Year of the Pig

Contribution for The Sunday Challenge: Anything to do with the moon. Music by Moonracer: soundcloud.com/moonracer-1/chilloutmusicmoonracermix

... but the ice had not yet formed on my " magic bottle ". More magic from past years: There's a glass covered round bridge that connects the buildings at Tampere university campus. The round glass is perfect to catch wonderful pictures of raindrops, snow or ice on it. And because it is a round tube, I call it as my "magic bottle".

Contribution for The Sunday Challenge: Abstract on black. Contribution for The 50 Images-Project: Still Life 2/50.

Camera details Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ60 Exposure: 1/20 sec. Aperture: f/4.1 ISO: 400 Focal Length: 9.0 mm (35 mm equivalent: 52.0 mm) Editing: GIMP + NikCollection Soundtrack ▻ Tuonela - Voicicle (Naviarhaiku064 - Give me an icicle)

This year I will try to do some cleaning. It means even less groups at Ipernity, removing "bad pictures", giving up entirely on some web sites, and trying to focus on quality instead of quantity. Camera details Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ60 Exposure: 1/15 sec. Aperture: f/3.7 ISO: 400 Focal Length: 6.3 mm (35 mm equivalent: 41.0 mm) Editing: GIMP + PicMonkey Making of

Contribution for The Sunday Challenge, "something that is useless but can't part with it". Because FourThird DSLR system cameras and lenses have no resale value. Contribution for The 50 Images-Project, Still Life 1/50.

➽ How to embed video onto blog article Uploading this 12 MB video file took over 2 minutes on WiFi connection! And yet the video is only 5 seconds long. Uploading the same file to YouTube took only few seconds.

www.oodihelsinki.fi/en

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raseborg_Castle de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burg_Raseborg

www.rauma.fi/museo/en/kirsti-3

Contribution especially picked for Bilderdomino. Picture taken in 2019, on Lasipalatsi square, Helsinki .

Finally success! I manage to get geo location recorded on GIMP 2.10.10 for Windows after several attempts. UPDATE 2 May 2019 : Please also see more complete blog article How to add geo location before upload . This is what has to be taken care of: A) Make sure you have latest version GIMP 2.10.10. This test was done on Windows version. So, I still don't know if this works for example on GIMP 2.10.10 for Ubuntu Linux or other platforms. B) When editing 'Image > Metadata > Edit Metadata', you have the use keyboard. Copy/paste does not work because of some ASCII format bug. The Unicode text format very likely does not work if you copy paste the text from some web page. The coordinates then becomes truncated to degrees only. C) Coordinates has to be exactly in this degrees, minutes, seconds (DMS) format: 24deg 2' 12" 61deg 28' 9" So, decimals degrees (DD) presentation and ° symbols ain't work. If you write minutes and seconds starting with zero (e.g. 02' 09''), that doesn't matter though. Metadata editor then just drops the zero away after saving. D) When you export for example JPEG image, make sure there's "Save EXIF data" ticked. Here are some online services to find location and convert DD to DMS format: ☞ www.gps-coordinates.net/gps-coordinates-converter ☞ www.latlong.net/lat-long-dms.html ☞ www.fcc.gov/media/radio/dms-decimal