Sami Serola (inactive)'s photos

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge : Button-unbutton

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge : " A real house "

Contribution for The Sunday Challenge #481: The most dangerous thing you have in your house According to a large Finnish insurance company, 60% of fires caused by electronic devices starts from the defective batteries, cables and chargers. Moreover, in Finland people mainly use only electronic stoves. So, the statistics includes also all fires caused when forgetting to look after the stoves. Editing done by using curves tool on the Snapseed Android app .

Architects: Lars Sonck and Birger Federley House Tirkkonen is a gem of Jugend architecture. It seems to be under restoration at the moment. So, part of the building is covered with scaffolds and tarpaulins. Inside of the building there is the first pneumatic tube transport system taken into use at Tampere. It is of course no longer used, but kept intact because it has great historical value.

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge : " Fruit and Veg " ▶️ Attack of the Killer Tomatoes - Trailer at YouTube

Many times the 'Organize' tool does the job quick and easily. For example: 1) Choose one album via 'Albums' tab, and click the album title. 2) Then use the drop down menu 'Edit these items' on top right. 3) Choose for example 'Keywords', and you can then define a new keyword to all images in that album at once. Also try to use the 'Advanced search' feature above the bottom film strip. You can for example search and choose all images taken on the same month of a year, and change some setting for all of them. More tips updated onto this photo article maybe later. If so, then this photo made to pop up as a new post.

Contribution for The Sunday Challenge #480: Something shiny Shiny cap casting reflections on the kitchen counter.

Contribution for the Project 21 . 2nd Quarter: Architecture Custom house by architect Georg Schreck.

Contribution for The 50 Images-Project : pareidolia Bullet holes from the 1918 civil war.

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge : " Fruit and Veg "

Contribution for The 50 Images-Project : pareidolia

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge s: ➽ " Iacta alea est " ➽ " family portrait " If you see anything else but beer , then you may suffer symptoms of over generalisation =,D

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge s: ➽ " Fruit and Veg " ➽ " Shimmer and Sparkle " Idea "stolen" from my wife Sari, who noticed that the bottom end of a mini tomato sometimes looks like a kissing mouth. I used phone camera, switched on the LED torch, and shot through a loop on a ball chain. The technique is so called "foreground bokeh", where the out of focus bokeh is between the camera and the main subject in focus.

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge : " Fruit and Veg "

Contribution for the Project 21 . 2nd Quarter: Architecture Functionalism typical for 1930s had it's "renaissance" in Finland around 1950s. And it sort of still continues. Although, I claim the corner offices with a round wall are not easy to furnish, and comes with corners difficult to clean and keep tidy. ➽ Functionalism is a Finnish thing

Contribution for the Macro Dreams challenge : " Iacta alea est " Rework based on feedback received from Luc and Ghislaine . Snapseed version I got on my new Android, seem to have a feature to repeat the previous editing. There has always been also an option to save some edits, which I should now start to use more often. Although, it is usually better to keep on doing something new, than to stuck on something old. The strange "boxing" is caused by heavy HDR effect and JPEG interpolation.

Contribution for The Sunday Challenge #479: Anything at all to do with Easter I wanted to challenge myself. So, I went out to shoot Viktor Jansson 's sculpture Kajastus (Dawn) . By publishing the shot online, I thought I would infringe the Finnish copyright law. But I now learned some more about "freedom of panorama" concerning art in public places in Finland: "A work of art may be reproduced in pictorial form [..] if the work is permanently placed at, or in the immediate vicinity of, a public place. If the work of art is the leading motive of the picture, the picture may not be used for the purpose of gain . (FINLEX 2005.)" So, I assume the amateur photographer's derivative work shared here is not used for the purpose of gain (other than possible faves and praises). And what does this photo has to do with Easter? Well, that is because: "This Ostarā, like the Anglo-Saxon Eįstre, must in the heathen religion have denoted a higher being, whose worship was so firmly rooted, that the Christian teachers tolerated the name, and applied it to one of their own grandest anniversaries. [..] Ostara, Eástre seems therefore to have been the divinity of the radiant dawn, of upspringing light, a spectacle that brings joy and blessing, whose meaning could be easily adapted by the resurrection-day of the Christian's God. (Grimm 1882:290-291.) Sources: ➽ Copyrighted monuments in Finland. Why Finnish works of art are not widely represented in Wikipedia by Vitaly Repin ➽ Copyright Act, Section 25a (821/2005) - FINLEX [PDF] ➽ Ēostre at Wikipedia ➽ Grimm, Jacob (James Steven Stallybrass Trans.) (1882). Teutonic Mythology: Translated from the Fourth Edition with Notes and Appendix Vol. I. London: George Bell and Sons. Available at Google Books .