Kategori: The Quiet Picture
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Spring is definitely in the air. It was a sunny and warm weekend, the snow cover was reduced by a few centimetres and the roads are thawing in the sunny places, birds are singing and I’m totally un-inspired by it all. Honestly, great weather to be out but I’ve no idea where to point my…
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You may (or may not) have noticed that the squirrels have been absent from the blog this winter. The reason is very simple – I haven’t seen any squirrels since early January. The seeds and nuts can go untouched for days so they’re not around here even when I’m not. And when the food did…
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I was only supposed to write three posts about film, but that was before I actually got the camera. It feels like I’m more excited about my 2nd hand film camera than I was with my brand new 40D! So I picked it up last night and the first impression when I was unpacking it…
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Great news from Olympus – now we can just hope that the other camera manufacturers are equally smart! 12 MP really is enough, what we need is to get more out of those pixels than more of them. Less noise and more dynamic range and I’ll be shopping for a new camera again!
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Maybe so far I’ve made it sound like going back to film is all good, so I’ll talk about the caveats now. There are some things where digital beats film (and I don’t mean cost and instant feedback etc that I’ve already talked about), and some of these I will miss. The possibility of changing…