Outlines, August, late summer - pt. 3

Outlines, August, late summer - pt. 3
Originally uploaded by FransBadger.

Further on the road into impressionism -- I decided that the pixel-sharp shapes and unprecisely captured colours really do not convey my experience of this hazy, hot summer (30-32C is what my thermometer is constantly saying these days). Heat is something oppressive, smelling of dying grass.

This Photoshop cutout conveys better some of that feeling.

Tohloppi moblog-watercolour-sunset, part 1

Tohloppi moblog-watercolour-sunset, part 1
Originally uploaded by FransBadger.

There is always a beautiful sunset, rare bird or butterfly flying by when you do NOT carry your best camera and lens with you. With the crappy cameraphone, you can not really get the tones, nor details of the scene. What to do? Well, how about stepping away from the pursuit of realism for a moment, and try aiming for something clearly impressionistic instead? Couple of experiments with a cameraphone and a Photoshop filter.

475 + 1 FONero

The UPS courier brought today my FON router (I think the price of shipping was actually more than double the price of the €5 router), and after some tweaking, this is now written wirelessly, as a proud member of the world-wide FONero community. Cheers! However, more fellow Linuses would clearly be required to make this genuinely useful, rather than just philosophical or ethical investment. 475 users in a country as large and sparsely populated as Finland is not much. But now there is 475 + 1. See: fon maps: Finland.