Archive for 'Winter'
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.
Northern Lights & Sky in motion (Time-lapse)
Tuesday February 3rd, 2009. 04:53 AM. Published under Photos, Winter. 4 Comments.
A National Geographic video.
The Northern Lights are one of nature’s most spectacular visual phenomena, and in this time lapse video they provide a breathtaking display of light, shape, and color over the course of a single night in Norway.
Vía: Big In Finland.
I have experienced this phenomena in the Finnish Lapland, and it’s amazing. Here is one photo. To take photographs you will need that your cammera allows long exposure and a tripod.
Other “must see” time-lapse video of the sky is this one made by Till Credner.
túrána hott kurdís by hasta la otra méxico! from Till Credner on Vimeo.
Vía Microsiervos.
Pyhäjärvi Lake - Spot the 7 differences
Sunday February 1st, 2009. 01:50 PM. Published under Photos, Winter. 2 Comments.
These two photos are from Pyhäjärvi, one of the two lakes in Tampere area. Winter-January’09 Vs Spring-May’07. I invite you to see prettier pictures of this lake in flickr.
In the Documentary of Finland (Spanish) that some weeks ago reviewed, has this defect: only you can see the winter, one of the several faces of Finland.
Snow in Madrid: Chaos
Friday January 9th, 2009. 04:12 PM. Published under Finland culture, Photos, Spain, Winter. 1 Comment.
Snowing is not usual in Spain in winter, except in mountains and some areas, but most of the cities is not often to see snowing and rarely snow stays on the streets. That’s why these days Spanish people go to the streets to make photos to have a memory of this weird city landscapes. You can see a gallery here and other one here.
And Spain, sorry to say, it’s not prepared for that. With the words of Enrique Belda, sudirector of the Traffic Department of Spain “(spanish) roads are not designed for snowing”. There has been a lot of traffic problems, even in main highways of Madrid, delayed trains and planes, etc. Kids don’t go to school and authorities they recommend not to use the car.
Here In Finland it amaze me that people is so used to snow, that they don’t see any problem in having snow everywhere. Because it’s a country prepared for it. Finland doesn’t stop for snowing, they keep their normal life in the long winter even with hard weather conditions and icy roads. I wonder what kind of snow storm is necessary for Finnish people stay in their house without going to work / school. These are some habits of finnish people in winter, that still surprise me :
- All Finnish car owners are required by law to equip their cars with winter tyres. Winter tyres must be used between December 1st and February 28th but they can and must also be used outside those dates when weather conditions make driving hazardous. Juan Llaneza has a photo in his blog of this special tyres.
- To get a drive license you receive training to improve you slippery driving skills and nighttime driving lessons too.
- An engine-block electric heater is a great boon for winter drivers who do not have a garage and leave their cars outside overnight. The bock heater makes the car easier to start and reduces fuel consumption. Drivers normally plug their cars into electric sockets in the parking areas.
- Weather reports always includes warning about slippery roads, something that I’ve never seen in Spain.
This hard conditions can be he secret of such a good drivers in Finland, a country of just 5.3 million people and 77 billion trees, has produced more formula one world champions per capita than anywhere else: Heikki Kovalainen, Mika Salo and Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen, Mika Häkkinen (more) … and other day I’ll talk about rally’s drivers.
But still my favourite one is Fernando Alonso 
Incredible snow storm yesterday night
Sunday December 28th, 2008. 03:30 AM. Published under Photos, Winter. No Comments.
Amazing snow storm in Parkano.. we haved to get out trough the window and just now we are getting out all the snow that we can. Internet conection doesn’t work very well, is intermittent. I hope you can see the photo.
EDIT. Yes.. this was a prank. 
Yesterday 28th of December is in Spain the equivalent of April’s fools day.