Kategori: The Quiet Picture
-
Should we download whole albums or just selected songs? Even if the music industry as a whole has finally accepted the fact that music downloads are here to stay, some artists still argue against it. Apparently, the possibility of downloading just selected tracks instead of the whole album is an insult to their artistic integrity…
-
I recently got the sad news the Savonlinna School of Translation Studies (Kansainvälisen viestinnän laitos, KVL) is going to be moved to Joensuu to be housed together with the rest of the University. I spent five years of my life at KVL studying translation and Savonlinna has always had a special place in my heart.…
-
There’s a good number of devilsbit scabious (Succisa pratensis; ängsvädd; purtojuuri) growing by the Loossjön lake. I think it’s an interesting flower, not least because it blooms at a time most other flowers have already given up for the season. Normally the flowers are blue/violet but some light pink and white variants exist, and I…
-
Would you believe that I got stopped by the police for the first time ever? And that with me sitting in a new car with a temporary vehicle tax sticker and no registration document in sight! Well, all was well, my alcohol level was zero (for a lifetime tee-totaller, I would’ve been nothing short of…
-
So, my new car arrived ahead of time and yes you’re right, I’m very very very happy! It was originally estimated to arrive in September so it was a nice surprise when I got a call from Toyota on Tuesday.I got the car armed to the teeth with extras and the coolest of them all…
-
Up here in Sweden we are normally well protected from extreme weather. We just have our normal four seasons, but no hurricanes, monsoon rain, tornadoes, etc. They had a big storm in the southern Sweden last year (just about the worst ever in this country), there’s been large scale flooding in different parts of Sweden…
-
So I’ve been thinking about trying my hand at butterfly photography. The few feeble attempts I’ve made so far haven’t amounted to much, so I decided that next year I will make a proper effort. But this morning I noticed that the bush in front of my house was getting constant attention from two sorts…
-
I’ve never been much for studio and still-life photography. Just couldn’t see the point. The charm with nature photography is to actually be out there in the nature. But lately I’ve started wondering if I should try to explore new aspects of photography so I decided to build a mock studio to see if I…
-
There’s a road in Loos called Kylätyevägen. The first and the last part make sense – kylä is Finnish and means village and vägen is Swedish and means road. But tye? Not a word I know, in either language. Then I said it out loud in my mind and it clicked. It’s Kylätievägen. Tie is Finnish…
-
I’ve changed the name of the blog from Photography (my way) to The Quiet Picture. The old name was really just a stopgap, I couldn’t come up with anything better at the time. But now upon reflecting on my photography in the past year in this blog (especially last August), I think The Quiet Picture…