Eiffel Tower in Photos

I missed Eiffel Tower's anniversary year of 2019 (she was opened on 31 March 1889) that would have been a perfect time to share my Eiffel Tower photos, so I decided to share them now, on the birthday anniversary of its creator, Gustave Eiffel. He was born on 15 December 1832. Of course I could...

Cyclopaedia à la TMTWNBBFN, Part XIV: Turned Out Nice Again

Cyclopaedia à la The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing is a series about songs by a London based band The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing. Or to be precise, this series is not about their songs as such, but short stories about people or things that they have written...

British Painter Samuel Scott 1702–1772

A British landscape and marine painter Samuel Scott died on 12 October 1772. I found him only last year, but I started liking his works at once. Here I want to show a couple of his paintings that I like. Most of them he made in London. A British painter Samuel Scott had specialized in...

Lloyd’s Building in Photos

The Lloyd's Building in London was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 18 November 1986. I took some photos of it on 7 April 1995. I was thinking that the buildings's 35th birthday is a perfect day to show them here on my blog. The Lloyd's building (by Richard Rogers and Partners) was designed...

The Crystal Palace, Part I – The Great Exhibition 1851

The Great Exhibition in London was closed on 15 October 1851 being open since the first of May that year. Twenty years ago I wrote an article for a Finnish newspaper about the exhibition and visited Crystal Palace Museum and park and went to see the famous dinosaurs. I will come back those things hopefully...

The Vanished St Pancras/King’s Cross Cityscape in Five Shots

Here are five photographs that I took exactly twenty years ago, on 17 September 2001, in an area between St Pancras and King’s Cross railway stations in London. I had written on my diary that after visiting bookstores and Science Museum I went to shoot gasholders. The strange thing is that I actually took only...

Christmas Lights in Helsinki in 2018

I don't usually take colour photos. But maybe it's a good idea to shoot Christmas lights by using colour film. These photographs are taken two years ago in Helsinki. My Christmas story is a bit late and it's not even a story, but a collection of photos that I took of Christmas lights in Helsinki...

Finland at the Exposition Universelle of 1900

Today, the 12th of November in 1900, was the last day when l'Exposition universelle de 1900, or as the event was known in English, 1900 Paris Exposition, was open. It had been opened since mid April. I will concentrate here only on the Finnish Pavilion. This was not the first time when Finland participated in...

Some Photos of Brunel’s Temple Meads Station in Bristol

The Great Western Terminus in Bristol was opened 180 years ago, on 31 August 1840. The railway as well as the station was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. This is not a deep story of the station, but I just show a couple of shots that I took of it in April 2016 when I...