[ Petri ]'s photostream

Hello world.

I'm a long-time photography enthusiast. My interest first started back in mid 1980's, in the old dark[-room] ages. I rediscovered this hobby about a year ago, this time enhanced with digital technology.
In photography consider me an amateur - in the original latin-based meaning of the word: someone who just loves doing something ...in this case taking snapshots of things that come my way.

Things I like seeing in photography:
Athmosphere, mood, photographer's personality, using photography as a media of teaching people how to observe their environment in a different way, impression, expression, illumination, paintingness, zen, the art of existing, silence, more than meets the eye, forgetting that I'm looking at a picture on a computer screen, references to Art, single moment living for thousand years, visions from the world where the time hasn't started yet ...
By no means I'd be claiming that any of my pics fills these standards ...

Block me out if I ever start posting:
close-ups of flowers, close-ups of waterdrops, still-life with colourful crayons, 'I ate this'-pics, restaurant menus, 'wedding-rings on the Bible with a heart-shaped shadow'-shots, my own shadow, hdr with dirty grey clouds, miniature tilt-shift absolutely never !,technical that looks technical. Funny trafic signs, missparked vehicles, Uutislehti 100:n kännykkäkuvat väärin pysäköidyistä ajoneuvoista !
Swans ! Does everybody have to take pics and upload those every time there's a swan? I think we all already know what a swan looks like !

Generally speaking: why do I shoot photos? Do I think I might be some kind of artist? No. To bug you? Well, maybe. Because I'm able? Yes?
Seriously, I really donno ... you decide ...

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Lately my postings have been a bit boring, so I suggest you go directly to page 7 on my photostream ...
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Groups I've started:
Nighttime Churches


Corrected Perspective

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My languages:
Suomi – äidinkieli
Svenska – har jag hört talats hela mitt liv...
English – can't avoid it nowadays, can you?
Français – un peu, mais il y a quelques annees que J'ai l'etudié ...
Español – un poco tambien
... e vorrei studiare la lingua Italiana

year of birth: MCMLXVIII
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Pixelero ... my other Flickr account with a more digital approach ...

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Occasionally my pictures in Explore:



I'm no globetrotter, just the Europe:

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for the record:
23.11.2006: 32 photos / 555 views
25.11.2006: 33 photos / 621 views
29.11.2006: 41 photos / 700 views
4.12.2006: 47 photos / 900 views
10.12.2006: 53 photos / 1,100 views
12.12.2006: 53 photos / 1,200 views
14.12.2006: 53 photos / 1,300 views
19.12.2006: 54 photos / 1,499 views
23.12.2006: 56 photos / 1,712 views
27.12.2006: 57 photos / 1,802 views
31.12.2006: 61 photos / 1,901 views
3.1.2007: 61 photos / 2,002 views
9.1.2007: 62 photos / 2,199 views
12.1.2007: 63 photos / 2,300 views
14.1.2007: 66 photos / 2,406 views
17.1.2007: 67 photos / 2,502 views
23.1.2007: 75 photos / 2,799 views
8.2.2007: 95 photos / 3,401 views
12.2.2007: 100 photos / 3,601 views
20.2.2007: 111 photos / 3,999 views
13.3.2007: 114 photos / 5,000 views
21.3.2007: 117 photos / 5,500 views
1.4.2007: 121 photos / 6,001 views
23.4.2007: 129 photos / 6,999 views
29.5.2007: 135 photos / 8,300 views
29.6.2007: 142 photos / 8,997 views
8.8.2007: 149 photos / 10,007 views
5.9.2007: 160 photos / 11,000 views
31.10.2007: 190 photos / 12,511 views

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