Year of the Pig

Steiner (Waldorf) kindergarten, Tampere, Finland. I wish Happy Fence Friday and a nice weekend.

Contribution for The Sunday Challenge, Scavenger Hunt Challenge. Sort of #24 "A clock tower" as well, but will post another for that later... Three locally famous landmarks: - Tampere railway station clock tower - Näsinneula observation tower - Finlayson old chimney

Contribution for The 50 Images-Project: Still Life 12/50

Happy Fence Friday and weekend!

☙ At ipernity it is Valentine's Day every day! ❧

Did you know you can get some little more personal frames on PicMonkey, if you flip and rotate the image with "Basic > Rotate" tool? Moreover, you can use black "Frames > Film Frames" effect to get white frames instead, if you first do the invert with "Effects > Curves". Don't forget to invert back after done with the frames. And do also consider repeating some frames combined with the flip and rotate trick. Here I used "Film Frames" #6 repeated twice, after flipping and rotating image in between. Combining different frames can work as well. Well, frames are of course nothing but a trick to make the package look better. But if it works, then why not =D

I visited new Helsinki Central Library last weekend, and I must say it is pretty impressive.

♫ Formant by Data Rebel , available at SoundCloud

Contribution for The 50 Images-Project: Still Life 10/50 Contribution for The Sunday Challenge: individual song or piece of music "I was commissioned to write the score for a short film by Dove about a social experiment that explores how women view their own beauty in contrast to what others see." ~Keith Kenniff ♫ Keith Kenniff - Portraits Pt.2 at Soundcloud ▻ Dove Real Beauty Sketches | You’re more beautiful than you think at YouTube ⇰ Keith Kenniff at Wikipedia

... showing that Google Earth is not needed to show map and add geolocation on Picasa.

Contribution for The Sunday Challenge: Anything else to see? All blurred ♩ ♪ ♫ Friday Morning by rusty jaw. I was planning to do some fancy out-of-focus image experimenting, but then my eyes caught the scene on the steamy bathroom mirror. I quickly fetched my camera phone to took this, and edited it with Nick Collection > Analog Efex > Classic Camera 4. When trying to figure out a good title and soundtrack for the image, I remembered Thursday Afternoon musical composition and "video painting" by Brian Eno . Somewhat funny coincidence then was to discover that the photographer Christine Alicino acting on the video has also very interesting "all blurred" Fine Art collection on her website. For further inspiration make sure you check out also Jonathan Jolly's YouTube video painting featuring Brian Eno's musical composition. P.S. And Brian Eno chose the title for his video painting because it was Thursday afternoon when shooting of the video was done ;-)

Contribution for The 50 Images-Project: Still Life 8/50 If you are very rich, you don't need any. If you are very poor, you don't have many. Ever noticed what you check through somewhat every time you go out, and miss if you have forgotten any of them at home: wallet, keys and the mobile phone. But if you were very rich, you would have servants to take care all of them for you. And if you were very poor, you would have no home or car to carry keys for, no money to buy much of anything, and no phone to contact anyone. Camera details Camera: Canon PowerShot G5 X Exposure: 1/4 sec. Aperture: f/8.0 ISO: 1600 Focal Length: 15.8 mm (35 mm equivalent: 43.3 mm) Editing: GIMP

Contribution for The Sunday Challenge: Speed "Time like the wind Those are hurrying by and the hours just fly Where to begin There are mountains I'd climb, if I'd time" ~John Rowles Only Time by Lemon Jelly (Fred Deakin and Nick Franglen) ♩ ♪ ♫