Images from the Finnish Capital
Virta vei iceBREAK 2008 koskimelontatapahtumassa.
A moment of disappointment from iceBREAK 2008 white water kayaking competition.
Yeah, I’ve now changed the concept from one photo a day to atleast one a day 
I remembered the Finnish valokuvatorstai (Photography Thursday) only after I had already posted today’s image. This week’s theme was virta (=stream, current, flow, power, …).
In previous post in this series I wished there would be an intersting twist in this story and now atleast there is something different: the public had a chance to visit the construction site in early September.
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The photo was taken in August although I post it in September.
I really hope there is going to be an interesting twist in this story…Click here to see photos of the construction site from other months.
At the moment it seems that this is going to be a bit boring serie but let’s see….click here to see photos of the construction site from other months.
Helsinki Music Centre construction site in May 2009.
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One day here will be a "music house" in about as central location in Helsinki that there can be.
Helsinki Music Centre’s main users will be Sibelius Academy, the Helsinki Philharmonic and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
This is one of the most talked building projects in Helsinki after the bulding of a new opera house in 1993 and Kiasma museum of contemporary art in 1998. All of these are expensive monument buildings built with a lot of tax payers money despite the fact that a regular Finn will not visit them often.
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Not again... Finns and Germans know this feeling from last night. Both experienced it three times.
A thought (ajatus) was this week’s theme in Valokuvatorstai.
Yesterday Finland and Germany played a very entertaining and hair rising World Cup football qualifier that ended 3-3 in Helsinki. Finland was leading the match three times but every time Germans tied the score.
Just for a thought: Germany has never lost a World Cup qualifier when they have been the visitors. That is amazing. Away games are always a lot more difficult than home games.
The photo is from this year’s Helsinki Cup junior tournament.
The last rays of light hit the Helsinki Cathedral earlier this summer.
This is my first entry in the Finnish valokuvatorstai (photography Thursday). This week’s theme is summer storm 2008.
This 100th challenge is a bit unusual in a sense that it was already given before the summer break. Usually the theme is published during the first minutes of Thursday. Ideally you should use the theme as inspiration and take a photo based on the theme but I believe many of the 100-200 weekly participants use photos from their archives. I had forgotten the whole summer storm challenge when I took this photo.
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Time to go. Helsinki City hall in 2008 and Scania Vabis B-62 V from 1952.
Helsinki ordered 48 new buses and 30 trams for the olympics. Unfortunately the trams didn’t arrive on time. The bus in the photo is a 1952 model but I don’t know whether it was used during the olympics. It was on display together with an old tram a few weeks ago.
This is the final post in the Helsinki Olympics Today serie. I was only able to scratch the surface as there is so much olympic heritage left in Helsinki. A lot more than I had thought.
It is difficult to imagine that Helsinki would ever organize anything like the 1952 summer olympics. Canadian Broadcasting Company thinks that the games were a rousing success in an article that will make the modest Finns blush several times. I remember reading at the National Sports Museum in Melbourne that Australians put more speed to their 1956 preparations once they saw what a country that was still recovering from WW II was able to organise.
I will still publish a photo a day in this blog and I’m quite sure that I will post photos relating to the olympic theme as well. I hope that one day I’ll have a chance to do a Helsinki winter olympics today serie – photos taken and published during the olympics.
Until then, enjoy my photos from one of the least known European capitals.
See other posts in the Helsinki Olympics Today serie.
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