Slovakia

For the first time, I took the Bratislava airport instead of the Vienna airport. You have to drive about 30 minutes longer, but the flights are way cheaper. It is a new, compact size airport where you don’t have to walk miles to reach your destination. 🙂  In the arrivals hall, I liked the mirroring of the lightning at the roof and on the floor. I took my Sony A6000 and positioned me with bended knees to get that shot.

Post processed with: Aurora, Photoshop, Color Efex Pro

I like the symmetry of this building with the long window fronts, the clear structure, the facade with the pale colors. On the photo is the patio of Bratislava Castle, where I did a one-day visit coming from Vienna with a hydrofoil. Bratislava is also an attractive low tax city; you can see many buildings of Amazon, Oracle, Accenture and other tech companies, which have their European headquarter there.

Post processed with: Photoshop 

• Camera: ILCE-7S
• Aperture: ƒ/6.7
• Shutter speed: 1/90s
• Focal length: 24mm
• ISO: 100

On the way back from Bratislava Castle to the tuck tuck train (I like those trains 🙂 ) I saw a big green area circumscribed with this historical buildings. Since we were a bigger group, nobody had the patience to wait for a bigger photo session, so I had to take my Sony A7S and did some handheld shots.

• Camera: ILCE-7S
• Aperture: ƒ/6.3
• Shutter speed: 1/80s
• Focal length: 24mm
• ISO: 100

Holi festivals get more and more common in the western world, it’s like Halloween which gets more and more fans or the Oktoberfest, which gets copied in many countries. At a visit in Bratislava, by walking through the pedestrian area suddenly I was in the middle of a Holi festival. I tried to get not touched by the colors during shooting the photos  🙂

• Camera: ILCE-7S
• Aperture: ƒ/5
• Shutter speed: 1/3200s
• Focal length: 38mm
• ISO: 5000

Entering Bratislava by car you see the buildings of many tech companies like Amazon, Oracle and Microsoft. The Slovakian government offers a good tax scheme for those companies. In the city center you can take a bus tour which brings you to Bratislava castle where you get a beautiful view of the city.

• Camera: D-LUX 5
• Aperture: ƒ/5.6
• Shutter speed: 1/800s
• Focal length: 5.5mm
• ISO: 80