Showing posts with label Kollaaseja. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kollaaseja. Show all posts

12 May 2009

Kaikenlaista ... All sorts

Kevääseen kuuluu pienet kasvinalut, jotka työntyvät mullasta ylös.
The spring brings new small plants pushing up from the soil.



Kevääseen kuuluu sininen taivas ja pitkät valoisat illat.
The spring brings blue skies and long light evenings.



Kevääseen kuuluu ensimmäiset puiden siemenriipukkeet.
The spring brings the first seed strands on the trees.



Kevääseen kuuluu perhoset.
The spring brings the butterflies.



Kevääseen kuuluu myös vesisateet.
The spring also brings showers.



Kevääseen kuuluu puiden kukinnot.
The spring brings flowering trees.


Vaahtera / Maple


Kirsikka / Cherry

Kevääseen kuuluu myös ensimmäiset ukkoset.
The spring brings also the first thunder storms.



Ukkonen saattaa myös tuoda mukanaan rajun raekuuron.
Thunder can bring with it also a hefty hail storm.



Kevätkukat saavat kestää kaikenlaista.
Springflowers have to put up with all sorts.



Kevät tuo mukanaan paljon uutta ja ihmeellistä uteliaan koiran elämään.
Spring brings a lot of new and wonderus things to a curious dog's life.



Erilaiset äänetkin kiinnittävät valppaan koiran huomion.
Different sounds attract the attention of an alert dog.



Kevät tuo mukanaan kalamiesten jättämät, ah niin herkulliset, kalanperkuutkin.
Spring brings with it the, oh so delicious, fish heads and guts left by the fishing people.


7 May 2009

Sky Watch Friday N:o 43 - Clouds



Sky Watch Friday is a very popular meme that is hosted by Klaus, Ivar, Sandy, Louise, Wren and Fishing Guy. To view some wonderful skies or participate in the meme just click on the above banner.


I seem to be guesthost this week. It's nice to be up in the limelight. LOL. No seriously it was such a incredible sunset. I've never ever seen a sky like it. Yellow yes. Red yes. Pink yes. But never orange. It was quite a magical moment that did not last very long. Hence I thought that finally I have one that I dare to put for guesthost picture. I mean the previous ones have all been so extra special, that any kind of sky just would not do.

But now I'll show quite different skies in this blog of mine. Here I will give in to one of my follies, which is clouds. They just fascinate me, as you will see.









Happy sky watching everyone!

30 Apr 2009

Today's Flowers No 38 - Some new ones



This Sunday meme is hosted by Luis Santilli Jr, Denise Gullickson, Laerte Pupo, Denise B. Castro
To participate and/or view wonderful blooms click on the above icon.


I find wild growing mosses and other things in the forest as beautiful as those glorious products of man's creativity. The Heather in fact is carrying last year's flowers as they do flower in the autumn with pink flowers but still, the dead ones are pretty too.


I just love to follow the developments on those spring trees and shrubs this time of year even if everything in this collage is not just flowers.


These are all new arrivals for the week in nature except for the woodeanenemies. I had to incorporate them as I've seldom seen ones that pure blue and that thickly growing.


The gardener's joys. New ones are the Daffodil buds (I saw some that were partly open but liked this picture more), the Striped Squill (also called Puschkinia) and the Hyacinth

I shall not be home until Tuesday but will try to respond to you then at the latest. In the meanwhile thankyou for your interest.



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25 Apr 2009

Bird stories

This is a sort of way of getting use of all those bird shots I've got into lately. Somehow they lend themselves quite easily to cartoons with a bit of imagination. Or what do you think?

The Coote story

Party Pooper:


The Swan stories

Vanity Fair:


Vanishing court:


The Grebe stories

The Groom:


Bermuda Triangle:


The Adultery:




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21 Apr 2009

Kollaaseja ... Collages

Sammaleet ja jäkälät ... Mosses and lichens











Linnut ... Birds









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18 Apr 2009

Toistuva teema ... Reocurring theme

Inkivääri heitti haasteella. Pitää fundeerata mikä on sellainen toistuva teema mikä tulee aina uudestaan omiin kuviin. Ts. mikä on se asia mikä kiehtoo eniten. No olisin tietty voinut laittaa tänne vastaukseksi kuvia koiristani mutta se ei yksin riitä. Mitä sitten? Kuvailenhan kaikkea yhtä suurella innolla. Niin makrokuvia pienen pienistä yksityiskohdista kuin maisemakuvia suurista aloista ja kaikkea siltä väliltä. Vaan on oikeastaan kaksi asiaa jotka palaavat kuviini aina vaan uudestaan. Molemmat yhtä vaihtelevia. Toinen on taivas ja toinen meri. Lisäksi taivas ja meri kuuluvat minusta yhteen. Tai siis meri taivaan kanssa. Ei kylläkään päinvastoin. Toki merta kuvaan välillä ilmankin taivasta taustanaan ja toimiihan sekin mutta dramaattisimmat kuvat saa kun on taivas/meri yhdistelmä. Tämä päivä oli sellainen, että ei tarvitse ns. merta edemmäs mennä saadakseen vaikka kuinka monta esimerkkiä juuri tästä väittämästä. Yhden tunnin aikana Kopparnäsissa ollessamme koirien kanssa tapahtui niin dramaattisia käänteitä molempien elementtien väreissä, tunnelmassa ja valossa useita kertoja että näin ei usein tapahdu viikonkaan sisään. Alussa on kuitenkin kolme muuta kuvaa, joista näkee miten kevät on edennyt merellä vähän yli viikon sisään.

Inkivääri gave me a challenge. I have to think about such a reacurring theme that returns into my photos time and again. In other words what is that one thing that I find most fascinating. Of course I could have put here pictures of my dogs but that would not be enough on its own. So what then? I do photograph about everything with just as much enthusiasm all from macros of tiny details to large landscapes and everything in between. But there are two things that do return to my photos time after time. One is the sky and the other is the sea. I also think that the sky and the sea belong together. That is the sea belongs with the sky. Not necessarily the other way around. Of course I do also photograph the sea without the sky as a backdrop and that works too but the most dramatic effect is to be had when sea and sky are paired together. Today, when I went to my favourite spot in Kopparnas with the dogs, was such a day that I need not research any further for perfect examples for this argument. Within one hour there were so many major changes in both elements regarding light, colour, mood and texture that such changes don't often occur even within one week. But first there is three other shots just to show how the spring has advanced at the seaside within a bit more than a week.


Sulaminen on alkanut
Meltdown has started


Pääsiäisenä iso osa oli jo ihan sulaa mutta lumenrippeet on kallionraossa jäljellä
During Easter a big part was already icefree but there is the last of the snow still trapped in a rock crevice


Pääsiäisen jälkeen tuli aurinko ja sulatti loputkin
After easter the sun came out and melted the rest too


Tässä sitten on osa tämän päivän dramaattisista käänteistä meren yllä
This here is then a few shots of the dramatic turns over the sea today


Nyt minä haastan leikkiin mukaan / Now I want to send this challenge to:

HPY, Valkyrien, Pacey, Arija and EG WOW


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14 Mar 2009

Taitaa se kevät tulla sittenkin ... I think the spring might be arriving

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Kävelytiellä lumi on tänään sulannut vauhdilla ... On the walkway the snow has today melted with speed

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Näin se rantajääkin sulaa ... This is how the shoreline ice is melting

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Jossakin rantakivet ovat jo esillä ... Somewhere the beach cobbles have been exposed

14 Feb 2009

Luonnon jäätaidetta ... Nature's ice sculpting

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Ahtojäätä ... Pack ice

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Jääputous ... Ice fall

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Jääpuikkoja kalliossa ... Ice needles on the rocks

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Lisää jääpuikkoja ... More ice needles

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Jään ja valon leikki ... Light reflections on the ice

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Värien ja valon leikki jäässä ... A creation of colours and light

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Jääpintojen harmoniaa ... The harmony of ice textures

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Kahden sortin jäätymiä ... Two types of ice