Archive for 'Winter'
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).
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.
First snows in Helsinki
Thursday November 5th, 2009. 12:17 PM. Published under Photos, Winter, helsinki. 3 Comments.
5th of November. Yes! Powdered-sugar-snow cover the streets of Helsinki… that soon pedestrians walking transform into slippery ice. In north of Finland days ago there is snow already.
Photos were so plain, that I forced them with Photoshop help to give more texture and colors:
Yes! Selling ice-cream in winter, why not? XD
Did you know that Finland is the country with the highest annual ice cream consumption in Europe. 14 liters per person/year
Change of header
Sunday June 14th, 2009. 08:56 AM. Published under Photos, Scandinavia, Spring, Winter. No Comments.
Winter left us some months ago. I change the header of the blog that showed the frozen sea of Helsinki.
Thanks to photographer Jono Rento, who give me permission to use one of his great photographs of his Scandinavian / Lapland Travel Diary. Concretly this one is from Oulu. Kiitos!
2 panos
Wednesday April 8th, 2009. 03:01 PM. Published under Photos, Winter. 2 Comments.
Autodesk Stitcher Unlimited 2009… the killer tool to create panoramic photographies. I have tested several programs during this years, but this makes everything, you can export in several formats and super easy. 100% recomended.
Sunny Days
Sunday March 1st, 2009. 04:25 AM. Published under Finland culture, Photos, Spain, Winter. 3 Comments.
The sun in winter here in Finland is… shy. Easily can be one week without chance to see it, almost always hidden behind the clouds or the fog.
I live almost all my life in Estepona and Málaga. This area is better known as Costa del Sol, ¿why? Tourist agencies will claim proudly “We have more than 300 days of sunshine all year around”. I don’t care about it. I didn’t care about it. I mean, this is something that you don’t appreciate until you lose it. Supply and demand, economist likes to call it.
If the sun comes out, the best thing you can do it’s go outside to the forest with your couple to enjoy this chance. Like 2 days ago:
Now I start to have Finnish mentality, looking to the sky when I wake up to see if there is some ray of light and counting the days for the warm Finnish summer, when the sun rises at 4 am and sets after 11 pm.
Snowflakes falling.
Monday February 9th, 2009. 10:45 AM. Published under Videos, Winter. 1 Comment.
A short clip of home made video of 30 secs where you can see snowing two days ago in a little town not far from Tampere. Sorry about the quality, I made it with a crappy cammera, mine is broken 
I miss it a lot.
