Sony A7RII : f/14@50th : ISO 640 : EV +0.3 : FE 55mm f/1.8 A countdown of 100 images for the 100 days leading up to the 100th Year of Finland’s independence Nothing like a bit of creative overspill before an area gets built up and cleaned up. Preconstructivism, in a can! It may not be to everyone’s taste but it certainly brightens up a grey day. And the unwritten agreement between the street artists and the construction workers in Kalasatama […]

Sony A7RII : f/2.8@250th : 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 It wasn’t so much that the sapling had a jacket on that caught my attention, as that’s not particularly unusual for young trees to be protected in this harsh environment, it was more the RGB colours. I’m not sure when I started getting a kick out of stumbling across […]

Sony A7RII : f/6.3@100th : ISO 800 : 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 It was an ordinary grey, rainy day somewhere in eastern Helsinki. I’d dropped off my paperwork at the accountants, feeling pleased with myself for not being late, and was slowly making my way back into town. There was nothing special about the light, nothing special about the setting, […]

Sony A7RII : f/3.5@125th : ISO 500 : 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 If your bedrock is pretty much all made up of granite, then what are you going to do with it when you’re constantly having to blast it out of the way every time you need to build something; one can’t carry on dumping truckloads of it into the sea […]

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 With all the different branches and leaves, there are so many chaotic lines and tones going on here. At least the orange leaves cutting through the middle give some sense of order to the scene, hanging on for their last few days. All this on a walk I take into […]

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 Yesterday we had our first hint of sleet, so it won’t be long now before the first bit of winter arrives, the ‘not-so-wonderland’ stage – cold but not enough to freeze over. The brush at least keeps most of the sludge outside the front door. Here’s to hoping we […]

Sony A7RII : f/6.3@200th : ISO 1250 : EV +0.3 : FE 55mm f/1.8 A countdown of 100 images for the 100 days leading up to the 100th Year of Finland’s independence It was while I was walking around the new building work going on round the old dock area at Kalasatama that I noticed this pastel coloured building. It makes sense that if you want to encourage families to move into a new area, then you have to provide the […]

Sony A7RII : f/6.3@160th : ISO 100 : 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 Here’s another shot from Eläintarha Stadium, the first multi-purpose sports venue in Helsinki, built in 1910. As mentioned in yesterday’s post, it has been the site of several Finnish athletics success stories, including a handful of world records in the 1920’s and 1930’s, which is not that long after Finland gained its […]