It’s been grey outside for weeks…

but finally today we’ve seen that yellow ball up there.

week #7 photos

makroviikko/macro week challenge #92

teema / theme:

harmaa // grey

Vastaukseni / here’s my entry:

Kotimme harmaasävyisiä verhoja riittää!

Our curtains, hue of grey.

I had my camera ready to shoot first shadows

for a long time!

Sun made me smile!

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This video ‘A Year in Helsinki‘ (Timelapse)

is 8 minutes long but if you have time to watch it you can see different faces of Helsinki…

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Monday Mellow Yellow

This is a detail of my Chinese ink and acrylic painting…

week #7 photos

makroviikko/macro week challenge #91

teema / theme:

nuppi // a knob

Vastaukseni / here’s my entry:

 nuppi, nuppi muttei lipputangon

knob on wood  with shadows

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Last weekend we visited our friend’s summerhouse.

There was a lot of snow,

so white and clean…

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On Sunday it started to melt drop by drop…

Hope is a waking dream.

Aristotle

…go away!

I’ve had enough of

snow, slippery pavements…

But we have more light and

that’s super great!

week #6 photos

makroviikko/macro week challenge #90

teema / theme:

kohde ulkona // an object outside

Vastaukseni / here’s my entry:

Kiinalainen valkosipuli lumessa / Chinese garlic on the snow

Who, What, Why: Why do criminals smuggle garlic?

‘Sweden has issued international arrest warrants for two Britons

suspected of illegally importing 10m euros (£8m)

worth of garlic into the EU via Norway.

Why would criminals do that?’

Read here »  bbc news magazine

Our sunny days have a lot of natural shadows….

This was shot 19th of January – in February the sun is higher (when it’s not hiding)

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Monday Mellow Yellow

One of my favorite Finnish salty liquorice, ‘Pantteri’ (‘Panther’)

HI EVERYONE!

I can see without glasses!!!

So you can imagine how happy I am

Night glasses to wear for one week after Restor multifocal lens operation.
Two more weeks to put eye drops three times a day.

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Here in Helsinki the weather is not like in Málaga

but life is good.

How’s your life?

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week #5 photos

makroviikko/macro week challenge #89

teema / theme:

vain muutaman millin kokoinen

//

only a few millimeters size

Vastaukseni / here’s my entry:

Pesupussin reikien koko on vain muutaman millin…

Laundry bag’s hole sizes are only a few millimeters…

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I visited Emma, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, 6 miles from Helsinki.
I really liked Jaume Plensa’s works!
Have a look – do you like them?

Jaume Plensa’s website

 This is a perfect shot for SSS!

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In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette,

which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Marc Chagall

teema / theme:

joulukoriste // xmas ornament

Vastaukseni / here’s my entry:

 Stressitöntä loppuvuotta kaikille!

Blogini jää talvilomalle – palaan tammikuun lopussa silmäoperaation jälkeen.

Makroillaan taas vuonna 2013

Other entries:

This is my 1.215th post and the last one THIS year.
I’ll be back at the end of January 2013 after my eye operation

(no need for reading glasses after that).

Season’s Greetings

to all my readers

all around the globe!

week #50 photos

makroviikko/macro week challenge #84

teema / theme:

3 x 12

Vastaukseni / here’s my entry:

Ei ihan makro mutta hyväksyttäneen…

Other entries:

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I visited CAC Málaga * Centro de Arte Contemporáneo

on the last day they had Vik Muniz‘s art there…

It was a very inspiring exhibition!

You find CAC Málaga in Calle Alemania

“Vicente José de Oliveira Muniz, known as Vik Muniz born 1961,

São Paulo, Brazil, is a visual artist living in New York City and Rio de Janeiro.
Muniz specializes in remaking famous artworks with materials other than paint, and then photographing them.”

Double Mona Lisa made of peanut butter and jelly, 1999

and here’s a detail of that huge work…

Got the idea what the work is about…

Now two detail first – of ripped magazines…

If you google Gustave Caillebotte you’ll find the model for this work…

I recognized original Richter’s work which I saw in Berlin….

Muniz’s work is done of those pieces of paper…

Hay dos maneras de vivir su vida: una como si nada es un milagro,

la otra es como si todo es un milagro.

Albert Einstein

week #49 photos

What do you think this is?

Correct answer at the end of the post…

makroviikko/macro week challenge #83

teema / theme:

sinivalkoinen // blue-and-white

Vastaukseni / here’s my entry:

Finland’s Independence Day is a national public holiday held on

6 December to celebrate Finland’s declaration of independence

from the Russian Empire.

Want to read more, go to wikipedia

Mukavaa itsenäisyyspäivää kaikille!

Other entries:

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I couldn’t swim there even if looks nice – sunny but chilly!

For me it’s still autumn here in Málaga, not as cold as in Finland but not summer warm either…

When the sun is smiling it’s really nice and warm – if the wind is not too hard…

My future home. You are all welcome for a (short) visit!

And now the answer picture…

Beach umbrellas having a winter break…

♥

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

♥

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

Both quotes by Victor Hugo

‘If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others:

read a lot and write a lot.

There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.’

Stephen King

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week #48 photos

makroviikko/macro week challenge #82

teema / theme:

muru // a crumb

Vastaukseni / here’s my entry:

Täysjyväleivän murunen opiskelee espanjaa

A crumb studying Spanish

Other entries:

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My previous post of ‘plaza de toros Málaga’ is here.

What a rocking lady she is – have a look!

¡Hasta la proxima vez!