Posted in the World Wide Wednesday: Around the world in photographs
Photography /Poetry /Humour /Travel
Mix and Match in Helsinki
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware” Martin Buber
By the Water Fountain
By the old water fountain
Because I did not want to
Climb the tallest mountain!
Posted in the World Wide Wednesday: Around the world in photographs
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Mix and Match in Helsinki
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware” Martin Buber
Market Square
“Fresh fish,
Get you fresh fish here,
Catch of today
On your plate won’t stay!”
“Sausages,
Fresh boiled sausages
Made from reindeer
Don’t worry dear
Rudolf not included!”
“I-iice cream,
Come and get some i-iice cream,
Cold and cooling
If you need the smoothing!”
Posted in the World Wide Wednesday: Around the world in photographs
Photography /Poetry /Humour /Travel
Mix and Match in Helsinki
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware” Martin Buber
Ye Old Shopping Mall
What ever your heart may desire…
Well, then you’ve come to the wrong place
But we do like to cater to the buyer
In this old historic space
They commonly call
The Market Hall
Posted in the World Wide Wednesday: Around the world in photographs
Photography /Poetry /Humour /Travel
Mix and Match in Helsinki
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware” Martin Buber
Harbour Area
A slow boat to Sweden
Or a catamaran to Tallinn
If you are looking for Eden
Well, maybe
But you better be all in!
Posted in WordPress Course: Developing Your Eye I
Photography /Poetry /Humour
Day Seven: “Big” — A Point of View
Today, let’s go big. Photograph something of massive size, inside or outside. Get creative with your shot: Capture all or just part of the subject. Place it in the foreground so it takes up the entire frame. Or shoot it from afar so it appears smaller — yet still prominent.
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us” Winston Churchill
Konebuilding
A tall glass house of blue
Possibly quite see through
Hardly qualified as a skyscraper
But with many a
Windows, doors and elevators
It’s easily a wannabe simulator
Posted in WordPress Course: Developing Your Eye II
Photography /Poetry /Humour /Informative
Day Six: “Landscape” — Crop Your Image
Today, let’s walk in the footsteps of masters like Ansel Adams and focus on landscape photography.
Landscapes generally focus on wide, vast depictions of nature and all of its elements, from formations to weather. In this genre of photography, you won’t find much of a human presence: nature itself is the subject. A focus on nature isn’t mandatory, however — you can also capture a sweeping panorama of a city.
My homestead (WP Developing Your Eye II)
“I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued” Galen Rowell
My homestead
My homestead
Where I get rested
Where I can clear my head
The place where I am fed
And each night
Go to bed
Posted in WordPress Course: Developing Your Eye II
Photography /Poetry /Humour /Informative
Day Six: “Landscape” — Crop Your Image
Today, let’s walk in the footsteps of masters like Ansel Adams and focus on landscape photography.
Landscapes generally focus on wide, vast depictions of nature and all of its elements, from formations to weather. In this genre of photography, you won’t find much of a human presence: nature itself is the subject. A focus on nature isn’t mandatory, however — you can also capture a sweeping panorama of a city.
My homestead (WP Developing Your Eye II)
“I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued” Galen Rowell
Mäkkylä, Espoo, Finland
Mäkkylä is a small area of the Leppävaara district of Espoo, near Helsinki. The area had 3936 inhabitants at the turn of 2013-2014. The housing has grown steadily since the 1960s, and most of the buildings in the area are residential buildings. Mäkkylä has a railway station, small industries, two schools , a couple of day care centers and a ball field. It is also the home for the Central College of Arla for the seeing impaired.
Posted in Seat Sunday
Photography /Poetry /Humour
“A chair fit for a Queen and other Ladies too” Gun Roswell
Under the Tree for Seat Sunday
“Ah, a cool summer’s breeze
I am possibly ready to sneeze
Better sit down on the bench!”
Said the little old wench
As she tightly held her thighs in a clench
Because that damned sneezing
Made her always queasy
And possibly a little uneasy
As to what might start to trickle
She started to giggle
“Oh, hurry up you old fool
And quickly sit down on that damned stool!”
Posted in WordPress Course: Developing Your Eye II
Photography /Poetry /Humour
Day Three: “Scale” — Experiment with Size
* A bakery in New Orleans, Louisiana, serves its famous king cake with a little plastic baby hidden inside. Here is one such figurine, posing on an iron fence in the Garden District during Mardi Gra
* Today’s Tip: Don’t just point and shoot. Observe your scene before pressing the shutter and consider how all the elements in the frame interact with one another. Make an object appear larger through a ground-level POV. Place two things side by side in an unexpected way.
Scale
“I went into a clothing store, and the lady asked me what size I was. I said, ‘Actual’. I’m not to scale” Demetri Martin
Bonded
Together we may be bound
But a more stronger
A bond cannot be found
Posted in WordPress Course: WP Writing: Intro to Poetry
Poetry /Humour /Dialogue /Photography
Poetry, Day Two: Face
* For today’s poem, take a single face you know as your point of departure. It doesn’t even have to be a real-life, flesh-and-blood face you’re writing about. Faces are everywhere in the texture of our daily lives: from portraits in the museum to the banknotes in our wallets, and from billboards and street art to online profile pictures.
* If you’d like to push yourself a bit further today, give alliteration a try — it’s a handy poetic device that involves repeating the same consonant sound multiple times.
Faces
“That’s my face, so what?” Gun Roswell
Um, are we lost?
“Are we there yet?”
“I think we just lost the bet!”
“If it rains again,
We’ll get wet!”
“No sweat,
All we need to do
Is reset…
There done!”
And they were all gone!
Rantings Of A Third Kind 