To be sure this time I know where I belong

City 1

City 2

City 3

City 4

The photographs were taken on February 9th in Helsinki.

I had a look at the view stats of my photographs at Flickr. When I got the Panasonic LX100, the daily view count grew by almost a factor of 100, from 100 daily views to up to 10,000 daily views. The number of views started soon to diminish, and I expected the trend to continue until it would be back to the original.

But it seems that the daily view count is not diminishing any more. It varies between 500 and 6,000 daily views, and the average is between 1,000 and 2,000 views.

I wonder why the view counts are so high, as the photographs I take are for sure not such that they would have a large potential audience.

(Posting title is from the poem Scavenging the Wall by R. T. Smith.)

I learned how to see

Dark 1

Dark 2

Dark 3

The photographs were taken on February 8th.

I have been commuting by bicycle, getting two hours of exercise daily, of which 1 1/2 hours between sunrise and sunset. Weather has been dry and sunny, -8 °C in the morning and -3...0 °C in the afternoon. This feels great.

PS. The exposure in the second photograph was one second, which is quite a feat for a handheld photograph. The image stabilization does work well on the LX100.

(Posting title is from the poem Black Soap by Sandra McPherson.)

Saw through the tinted windshield

Dark 1

Dark 2

Dark 3

The photographs were taken on February 9th in Helsinki.

The length of day is now 10 h 29 min, which is 4 h 43 min more than it was at the shortest. Even though the sun hasn't yet risen when I start commuting by bicycle in the morning, it is already quite bright, and the snow makes it feel brighter. And at 6 pm it is the same, so there is plenty of time to enjoy non-darkness.

(Posting title is from the poem In the Black Camaro by David Bottoms.)