Sony A7RII : f/5.6@1600th : ISO 400 : EV +0.7 : FE 55mm f/1.8 A countdown of 100 images for the 100 days leading up to the 100th Year of Finland’s independence The sun is shining and autumn is showing off here in Helsinki, so here’s a layered RGB experience, with red in the foreground, green in the middle and blue spreading itself across the background. Even reminds me of a histogram. More importantly, it’s Friday, I’m off to see The Cure tonight, […]

Sony A7RII : f/8@100th : ISO 1600 : EV -0.3 : FE 35mm f/2.8 A countdown of 100 images for the 100 days leading up to the 100th Year of Finland’s independence I thought I’d continue with yesterday’s theme on the amount of new buildings going up around Helsinki, this time with added neon truck. When the skies, roads and snow are various shades of grey and daylight is a relative term, a little bit of colour goes a long way.

Sony A7RII : f/8@800th : ISO 320 : EV +0.3 : FE 35mm f/2.8 A countdown of 100 images for the 100 days leading up to the 100th Year of Finland’s independence There can’t be many capital cities in Europe that have so many large construction projects going on all at once. I suppose that’s what happens when you relocate the docks at Kalasatama and Jätkäsaari a little further out and release all that prime real estate. Then you add in […]

Sony A7RII : f/8@400th : ISO 320 : EV +0.7 : FE 35mm f/2.8 A countdown of 100 images for the 100 days leading up to the 100th Year of Finland’s independence A beautiful autumn morning to show off ‘Musiikkitalo‘, or Helsinki Music Centre; it was completed in 2011 and took over from Finlandia Hall as the main concert venue. It is also a building I walk passed most mornings and evenings on my way to and from work. One […]

Sony A7RII : f/8@100th : ISO 2500 : EV +0.3 : FE 35mm f/2.8 A countdown of 100 images for the 100 days leading up to the 100th Year of Finland’s independence Functionalism, the essence of Finnish design. The bicycle and snow shovels in this image still do the job, what more do you want! Obviously, this is a rather simplistic point of view. You just have to look at the bicycles being produced in Helsinki by Pelago to get an idea of […]

Sony A7RII : f/8@1600th : ISO 320 : EV 0.0 : FE 35mm f/2.8 A countdown of 100 images for the 100 days leading up to the 100th Year of Finland’s independence Seeing as the previous post introduced the theme of Finnish national identity, it would be impossible to have that conversation without acknowledging how important a role the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius has had in helping to form that identity. With his work ‘Finlandia’, he evoked the national struggle of the Finnish people. Finns may not be […]

Sony A7RII : f/3.5@60th : ISO 2000 : EV -0.3 : FE 35mm f/2.8 A countdown of 100 images for the 100 days leading up to the 100th Year of Finland’s independence The Kantele is the traditional musical instrument of Finland, taught to young children in schools across the country, just like this collection here at my daughter’s school; and the kantele played by Väinämöinen in the national epic Kalevala is even endowed with magical properties. ‘Kantele’ and ‘Kalevala’, with an understanding of just […]

Sony A7RII : f/8@1000th : ISO 160 : EV -0.7 : FE 55mm f/1.8 A countdown of 100 images for the 100 days leading up to the 100th Year of Finland’s independence A regular sighting of a Silja Line ferry, one of the many ferries in the Port of Helsinki that go about their daily business connecting the major cities in the Baltic and beyond. I’ve only made it on the short ride to Tallinn and the overnighter to Stockholm so […]