Typical Finnish...

[Rob A.]

I thought the link below might be of interest... I was looking for one thing and, as often happens, found something else... Maybe this link has been posted before, but if not, it's a "gem".... Absolutely full of photographs of all sorts of things...including "typical Finnish" country and city scenes...

Timo is a professor at Vaasa and these are his personal pages... Quite the energetic guy...

http://lipas.uwasa.fi/ktt/lasktoim/photo/

This is a photo index to get you started, but you can navigate around to find what might interest you... Mostly in English, and all the photos I looked at had nice captions...despite his excellent English, some of the captions are quite funny, at least to me... that dry Finnish sense of humour, I guess...

Also a funny bit of language learning... A photo of a sign in Lapland... "Kuukkelia kookkaammat pois katolta". He translated this as, "If you are bigger than a siberian jay get off the roof.".... I guess he thought it was funny too...

I found the site while doing a Google Images search; keywords "typical finnish"... Other funny things too... cartoon of a "typical Finnish man"... and a "typical Finnish animal"...I think the last one is all about the "Finnish stare"...

[Jukka Aho]

Many of those places are quite familiar to me... (see my location field.)

You might find it interesting that Timo is an avid cyclist, and also a notable person on Usenet – especially the Finnish part of it; sfnet. He also maintains the Garbo shareware archive. Garbo used to be a relatively well-known service back in the day when websites and browsers didn’t really exist yet and most of the freeware and shareware software was distributed using anonymous FTP servers (on the Internet) or, outside Internet, via dial-up BBS systems. (See here for an historical overview.)

Timo’s photos show things as they are – they’re quite realistic snapshots. You can find a bit more “artsy” and photoshopped Finland photos on taivasalla.net – although Niklas has just visited Iceland and the most recent images in the gallery are from there.

[Rob A.]

Yes...I saw that he's quite the cyclist... Some of his day trips are 140km... Ouch...I can feel that...I've cycled up to 120km in one day and that was plenty...

I like the realism of his photos...gives you a good sense of what things would actually be like on the ground ...just mentally add a few things ...temperature, smells, and bugs... But the artsy stuff is nice too...the good stuff can focus your attention on certain details and create certain moods...

I clicked on the taisavalla.net link and got nice little surprise...I noticed the Mexican flag and then the ship ....the Cuauhtémoc!! ...the Mexican naval cadet training ship...It's a periodic visitor to my part of the world...I've seen it on a number of occasions... So this past July, it was in Kotka...a long way from Mexico...

[sammy]

I like the realism of his photos...gives you a good sense of what things would actually be like on the ground ...just mentally add a few things ...temperature, smells, and bugs... But the artsy stuff is nice too...the good stuff can focus your attention on certain details and create certain moods...

Agreed - exactly my reaction too! Personally I tend to go for the "artsy" stuff, so to speak, and in fact found myself thinking that I "can not" capture that sort of quick snapshot views anymore so it was nice to browse through his pictures!

Generally speaking however I'd maintain that 'artsy photos' are not necessarily a bit less 'realistic' - just a different perspective, a different way of looking at things & the world around us (which, no matter in which style you photograph it, remains the same in the background as it were...) So, artsy photos are ALSO showing the things "as they are" - unless of course you Photoshop them to death

Btw the Iceland pictures at taivasalla.net are quite breathtaking!

And this picture from Helsinki puzzles me - I mean the distance between the Torni Hotel and the Malminkartano hill in the background is +10 km, and yet here they seem almost close neighbours Yeah, I know, trick of the light, but still... a nice shot!

[el_machete]

.I noticed the Mexican flag and then the ship ....the Cuauhtémoc!! ...the Mexican naval cadet training ship...It's a periodic visitor to my part of the world...I've seen it on a number of occasions... So this past July, it was in Kotka...a long way from Mexico...

I saw it in Melbourne, Australia a year or so a go. FUNNY.

[Rob A.]

It really is an incredibly beautiful sight...

Here it is in New Zealand:



...and here's a wiki link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuauht%C3%A9moc_(ship)

..pronunciation??... as far as I know is something like ..."kwatemoc"...

[sammy]

It really is an incredibly beautiful sight...

Here it is in New Zealand:



...and here's a wiki link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuauht%C3%A9moc_(ship)

..pronunciation??... as far as I know is something like ..."kwatemoc"...

There's one rather similar-looking tall ship in Finland, "Suomen Joutsen" (the Swan of Finland), here's a pic. I believe it "nests" in Turku



Mind you, look at this page - isn't that the same Mexican ship in one of the pictures?

[Rob A.]

Thanks sammy

Here's wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suomen_Joutsen

Built in France in 1902...and apparently it's a museum ship now, last sailed in, I guess, the 1950s, if I'm reading the article properly... I think it's a frigate...classic old merchant ship...though 1902 seems a bit late to be building those...but what do I know....

[Rob A.]

I found this link, in Finnish, on the "Suomen Joutsen":

http://www.forum-marinum.fi/suomi/laivoja.php?id=19

the heading of the website is:

Fregatti Suomen Joutsen - koululaiva ja koulutuslaiva

...so it is a "frigate" and I assume koululaiva means "naval school" and koulutuslaiva means "naval training"...Is that the distinction betweeen koulu and koulutus?? ..."School"...the place, and "training" ...the activity???

...some nice, though small, photos and there is one broken link...

[sammy]

I found this link, in Finnish, on the "Suomen Joutsen":

http://www.forum-marinum.fi/suomi/laivoja.php?id=19

the heading of the website is:

Fregatti Suomen Joutsen - koululaiva ja koulutuslaiva

...so it is a "frigate" and I assume koululaiva means "naval school" and koulutuslaiva means "naval training"...Is that the distinction betweeen koulu and koulutus?? ..."School"...the place, and "training" ...the activity???

...some nice, though small, photos and there is one broken link...

Btw did you notice that those small pics are clickable "panorama" pictures...?

Yes, koulu = school and koulutus = schooling, training (I'm not quite sure if there's much semantic difference whether you say koululaiva or koulutuslaiva... it's a bit like koulujärjestelmä and koulutusjärjestelmä, not much difference in those particular contexts...)

But yes, koulutus can not be a place.

[Rob A.]

Btw did you notice that those small pics are clickable "panorama" pictures...?

Thanks, sammy...no, I hadn't noticed... ... Nice....

[MTB]

There are also some other very nice ships of the same class as Cuauhtémoc, some of them sailing nowadays. Their originator is Gorch Fock, a german school-ship.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorch_Fock_(1933)

[Hank W.]

..pronunciation??... as far as I know is something like ..."kwatemoc"...

"quando se come aqui?"

[Rob A.]

..pronunciation??... as far as I know is something like ..."kwatemoc"...

"quando se come aqui?"

If you're talking about the Cuauhtémoc, and you mean:

Cuando lo hizo vienen aquí???

If you do then...

Esto vino a Finlandia (Kotka) en el julio de 2007.

Hey...I can't speak Spanish, you know...http://translation2.paralink.com/

[Rob A.]

There are also some other very nice ships of the same class as Cuauhtémoc, some of them sailing nowadays. Their originator is Gorch Fock, a german school-ship.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorch_Fock_(1933)

Thank you...beautiful

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the ship sailed under the Ukrainian flag from 1992 to 1993. In 1995, she was transferred to Newcastle-upon-Tyne for repairs, which however, somehow never even began. In 1999, she was moved to Wilhelmshaven and finally acquired by private sponsors and transferred to her original home port Stralsund, Germany, where she was re-baptized Gorch Fock on November 29, 2003. She is a museum ship today, and although efforts are being made to reactivate her, it is doubtful whether she will sail ever again.