MM for lumme (waterlily), with a bonus dragonfly on the petals of the flower.
May 202013
May 122013
May 092013
PO for poliisi (policeman).
Royal Canadian Mounted Police puts on a human face in Ottawa.
May 092013
May 062013
May 062013
Entryway to a Salvador Dali exhibition.
This serves the challenge in two ways: the artist had truly an uncommon amount of imagination and in the exhibit in Wanha Satama quite a few of the items had an imaginary provenance.
Photo Thursday #285: Imagination
May 062013
May 052013
NEN for perhonen (butterfly). This is a small tortoiseshell (nokkosperhonen) photographed on Söderskär.
Alkukirjaimet #029: NEN.
May 052013
Close, but separated by a pane of glass.
Bulldog ants would not be nice close by.
See It Sunday 5.5.2013: Close.
Apr 202013
A leopard in Singapore’s Night Safari, one of the best zoos I’ve visited. This was a rare photograph, the pitch-black conditions were too much for my S3.
See It Sunday 21.4.2013: Darkness.
Apr 172013
Apr 172013
More than a little pink. Apr 162013
IL for silta (bridge).
This is, obviously, Golden Gate with a May dusk rapidly closing in.
Alkukirjaimet #028: IL.
Apr 152013
SA for satama (harbour), this is the one in Barcelona, as photographed from a very convenient vantage point nearby.
Alkukirjaimet #027: SA.
Apr 072013
A great collection of photographs taken just at the correct time.
A few of these do seem to be fake, but the collection is awesome nonetheless.
Apr 062013
Water flowing down an icicle: not a sure sign of spring, but of progress in the correct direction.
Thursday Challenge 4.4.2013: Spring.
Apr 062013
Apr 052013
PI for Okapi. Apr 052013
Feb 172013
KK for lakka (cloudberry).
And yeah, that IS gold in the dish – edible leaf gold decoration on top of the berries.
Kirjaimet #19: KK.
Feb 172013
Off-season, there’s little but seagulls and a deserted lifeguard’s chair on this Cape Cod beach.
See It Sunday 17.2.2013: Beach
Feb 122013
I’ll boldly use two images: one that’s a decent naturally monochromatic picture from China, and one that is of the new family member.
Feb 122013
Feb 122013
MO for monni (catfish).
This is a red-tailed catfish, utterly unsuitable for home aquaria for its size (up to two meters long) as well as its predatory and bellicose disposition.
Kirjaimet #18: MO.
Feb 052013
One of the first sprouted chili seeds on the 2013 growing season. This is a Chilaca seedling, a mild fruit that is very good when stuffed with cheese, wrapped in bacon and roasted on gentle heat.
Makroviikot #89: Just a few millimeters in size.