Archive for 'Photos'
Snow Plow skidding
Saturday March 6th, 2010. 11:02 AM. Published under Videos, Winter, helsinki. No Comments.
Small snow plow in a street of Helsinki.
Quite related: List of last 30 years winners of World Rally Championship (WRC).
Finnish super stick
Sunday February 28th, 2010. 02:53 PM. Published under Funny, Photos. 1 Comment.
WTF? It’s not a boomerang, is not a baby’s hockey stick.. it’s a 50€ stick for “relaxing” your back.
Google Street Views in Finland
Monday February 15th, 2010. 02:31 PM. Published under Finland culture, Photos, Summer, Tampere. 2 Comments.
Look this picture from Tampere’s lake Näsijärvi.
Professional photographer? Nop, it’s from one of the cars of Google Street View. (click over the picture)
It’s so easy to take good pics in Finland, specially in summer. Everything looks perfect. I love that little summer clouds that always are there in Finnish summer
Google Street View Service just started last week? in Finland. They have covered many little towns of Finland, not only big cities. It seems they did it during summer 2009 when Finland looks at its best.
Try yourself. Go to Google Maps, type a place and drag the yellow little man. It will show you blue streets in the map when Street View is available.
At same time they launch Google Street View in Norway and you can see in one of the streets a couple of Scuba Divers attacking the car.WTF? XDD
With Google Street View, Bing Bird’s View and 360º Cities, you can really have a good virtual visit to Helsinki from your sofa.
Hymyile! olet Espanjassa
Saturday February 13th, 2010. 12:57 PM. Published under Ads, Photos, Spain, Winter, helsinki. 2 Comments.
Smile! You are in Spain.
Fast Finnish lesson: -ssa means ‘in’.
Good way of promoting my country. Congratulations to the creator. It reminds me to this other advertisement about traveling: Routine sucks
Natural History Museum photos in Helsinki
Sunday February 7th, 2010. 03:11 AM. Published under Photos, Winter, helsinki. No Comments.
We went last Sunday to the Natural History Museum (Luonnontieteellinen keskusmuseo). It has 3 open exhibitions, but specially the Finnish Nature part is awesome. Many and very realistic stuffed animals. If you want more information, schedules, prices, etc this is official website of the Museum.
Also “The History of Life” exhibition was good for refreshing my memory about history. (There is a English paper guides in the entrance). Did you know that Finland was in a time by the Equator line, so it had a tropical climate? It was in the Devonian age, 390 millions years ago, when first amphibians came out of the water.
(A simple glass made a cool “water” effect)
Have a pigeon ever shit on you? Imagine this.
Outside. Confirmed. Finland is not anymore in tropical latitudes.
Helsinki, Walking over the sea
Saturday January 9th, 2010. 06:17 AM. Published under Photos, Winter, helsinki. 7 Comments.
Cost of Helsinki is frozen. (Baltic sea) Today was a sunny Saturday and many people was walking over the icy surface without worry. (Walking, skying, with dogs, kids….). It’s amazing, I can’t believe it. This is how it looks in summer
A data center under Uspenski Cathedral
Monday November 30th, 2009. 12:42 PM. Published under Photos, Winter, helsinki. No Comments.
From January, Excess heat from hundreds of computer servers to be located in the bedrock beneath Uspenski Cathedral, one of Helsinki’s most popular tourist sites, will be captured and channeled into the district heating network, a system of water-heated pipes used to warm homes in the Finnish capital.
Credit: Photo from secondpicture.com and btw, a great tutorial about HDR.
Helsinki transport & Finnish Punctuality
Monday November 23rd, 2009. 12:39 PM. Published under Finland culture, Music, Photos, Videos, helsinki. 4 Comments.
Finnish people are punctual. If they say 11 o’clock, is 11′oclock. Even between friends more than 10-15 minutes delay is considered rude. In Spain… how could I say… we take time in a more relaxed way generally 
This photo is the bus schedule from a City Bus in center of Helsinki. 3 main sections: Ma-Pe (Monday-Friday), La (Saturday), Su (Sunday). First row (in bold) you see the hour (18 for example), and the column under represents the minutes (18:10, 18:24, etc.)
Besides of the strange way of representing the timetable, it amazes me its accuracy . If it says there that the bus number 20 is going to be at 18:52 in that stop… it will be there (90% of times). Spanish urban buses timetables normally only say tells frequency (for example “every 15 minutes”).
In Helsinki every year is sent to home a small book containing all routes and timetables of urban transport (bus, metro, tram).
All this is nice, but in the end is paper, very 20th century thing. Is it not supposed to be Finland a high-technology country? (more…)
Spanish Manchego cheese in Finland
Saturday November 21st, 2009. 12:56 PM. Published under Photos, Spain, helsinki. 4 Comments.
Ouuch! 3x times more expensive than in Spain.
Bing: Bird’s Eye View of Helsinki
Tuesday November 10th, 2009. 12:15 PM. Published under Photos, helsinki. 3 Comments.
Bing’s Maps have a cool feature that Google Maps not: Bird’s Eye View. Photos are made from with Hot Air Ballons with a 40º angle so you can have better perspective of the city than Satellite’s straight down view.
You can see many main cities of Europe. These are two examples:
Bing’s Bird’s Eye View of Helsinki
Bing’s Bird’s Eye View of Tampere
Also, related to this is the project 360º Cities, panoramic views from street level of many cities.
