Favourite Photos: Part Six

Posted in Favourite Photos (Weekly Serial)
Photography, Travel

Part Six

Sunrise over the harbour of Keilasatama in Espoo, Finland

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Favourite Photos: Part Three

Posted in Favourite Photos (Weekly Serial)
Photography, Travel

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Part Three

Espoo Haukilahti Pavilion and marina in summer before the sunset.

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Buildings At Dusk (Daily Photo)

Posted in the Daily Photo series
Poetry & Photography

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“98% of what gets built today is shit” – Frank Gehry

Buildings At Dusk (Daily Photo)

Tall buildings
Simple,
Without gilding
Built from glass
Possibly to last
Piercing the nightly sky
Lit up pretty
And aiming high

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Blue (Daily Photo)

Posted in the Daily Photo series
Poetry & Photography

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“blue, darkly, deeply, beautifully blue” Robert Southey

Blue (Daily Photo)

Blue, bluer, bluest
The moment before darkness
The frozen sea silent
A single light on the island
Soon the night will fall
And into deep slumber
We are all called

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Feathered Friends

Posted in the series, World Wide Wednesday around the world in photographs
Photography, Poetry, Travel

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“No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson

Feathered Friends

Our feathered friends
The windy air bend
Flying to the world’s end
For their leisure time to spend

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Elevator Views (Mundane Monday 2016-02-08)

Posted in Poetry and Photography
Photo challenge for PhoTrabloggers Mundane Monday

“This is a challenge created to find beauty in almost everything. The challenge is simple : find beauty in everyday mundane things, capture the beauty and upload the photographs.”

MUNDANE MONDAY CHALLENGE #45

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“Mondays are mundane, like Tuesdays minus 24 hours.
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Elevator Views

Higher and higher
Up the high riser
Like a race car driver
In this scenic elevator

Speed is getting faster
Closer up the rafter
Feeling the adventure
And the ultimate pleasure

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Welcome to Hell-sinki!

Posted in Around the World in Photographs
Travel, PhotographyPoetry 

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“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”Anita Desai

Welcome to Hell-sinki!

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Welcome to up North
Where the polar bears roam…

No wait! Wrong intro! Let’s try again…

Welcome, to the city that never sleeps
Well, actually, we like to go to bed really early….

Ok, one more time:

Welcome to Helsinki!
A quaint little town up North
I am sure you will enjoy!

That’s it?
Yes, what’s wrong?
Nothing, sounds a little dull…
Well, let’s let the travellers decide!

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When in Verbania

Posted in Around the World in Photographs
Travel, PhotographyPoetry 

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The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Lao Tzu

When in Verbania

When in Rome
Do as the Romans do
When in Verbania
Hoist the sails
Follow the trails
And shout out “Virata!”

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Sunny side of Rhodes, Bonus

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Travel, PhotographyPoetry 

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“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” Augustine of Hippo

Sunny side of Rhodes, Bonus

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