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This week’s photo thursday challenge is humorous.

My take on the subject continues the sign-theme theme of the last weeks, a rather unfortunately placed vegetarians allowed-note in front of lingonberry buns.

This was a camera phone image, so what you see is what you get.

Archives are still in a bit of disarray.

This week’s photo thursday challenge is source of pain.

My take on the subject is the attached image, which reminds Singapore Aquarium visitors that seemingly innocent turtles can give powerful bites. They were not very menacing that day, being smothered by the equatorial heat like everybody else.

The photograph is available in full-size by clicking the image.

My photo thursday archives are in a bit of a disarray following the engine change from homebrew to wordpress. They are available, but badly outdated.

This week’s photo thursday challenge subject is to continue the story from an image provided by the team (and shown here, cropped - original is available on the challenge page).

My take on the subject is the following image, where the text of a sign violates the finnish language in a way not often seen. The poor grandma in the image is checking the classic grammar book to see whether there is such a word she saw on a trip to the book fair in the Helsinki Exhibition Hall.

The photograph is available in full-size (but not very good quality) by clicking the image.

The photo thursday archives are in a bit of a disarray following the engine change from homebrew to wordpress. They are available, but badly outdated.

And I certainly hope the sign has been fixed - I’ll report after visiting the travel fair this weekend in the very same location.

This week’s photo thursday challenge subject is rush.

My take on the subject is the attached image, a picture of a tunnel ceiling racing by below the streets of ’s-Hertogenbosch in Holland. The speed of the canal boat is not great, but the exposure time certainly is a bit longer than expected, hence the blurred image.

I’m pretty sure the challenge will attract dozens of traffic-related images. Not having taken one in the only real Stau experienced on the Autobahn, a finnish rush hour doesn’t really do justice to the subject.

(As usual, the full-size photograph is available by clicking the attached image.)

This week’s photo thursday challenge subject is tenkkapoo, a suggestion to “think about it”.

My take on the subject is the attached image, a street sign from Amsterdam. The name’s familiar, that’s for sure. But who actually is Bianca Castafiore?

(As usual, the full-size photograph is available by clicking the attached image.)

This week’s photo thursday challenge subject is brokenness of time, being built from a snippet from Kurt Vonnegut’s Man Without a Country

My take on the subject is the attached image, a chunk of first bona fide carved hieroglyphics I’ve seen. No idea what it means, but it easily shows that even if time itself is measured in fleeting seconds, some things will last through the millennia.

Initially thought about a clock running backwards, but don’t have one on my wall (though have been longing for one for quite a while). And my recollection whether KuuKuu really has a Gammeldansk-supplied one on their wall is too vague to warrant a quick drop in to ascertain the fact. An image of my calendar wouldn’t have been of much use either - the content is true to the task (time splintering into useless fragments), but I’d seriously break all possible NDAs showing that, and a snapshot of an Outlook screen simply isn’t as nifty as a piece of ancient egyptian rock.

(As usual, the full-size photograph is available by clicking the attached image)

This week’s photo thursday challenge subject is unfinished.

My take on the subject is the attached image, a scene from the Museum of Australia, where paleontologists are investigating fossil discoveries in full view of the visitors. The white-haired guy in the picture clearly has lots of unfinished business to attend to on the table and doubtless tons and tons more stones just off the frame.

(As usual, the full-size photograph is available by clicking the attached image.)

This week’s photo thursday challenge subject is continued analysis of an image of a path through woods.

My take on the subject is the attached image, an image from the Blue Mountains National Park, where a mountain vista offers a magnificent view over the lush rainforest in the valley below. The mist is not artificially added, the day of the visit was wet indeed.

(As usual, the full-size photograph is available by clicking the attached image.)

This week’s photo thursday challenge subject is picture that no-one was supposed to see.

My take on the subject is the attached image, a mis-shot of a duck, one that’s missing both the head and the tail, and has minor focus issues to add insult to injury.

(As usual, the full-size photograph is available by clicking the attached image.)

This week’s photo thursday challenge subject is stairs.

My take on the subject is the attached image: a couple of ladder steps leading to a mysterious trapdoor in the ceiling. If it were any darker, grues would be lurking.

(As usual, the full-size photograph is available by clicking the attached image.)

This week’s photo thursday challenge subject is pollution.

My take on the subject is the attached image: the second most common form of pollution: junk mail.

The most common is of a non-physical kind: ever-flowing spam in the inboxes.

(As usual, the full-size photograph is available by clicking the attached image.)

This week’s photo thursday challenge subject is everyday. The original topic is “arki” in finnish, but that doesn’t translate so well.

My take on the subject is the attached image: a breakfast off the daily paper.

(As usual, the full-size photograph is available by clicking the attached image.)

This week’s photo thursday challenge subject is future.

My take on the subject is the attached image: a future so bright, you gotta wear shades (to quote Timbuk3 in a somewhat mangled fashion).

(As usual, the full-size photograph is available by clicking the attached image.)

This week’s photo thursday challenge subject is cursive melancholy. In finnish “kursiivinen”, instead of referring to slanted (italic) typography, means “continuous”.

My take on the subject is the attached image, a rainy street scene through a glass on which droplets are flowing. It definitely isn’t continuous, but the rain sure felt like going on and on.

(As usual, the full-size photograph is available by clicking the attached image.)

This week’s photo thursday challenge subject is stones.

My take on the subject is the attached image, a pile of small stones picked up during the last two years - some from beaches and shores, but a majority (and all of the polished ones) from shops. Toyed with the idea of photographing a pile of Rolling Stones records, but decided against it.

(As usual, the full-size photograph is available by clicking the attached image.)

This week’s photo thursday challenge subject is classic.

My take on the subject is the attached image, a revolutionary take of a well-known classic: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The No Fear Shakespeare services the readers with weak olde-english-fu well, by placing the original text and a modern interpretation side by side.

(As usual, the full-size photograph is available by clicking the attached image.)

This week’s photo thursday challenge subject is child.

My take on the subject is the attached image, of a girl thrilled to be cocooned in a gigantic soap bubble. The superstar costume of the artist is an added bonus.

(As usual, the full-size photograph is available by clicking the attached image)

This week’s photo thursday challenge subject is digital image blanket, meaning that a collection of photographs taken near or exactly at 11:00 on 1.9. will be assembled.

I originally planned on photographing something spectacular in the bright early autumn sunshine, but sleeping in put a crimp on that. So here’s proof that even inhuman monsters from beyond space, time and reason need a hug occasionally.

The picture is taken 1102 according to the EXIF data, but that’s off by a minute or two. The location: my flat in Haaga.

(As usual, the full-size photograph is available by clicking the attached image.)

This week’s photo thursday challenge subject is sleep/dream.

My take on the subject is the attached image, a sleeping koala bear. Who probably dreams of nothing more than the two subjects occupying its very few daily waking hours: eucalyptus leaves and other koalas.

(As usual, the full-size photograph is available by clicking the attached image.)

This week’s photo thursday challenge subject is what the …. A picture whose subject is far from obvious.

My take on the subject is the attached image, a peppermint stick insect (Megacrania batesii), a rare critter from Queensland that just happened to be around on a rainforest walkabout in Cape Tribulation. The coloring has not been altered, the animal is shockingly turquoise in color, with splashes of other bright colors across the body.

The wikipedia article on this animal is a stub (but does feature two good images), fortunately the curious peppermint stick insect is the subject of many good pages.

Sadly the image did not turn out that well, the very low lighting conditions under the canopy and a shaky hand combined to lack of sharpness in the photograph.

(As usual, the full-size photograph is available by clicking the attached image.)