Today is the first day of winter
Today is the official begining of winter. The search giant celebrates this with a new animated Google doodle.
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My first blog post was published 11 years ago
about 2400 posts followed it since then -
Photographing Nixon’s resignation 45 years ago
harshly objected not to be photographed -
Normandy landing in Robert Capa’s perspective
this is how the famous photographer saw it -
How to photograph helicopters
rotors should be blurred in movemennt
"winter" related posts on the blog
Scaring away winter in Mohacs
traditional winter farewell Buso Carnival
Locals celebrate the end of the winter during the old folk traditional festive of Busojaras in Mohacs, Hungary on March 06, 2011.
The centuries-old carnival of the “busojaras” in Mohács is a wonderful folk tradition way down south near Hungary’s border with Croatia. I won’t be able to attend it this year unfortunately, but some of my older photos are posted below.
Half naked santas run in freezing cold too
People participate a half naked "Santa run" organised the 5th time to support a charity in Budapest, Hungary on December 09, 2012.
Every winter brings the annual Santa run in Budapest city centre. Cold weather wasn’t enough to scare away people willing to drop their clothes and join the half naked run in swimsuits.
Half naked santa runners don’t feel cold
temperature is in the eye of beholder
Photo by Attila Volgyi / blog.volgyiattila.com
There are some people not that much affected by cold temperature as others are. Participants of the half naked santa run feel the same. They are kept warm by their enthusiasm. Here are some thoughts about cold on a not so cold winter day.