Light in the Night

Whenever I think of black and white night photography, I mentally conjure up one of Brassai's pictures. (http://www.atgetphotography.com/The-Photographers/BRASSAI.html, good collection of shots, but God bless their souls, they could occasionally drop the Dracula part when mentioning Transylvania) Of course, he shot Paris. And Paris is the mother of all cities. But he went out at night with his camera and found something new. A new way of seeing what everyone else was watching with old eyes. He could have done that  in Budapest too, but fate and history had by then torn him away from this city and land, as it sadly happened to so many artists from Eastern European countries after WWII. So all I can do is wander up the hill to Citadella, thinking of his legacy and listening to the Danube's quiet drone behind me, for as my friend once said, Paris is chic and all, but compared to the Danube, the Seine is a bloody canal.