The Beach!

I’m participating in LetsBeWild.com’s Wild Weekly Photo Challenge. This week’s Challenge is: The Beach!

This is the beach from Negombo,  Sri Lanka. The locals loved to spend their free time there with families.

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Colorful fishing boats

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These are taken in Sri Lanka early morning  in the port of Mirissa.

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The top three photos were taken in further away in the open sea  on our way to whale watching

These photos below are taken near the fish market in Negombo, Sri Lanka.

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Movement!

I’m participating in LetsBeWild.com’s Wild Weekly Photo Challenge. This week’s Challenge is: Movement!

I haven’t had time to  photograph lately, but I went thru my archives to find some movement… fish school – riptide – people at sea – kite surfer – waterfall.

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Reflection from the beach

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Paradise

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Sun

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Sunsets in Sri lanka.

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Turkoosi

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I had hard time today finding turquoise things – but afternoon shadows helped. Here are also some pictures of a beautiful turquoise sea…

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Reflections

I’m participating in the onlineadventure travel and photography magazineLetsBeWild.com’s Wild Weekly Photo Challenge for bloggers This week’s Challenge is: Reflections!

These are reflections from on a lake in Vierumäki .

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The end of a rapid in Kumianmylly, Nastola

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Port in Helsinki

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it is a piece of heaven – when we have blue skies, “warm” winter weather -2C, no wind…

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Lets Be Wild – Spring!

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

These are the colors of spring… yellow, green and white. Impatiently waiting for them.

This morning the temperature was -21C, so no spring for us yet.

The first signs are  dandelions popping up, the new light green of  the grass and the whiteness of cow parsley growing by the sidewalks

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Nature – Black and White

I’m participating in the onlineadventure travel and photography magazine LetsBeWild.com’s Wild Weekly Photo Challenge for bloggers

This week’s Challenge is: Black and White!

I find that when photographing nature in  black and white has to have good shadows and light all in balance, also I find that  graphic shapes come out looking best. Tree trunks, roads, flowers with graphic shape…here are some of my shots.

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Sunrise

I’m participating in the onlineadventure travel and photography magazine LetsBeWild.com’s Wild Weekly Photo Challenge for bloggers

This week’s Challenge is: Sunrise, so get up early this week and take some shots of the sky!

Pictures were taken in Koh Yai Noi in Thailand

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I look out the window and it looks so sunny, finally when I get to go out the clouds appear…

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Tones on Tuesday #64 2.5.13

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Winter Theme continues_Wild Weekly Photo Challenge for bloggers – NOW

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

I took these few days previous the challenge- but this week has been so dark and wet that no photos worth showing have come my way. Hope I’m in the challenge even if I took them

few day prior the challenge 🙂

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Ice swimming_Valokuvatorstai

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This is not something I would do but Ice swimming is supposedly good  for your health.

I took some pictures of the flowing water that keeps the ice hole open and the edges of the hole look lovely – artistic.

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PicStory # 79 – light /Tones on Tuesday #62 1.23.13

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

 

I have linked my photos to the following pages:

We had a lovely cold and sunny day and lots of us used the opportunity to spend it doing some outdoor activities, skiing and walking on the ice, kids  sledding down a slopes.People ice fishing and their pets having a great time enjoying the freedom of open space.

Light, sun has that effect 🙂

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Ice and snow

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New Beginnings!

 Live birds are purchased in the market and to be are released for cosmic merit. Thai people believe that emissions are released in live birds and fish. Releasing them you  are considered for forgiveness. Or so we were told by the locals.

While visiting a small island in Koh Yao Noi we saw these men in the market buying “forgiveness” a new beginning…

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Beautiful hazy foggy day

You can find beauty in a day full of hazy fog…if you look for it.

The sun was already going down and it was around 2 pm, in the first photos, and 4 pm in the last 4 photos.

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Skywatch Friday, Season 5, Episode 26

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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.

Weekend Reflections # 167

Weekend Reflections # 167

Rhythm

Uspenski Cathedral, Helsinki
Uspenski Cathedral, Helsinki