I think I am going to keep posting my frozen flowers until the end of April. Hopefully after that I will have some new spring photos available.
April 23
Category: Photography
April 18
I edited the frozen flower into BW in the other one I enhanced the white and in the other blacks. Which do you think works better?
April 17
Frozen flower number two, a different atmosphere all together.
April 16
Frozen flower study
April 13
Sign of spring is certainly when you see the first coltsfoot by the ditch
April 11
we are finally leaving winter behind us, last days have been nice and warm. Nights are still cold, but slowly but surely spring is arriving. I for one am overjoyed about it.
April 8
Something new is coming alive from this old branch. Finally after along wait spring is here. Melting snow, birds singing and small sign of the nature wakening up.
April 6
Soon this will just a memory
April 4
This morning while driving to work I witnessed a beautiful sunrise in the mist. I so wished that I was taking photos some where other than a moving car through dirty car windows. but what can you do, one needs to work. So my apologies for the quality of the photos, but considering the way I took them I am rather pleased .
April 3
Time to find some lunch.
April 2
Two of the most well known Churches in Helsinki. The first one is Helsinki Cathedral is the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran cathedral of the Diocese of Helsinki, located in the neighborhood of Kruununhaka in the centre of Helsinki, Finland. The church was originally built from 1830-1852 as a tribute to the Grand Duke of Finland.
Uspenski Cathedral is an Eastern Orthodox cathedral in Helsinki, Finland, dedicated to the Dormition of the Theotokos (the Virgin Mary). Designed by the Russian architect Aleksey Gornostayev (1808–1862). The cathedral was built after his death in 1862–1868.
The statue in the marketplace in front of it is Keisarinnankivi, Helsinki’s oldest monument built in 1835. In the right bottom corner, the ugly square building is by Alvar Aalto, I have always thought is placed in totally wrong place.
April 1
Still have to wait some time before the boat can be taken out.
March 31
Helsinki at the end of March. No spring in sight
March 30
Today in Helsinki we saw an unusual sight in Hernesaari, a small seal was on the shore. There were lots of people gathered around it. Looking and wondering and taking lots of pictures of it. I hope this little thing is able to reunite with it’s mother (dam?) when the people are not there. I just heard that people got too close to it, even petted it, so the firefighters ended up taking it to Korkeasaari a zoo in Helsinki.
Happy Easter!
March 29
A rose is a rose even in black and white
March 27
“All is calm, all is bright.”
― Joseph Mohr
March 26
This quote came to mind when I saw these photos of this Smiling (?) Alligator I took when visiting Florida in January.
“Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.” ― Stanley Gordon West, Growing an Inch
March 25
So tiny, so precious.
March 24
Flower power 
March 23
Think PINK!!!
March 22
The winter just won’t let go, it’s snowing again
March 21
Going down 
March 17
When walking in the city, this being in Helsinki there was only some dirty snow around. Cold wind, but sunny skies, here it looks like spring. Don’t be deceived, it on looks like it.
March 16
To be on the road, driving towards the beach and sunshine. One can dream…
March 15
the weather is not promising spring for us, no, winter still has a strong grip on us even though it is middle of March.
Ritva Sillanmäki Photography 