Yesterday I decided to continue testing my Samsung Galaxy S9+ camera by visiting one of most beautiful city parks, the Park Zrinjevac, suited in the core center of Zagreb (capital city of Croatia), and just about 100 meters away from the main city square.
Last week or so, Gastro Music Fest by Kala was held there, and as the park itself is not far from my home, I thought I might go there and mingle around a bit. So, now you are going to see how I spent my yesterday's Saturday early afternoon.
Park Zrinjevac is suited on Nikola Šubić Zrinski square. Nikola Šubić Zrinski was one of the very famous Croatian viceroys. Serving also as a general for the Habsburgs during Austro Hungarian Monarchy, in 1566, with the army of only 2,500 soldiers, he managed to defend the fortress of Szigetvár (a small town in southern Hungary) by opposing the vast army of over 100,000 soldiers led by Suleiman the Magnificent, during his sixth military invasion attempt with the aim to conquer Vienna and afterwards the rest of Europe.
The above photo represents the southern entrance to the park.
At the northern entrance to the park stays, still working, 134 years old meteorological pillar that measures air temperature, moisture, and the pressure. The column was placed there in 1884 as a gift to the city from Dr. Adolf Holzer who was an amateur meteorologist as well.
The park also has its eastern and western entrance. From all four entries to the central part where is suited the Music Pavilion which from 19th century serves as an open-air concert stage, leads the delightful plane-tree-lined walk.
The park also has three beautiful water fountains. Unfortunately, the oldest and most famous one wasn't working yesterday. Therefore I'm bringing you here only the remaining two.
The water fountain on the western side of the park
The water fountain on the eastern side of the park
During this Gastro Music Fest, at the edges around the Music Pavilion were placed small food and beverage booths.
By walking around, I could see and hear that not only the locals have been enjoying the time there but many tourists as well.
Some others have chosen to enjoy the park differently, by playing, sitting, laying or even sunbathing on the grass fields in the park.
There were also those who were enjoying the outdoors and the atmosphere just by sitting on the benches placed along the sidewalks that frame the park on the outside.
While this young lady found the lonely spot for taking a phone call in the middle of the meadow right in front one of the water fountains.
In my last post "After The Rain" the photos have been taken by using Samsung Galaxy S9+ camera Live Focus option, while the photos in this post have been created only with the camera's Auto option.
The following water fountain photo, I would like to use as my entry for the Tuesday #cityscapephotography contest organized by 
| Category: | cityscapephotography |
| Settings: | Auto |
| F-stop: | f/2.4 |
| Exposure time: | 1/229 sec. |
| ISO speed: | ISO-50 |
| Camera: | Mobile phone Samsung Galaxy S9+ |
| Camera Model: | SM-G965F |
| Photo Compressed by: | TinyPNG |
| Watermakr created on: | Canva |
| Location: | Zagreb - Croatia |
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All photos in this article are my own, taken with my Samsung Galaxy S9+ mobile phone. ~ © 2018 steemit.com/@ana-maria ~ All rights reserved!
Posted on Sunday, May 27, 2018
