it is getting there – the darkness is about to embrace us for the months to come, so this lights are to soften the harshness of it all.
Tag: photography
Yellow roses and leafs
It is a good thing That I took hundreds of rose photos last summer – as I did not have anything yellow to photograph now in macro. Well – yeah – I have a yellow leaf.
Topic; Keltainen / Yellow
Makrohaaste 117
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Sand and Dirt
Beach – footprints – joy. Also below Dunes – all from Oregon
More sand at: Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Sand and Dirt
Sunday Stills, the next challenge: Shorelines
This one is great, I have hundreds of pictures of shorelines. Love to share these,
I will add shores from various places…all just as beautiful.
These first ones are from Finland – the last one to showing what we moving towards slowly – winter.
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Cyprus has beautiful shorelines also – and that sea – the color …so so beautiful
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afternoon
evening
Sri Lanka had some lovely beaches and the shorelines
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Early Morning
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The white sand in Thailand…the sea.
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Sunday Stills, the next challenge: Shorelines also linked to
Travel Photo Mondays #16
Weekly Photo Challenge: Infinite
This corridor seemed infinite.
These steps are going to the…
more at: Weekly Photo Challenge: Infinite
Sunday Stills, the next challenge: Trees/ Fall Colours?
It was a beautiful October weekend here in Finland, the autumn colors – so bright and beautiful.
Sunday Stills, the next challenge: Trees/ Fall Colours?
Värikollaasi 148 – yellows
See other takes on these colors at: Värikollaasi 148
On the border of waking up
Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Close Ups/Macros
Here are my close-ups , details from a ship
Sadunomainen / Fairy- tale
I had to think about this one. Two of the pictures not Macros but – something fairy-tale like is in them – or movie so I had to include them just for the topic
The main photo is as Macro as can be – it is a very close up of a lichen ( jäkälä) only thing I’ve done is enhanced the colors
More fairy-tale like pictures at:
Makrohaaste 116
Travel Photo Mondays #15 – Seattle
Linked to : Travel Photo Mondays #15
A WORD A WEEK CHALLENGE – Underneath
Wedding pictures were taken underneath these beautiful trees.
more at: A WORD A WEEK CHALLENGE – Underneath
Weekly Photo Challenge: Good Morning!
What a joy, wake up refreshed after a good night of sleep, have a cup of coffee and a bite to eat and read the news … good morning,
Värikollaasi 147
Cee’s Which Way Challenge: No. 10
Here are few street views from Gastown in Vancouver Canada taken last summer.
more roads at: Cee’s Which Way Challenge: No. 10
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Candid Shots
I love taking photos of people, here are few candid shoots from my travels.
School girls in Sri Lanka(top) Woman shopping in Thailand below
A Nun in Thailand
Soldiers in Paris …and an old man in Cyprus
Fisher in Sri Lanka and a couple enjoying sunset in the same place – below
An Artist in Finland
Corner – Kulma
as this is a macro challenge – I am slowly making my way to it – as I automatically thought of street corners, windows, everything in bigger scale…
more corners at:
Makrohaaste 115
Heceta Head Lighthouse – Oregon
The Heceta Head Lighthouse and Light Keeper’s house are circa 1894. Both are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The lighthouse is a working lighthouse. From a height of 205 feet above the ocean, its “first order” Fresnel lens, casts it’s beams some 21 miles out to sea. It is the brightest light on the Oregon coast. It is said to be the most photographed lighthouse in the United States.
The Heceta Head Keeper’s House is perched on a cliff with a magnificent view of the Pacific Ocean and the beach below. Paths from the Keeper’s House lead both to the beach and to the lighthouse.
more at:
Travel Photo Mondays #14 and tina´s wordless wednesday # 94
Sunday Stills, the next challenge: Birds and Travel theme: Birds Birds
these two on the top are taken in In a bird sanctuary. These below are taken in BC Canada.
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These were spotted in Kirkkonummi Finland
the last picture is from San Diego Zoo
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More birds at:
Sunday Stills, the next challenge: Birds and
Travel theme: Birds
Orchid
Värikollaasi 146
Weekly Photo Challenge: Saturated
MakroTex: Clean – Puhdas
MaktoTex : Makrohaaste 114
Pisara – Drop
More at Valokuvatorstai 296. haaste
Black & White Challenge: Animals = Monkeys
More to be found at : Cee’s Black & White Challenge: Animals
värikollaasi
I had trouble finding all these colors, the petrol green for one thing, and the purple shade here…
the flower picture has all of them but the red…what do you think?
Ritva Sillanmäki Photography 