The life and times of a fallen hacker
Posted in photo friday on Apr 19th, 2008
This week’s photo friday challenge is cold.
Instead of hunting for ice cream pictures, I take the easy way out - with a wintry landscape. Obviously this is not of this season, we didn’t officially have a termic winter in Helsinki at all.
The picture is of a frozen stream in Pitäjänmäki […]
Posted in thursday challenge on Apr 17th, 2008
This week’s thursday challenge is quick.
And what better way to celebrate the adjective than the fastest land mammal: the cheetah. Picture is taken in Washington Zoo, where the animals were only jogging at best - even their large enclosure wouldn’t have given them the ability to even start accelerating.
Posted in photo thursday on Apr 16th, 2008
This week’s photo thursday challenge is esthetics of degradation.
My take is a gargoyle, perched on a rooftop in Paris. This is a very close crop, and there’s multiple of these critters in the full-sized image (available via a click on the photograph). The weather has not been kind on the stony […]
Posted in macroday on Apr 13th, 2008
This week’s Macroday challenge instructs the participants to go round.
My take on the subject is a selection of coins, definitely in the realm of the round.
Posted in photo friday on Apr 11th, 2008
This week’s photo friday challenge is all about fragile.
My take is one of the most fragile environments of the world - a coral reef. Threatened by pollution, global warming and other acts of man, these largest animal collections will have a hard time making it through the next decades.
The image […]
Posted in photo thursday on Apr 9th, 2008
This week’s photo thursday challenge is to take the name of a novel, and extrapolate from that. Out of the three names given, I chose Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying (which has a far more agreeable name when translated).
The image is of a plane approaching Boston’s Logan airport. An airport that […]
Posted in moody monday on Apr 7th, 2008
My first participation in the Moody Monday photography challenge concerns itself with shadowy.
Not in the traditional sense of the word (abounding with shadow), but just having a dramatically elongated set of shadows on a sunny autumn morning.
Posted in macroday on Apr 6th, 2008
This week’s macroday challenge is sneakers.
Quite an appropriate timing, considering that today was the day I finally broke out my North Faces, as the long-stretched winter has let go of Helsinki.
Posted in photo friday on Apr 4th, 2008
This week’s photo friday challenge is far from home.
The pictured spot (the southern edge of Singapore) is not the furthest away I’ve been, but probably the best signposted location.
Posted in thursday challenge on Apr 3rd, 2008
This week’s thursday challenge concerns pets.
My take on the subject is a photograph of a small catfish, Palespotted Corydoras (Corydoras gossei, kultapäämonninen in finnish). Typically to an armored catfish, it’s a bottom-dweller and happiest when presented with mosquito larvae on soft sand.
Posted in photo thursday on Apr 2nd, 2008
This week’s photo thursday challenge is bogeyman, mörkö in finnish.
According to wikipedia, a bogeyman has
… no specific appearance, and bogeyman can be used metaphorically to denote a person or thing of which someone has an irrational fear.
My take on the subject is a small creature with a fearsome face. This is an […]
Posted in meme, photography on Mar 29th, 2008
This entry attempts to catalogue the open digital photography challenges in the web.
Day
Name
Description
Participation
Monday
Moody monday
In english.
Single-word subject.
No registration.
~50 participants.
Exposure date not set.
No.
Monday
JorjDotOrg PhotoHunt
In english.
Competition, consists of multi-week seasons.
Single-word subject.
Registration needed.
~20 participants.
Exposure after the challenge (not enforced).
No.
Tuesday
Tuesday challenge
In english.
Competition.
Single-word subject.
No registration needed.
~40 participants.
Exposure seems to be after the challenge (not enforced).
No.
Wednesday
Lensday
In english.
Single-word subject (seems to […]
Posted in photo friday on Mar 27th, 2008
Considering that it’s ten minutes to midnight on thursday, it’s high time to participate in this week’s photo friday challenge. The topic is found objects.
The attached photograph has a beautiful white seashell, deposited by the tides on a log high on a beach.
The picture in full-size (this has been moderately cropped) is […]
Posted in photo thursday on Mar 27th, 2008
Meh.
Was looking forward to a new challenge already this week, but the site’s break is actually two weeks long.
Posted in blog, movies, photography on Mar 23rd, 2008
A couple of things of interest:
The header image is now rotated from a collection of ten. Catch them all. Or jump off to the page that shows them all in thumbnailed glory.
Re-engineered the system that generates a page on movie reviews. It’s not perfect, but good enough, and will be […]
Posted in macroday on Mar 15th, 2008
This week’s macroday challenge is about odd toys.
It took me a good while to get to the grips with the subject - a close-up on the face of a plush Cthulhu seemed to be the best idea until yesterday evening. The irregularly played 2-on-2 table hockey tournament (report pending) provided just the […]
Posted in photo friday on Mar 15th, 2008
This week’s photo friday challenge is the good life.
My take on the subject is the attached image, of the last moments of a grand dinner in Boston. The scrumptious key lime pie is accompanied with a glass of calvados, and the dinner itself is on top of a full summer day roaming […]
Posted in thursday challenge on Mar 13th, 2008
This week’s thursday challenge is all about green.
My take is the attached image, of a truly overgrown patch of rainforest in the Blue Mountains near Sydney.
I had several ideas about the subject, but figured out that dollar bills are so 80s, don’t own any St. Patrick’s Day gear and the only […]
Posted in photo thursday on Mar 13th, 2008
This week’s photo thursday challenge is reflection.
My take on the subject is a dusk-lit glass building in Victoria, British Columbia.
Posted in photo friday on Mar 12th, 2008
This week’s photo friday challenge is surreal.
Once again the subject of choice is an animal, this time a jellyfish, floating free against a bright blue background.
