Self portraits. Love them a lot, photographically I mean :)
Showing posts with label Riga 2011. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Riga 2011. Show all posts
24/01/2011
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Riga, January 2011: 20th post out of 20.
Self portraits. Love them a lot, photographically I mean :)
Self portraits. Love them a lot, photographically I mean :)
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Riga, January 2011: 19th post out of 20.
These are the compilation of Riga inhabitant :) The third and forth pictures are showing the same guys.
These are the compilation of Riga inhabitant :) The third and forth pictures are showing the same guys.
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Riga, January 2011: 18th post out of 20.
Snow - so beautiful, yet so difficult to capture its beauty :) The best four amongst the packs of snow pictures I took in Riga. All taken on the park along the canal.
Snow - so beautiful, yet so difficult to capture its beauty :) The best four amongst the packs of snow pictures I took in Riga. All taken on the park along the canal.
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Riga, January 2011: 17th post out of 20.
...and just when I should dash back to the airport, the sun was out!! Typical huh. But see how differently beautiful it was when the sun was out. Lovely! I love the third picture so much - you even can see a bit of the snow's texture!
...and just when I should dash back to the airport, the sun was out!! Typical huh. But see how differently beautiful it was when the sun was out. Lovely! I love the third picture so much - you even can see a bit of the snow's texture!
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Riga, January 2011: 16th post out of 20.
I perfectly know how depressing gloomy winter days were. I did not feel it in Riga though (nor in Helsinki!), since I was only visiting... so these gloomy park in winter scenes had its appeal still to me :) I particularly love the frozen canal. I wish I had the long lenses with me to take close up of that frozen gutter.
I perfectly know how depressing gloomy winter days were. I did not feel it in Riga though (nor in Helsinki!), since I was only visiting... so these gloomy park in winter scenes had its appeal still to me :) I particularly love the frozen canal. I wish I had the long lenses with me to take close up of that frozen gutter.
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Riga, January 2011: 15th post out of 20.
From Wikipedia:
Love padlocks are a custom by which sweethearts affix padlocks to a fence or similar public fixture to symbolize their love. Most common place of Love padlocks are railings of the bridges... Similar customs exist in Riga, the capital of Latvia, where married couples clamp padlocks on the railings of a bridge and throw the key into the lake below.
From Wikipedia:
Love padlocks are a custom by which sweethearts affix padlocks to a fence or similar public fixture to symbolize their love. Most common place of Love padlocks are railings of the bridges... Similar customs exist in Riga, the capital of Latvia, where married couples clamp padlocks on the railings of a bridge and throw the key into the lake below.
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Riga, January 2010: 14th post out of 20.
These are my dinner on the weekend eves at Double Coffee. Well, not Latvian at all!
One thing I've found it funky was the mirror on the ladies toilet - on the last picture. It had an advertisement on it when there is no object in front of it. Once you are facing right in front of the mirror, the advertisement just went off :)
These are my dinner on the weekend eves at Double Coffee. Well, not Latvian at all!
One thing I've found it funky was the mirror on the ladies toilet - on the last picture. It had an advertisement on it when there is no object in front of it. Once you are facing right in front of the mirror, the advertisement just went off :)
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Riga, January 2011: 13th post out of 20.
I was so delighted to see these ducks surviving in winter! :) There were on the park along the canal. If only I had more time, I would have been taking more pictures of them :)
The third and fourth pictures are supposedly a play in focus - but since I used wide lenses, not much differences could be captured actually. Huh. For some reasons I like the last one so much, even though I have to sacrifice the bridge's brick patterns to capture snow's bit of detail.
I was so delighted to see these ducks surviving in winter! :) There were on the park along the canal. If only I had more time, I would have been taking more pictures of them :)
The third and fourth pictures are supposedly a play in focus - but since I used wide lenses, not much differences could be captured actually. Huh. For some reasons I like the last one so much, even though I have to sacrifice the bridge's brick patterns to capture snow's bit of detail.
23/01/2011
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Riga, January 2011: 12th post out of 20.
Ok, this might be a bit painful, since the pictures are rather dark. They were taken in dungeon somewhere in old town, which is used as restaurant now. I felt like Asterix really, having a feast on the medieval long-style table in the dungeon, served by men in robes and fancy accent. The place was really dark. The food was rather medieval too, a big chunk of chewy meat with some kind of grains and plain dry chappati-like bread.
It was a pleasant night though, since this is the first time ever I've experienced this :) There were many interesting stuff there, like the winding stairs, the weight system on the bath room door that makes the door automatically closed, the table design etc., but the place was just simply too dark for my phone camera. The last picture on this post was the decoration on the wall that traditionally would consist garlic amongst others, to shoo off vampires and the likes.
As all pics were taken with my i-phone, no significant adjustment can be made at all. Bummer.
Ok, this might be a bit painful, since the pictures are rather dark. They were taken in dungeon somewhere in old town, which is used as restaurant now. I felt like Asterix really, having a feast on the medieval long-style table in the dungeon, served by men in robes and fancy accent. The place was really dark. The food was rather medieval too, a big chunk of chewy meat with some kind of grains and plain dry chappati-like bread.
It was a pleasant night though, since this is the first time ever I've experienced this :) There were many interesting stuff there, like the winding stairs, the weight system on the bath room door that makes the door automatically closed, the table design etc., but the place was just simply too dark for my phone camera. The last picture on this post was the decoration on the wall that traditionally would consist garlic amongst others, to shoo off vampires and the likes.
As all pics were taken with my i-phone, no significant adjustment can be made at all. Bummer.
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Riga, January 2011: 11th post out of 20.
There is this old, run down building near the river with some out-of-place posters on it. Somehow I like the scene for no obvious reasons. Something that will cheer the passer by?
There is this old, run down building near the river with some out-of-place posters on it. Somehow I like the scene for no obvious reasons. Something that will cheer the passer by?
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Riga, January 2011: 10th post out of 20.
From Wikitravel:
Freedom Monument is one of Latvia's national symbols. It was erected after the first independence and surprisingly never taken down by the Soviets (although laying flowers at its feet was forbidden). The statue at the top of the monument is "Milda".
It was Saturday on the day I flew back to Helsinki, and I was trying to squeeze some more minutes to wander around before I had to dash back to airport, when I saw these guards did some manouvre in front of the monument. I thought it was rather tidy, and surprisingly no one paid any attention, so I had this prime place right in front of the monument to take these pictures. When I took closer steps to take pictures of the flower though, suddenly there are two people in civilian attires swiftly approaching the monument from the opposite direction. And my heart rate was dropped - they were just so fierce looking, and one of them flashed the big huge gun on his waist. Just like in James Bond movie. The different was... I thought Latvia is part of the EU?
I stopped. Took the flower picture (that's why the composition was not straight), and walked back looked for the cab. And actually rather scared :)
Darn. Swear, I am just a bloody tourist!
From Wikitravel:
Freedom Monument is one of Latvia's national symbols. It was erected after the first independence and surprisingly never taken down by the Soviets (although laying flowers at its feet was forbidden). The statue at the top of the monument is "Milda".
It was Saturday on the day I flew back to Helsinki, and I was trying to squeeze some more minutes to wander around before I had to dash back to airport, when I saw these guards did some manouvre in front of the monument. I thought it was rather tidy, and surprisingly no one paid any attention, so I had this prime place right in front of the monument to take these pictures. When I took closer steps to take pictures of the flower though, suddenly there are two people in civilian attires swiftly approaching the monument from the opposite direction. And my heart rate was dropped - they were just so fierce looking, and one of them flashed the big huge gun on his waist. Just like in James Bond movie. The different was... I thought Latvia is part of the EU?
I stopped. Took the flower picture (that's why the composition was not straight), and walked back looked for the cab. And actually rather scared :)
Darn. Swear, I am just a bloody tourist!
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