A Picture Per Day

Skyrim: Vigilance the dog

2012-01-13T18:29:00.002+01:00

Nord in Redguard clothing

2011-12-29T16:29:00.002+01:00

Skyrim: Stormcloak officer's uniform - the whole picture

2011-12-07T02:26:00.002+01:00

Skyrim: Stormcloak officer's uniform - enchanting

2011-12-06T07:24:00.002+01:00

Skyrim: Stormcloak officer's uniform

2011-12-05T22:46:00.002+01:00

Omens of Oblivion: Cloud Ruler Temple

2011-11-12T07:06:00.002+01:00

Omens of Oblivion: The Reluctant Courier

2011-11-08T08:29:00.002+01:00

Omens of Oblivion: The Final Assassination

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Raw pic screen this time, from Bethesda Softworks' game Oblivion.

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Omens of Oblivion: Rats, rats, rats

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Omens of Oblivion: Imprisoned

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Omens of Oblivion: Imprisoned

2011-10-28T20:24:00.002+02:00

Omens of Oblivion: Imprisoned

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pggb smiley, only temporarily while it's unavailable the usual way

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Snow rimmed hood

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Rosy morning

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A clear sky makes such a difference at 7.30 a.m.

Careful optimism

2011-02-08T07:40:00.001+01:00

Morning after foot bath with apple cider vinegar

Rush hour

2011-02-07T18:46:00.001+01:00

Aktuella böcker

2011-01-24T18:19:00.001+01:00

New neighbourhood

2011-01-20T13:37:00.001+01:00

Yesterday

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Top job

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Blue morning

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Current snow depth

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About thigh high

Snowstorm

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Snow, snow, snow

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Current snow depth

2010-12-03T19:41:00.001+01:00

Regular office ruler + knuckles

More snow

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Frostier

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Frosty

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Brrr

2010-11-26T16:13:00.001+01:00

Poor Mystery Man

2010-11-25T08:38:00.001+01:00

Ice ice baby

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Christmas decoration

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Frost

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Snow

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Snowstorm

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Close-up

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Odd moon

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Chips :-(

2010-10-12T17:19:00.001+02:00

Bacon?

2010-10-12T17:06:00.001+02:00

Oblivion: Artema; Wood Elf

2010-10-01T21:27:00.002+02:00

Sloth necklace

2010-09-30T18:44:00.001+02:00

Mine!

First frost

2010-09-30T07:52:00.001+02:00

Waves

2010-09-27T09:51:00.001+02:00

Sunny autumn morning

2010-09-22T08:52:00.001+02:00

Oblivion Vampire Me

2010-09-13T21:41:00.004+02:00

Rainbow

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Creamy latte

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Ciggie

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LCHF lunch

2010-08-31T14:06:00.001+02:00

Newspaper added

2010-08-31T09:17:00.001+02:00

Scarf added

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Aha

2010-08-25T08:21:00.001+02:00

Huh

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Spooky sight this morning

2010-08-23T22:39:00.001+02:00

Bug in entry list

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Plain skin:

Alabaster skin:

Classic skin:

Brunel skin:

Top

2010-06-13T20:35:00.001+02:00

Sunday, the day after our arrival, we went on a guided tour of Badgastein. This is the second higest (longest?) waterfall in Austria, running right through the three plateaus of the village (it's built on very steep ground, so most of the time you're either going uphill or downhill). This is the view from the top level at 1,240 metres above sea level.

Mittelstation

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Middle

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And this is the view from the middle level, or Mittelstation as the locals call it. Almost everything here is closed on Sundays, except for the gas station, which is why they carry a small assortment of foods and drinks.

Bottom

2010-06-13T12:36:00.000+02:00

And this is the view from the bottom level of the village at 840 metres - told you the whole village tilts! The waterfall itself continues below this point.

Villa Orania

2010-06-13T08:00:00.001+02:00

Badgastein, Austria

Tired of roughing it in youth hostels and cheap hotels, this year I decided to go for luxury - after all, these days I can afford it but mostly I find that I still live as if I'm on a tight budget like when I first started off my career in the hotel business.

We (my mother and I) didn't see much of the building on the evening of our arrival (some time after 9 pm) but the next morning we were rather impressed with the garden, and the statues, and the building, and the...

Whoops?

2010-06-01T07:57:00.001+02:00

Snail, dew, glass

2010-05-28T07:52:00.001+02:00

Spring

2010-05-18T16:56:00.001+02:00

Some kid must miss these

2010-05-12T15:57:00.001+02:00

Photoshop Express

2010-05-04T15:19:00.002+02:00

A little experiment I made with Photoshop Express, available online for free (but they seem to have made some changes since I last used it, need to find out more).

A piece of industrial history: Viking Termometerfabrik

2010-05-02T15:46:00.002+02:00

In the early 60ies, the industries in Sweden were thriving and in dire need of workers. Recruiters were sent out to those of the European countries where unemployment was high due to losses, both material, financial and in lives, because of World War II. That's why my parents moved from Finland to Sweden, being promised work and help with finding somewhere to live. Both promises were fulfilled.

Rainbow

2010-05-01T18:49:00.002+02:00

I visited my mother this past weekend, and the weather kept varying between sunshine and rain, resulting in a splendid double rainbow (if you look closely, you can see a very vague rainbow surrounding the more colourful one).

Finally spring!

2010-04-30T16:12:00.003+02:00

This winter, we had a proper winter, with lots and lots of snow, the last of which melted away just a few days ago. It's been quite cold, so the spring flowers have been hesitating, but now they've finally turned up!

Odd skies

2010-04-26T22:18:00.002+02:00

On my way home yesterday, I found the sky looking a bit odd, with the sun barely shining through what appeared to be two different layers of clouds. So far, I'm fairly impressed with the camera in my mobile - it has zoom and adjustable aperture or whatever the mobile equivalence is, meaning I can adjust how light/dark a picture will be.

Coffee machine

2010-04-26T14:19:00.002+02:00

Recently, after the coffee machine at work had been serviced, there had been something added to it. Curious, I lifted the metallic coffee cup to read the wooden label beneath it, and it turns out that the company we rent the machine from climate compensate for all the electricity that is used for operating the machine. Very cool idea, I think!

My old mobile

2010-04-15T09:05:00.002+02:00

Now retired after long and faithful duty. Actually, scratch that, it turns out my mother is willing to adopt it.

Sunflower Smiley

2010-04-14T13:30:00.002+02:00

The first photo taken with my brand new mobile phone.

2009-11-07T12:45:00.001+01:00

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2009-05-16T20:11:00.001+02:00

Entropia Equus

2009-02-05T16:40:00.002+01:00

New Hunter's Pet in World of Warcraft: Woolly Rhino

2008-11-19T00:22:00.002+01:00

One of my guild mates in World of Warcraft had already gotten herself a new hunter's pet - a woolly Rhino. Very cute, but also very deadly...

Help, I can't see!

2008-10-29T08:53:00.002+01:00

What I hadn't expected after the cold night was this extremely thick mist - it felt as if I was going blind, only seeing something white with vague shapes in black and white.

First night with temperatures below freezing point

2008-10-28T08:48:00.000+01:00

Yesterday it rained most of the day, but towards late afternoon, the skies cleared up.

'Mark my words, the puddles will be frozen over tomorrow' I told a colleague when I left the office. And how right I was!:)

Snow White

2008-10-27T09:15:00.001+01:00

Politely she accepted the apple half that the old woman offered her. Barely had she taken a bite before she sank to the floor.

I'm a member of a photo forum, and one of the recent themes was 'apples'. Unable to come up with a creative compisition, I decided to illustrate a scene from Snow White, and then had some fun fiddling around with it in Photoshop Express.

R.I.P Tony Hillerman

2008-10-26T09:24:00.000+01:00

Tony Hillerman, one of my favourite authors, died on 26 October 2008. I've started re-reading his books about Jim Chee and Leephorn, members of the Navajo Tribal Police.

I do enjoy crime novels that are set in a specific environment or a specific era. Elizabeth Peters and her British archeologists in 19th century Egypt is one example.
Another one is Ellis Peters' medieval mystery-solving munk Cadfael.

Entertainment combined with culture/history...

2008-10-01T09:18:00.001+02:00

Sunny morning yet again, but warmer than yesterday, since it was cloudy and rainy all night. When I left for work, the raindrops were still clinging to the rowanberries.

2008-09-30T09:16:00.001+02:00

Clear blue sky, sunshine, crisp air, chirping birds - and the first night frost.

2008-09-29T09:06:00.002+02:00

The sun was shining and the sky was clear when I left home this morning, but when I arrived in the centre of Stockholm, the clouds had already began gathering.

In the shiny white building the company I work for rent floors five, nine, ten, eleven and twelve. Yes, we are a lot of people, but then we are the head office for Sweden's biggest hotel chain.

2008-09-28T09:25:00.001+02:00

Saab nostalgia... this one has been refitted to be used in folk racing.

Misty morning

2008-09-23T11:09:00.004+02:00

The weather has been very grey lately, but this morning it was softened by mist.

This is the way I walk from my home to the bus stop five mornings per week.

2008-09-20T16:26:00.001+02:00

View from the central railway station in Stockholm while waiting for the commuter train.

Updates 2 April 2008

2008-02-22T12:54:00.000+01:00

Today, I've added new pictures. One photo for each day for the dates 2-21 February 2008.

I've added a bit of explanatory text to 27 January 2008.

I swapped the puzzle picture for 29 January 2008 with one of my own pictures, with a different cut, and I edited the text.

Yes, yes, I'm aware that the posting date doesn't fit - that's because I've been fiddling around with the dates to get a chronological order and to get the blog archive tree to look tidier.

21 February 2008

2008-02-21T19:51:00.001+01:00

More tube train ads. Here, one of the Swedish commercial TV channels has chosen to display an ad on the doors of a tube train. They will start showing new episodes of Stargate and the text reads 'The gate opens Fridays at 21:00' (hours). And when the doors slid open, you did actually enter 'through the gate'.

20 February 2008

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In Stockholm (Sweden) the advertising agencies can hire advertising space on the tube trains. In this case, Interflora had hired an entire wagon.

19 February 2008

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The lovely staircase in the previous picture, and some of the flowers, can be found inside the Victorian style green houses.

18 February 2008

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17 February 2008

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16 February 2008

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15 February 2008

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