Ice fisher

Everyone else was fleeting from the lake ice when the sun was setting and it was getting really cold but this one really cool ice fisher was different. It was his time to get on the ice.

I felt his presence and he looked he will just do it...
It was time for some serious fishing.

Blue

Time for some minimalism again. :)

Once you pop you can't stop.

Well once got into this I'm not able to stop and I just HAD TO try going even further.

First three in the Previous post (added this one to it too.)

Aging myself in Photoshop

I was just wondering… oh well… I had nothing to do and just thought of how would I look like after some time had passed. Took a photo and hit it to Photoshop and just spent an interesting full hour or so with a photo I just took.


SO… This is me NOW.

This is me... well... 10 years from now?

Then I just pushed it a little further but further it goes the harder it gets.


This is where I ended up. Is it me in 20 years?

Then I looked at this for a while and realized that the result does look a lot like my father.
Interesting. And scary at the same time.


!!! ADDITION !!!




Is it me in 30 years?

(If you are interested, just ask me about technique behind the photos.)

((ps. LOL trouble with the comment fields. Got email about not able to comment and I saw it was turned of on most of my recent blogs. Fixed now!))

No strings attached

I was walking around the harbour here and there and the most interesting thing I found  wasn't boats, piers or buildings but these strings between poles and the pier. Go figure. :D It got even more interesting when I noticed they were almost all in different color. Really! Interesting! Oh well... at least it was so for me. ;)

And hey, I got a photo out of those strings...

Arched

This little plant was still standing after so long and hard (and snowy) winter. Amazing how something that seems so fragile can be so tough.

Fishing

I continued to go through shots from last summer/autumn. Just now feels we have too much snow, too wet, too dark... you know. So this is one I found very nice for me. Two guys were fishing near the harbour and created a nice (even small) silhouettes against the sunset.

The other monk (street / candid photography)

I'm very interested in street and candid photography. I find it quite challenging and I will challenge myself this year to get at least 2 dozens of photos that are worthy of publishing. That means I have to put myself on the line to get those 24 shots no matter what. Doesn't sound that many but I feel that's enough to put me in trouble. Hah.

So this is one of such shots I feel are worthy. It's a bit older one but just to show you an example. :)

This young monk was with other older and more experienced monks on a Rhine cruise. You could see it from the look on his face that this was all new to him. I feel I managed to capture that quite well with this photo. I also like the man on the background as I feel it gives this photo an extra push and more depth.

Scenics of Hamina

Lot of nice sceneries in Hamina, but even so, at first glance this could be taken almost anywhere in Finland. Then again, when you take a closer look those ain't barns but boatsheds which are more common in sea areas rather than inland lakes.

I think sepia gave this nice old fashioned feeling.

Balloon

I drove after a hot air balloon for almost two hours to get it in the same shot as any old barn.

At the end I feel it was worth it. Not very ecological though. :/ Sorry.