Eerikinkatu street gallery

I like the way the posters and their surrounding shop windows go together, and collide. Please click on the images for a full-size picture - the reflections on the glass are lost otherwise, and they are nice.

The shop here is called "Venuksen kylpy", "The Bath of Venus".


The photo poster is called "Alttari", The "Altar".

There must be a tribe of them...

I don't mean to only document Helsinki graffiti, but this Bigfoot tribe lurking around Annankatu appeal to me. Here is the first furry fellow I saw...

Lightening up: I caught the Bigfoot on camera!

Right, gentle readers, the world is a nasty place but I can't remain depressed continuously. So herewith the good news: I have taken photos of the mythical Bigfoot. Above, he is featured close up, below, in his natural environment, i.e. Annankatu in Helsinki. (I have my own street, you know...)

The one man band played on

An American one man band guy was playing downtown. He told us his listeners he would do an old Finnish schlager as his last piece, which he sang in perfectly passable although heavily accented Finnish. The heavens opened, but members of the public rushed out with their umbrellas, to save his amp...



...things got really hot when out of the rain-soaked crowd, a guy in a leotard emerged and did a dance with his perfectly ordinary-looking (male) friend.

A florist's shop, from both sides

Don't you just love him

I do.

Men on the pavement

Showtime, he yelled