Freezing Day at Tampere Photo

Photographer’s Note

Unique feature of Tampere city: Factories that were built on the banks of Tammerkoski rapids 130 years ago are still producing state-of-the-art packaging materials - right in the middle of the busy downtown of the second biggest city in Finland!

The factory has, of course, to take good care of the emissions coming out of the pipes so it's mostly just pure water vapour... But it looks cool especially when the temperature is -25°C like the day I took this picture. It's so cold that even the lake was producing vapours. Brrr...

The biggest problem with taking photos at the these temperatures is that the battery won't last for many pictures, especially if you are using flash. I also had to boot the camera once because the software crashed and the camera gave me an error message... I hadn't seen a camera crash before :)

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cigdom (2270) 2006-02-23 10:00

BEautiful composition!i like it..GOod POv and capture
thanks for sharing regards..
cigdem//
by the way i did a workshop but i ll post it tomorrow..

danyy (69465) 2006-02-23 10:10

Bonjour Pekka,
une monde industriel nordique dur et froid et une composition qui ne manque pas de charme par le dépaysement qu'elle produit.
Bien vu et réalisé.
Daniel.

Tweety (3404) 2006-02-23 11:01

Belle composition, j'apprécie particulièrement le premier plan qui traduit bien le froid car pour le reste je trouve les couleurs un peu chaudes.

ktanska (16695) 2006-02-28 3:17

Hei Pekka,
Tammerkoski and Tako factory are impressive sights on cold winter weather. Steam from the rapid and factory give special ambience on this one. Frosty details of the boat are nice too. But they feel somewhat disconnected of the rest. Maybe a theme for another picture?
Kari