Winter Sun

On Saturday January 30th I headed out with my camera despite almost 20 degrees of cold outside. My aim was to walk about half a kilometer along the abandoned country road from our house to the 'shooting site' I had chosen: a bunch of abandoned, wrecked houses overpowered by the mother nature on a narrow stripe of something like a forest in the middle of the fields.

I found the country road under the heaps of fluffy, sparkling stuff that reached the knee and at some point I even considered turning back...

The results of that little adventure coming soon :)

Missing the spring delusion of London

It's been 9 months since I visited London. Such a long time, it's almost unbelievable.

Now it feels like it all was just a beautiful, beautiful, surreal dream. Me? In London? Makes a good joke.

I miss London. It stole my heart. The best thing about a city that big is that there you don't have to belong anywhere at all or you can belong everywhere if you want to. That's how I felt.

The memory is like a fragile spring flower in the middle of winter.

White sky, pink sky

White sky in the winter looks particularly depressing. There in no contrast and everything looks like a black-and-white image without black in it. A thick, white blanket of cloud falls on the earth and brings the sky too close. It makes the sky loose its magic.

That's why at a time like this I prefer to look at it through colour filter and see it, let's say, this way:

Because there is almost no direct light, it becomes hard to make photos look 'alive', the light that comes through the clouds flattens them.

This looks much better. :)

Even though the blue colour is very pale, it's enough to create a contrast with the white snow on the twigs. This makes the image more complete and satisfying at least from the point of view of the colour balance.

(Someone's trying to act all professional.)

Last Warm Days

I went hunting for some beautiful local sceneries one afternoon in mid-autumn. Unlike planned, I didn't reach the brightly coloured birch and hawthorne islands, but instead got stuck in a fine pine wood just a few paces away from our house.

I like autumn. The sky is wonderfully photogenic - very very thin, watery-blue like when the snow just starts melting.