The Lanchid Bridge, Budapest. (Greg Florent)

French photographer Greg Florent, 33, loves to “show the world, or create new worlds” with his photography, so after falling in love with Budapest as a tourist, he returned to the Hungarian capital and spent two months photographing the city's amazing architecture. The result is a beautifulseries of 15 time-lapse images, showing how the cityscape transforms from day to night.

“I knew it would be a perfect place for a project of day-to-night compositions,” Florent told weather.com. “Taking a stroll along the Danube by day is great, doing it when the buildings get lighted is even greater. It shows another mood. With this project, I wanted to offer the viewer the otherwise impossible ability to contemplate a scene for hours in just one look.”

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To create the day-to-night effect in his photographs, Florent needed several thousands of images. In fact, he says, he came home with about 16,000 from his two-month trip.

“[It’s] kind of a time consuming process,” he said. “First, using a tripod, I stayed at the same spot for a few hours around sunset time to shot time-lapse photographs. Then, for each place, I chose photos and blended them together to get a day-to-night transition as smooth as possible.” His flast step was to remove, or minimize, the human presence in the photos to focus on lighting and architecture.

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Weather also played an important role in the project. “I like skies with texture, which means neither a perfect clear blue sky, nor a grayish uniform one,” he said. “So there were days when I decided not to shoot anything.”

The weather could also change during the shoot itself, altering his scene. “Some rain surprised me once,” Florent said. “It didn’t ruin the picture though. You can even spot a subtle rainbow in photo 11 from Buda Castle.”

To view the complete “Budapest Daynight" series, along with more of Florent’s work, visit his website and his Facebook Page.

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