traffic – Ritva Sillanmäki Photography

Monochrome Streets of Paris: A Foggy Perspective

A foggy street with a guy crossing the road. This scene shows off Place de la Concorde in Paris, packed with traffic and an obelisk popping up in the distance, plus you can catch a glimpse of a tree-lined avenue all wrapped up in thick fog. Right in the middle, you’ve got the famous Luxor Obelisk. It’s pretty cool how this picture shows the struggles cities deal with regarding air quality and traffic.

A foggy street scene featuring heavy traffic, with an obelisk in the distance and blurred outlines of buildings along a tree-lined avenue. — A foggy street scene with heavy traffic and an obelisk in the distance along a tree-lined avenue.

It’s a free week, meaning no set theme! If you’ve got some monochrome photos to share, just drop a link to Leanne’s blog right here: Monochrome Madness

Monochrome madness – roads

Black and White photos, Cities

Dawn is hosting and the theme is roads. I have taken several road shot, and i am sharing five with you. I am so proud of myself for been able to keep it in the limits I set for myself, I have a bad habit of sharing too many photos in each post.

I do like the quieter roads better, cities traffic is a given.

Road in Kirkkonummi taken on a rainy and foggy winter day

Misty morning on the road in Queensland

Traffic in San Francisco

Back street in Miami

Traffic in Brisbane

Street Photography – Chinatown

Cities, Traveling Australia

Photos taken in Melbourne in Australia few years back.

Melbourne’s Chinatown has flourished for over 100 years. Established in the 1850s during the Victorian gold rush, it is notable for being the longest continuous ethnic Chinese settlement in the Western World and the oldest Chinatown in the Southern Hemisphere.

Posted for Cee’s Which Way Challenge

Street photography captures candid moments of daily life in public spaces. From bustling city streets to quiet suburban neighborhoods, we try to document the raw and unscripted moments that unfold around us. With an emphasis on capturing the essence of a scene or the emotions of the people within it, street photography offers a glimpse into the beauty and diversity of the world we inhabit. Whether it’s a fleeting expression, a captivating composition, or an unexpected juxtaposition, street photography celebrates the beauty and intrigue found in everyday moments.

CB&W ~ Roads

Black and White photos

This week topic is roads. Here are some roads I have traveled. Road, street, highway in the city and countryside under clouds, mist and trees just to give the photo some effect.

On the road

Landscapes, Travel, Traveling US

My dairy of our trip continues, as we left Las Vegas. We started our road trip first destination was Three Rivers in California. Here are some shot taken from the drive, you quest it, there might be a # 2 and even #3 for this topic too.

We sure were happy that on this Friday we were heading out of Las Vegas as the traffic towards was rather congested. Nice long lines of cars. This was to be our longest drive at one time the following stops we had planned to be shorter. So we listened to music, looked at the changing scenery and I took photos from the moving car 🙂

Hong Kong- first evening

Cities, Photography, Travel

It was in December that I visited Hong Kong and only now I went throught the photos, so they are new in that sense. I have been in a slump as I’ve stated before, now I am on the way up. My aim was to post the photos in a time line, but no, I will post them as I feel like. I will go back to my minimalist approach, few words and hopefully the picture will deliver what I want to convey; The world as I see it.

These are first impressions of the city after our arrival in the evening.

Evening dusk in Hong Kong

Cities, Photography, Travel

How to survive November 2017- 26

Cities, Photography

Nearly done with this month! YES! Drove to work and it was dark. Came home it was dark. I did go to a training for work and on the way there visited an art gallery. Not too bad for a slush filled day.

How to survive November 2017- 23

Cities, Photography, Still life

Sunday morning and day was no surprise to me it was grey and rainy again. In the afternoon there was a hint of light just before it set. We drove to Helsinki and on our way back 16:30 it was dark again. The joys of light.

xmas lights (5 of 9)

How to Survive November 2017 -8

Cities, Photography

Matinkylä (4)

Yesterdays sunshine turned to rain, me and a huge amount of others went to the mall to escape the rain…these are taken on the way home. Quite notable is that this is also taken little after 3 PM… what a difference a day makes.