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Day 17 Outtake - safety shot when trying to find an angle towards the prison

Day 17 Outtake

Hermanni, Helsinki, Finland Hermanni and Helsinki prison, formerly Central prison or Sörka prison. Helsinki's only operating prison. The largest closed prison in Finland measured by the number of prison places. There are always an insane number of stories associated with prisons, but this story...

Puu-Vallila, Helsinki, Finland Puu-Vallila was built in Helsinki in the 1910s. The area has been threatened twice, in 1944, during the second world war's heavy bombing of Helsinki, more than 20 buildings were destroyed in the area and a fire threatened to destroy the entire area. The area was...

Well done all! So good so far! Maybe the most difficult days ahead of me, first busy at the work, I try to steal few minutes and get a snap. I'm prepared. And then in the end of the working week I'm alone at home, for a second, and get houseguest. My older grandson, 2 years, will stay overnight...

I really like the Japanese chainsaw 😎

Pikku-Huopalahti, Helsinki, Finland Pikku-Huopalahti was built in the 1990s as a reaction to the gray concrete boxes of the 1970s. The architecture has been characterized as gazebo style or Moomin houses. Reasonably low built, withstood time much better than what it felt like new when looking...

Outtake Day 14 - Wihuri castle

Building a new bridge between mainland city centre and Kruunuvuori residential area. Specialty, only in Finland, the longest bridge in Finland, roughly 1200m will serve only pedestrians, cyclists and trams.... In the middle of the bridge is going to be 135m high pylon.

Casino Kulosaari, Helsinki and new bridge connecting mainland city centre and residential area Kruunuvuori

Kulosaari, Helsinki, Finland Kulosaari is a traditional residential area of embassies and big money with its seaside lots. A little too densely built, the price of the land has been utilized and the architecture is too mixed to be stylish, maybe a little too folky and insipid, even. But big...

Wow 😳 I wish I could draw, but I'm hopeless in that area. Nevertheless, love seeing your drawings.

I was sad taking this photo on day 4, the villa is in such a bad condition already, BUT.... For my outmost joy, I can tell you that renovation of this building is starting on Monday. How I know, well, the firm which we used in our renovation is doing the job here as well 🥳

A bit movement, so thrown away to outtakes...

Ullanlinna, Helsinki, Finland Ullanlinna is one of the city's most expensive residential areas. A residential area for embassies and the wealthy. There are even more spectacular views from Ullanlinna than the Day 13 photo. The red and lighter building with a brick facade in the picture makes...

Hakaniemi, Helsinki, Finland Hakaniemi has one of the remaining functioning markets and a market hall. The hall was repaired and restored in a long project of several years, and now functions as a modern shopping center and restaurant world. It has taken a while for customers to find the hall...

Siltasaari was the original plan, but not the result I had in mind 😕

Linjat, Helsinki, Finland Linjat is actually part of Kallio district. Building in picture is Helsinki City Theatre, taken in use 1967. I've seen many epic performances there, played by the very best of Finnish actors. Finland is the land of theatres, and many very respectable companies but...

Today (Day 10) I cheated a bit 🙄 I added Denoise in Lightroom to 'the standard semi-automatic procedure'. Sorry about that

Kalasatama

Katajanokka further away towards south, on the left ice breaker and on the middle State Department.

Katajanokka, Helsinki, Finland The current capital of Finland, Helsinki, is not the oldest city in Finland, quite the contrary. But Katajanokka is central to the development of the city into its current form. Helsinki was a small fishing village on the shores of Old Town Bay. In 1775...

We've been looking exactly something like that for our garden 🤔

It's a shame for our nation that we have similar places and names in use in our country. Especially nowadays when war is flaming in Ukraine. [Lenin park]

I was planning to use amusement park Linnanmäki as an object for day 9, but useless views :/ from the back-side. And btw, park is still closed after winter, will be opened first of May, traditionally. One curiosity, the park has provided first summer jobs for our both daughters. The younger one...

Alppila, Helsinki, Finland Alppila, houses in the foreground built in the 1930s, Pasila in the back from the 1970s, and residential houses from the early 2000s in between. The picture was taken from a park, the name of which I dare not say 'out loud'.

Kalasatama, Helsinki, Finland Kalasatama is the newest residential area with skyscrapers in Helsinki. Previously, a container port with storage areas was located in the area. The port was moved further from the center, which enabled the planning of a new, unified maritime residential area...

And the new Children's hospital

Remember Day seven tower hospital - 'Hotel Hilton' - this is the view from patient rooms to the seaside and some old villas still around

Old Children's hospital was called Children's castle - it looks a bit spooky in todays standards, to be honest Beautiful gates, though Main entrance

Residental houses from 1950's

Sorry about this, but this time quite a bunch of outtakes in following messages. Let's start with old Children hospital - Children's Castle on the left, we'll come back to this later. And new Children's hospital (white/striped) in the background)

Meilahti, Helsinki, Finland Meilahti is a national hospital area and residential area. Most of the apartment buildings in the area were built in the middle of the 20th century. The hospital in and around the campus used to be a Helsinki villa area. Most of the villas have been destroyed. The...

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Night at Parga, Greece

I have another test going on, namely standard development settings in Lightroom. I have preconfigured settings, I only select colour or black&white in import and one click export jpegs. Interesting to see how it works during whole challenge with different photos. No other post or other...

Ruoholahti, Helsinki, Finland High Technology Center - HTC Ruoholahti, this area was still a low mixed industrial area when I moved to Helsinki. In the old workshops, e.g. Finland's second commercial local radio started its operations 1985, 4 days apart from the oldest one, in a building called...

Outtake of day 5 – quite a day for an April day. Cars with summer tires in traffic, you can imagine what happened 😉

Outtake #4 of day 4 Light was quite beautiful on Thursday evening

Outtake #3 of day 4

Outtake #2 of day 4

Outtake #1 of day 4

Little I knew, I thought April is a Spring month 🙄 Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, Finland Munkkiniemi was once built in the countryside far from the city center. The city has since grown up and over. There are apartment buildings in the area and villas by the sea, which have been one of the most...

Linnunlaulu, Helsinki, Finland Linnunlaulu is a small villa area right in the center of Helsinki, squeezed onto a small isthmus with the sea on either side. The area is still crossed by a railway, Finland's main railway. The villas have a colorful history and the area is now a popular outdoor...