The formalists present minutiae

Red

The photograph was taken by Ahvenisto lake on October 18th.

(Posting title is from the poem Schools by Paula Tatarunis.)

Sometimes, when I’m all alone

Mushroom 1

Mushroom 2

Mushroom 3

The photographs were taken on September 7th in Petikko.

(Posting title is from the poem Duck/Rabbit by Chana Bloch.)

Now, picking out a crystal eye

Red

The photograph was taken on October 13th in Petikko.

(Posting title is from the poem A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed by Jonathan Swif.)

Looking as if they're reading, looking as if

Mushroom 1

Mushroom 2

The photographs were taken at Keimola on October 6th.

(Posting title is from the poem In the Reading Room by David Ferry.)

It's perfect for an anemone

Mushroom

The photograph was taken at Vaakkoi on September 29th.

(Posting title is from the poem Room with a View by Stephen Swinburne.)

We are permanently old and always new

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Red 3

The photographs were taken on September 22nd at Keimola.

(Posting title is from the poem Home, a transitive by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa.)

But our bridge might metamorphose

Mushroom

The photograph was taken on September 15th.

(Posting title is from the poem An Immigrant Woman by Anne Winters.)

Away as quickly as they accumulated

Mushroom

The photograph was taken on August 25th.

(Posting title is from the poem Lines on Distance by Joel Brouwer.)

But it was our own foundations, crumbling

Red

The photograph was taken on October 7th.

Today I commuted by car and train, because of meeting logistics. Tomorrow there might be a little bit of snowfall, but I have studded winter tires in the bicycle, so it should be fine.

(Posting title is from the poem An Immigrant Woman by Anne Winters.)

They just can't be serious

Mushroom 1

Mushroom 2

Mushroom 3

Mushroom 4

The photographs were taken on August 19th at Vaakkoi.

Today was a somewhat sunny day, but the rest of the week promises a lot of rain. Leaves are falling off trees. Thus the roads will be slippery when riding the bicycle, and one needs to be careful when braking.

(Posting title is from the poem If my Enemy is a Clown, a Natural Born Clown by Ishmael Reed.)

My shadow side dreaming

Leaf 1

Leaf 2

Leaf 3

The photographs were taken at Liesjärvi National Park on September 23rd.

(Posting title is from the song Demagogue by Franz Ferdinand.)

I'll take it frame by frame it

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The photographs were taken at Sipoonkorpi National Park on September 17th.

Last weekend I visited Hämeenlinna twice. On Sunday I went for a walk at Ahvenisto, enjoying the autumn landscape.

In two months I have taken over 11,000 photographs with my second LX100, and there are no dust problems yet. The shooting style is now a bit different, as I keep the camera on most of the time, switching it off only at the end of the walk. I hope this avoids dust gathering inside the lens and the camera.

(Posting title is from the song O.P.P. by Naughty By Nature.)

Into the ground

Mushroom

The photograph was taken at Oittaa on September 10th.

Today I didn't commute by bicycle. Sitting in a car in waiting for the traffic to move forward is not something to enjoy.

(Posting title is from the poem Words to be Broadcast over Eagle’s Nest Sound System by Brad Gooch.)

On the zen of zoo-keeping

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The photographs were taken on July 31st in Luukki.

There are deer fly in paradise. This morning there was a new item about Salmi outdoor area, and I realized I haven't visited Paratiisi (which means paradise in English) since a long time. When I arrived, there was one car at the parking place; when I left, there were about fifteen cars. But during the walk I didn't see any other people. Today is going to be a rainy day according to the weather forecast, but in the morning it was dry and sunny.

(Posting title is from the poem The Paradise Flick by Michael Sharkey.)

To open ourselves, to be

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Wet 3

Wet 4

The photographs were taken in Nuuksio on July 4th.

This morning I rode the bicycle for two hours, first south through the central park in Helsinki, then through the center of Helsinki to Lauttasaari island, and then north through Tapiola and Leppävaara. Early in the morning there were only a couple of people in the central park, and half a dozen horses. This year I have got 3537 km riding the bicycle.

(Posting title is from the poem Another Night in the Ruins by Galway Kinnell.)

And roused the scabbed eyes of sleepers

Mushroom 1

Mushroom 2

I spent today three hours on the train, visiting Turku. This reminded me that I should go there more often.

The photographs were taken in Nuuksio on August 9th.

(Posting title is from the poem Love Train by Tomás Q. Morín.)

The strongest gift I was ever given

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Vaakkoi 2

Vaakkoi 3

Vaakkoi 4

Vaakkoi 5

We had dense fog this morning, and this motivated me to go for a walk. I walked for two hours in Velskola until the fog cleared away. This week I have got 12 1/2 hours of exercise so far.

During the weekend there was in Nuuksio an event of Guides and Scouts, dozens of them walking along the paths. However, the landscape near Velskola is so rugged that the sound of other people disappeared within a couple of hundred meters, and thus there was plenty of silence provided one stayed away from the popular paths.

The photographs were taken in Vaakkoi on August 7th.

(Posting title is from the poem Handy Guide by Dean Young.)

Yet them no peer nor prince can buy

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Spring 3

Spring 4

Yesterday I got a bit crazy with the LX100 in a park that had cherry trees in blossom (Prunus sargentii). In half an hour I took 360 photographs, and hardly lifted my eye from the EVF. I did note that some other people approached the trees to take photographs, but didn't really note much else than the trees and the flowers.

Here are photographs taken on April 25th in Tremanskärr.

(Posting title is from the poem Cherry-Ripe by Thomas Campion.)

And lifted honest eyes for you to see

Red

Well, even though I don't have the LX5 any more (or rather, my daughter has it), I have taken some photographs, using my Nokia E7 mobile phone. I'm not happy with the controls, the exposure, the colors, but still I'm using it as there is nothing else. Here is a specimen, taken in Nuuksio on September 6th. As you can see the E7 is far from square.

(Posting title is from the poem Four Sonnets by Edna St. Vincent Millay.)

Living the briefest hues on the skin

Mushroom 1

Mushroom 2

Mushroom 3

Mushroom 4

It is autumn, and there are plenty of mushrooms in the forest. I pick them with my camera, safer that way.

(Posting title is from the poem Before Completion by Arthur Sze.)