What This Blog is All About

Beauty is the accurate language of itself. Pictures which paint a thousand words are its secondary tongue. This blog uses pictures while it attempts to convey that primary language.

There is beauty beyond that seen by the eye. But it takes the soul to perceive it. The feeling of mirth, the feeling of lightness, the feeling of being, the feeling of love for the Creator, the feeling of awe, the feeling that could make one weep for a reason only the soul understands- these are what this blog wants each and everyone of us to experience.


Sunday, September 13, 2009

SIGHTS OF BUDAPEST

The pictures here were taken on September 12 in Budapest, Hungary with my Nokia N-95 cellphone. I was agitated over my upcoming examination and, as usual instead of confronting the concern head on by staying in my room to read, I went gallivanting and enjoyed the scenes and sights of Buda, which is on the other side of the Danube.

When she saw the pictures on my Facebook wall, my Vienna-based friend Maryknoll Padalla commented that aside from poetry, I should add photography to my claims to art. I came close to "expropriating" the compliment but anyone who has gone to Budapest knows that it does not take much to capture artistic shots from this city whose beauty is jaw-dropping.


The imposing building on the other side of the Danube is the Parliament which is one of Budapest's main attractions.

Since arriving in Budapest, I have been waking up not later than 6 AM to view from my room window the sun rise in all its magnificence. But this picture is not of the sun rising but of it setting.
Statues are very common in Budapest. The city has a statue of every hero or every figure who has contributed to Hungary's victories and history. This is one of them.