all. Looking at my photos from 10 years ago was little embarrassing in a way. I realized how bad I was back then. Nevertheless, this trip was the beginning. It was the first time I really took time on my own to shoot what I wanted to shoot. By myself. Taking the time I needed to take.
Hi, everyone! Thank you for visiting my site. It has been a long time since the last update, and this time I wanted to share what I have learned shooting soccer games. Along with travel photography, I have been shooting soccer games for my sons' teams for the past several years. It has been a great learning journey, and there are several things I have learned. Here are some of the tips.
One of the cities I had the opportunities visiting several times in the past decade for business was Budapest Hungary. It is a beautiful city, and I felt safe enough to walk around by myself with my camera gear even at night time. My mission this time around (March 2016) was to shoot the city using Lensbaby 2.0 and also to take the Chain Bridge from different angles.
As a part of Christmas present, my father-in-law gave "guys" a salmon fishing trip together. This realized in June of 2017. My father-in-law, two brothers-in-law, and I took a trip to King Salmon, Alaska. As the name of the city says it all, it is known for fishing King Salmon. It was a great experience fishing salmon for the first time. It was also awesome taking some photos of the wild in Alaska.
I had another opportunity to visit Budapest Hungary for work. This time, it was in January. It was cold, and we had little snow. Also, there were ice floating in the river. In this trip, I brought a plastic toy lens: Holga by Lomography.
I took most of these night time photo while walking with my colleagues. For that reason, I did not have the opportunity to use a tripod and had to handhold resulting in high ISO and really noisy images. But for a toy lens with a fixed aperture of F8, it was not too bad and it produced images taken with a toy lens/toy camera on a film.
I stayed just one night in Berlin for a business trip. Unfortunately, it was snowing and freezing cold. Just walked around few blocks around the hotel.
I had a chance to visit UK for work, and took a couple of days of personal days to walk around the city of London. London is a place I was interested in visiting and taking photos of the unique and iconic city scape.
April 2016
I had a chance to visit London for business. I took a couple of days off to enjoy my birthday walking around the city. I visited Notting Hill (famous with the movie Notting Hill) and Portobello Market. Visiting the market was great with cute and colorful houses, a lot of antique items, and original art works. I met Charlotte Reed and purchased her book, May the Thoughts Be with You: Ideas and Wisdom to Inspire Your Days, and a piece of her art work.
