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2013-04-07 17:02:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 17 +1s)

Spring and tourists

#RX100

2013-04-06 18:28:14 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 22 +1s)

#BenchSaturday  curated by +Rainer M. Ritz

#RX100 #SOOC

2013-03-20 08:46:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

2013-03-19 17:48:16 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

2013-03-19 11:45:36 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

#BridgesOverTuesday curated by +Clare Bambers

#RX100

2013-03-19 07:40:23 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 15 +1s)

A view of Porvoo Old Town, Finland

#MyTownTuesday curated by +Melanie Kintz

#RX100

2013-03-18 18:08:39 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

#MoodyMonday  curated by +Philip Daly, +Carole Buckwalter and +Annelies Kroen 

2013-03-18 13:57:44 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

#MonochromeMonday (+Monochrome Monday) Curated by +Hans Berendsen , +Jerry Johnson , +Steve Barge and guest-curators +Dominique Hilbert , +David Orr and +Martin Heller

#RX100 

2013-03-17 09:34:50 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 17 +1s)

#ZenSunday curated by +Charlotte Therese Björnström, +Nathan Wirth and +Simon Davis-Oakley

#RX100 

2013-03-16 13:54:11 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Näsi Stone (a glacial erratic boulder), Porvoo, Finland

#StoneSaturday curated by +Antoine Berger and +Jen Baptist
+Stone Saturday 

#RX100 

2013-03-15 13:16:27 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

2013-03-12 16:12:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Children climbing up the outer wall of Fortress Hill for a pulk (toboggan) ride down

#SOOC   #RX100

(Photo taken from the Maari Bay bridge)

2013-03-12 12:58:34 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

A downriver view from Fortress Hill: the bridges of Porvoo

#BridgesOverTuesday curated by +Clare Bambers 
#SOOC #RX100

NB. the perspective is somewhat flattened due to the 100 mm (eq) FL used. The distance to the faintly visible white building between the trees at the edge of the woods behind the bridges, just to the right of the two white lamp posts, is about 1,600 m.

There are five bridges visible in the photo:

The first, small one spans just the mouth of a very small bay at the foot of the hill. 
The second one was from medieval times until 1956 the only bridge across the river here. It lost most of its old structure when it was renovated. This bridge is now in very limited use.
The third, very distinct dark one is the "new", present main bridge.
The fourth one, the pedestrian bridge, is visible bow-formed just above thel... more »

2013-03-12 12:08:57 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 15 +1s)

A view upriver from the pedestrian bridge in Porvoo, Finland

#MyTownTuesday curated by +Melanie Kintz
+MyTownTuesday
#RX100  

The bridge in the middle is the recently renovated "new" bridge from 1956. Porvoo Old Town is situated on the right  behind the bridge, the rectangular, black, slightly snow-covered roof of the Cathedral dominating the view. The bridge hides the old bridge situated farther upstream in front of the sunlit area with Fortress Hill in the background. The white ship is permanently moored here and serves as a restaurant in summertime.

At the left edge of the photo, the white spot among the trees just above the house is the side of a very large glacial erratic rock with a viewing platform on top of it. There is an old story concerning the origin of this rock. According to the story, at the time when the Cathedral was beingb... more »

2013-03-11 17:59:27 (12 comments, 1 reshares, 29 +1s)

Today, in the garden park

2013-03-11 12:48:40 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Monday Morning SOOC

#MoodyMonday curated by +Philip Daly, +Carole Buckwalter and +Annelies Kroen

2013-03-11 08:41:08 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

A Close-up of Contarex Bullseye

This is a SOOC shot (in-camera JPEG just down-sampled, no cropping or sharpening) with a Sony RX100 without any extra optics, taken from a distance of 60 cm. The effective FOV corresponds to about that of an 800 mm lens on FF.

#MonochromeMonday (+Monochrome Monday) Curated by +Hans Berendsen , +Jerry Johnson , +Steve Barge and guest-curators +Dominique Hilbert , +David Orr and +Martin Heller

#SOOC  #RX100

2013-03-10 18:42:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

2013-03-10 09:23:37 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

#ZenSunday  curated by +Charlotte Therese Björnström, +Nathan Wirth and +Simon Davis-Oakley 

2013-03-09 17:28:16 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 19 +1s)

Wintry reeds

2013-03-09 15:57:30 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Still going strong at the edge of the outer wall of Fortress Hill

2013-03-09 12:44:52 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

Late February, 3 p.m. on Fortress Hill (Porvoo, Finland)

A view of the shallow moat between the two outer walls

#SnowySaturday curated by +John Fujimagari

2012-12-03 10:18:44 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Late November, 4 p.m. on Fortress Hill (Porvoo, Finland)

#MoodyMonday  curated by +Philip Daly and +Carole Buckwalter

2012-12-01 17:16:19 (7 comments, 2 reshares, 23 +1s)

One of the treasures of my youth, ISO TIETOSANAKIRJA (Big Encyclopedia), the largest Finnish encyclopedia from just before WWII, published in 1931-1939. For me it was just as bad then as Wikipedia is today, I spent countless hours browsing it, jumping from article to article. I still use it to see how the World was just a few years before my time.

#BookSaturday   #BookLovers  curated by +Gemma Costa, +Andrea Martinez, +Ester Negro and +Cora Triton
#SepiaSaturday  curated by +Renee Stewart Jackson

2012-11-28 19:09:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Dusk in Japanese Garden (Porvoo, Finland)
(lit mainly by street lights reflected from the overcast sky)

#BWLandscapeWednesday curated by +Francesco Gallarotti

#SOOC  #RX100

(ISO6400, f/3.2, 1/40s)

2012-11-27 13:38:31 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

#TodayTuesday  curated by +Brian White

6 A.M. today in my living room, very dark, only very little street light percolating through the closed Venetian blinds, nothing visible on the camera LCD, very few details with the naked eye - much less than in this photo

(ISO25600, f/1.8, 1/4 s, only B&W conversion to get rid of nasty red&green blotches on the darker end of the wall)

2012-11-26 18:42:01 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 27 +1s)

#MonochromeMonday  curated by +Hans Berendsen, +Jerry Johnson, +Manuel Votta, +Steve Barge and +Nurcan Azaz

#SOOC

2012-11-24 14:22:34 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

#SaturdayNightLight  curated by +Dirk Heindoerfer

#SOOC  #RX100 

2012-11-20 17:03:08 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 15 +1s)

#BridgesOverTuesday curated by +Clare Bambers and +Steve Boyko +BridgesOverTuesday

#RX100

2012-11-20 09:29:44 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 24 +1s)

#MyTownTuesday curated by +Melanie Kintz and +Jamie Furlong 

#SOOC #RX100

2012-11-19 16:23:09 (13 comments, 0 reshares, 23 +1s)

#MonochromeMonday  curated by +Hans Berendsen, +Jerry Johnson, +Manuel Votta, +Steve Barge and +Nurcan Azaz

#SOOC #RX100

(Sony RX100 Rich-tone B&W = 3-frame in-camera HDR, ISO3200 f/3.2, hand-held)

2012-10-09 17:41:07 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 28 +1s)

#RepetitiveTuesday curated by +Ping Doherty, +Andy Q. and +Frank Schillinger

#SoftFocus

2012-10-09 15:45:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 18 +1s)

#MyTownTuesday  curated by +Melanie Kintz and +Jamie Furlong

#androidography  

(Galaxy Note + a 1.5x tele conversion lens)

2012-10-08 18:33:54 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 14 +1s)

Welcome!

#MoodyMonday curated by +Philip Daly and +Carole Buckwalter
#MonochromeMonday curated by +Hans Berendsen, +Jerry Johnson, +Manuel Votta, +Steve Barge and +Nurcan Azaz 

2012-10-08 07:57:00 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 23 +1s)

#MyMobileMonday +Sinead Sam McKeown

+Android Photographers #droidography +Droidography  #androidography  

(Galaxy Note, Pixlr-o-matic, ~1.6x crop)

2012-09-24 17:31:52 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 18 +1s)

#moodymonday  curated by +Philip Daly and +Carole Buckwalter 

+Android Photographers  #droidography  +Droidography  #androidography  

2012-09-24 12:37:56 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 20 +1s)

#MyMobileMonday curated by +Sinead Sam McKeown
#droidography #androidography

#MonochromeMonday curated by +Hans Berendsen, +Jerry Johnson, +Manuel Votta, +Steve Barge and +Nurcan Azaz

(Samsung Galaxy Note with a 30 years old Elmo 1.5x teleconversion lens for Kodak Disc Cameras,  only B&W conversion) 

2012-08-07 17:30:47 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 22 +1s)

Lunch Scene

#soft-focus

2012-08-07 11:59:13 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 23 +1s)

#GrassTuesday  curated by +Ray Bilcliff, +Marilou Aballe and +Margaret Tompkins

#soft-focus

2012-08-07 07:20:25 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 22 +1s)

#TextureBlendPhotography curated by +Gemma Costa

#painterly

2012-08-06 16:17:39 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 17 +1s)

#DOFMonday curated by +Mara Acoma and +Mark Hall

#soft-focus

2012-08-06 11:50:32 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

#MonochromeMonday  curated by +Hans Berendsen, +Jerry Johnson, +Manuel Votta, +Steve Barge and +Nurcan Azaz 

#soft-focus

2012-08-06 06:56:09 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

#MoodyMonday  curated by +Philip Daly and +Carole Buckwalter 

2012-08-05 19:59:12 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 16 +1s)

#SOOCSunday curated by +Jen Baptist and +John Kosmopoulos

A SOOC #soft-focus photo, later transformed into https://plus.google.com/106533767817816079660/posts/Xpmy5vgrtt6

2012-08-05 07:47:32 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

#ZenSunday  curated by +Charlotte Therese Björnström, +Nathan Wirth and +Simon Kitcher 

2012-08-04 04:42:03 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 23 +1s)

#SepiaSaturday  curated by +Renee Stewart Jackson

#soft-focus

2012-08-03 15:51:54 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

#soft-focus

2012-08-03 04:50:42 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

#FloralFriday curated by +Tamara Pruessner

#soft-focus

2012-08-02 17:11:35 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

#soft-focus

2012-08-02 15:28:07 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

#ThirstyThursdayPics curated by +Giuseppe Basile and +Mark Esguerra

#soft-focus