Year of the Dog

Here once was a pub, where I met my wife. I lived at the other end of the building, I used to go to the pub once a week. Then I started to date with the bartender (barmaid). And finally I visited there several times a week, just to spend time with my sweetheart. We drank tea or coffee, played Scarbble or Yatzy, and I helped to close the pub late at night. And after one year we got married. Unfortunately the pub got closed one year later, because the owner died, and no-one was interested to buy the pub. My wife went to work for the communal home care service. The positive side is that she no longer had to work late hours. But every now and then we dream winning in the lottery, and establish a pub, just for a hobby. That pub was very cozy and unique, and so were most of the customers. One of them even made a drawing for us, where the idea is to show what the pub would look when we were much older and still hanging around there:

Old coins I have saved for some reason, and later on they have turned out as a useful prop: www.ipernity.com/tag/serola/keyword/1271607 The origami frog I have made out of a 10 FIM money note, back in 1990s, when Finland still had it's own currency (Finnish Markka): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_markka About Jin Chan: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jin_Chan Tech details Camera: OLYMPUS Tough TG-810, which actually has a pretty good "super macro" mode. We have had this camera for years, and I had totally forgotten about it. While browsing my own old photographs, I wondered with what I had taken one pretty nice close-up shot. Focal Length: 6.6 mm (35 mm equivalent: 37.0 mm) Exposure: 1/30 sec. Aperture: f/4.7, which gives better depth of field than f/2.0 on my Sony Xperia. ISO: 200 Editing: PicMonkey Making of Lighting arranged with LED daylight lamp and smaller LED camping light. The coins were put on strainer to get the coins rise behind the origami frog.

TSC: Something Prickly. Something different on the PiP/note.

Inspired by TSC: Something Prickly

Something I had in mind at first. I was going to shoot "the middle key"... Like I have already made those "high key" and "low key" shots. Anyway, the idea was to edit the image into "middle gray".

Soundtrack by Know Our Past: soundcloud.com/know-our-past/type-writer UPDATE: Thanks to Puchinpappy for identifying the music playing on the background of that soundtrack: The Typewriter by Leroy Anderson. Here's a more modern version of it by Miya Maki: soundcloud.com/miya-maki/controller-the-typewriter And here's some history of typewriters: history-computer.com/ModernComputer/Basis/keyboard.html

Seen through the glass roof of Tullintori shopping center. N-shaped curve made with GIMP's curves tool, and rest of the editing done on Nik Collection.

Castle in the air.

A globe pencil sharpener (diameter 4.2 cm), metal ball pendant (diameter 2.1 cm) and a small LED torch. Technical details Camera: Canon PowerShot G5 X Exposure: 1/20 Aperture: f/11 ISO: 10000 Focal Length: 8.8 mm (35 mm equivalent: 24.1 mm) Making of (inspired by Xata): More balls on PiPs.

Phone camera and macro lens.

Phone camera and macro lens.

Phone camera and macro lens.

Phone camera and macro lens.

... made by my daughter in law. It got dented in the kiln, but it only makes it unique and more decorative. Therefore also the choice of metallic color is perfect, making the vase look like it is dented metal.

Attempt to test how a slight Dutch tilt changes the image. And also of course must to shot because of the clouds. Also a test to edit the image entirely on Snapseed phone application.

The same fisheye lens used as on the "ass shot", and edited on Snapseed.