Autumn 2010

57th Hungary's Independent film festival

Just got the news that this year's festival will be held in Szentes from September 23-26 , 2010 !

We will quickly translate the programmes planned for this festival and insert in here by today. At the moment, all we know that if you are interested to attend, please bring a long your swimming suits ! Meanwhile you can find out more from the official site

Programmes

{Thursday 23 Sep , 2010}

14:00 Arrival and registration
18:00 Opening film at the town's cinema - The little 10-year journey
20:00 Opening ceremony officiate by MMKA President Zoltán Kőrösi & Town Mayor Imre Szirbik
21:00 Little Traveling Festival - Film by Közönségtalálkozó
22:00 Retro Disco at Thermal water pool

{Friday 24 Sep, 2010}

10:00 - 13:00 Screening of films ...
13:00 GDR Relics' exhibition
13:30 - 19:30 Competition screening
19:30 MAFSZ 80 years of award-winning films
20:30-23:00 Consultation of the day's films
23:00 IVth independent Pálinka Competition , and dabble with music

{Saturday 25 Sep, 2010}

9:00 - 10:00 Screening of film
10:00 - 18:30 Competition
19:00 MAFSZ 80 years of award-winning films
19:00-22:00 Consultation of the day's films
22:00 Election of president and committees

{Sunday 26 Sep,2010}

11:00 Conference on future of MAFSZ - over 80 years and over the next jubilee year, the planned events

12:00 Announcement of winner(s) and handing of prizes. Closing ceremony by the newly elected president of MAFSZ.

16:00 screening of award winning films.


{Side programmes in conjunction with the festival}

The following exhibition(s) will be held at Youth House :-

Three world, an interactive exhibition by Kornél Szilágyi
The Wreathes, tale filmstrips by Richard Garami
Great Faces, interactive photo exhibition by Gabor Merz

Archive screening
A Little Trip S8mm the original film and record the HMG-graduates 10 years ago - the original recordings casting

Photo points

We found this stenciled sign on various pavements of the town. You can find all 43 signs spread around tourist spots. They're created to help tourists capture picture perfect photos of the sights they visited. I like this idea a lot!

Heart shaped Confetti

what's left behind after a wedding reception at the town conference hall :)

Summer Regatta 2010

The event was Kurca Regatta

Summer 2010

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Spring blossoms

Kudos to the town's gardeners for giving us this many varieties of colours ... just love it!

Winter from the archive

It was snowing yesterday.

Changing colours

János Fridrich Photo Studio 1905

The last I posted about this museum was in 2006 ; but recently I found the following shots of the studio and thanks to photographer Nagy Béla for allowing me to share them here. Isn't it just charming ?

Entrance of the atelier, originally uploaded by Nagy Bela.

Fridrich Studio Szentes - 1905, originally uploaded by Nagy Bela.


I have also inserted photos from my previous post, you can read the text at the following link...
http://szentesdailyphoto.blogspot.com/2006/03/highlights-of-our-town-1.html

For Mandy

The collaborations between your words and my photos have always been extra special in my heart. Thank you Mandy for enhancing my experience in this blogosphere :)

Favourite season of all !

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Rustic

Those rustic fencing never failed to catch my attention whenever we passed this farm.
Photo taken not far from szentes' border

All smiles

photo taken 01/08/09

Hare Krishna followers passing while playing some music at the main square and the Bulgarian waterpolo players couldn't resist requesting a photo session. Me.... snapped+happy!

There're back!

recorded 03 May 09. Click on image for a closer look

Spring 2009

Yup, the much awaited cherry blossoms have sprung! There are lots more trees haven't blossomed yet. Hopefully I'll captured more shots to post here :)

Actually the weather feels more like summer... too warm too soon!

Turn back time

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Isn't it amazing that someone took an aerial view of the town scape back then?
When I first saw this in Szentes' coffee table book, it helped me to imagine how the main square looked like many many years ago ( sorry, I have no idea when was this photo taken) So, I thought it would be nice to share this image here. Oh, can you see how wonderful Petöfi Hotel used to be.

See how the following places look like now in close-up:-
60s concrete
Greek corner
Petöfi Hotel

A sneak peek

Spring has not really sprung!! and I am getting tired of the white christmas photo.

Searching my archive I found this single shot inside the Greek Orthodox Church . A single shot because I didn't want to disturb the woman tidying the church despite that we've asked her permission. Although the church is small in size, it is really beautifully decorated.

White Christmas

taken on Christmas day

Wishing all of you Good health and happiness!

When the train leaves

Dug from the archive, taken at the train station.
You must listen to this song by a famous hungarian singer, titled Mikor elindul a vonat (when the train leaves)

Szentes was the birthplace of Hungarian railcar operations; the two-axle
railcars built by GANZ were initially introduced here at the end of the 1920s
and passenger traffic on the surrounding lines has been served by railcars ever
since. Nowadays the local rolling stock mainly comprises 6341 railcars purchased
from Russia a few years ago. - source