-
Have I mentioned how I hate April? Yes I think I have. And I’ll probably do it again, next April. We have a little bit of snow left, and all of it is ugly. Then the ground that has been revealed from under the snow, that’s all ugly as well. Months don’t get more in-between…
-
Yesterday I mentioned that I was disappointed when I found that out of two locations, the better one was the one which was harder to get at. Is that really how lazy I am? That I’m disappointed because I have to walk an extra kilometre and climb a bit more? What’s really disappointing is that…
-
I have a bit of a tradition to do a day trip to the mountains in the springtime. When the snow is disappearing at home, there’s still plenty of it in the mountains for skiing – or snowshoeing, as the case may be. I had some concerns about the snow though, because it has been…
-
The other day a friend of mine asked if I could take a look at his dSLR because it was having some exposure issues. We went outside to the parking lot and I took some test pictures of the sky because it was an easy and neutral subject. Suddenly this guy comes along and is…
-
April is my least favourite month for photography so I had no expectations when I went for a walk, only took the G10 with me just in case. The 40D is in service now anyway and no way am I going to waste film on dirty snow. Sure enough, I wasn’t seeing anything interesting at…
-
Spring is inevitable, but it sure takes its time. The problem is not with the temperature – it’s hasn’t been that cold – but it’s all the snow. Just to give you an idea, the lowest snow cover this month was higher than the highest snowcover last winter. But I was encouraged last night when…
-
As I was waiting for the jays or squirrels to appear, I noticed that the forest was looking rather photogenic. So I concentrated on the background then, because nothing was happening in the foreground. That white strip at the bottom is the pile of snow in the jay image last week. The sun has now…
-
The snowing just won’t stop. All day today… it just kept falling. Last year I was photographing crocus buds on the 6th of April, I reckon I won’t be doing that this year. The temperature was at zero, it really limits my excursion options. The problem is that the snow sticks to the snowshoes so…
-
I’ve gone over to the dark side. I drove a snowmobile yesterday. Anyway, it was a whole lot easier than I thought. I guess the motorbike practice helped, so as soon as I got used to the way the snowmobile behaved, I had no problems at all. By the time we took a narrow trail…
-
Käännöskirjallisuutta lukiessa mikään ei ärsytä niin paljon kuin käännöksen paistaminen läpi. Huono käännös harmittaa jo maallikkoakin, mutta itse kääntäämistää opiskelleet ja/tai tehneet huomaavat jo pienetkin virheet. Kaunokirjallisuudessa vaatimukset kasvavat entisestään, kun kyse ei ole vain tekstin merkityksen kääntämisestä vaan pitää myös huomioida kirjailijan tyyli. Itse havaitsin jo varhaisessa vaiheessa että sovellun paljon paremmin asiatekstien kääntämiseen…