Frozen lake

Lake / Nature

There are no clouds in the sky. There won’t be many hours of daylight. So, better to hurry and go for a walk in the forest along the lake. The temperature has gone up and down around 0 C. During the days the ice sheet loosens up. At night time, when the temperature drops below zero, you can hear deep and mysterious sounds that runs along and below the ice surface when it tightens up again.

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Intermezzo

Nature

I need to stop the series of street photos from Padova. I am in Helsinki at Vantaa airport to get on a plane. I thoughts I had saved the photos on my hard disk and planned to continue to post them during the this coming week. I must have done something wrong while copying the files. So, I will post a series from last New Year when we spent a week at our cottage in Eastern Finland. I will resume to Padova series, when I get back in a week.

Ihamaniemi 2020

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Pedestrians /3

Street photography
Pedestrians, Padova 2019

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Pedestrians /2

Street photography
Pedestrians, Padova 2019

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Pedestrians

Landscapes
Pedestrians, Padova 2019

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Difficult situations for Finnish people, by artist Karoliina Korhonen

Landscapes

I was in transit at Helsinki Vantaa airport the other night and saw this great series by artist Karoliina Korhonen

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Food and wine

Street photography
Wine bar, Bologna 2019
Wine selection, Bologna 2019
Bakery, Bologna 2019
Aperitivo, Bologna 2019
Parmigiano Reggiano, Bologna 2019

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‘Revolution is a flower that never dies’

Street photography
Graffiti, Bologna 2019
Graffiti, Bologna 2019
Graffiti, Bologna 2019

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Graffiti in the streets of Bologna

Street photography
No more wars, Bologna 2019
Believe, Bologna 2019
Fight with poetry, Bologna 2019
Murales, Bologna 2019
Ciao Lucio, Bologna 2019
Enough, Bologna 2019

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Do not forget

Landscapes

The Bologna railway station bombing massacre was a terrorist bombing of the Bologna Centrale railway station in Bologna, Italy, on the morning of 2 August 1980 which killed 85 people and wounded over 200. Several members of the neo-fascist terrorist organization Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari (Armed Revolutionary Nuclei) were sentenced for the bombing, although the group denied involvement.

At 10:25am, a time bomb hidden in an unattended suitcase detonated in an air-conditioned waiting room at the Bologna station which was full of people seeking refuge from the August heat. The explosion collapsed the roof of the waiting room, destroyed most of the main building, and hit the Ancona–Chiasso train which was waiting at the first platform.

The station was full of tourists that Saturday, and the city was unprepared for a major disaster. Many passers-bys and travelers provided first aid to victims and helped rescue people who were buried under the rubble.

Due to the large number of casualties and an insufficient number of emergency vehicles available to transport the injured to hospitals, firefighters used buses (particularly from the #37 route), private cars, and taxis. Some doctors and hospital staff returned early from vacation to care for the victims, and hospital departments which were closed for the summer holidays were reopened to accommodate the casualties.

After the attack, large demonstrations were held in Piazza Maggiore (Bologna’s central square). Harsh criticism was directed at government representatives who attended the 6 August funerals of the victims in the Basilica San Petronio. The only applause was reserved for President Sandro Pertini, who arrived by helicopter in Bologna at 5:30 pm the day of the massacre and tearfully said: “I have no words; we are facing the most criminal enterprise that has ever taken place in Italy.”

The #37 bus and the clock (stopped at 10:25) were symbols of the massacre. The attack was the worst atrocity in Italy since World War II. (Wikipedia)

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