Office

Old office at Strömfors Ruukki, I love these old buildings, the atmosphere  in them. The textures and tones in the spaces.Stromfors ruukki-04145

 

 

 

 

 

16th floor view of Helsinki

Unfortunately the photos have the window reflections on the, but Helsinki is rather beautiful city, mixture of old and new. I took these from the 16th floor at Clarion Hotel in Helsinki-

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Walking in Helsinki in Jätkäsaari, around the new Clarion Hotel, you can see beautiful reflections and from the glass structures.   The ship yards on one side, cruise ships being built and on the other side you can see ships that take you to Tallinn.Helsinki by day-01849

WPC PHOTO CHALLENGE Heritage

MM 4-2 – Movement

The theme is movement or moving,  here is my interpretation for Monochrome Madness this week.Movement - Ritva Sillanmäki (4 of 9)Movement - Ritva Sillanmäki (1 of 1)-2

WPC CHALLENGE Wanderlust

Beach life

Beach life at Boynton Beach, what is a holiday with out lazy days at beach?

MM-3-48 -Miami South Beach

My entry to  for this weeks Monochrome Madness is a photo from my trip to south Beach Miami. I have been very slow in going through my photographs from my trip but here are several  of  Night lights  in Monochrome -check the link to see which I chose to send to Leanne.#monochromemadness #LeannecoleMiami South Beach- BW (2 of 7)

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Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Herons open their mouths and show the spear-like end of their tongue, I was able to capture a flick of a tongue.

Wakodahatchee Wetland (131 of 154)

Seen year-round in Florida, this bird can be found at  Wakodahatchee Wetlands

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Art Deco District

While in South Beach Miami we stayed at the Art Deco district.It was interesting at night and day time – a tourist attraction.  Here are some buildings dressed up in neon lights

I hope you made it this far 🙂

 

MM -3-46 –at the pier

My entry to Monochrome Madness is this photo from Naples Pier in Florida. Great back light outlines the silhouettes clearly.

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The Barnacle

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After the sunset Pelican sunset

The muted colors after sunset in Key West. The Pelican nicely gives the photos new aspect. Pelican sunset ?

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Strike a pose

I took photos of this girl, she posed next to a graffiti in Wynwood walls, I tried several editing ways. What do you think, which one works?

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