Parliament at Dusk, Caught in Glass

A motorcycle's side mirror holds the entire Budapest skyline — Parliament's dome and spires silhouetted against a peach-and-pale-blue dusk — while the surrounding world dissolves into deep violet bokeh and a single amber streetlamp. The contrast between the sharp, contained world inside the mirror and the soft, electric blur outside gives the city a sense of being borrowed rather than owned. Small ice crystals at the mirror's base remind you how cold the air was when I pressed the shutter.