Challenge is: Exploration!

This was one smelly exploration to a fish market in Negombo,  Sri Lanka.

The Fish market was so far from the sterile shops we have here in Finland. This place had life, smells and tons of  fresh fish.

It was an experience I won’t forget

fish market

 

I’m participating in the online adventure travel magazine LetsBeWild.com’s Wild Weekly Photo Challenge for bloggersThis week’s Challenge is: Exploration!

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Inspirational light

Inspirational light

This Silence chapel at  Kamppi has inspired these pictures..

 Present are the light coming indirectly from above and the warm feel of the materials. The inner walls of the chapel area are lined with common alder planks cut to shape. The simple furnishing of the hall are made of massive ash tree. The silver cross at the altar was sculpted by artist blacksmith

http://www.helsinginkirkot.fi/fi/kirkot/kampin-kappeli
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Tones on Tuesday #58 12.18.12

Tones on Tuesday #58 12.18.12

Here is some light to the darkness…

I’ve altered the tones more blue & red and added shadows.Candles

Flying

Here in Finland at this time of the year you do not see many exotic birds, so these are what I am able to spot in our winter skies…flying

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I’m participating in the online adventure travel magazine LetsBeWild.com’s Wild Weekly Photo Challenge for bloggers

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Rhythem – my search for it

Rytmi – haasteessa oli tarkoitus löytää rytmiä valokuva kohteista. Ohessa minun rytmini, on jazzia, marssimusiikkia sekä hip hoppia…

Rhythm – the challenge was to find a rhythm in the photography subjects.. Here is my visual rhythms, , the jazz, marching music, and hip hop .

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Minun yhteys maailmaan vahvistuu aaltojen rytmistä  ( pienistä laineista tai aallokosta)

… Onnellisuudessa  ei ole kyse intensiteetistä vaan tasapainosta ja järjestyksen ja rytmin ja harmonian välillä.

My connection to the earth is reinforced through the rhythm of the waves, (small waves or the surf)

  Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

Peaceful

In this week’s Wild Weekly Photo Challenge, we’re challenging bloggers to get outside & photograph things in nature which make them feel peaceful!

I do not like winter,but  it is beautiful now that the snow has arrived to brighten the few hours of light we have here in the north, this scenery is peaceful in spite the fact that it’s freezing.
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Nature’s ART

This old oak tree had its bark peeled of, and beneath it this piece of  Nature’s art  was found . This great pattern was engraved there in by the larvae s. 

 Tämä vanha tammi puu on kuorittiin sen  kaarnasta, alta löytyi tämä luonnon tekemä taideteos.  Toukat olivat kaivertaneet sinne tämän hienon kuvion.

Art on an old oak tree
Art on an old oak tree

Challenge is: Texture in Nature!

I’m participating in the online adventure travel magazine LetsBeWild.com’s Wild Weekly Photo Challenge for bloggersThis week’s Challenge is: Texture in Nature!

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Snow and Ice

It is winter here in Finland and we got 20-40 cm of snow last Friday  – so I have to go with textures of winter.

Snow flakes can be so beautiful…beauty in detail

Snow flakes

Challenge is: Texture in Nature!

I’m participating in the online adventure travel magazine LetsBeWild.com’s Wild Weekly Photo Challenge for bloggersThis week’s Challenge is: Texture in Nature!

Ice

Mustaa ja Valkoista #140

Tällä kertaa haastankin kaikki etsimään kuvauskohteeksi jotain valmiiksi/luonnostaan mustavalkoista,

eli kuvaa ei saa olla käsitelty mustavalkoiseksi, eikä sitä saa ottaa kameran mustavalkoasetuksilla! 

This time, I challenge all to find a subject that is already / naturally black and white,

 the image should not be treated black and white, and will not be allowed to take black and white camera settings!

Spruse under snow
Spruse under snow
More at: http://mustavalkomaanantai.blogspot.fi/
I have also linked this to MACRO MONDAY

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Water

The idea was to photograph water – I was trying to find new way of seeing it –

so I took photos of puddles, sea ripples, these are few of the photos I took…


water

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Skywatch Friday: Season 6, Episode 21

Skywatch Friday: Season 6, Episode 21

Uspenski Cathedral, Helsinki
Uspenski Cathedral, Helsinki
Uspenski Cathedral, Helsinki
Uspenski Cathedral, Helsinki
Uspenski Cathedral, Helsinki
Uspenski Cathedral, Helsinki

Skywatch Friday: Season 6, Episode 20

Skywatch Friday: Season 6, Episode 20

 

 

Tones from Porkkala

“In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.” – Alice Walker


Scattered Horizons

Kwai River scenery & water Buffalos

 

Kwai River and the River Kwai raft hotel scenery 
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Windy November day by the sea

The day had few moments of sun, mainly grey day with lots of cold wind. I find the sea beautiful always…even in November

Skywatch Friday

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Skywatch

Skywatch Friday, Season 6, Episode 18

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Roska /Trash

Not my favorite topic, but this is what I came up with…unfortunately there is trash everywhere.

I hope people will recycle a small effort to help the nature.

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Honorable mention: Wild Weekly Photo Challenge, Water

 

I am once again amazed that I scored a honorable mention in Wild Weekly Photo Challenge, the pictures there are wonderful.

I am really taken by this mention, have a look at the other winners at: http://www.letsbewild.com/photo-challenge-winners/challenge-4-water/

Peony – weekend flowers # 72

Peony is one of my favorite flowers

The raindrops  add a beautiful effect

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Candle light

This time of the year it so dark – so early that candle light gives me so soft light to brighten the evening

 How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. ~William Shakespeare

studio waterstone

Wild Weekly Photo Challenge, Water

In this week’s Wild Weekly Photo Challenge, we’re challenging bloggers to photograph what they feel best represents water!

the following photographs are of white-water

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Khwae River Bridge – Thailand

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Wood Shed

This wood shed can be found at Vuolenkoski, in Kymi Finland, I find it be very unique.

 

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Cat reflections

The challenge was to photograph reflections… I took some of my cats.

 

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