The photograph was taken on December 5th. The handheld exposure was 1 second, and there is some blur, but it is not bad.
It seems that cold and dry weather will continue until next weekend. That is fine, even though it would be nice to have a little bit of snow to make the landscape less dark.
(Posting title is from the poem Paradise Lost: Book 12 by John Milton.)
The photograph was taken on June 26th.
This morning I rode the bicycle for 2 1/2 hours, through the central park in Espoo, all the way to Kauklahti. There was a lot of beautiful landscape to enjoy, and I might ride there some time again this summer. I looked at the map more often than usually, and didn't get badly lost.
(Posting title is from the poem In the dream of the dark by Gerard Malanga.)
These photographs were taken on December 22nd, during snowfall. Today we have so far got about 5 cm of new snow, and the temperature has risen to +1 °C. Some rain is promised, and tomorrow the temperature will be at +3 °C, so it will be quite wet outside. Flu is such a bother, it would be great to go out and take photographs in the snowy landscape as long it lasts.
(Posting title is from the poem Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. by Jonathan Swift.)
While I was reading the newspaper this morning, I thought that the older I get, the less I understand people. Or rather, I understand better how little I understand people.
I need to do some car driving today, and lots of other things to take care of also. But perhaps there is some time to go for a walk when it is still light. Here is some darkness in contrast.
(Posting title is from the poem Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude by Percy Bysshe Shelley.)
On December 10th it was dark outside, no snow on the ground. The wind was strong, in gusts. I went for a walk after sunset, to a nearby pond where some ducks spend the night.
All these photographs were taken handheld with the LX100, something that would have been impossible with the LX3/LX5. However, one had to wait for quieter spells between wind gusts, to avoid shaking the camera.
Yesterday I had three hours of exercise, which feels in the muscles. Today I'll take it more easy, a day of rest is needed.
(Posting title is from the poem The House of Rest by Julia Ward Howe.)
I didn't go for a walk today, even though the weather was fine, -2 °C. There was just too much things to do at home, and then shopping with the children. But yesterday I managed to go out walking twice, during afternoon and then in the evening after sunset.
These photographs were taken on November 23rd, in a place from which I took quite a few photographs with the LX3/LX5. After sunset it is so dark that I had to use a mini-tripod to take photographs with the LX3/LX5. In fact, it was so dark that I couldn't see the ducks that were floating on the pond. (Here you see a photograph taken at this same place a year ago with the LX5.)
But with the LX100 I took these photographs handheld. In the first photograph I used ISO 1600, and the exposure was 1/6 second. In the two other photographs I used ISO 800, and exposure was 0.4 second, and the OIS proved that it works well, as 3/4 of the photographs I took were reasonably free of camera shake.
The photographs don't really correspond with reality, as the human eye is not able to see in such a darkness. But I like these photographs anyway.
(Posting title is from the poem The Pond Museum by Brandon Shimoda.)
I did some walking today, over two hours. The flu symptoms are easing, and I got a full night's sleep, which feels good.
These photographs were taken yesterday evening, testing out how the LX100 performs when it is dark. Compared to the LX3 and LX5 it is astonishing how capable the camera is. These were taken using a mini-tripod: 1 second exposure at ISO 1600. I have managed to take with the LX100 handheld photographs at 0.5...0.8 second exposure so that the results are reasonably blur-free. It is possible to explore dark things which were out of reach of the older cameras.
(Posting title is from the poem Winter Journal: Fish Rises, Dark Brown Muscle Turns Over by Emily Wilson.)
On December 29 I went for a walk at the time of the sunrise, walking around the golf course at Katinkulta. The field was still mostly covered by snow, which was melting away. I didn't see the sun, but nevertheless there were some sunrise colors to be seen between the clouds.
(Posting title is from the poem The Ice Storm by Christian Wiman.)
I went for a walk yesterday evening. It was raining, and sometimes the wind pushed the rain almost horizontally. I took some photographs, but even the camera had trouble seeing.
(Posting title is from the poem Flat: Sentences from the Prefaces of Fourteen Science Books by Bruce Covey.)
Here are night-time photographs taken a week ago. I put the LX5 on a mini-tripod, standing on a rock or on ice, but it was difficult to get a precise composition. A tilting screen would be good for this kind of use.
(Posting title is from the poem Another Night in the Ruins by Galway Kinnell.)
Here are three pairs of photographs, taken in Nuuksio on September 30th. The landscape has changed a lot since then, and my backlog of photographs is increasing.
(Posting title is from the poem What I Know by Patrick Dubost, translated by Fiona Sampson.)
There are about two dozen little ponds in Soidinsuo swamp, each one having a different character.
(Posting title is from the poem At the End of Life, a Secret by Reginald Dwayne Betts.)
Here are photographs taken at a nearby pond. I went there with my daughter to see the ducks. And they were eager to see us.
(Posting title is from the poem My Dog Practices Geometry by Cathryn Essinger.)
I took these photographs on Thursday, when going for a walk after sunset. Now that the length of day is over 13 hours and we still have a lot of snow, the amount of light is enjoyable indeed. Tomorrow we'll go into daylight saving time (aka summer time), which somewhat changes how morning and evening feel like. But days are lengthening rapidly so that change isn't such a big deal.
(Posting title is from the poem Kaddish by Allen Ginsberg.)
Today was a busy day, of meetings, discussions, and writing. After commuting by bicycle (and eating a lot) I went out walking with my daughter, who was keen to have a look at ducks. It was a warm day, up to 24 °C, and so it is predicted of tomorrow also. But on Friday we may have rain, finally.
I had a look at the Panasonic LX7 review at DC Resource, and rather positive it is concerning the image quality: "The Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX7 produces some of the best quality photos of any compact camera out there. [...] Detail smudging is not a problem at low ISOs, which is not the case on the majority of compact cameras these days. The LX7 keeps noise under control through ISO 400 in low light, and ISO 1600 in good light, which is certainly better than your typical compact."
The reviewer noted some usability problems with the control wheel (it is the same with the LX5), so not all things were positive. But as the LX7 has a separate aperture ring, for me the problems with the control wheel wouldn't matter so much as with the LX5.
(Posting title is from the poem Dawn by Louise Glück.)
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