Manolo Valdes does Velasquez

People at Work 1 - The Bicycle Cab Driver

This is not a pipe

The tree is with child

The difference a night can make

Last night's sunset from my balcony.


The view this morning from the same balcony (spot the same treetops) - spring came and went. Never mind. It'll come again. The beauty of positive thinking allows me to interpret this as multiple springs each year.

Pictures from a walk last weekend

Time to attend to this poor site again: The Friendship Between Our Nations statue

The snowmen will get you

When you're at the bus stop, we'll be looking over your shoulder...



...and when you stagger home at two in the morning, we're keeping an eye on you.

Tree with breasts

"Sooner or later, I will surround you..."

Room with no view

On day two in my new flat, I woke up to find my 10th floor view completely gone, swallowed up by fog. Or perhaps I am at cloud level.

Cave art in a metro tunnel

Darkness

The time of year is just too dark for my Pentax - if I photograph by "daylight" (believe me, it needs the quotation marks), my pictures all come out a funny hue of blue, and the night-time function requires a steadier hand than I have...

Little balls were falling from the sky

It was called first snow. There'll perhaps be better pictures of it, once I venture out...

We are trees

Russian tanks in Helsinki

Well, only the one, actually, and that one only driven here by the Hungarian Cultural Centre to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the uprising against the Communist regime.

Too dark! Too grey! Too drab!

Right now, it seems, taking a photo a day in Helsinki is quite a lot to ask. Some may manage it, but I never seem to see anything for the rain and general greyness. However, if you remember my recent Bigfoot shot - clicking on the picture itself will take you to my flickr site. Once there, if you click on comments, you will find someone else's fantastic shot of the very same Bigfoot tribe member - at night!

Indoor tsunami

"The Big Time", by Jiri Geller, at the Korjaamo Gallery in Töölö.

A memorial service for Anna Politkovskaya

A panahida, or Russian Orthodox memorial service, was held for Anna Politkovskaya at the Ouspensky Cathedral in Helsinki today. The light conditions made it nearly impossible for me to get a decent photo of it, but I want to publish this picture of people filing out from the church regardless. I am neither Russian Orthodox nor religious, but I wanted to attend to pay my final respect. The picture below is a little better lightingwise, but somehow in my view lacks both in human interest and composition. Ah well, I am not a photographer after all.

The artist Liina Lång had parked her tin cow nonchalantly outside the gallery

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...