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<site xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">9758616</site>	<itunes:explicit>no</itunes:explicit><copyright>Copyright Explodingfish.net 2009</copyright><itunes:keywords>japan,travel,sake,alcohol,tokyo,sendai,kyoto,hiroshima,backpacking</itunes:keywords><itunes:summary>Stories from Japan</itunes:summary><itunes:subtitle>Stories from Japan</itunes:subtitle><itunes:category text="Society &amp; Culture"><itunes:category text="Personal Journals"/></itunes:category><itunes:owner><itunes:email>explodingfish.net@gmail.com</itunes:email></itunes:owner><item>
		<title>My failed experiment with Creative Commons</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2019 09:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
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Years ago when I started photography I was amazed at all the free learning resources other photographers were giving out online. Later, when I started uploading my images online, I thought that it would be great to give something back to the Internet community that had helped me so much in the beginning. I thought [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>One-year review – construction time again</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2017 11:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
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I think I promised one year ago to keep you up to date on how the freelancer life was treating me, but as often happens, when things got busy the blog was the first to suffer. In case you&#8217;re new to the blog, I left my job as a translator in a translation/localization agency almost&#160;exactly [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Review: Sleeklens Through the Woods Workflow</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2017 19:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
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I recently received a copy of &#8220;Through the Woods&#8221; Lightroom Workflow by a company called Sleeklens for review. It is basically a set of 80&#160;Lightroom presets, 42&#160;brush presets and instructions on how to&#160;use them. Sleeklens is a Danish company and according to them, their products are results of many landscape photographers coming together and giving [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Turn and face the strange</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2016 19:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
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First things first: the giveaway has ended and I have picked two winners who will receive the prints. It was great to see so many people participating! If you are following me on Instagram, you might already have read about a recent change in my life. I wanted to blog about it earlier, but things [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Interview at Francejapon.fr</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2015 22:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was recently interviewed by a French travel site called France Japon and I&#8217;m happy to say that the interview has now been published. It concentrates mostly on my photography and my relationship with Japan so it might be of interest to the readers of my blog. Unfortunately it&#8217;s all in French, but I&#8217;ve sent [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The mirror pond at Kinkakuji</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2015 06:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s one more image of the Kinkakuji temple in Kyoto. I wanted to post this separately as I felt that the Kyōko-chi pond (the Mirror Pond) deserved attention. The reason the pond, designed in the Muromachi period, is called the name Mirror pond is that it reflects the Golden Pavilion. It contains 10 small islands, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Five views of the Golden Pavilion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2015 06:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a time for words and a time for images, and now&#8217;s the latter. I already wrote about the Rokuonji temple in a previous post so I won&#8217;t go into detail about its history anymore. Instead I decided to show the temple&#8217;s main attraction, Kinkaku, the golden pavilion from different angles that you see when [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sunset at Kinkakuji</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2015 10:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After a quick tour at the Nijo Castle, we headed to the final destination of the day, the famous Kinkakuji temple or the Temple of the Golden Pavilion. The official name of the temple is Rokuonji, but Kinkakuji has become the more common name for it. it is probably one of the most famous buildings [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Nijō Castle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2015 18:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Ornate stairs at Kiyomizudera</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2015 06:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Often when visiting a new place, I tend to photograph wider landscapes to record an overall picture of the place. While I think it&#8217;s important to make those images as well and I primarily shoot landscapes, it often results in overlooking the details of the place. Looking at the photographs others have taken from locations [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kiyomizudera and Kyoto skyline</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2015 21:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If the view of Kyoto I posted earlier is a classic view from Kiyomizudera, this one is downright iconic. You can see the Kiyomizudera temple and its three-story pagoda from this angle from the viewing platform right next to the Oku-no-in hall. With this image I wanted to go the traditional route without subtle post-processing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>A classic view of Kyoto</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2015 12:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This image was taken at the Kiyomizudera temple on a path that leads from the Oku-no-in hall down to the Otowa waterfalls. It&#8217;s one of the views of Kyoto that most visitors probably photograph (just do a search for &#8220;Kiyomizudera&#8221; and &#8220;Kyoto cityscape&#8221;), so I wanted to try to make my version a bit more [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Kiyomizudera</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2015 21:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I took a longer-than-expected break from the blog and social media in general, but I&#8217;m back and have loads of new images to upload. I&#8217;ll start with a bunch of photos from the famous Kiyomizudera temple in Kyoto, but before we get to the images, I have some housekeeping to do: the print contest is over [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Streets of Higashiyama</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2015 16:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t done a longer photo post in ages so instead of writing about the streets of Higashiyama, I decided to show them. These are shots from the Higashiyama area in Kyoto, taken between a relatively short distance from the Jingu Michi road to Kiyomizudera temple. The gate in the above photo is Sanmon, the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Shōren-in temple</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2015 06:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Shoren-in temple is one of the five Monzeki temples of the Tendai sect in Kyoto. It was built in the late 13th century, and it was formerly the temple of the imperial abbot of the Tendai headquarters on Mount Hiei. After the Great Kyoto Fire of 1788, the temple was used as a temporary imperial [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Print giveaway!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2015 16:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s giveaway time! A couple of days ago I noticed that my recently posted image of the Shoren-in temple in Kyoto was getting more attention in social media than most of what I post online, and it turned out to become one of my most popular images. What made me even more happy about it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>An ancient tree at the Shōren-in temple</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2015 05:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jingu Michi road is abundant with buddhist temples and shinto shrines that offer a lot to see. One of the things that drew my attention were these old ancient trees at the Shōren-in temple&#8217;s website, a buddhist temple of the Tendai sect. This time we decided to admire the Camphor trees from the street instead [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Jingu Michi</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2015 05:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Jingu Michi is a road stretching from the Heian Shrine to Maruyama Park near Chion-in temple on Wikipedia temple. Our planned route was to walk along Jingu Michi to the park, then continue along Nene no michi at Japanvisitor.com, a famous flagstone road to ninenzaka and sannenzaka and finally to the Kiyomizudera temple on Wikipedia. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Autumn at Okazaki Canal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2015 05:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This view of Okazaki Canal was shot at the same spot than the one I posted previously, but to the opposite direction. The A view east along Okazaki Canal on Explodingfish.net shows the view East towards the city while this one shows autumn at Okazaki Canal and a view west towards the Higashiyama mountain range. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Heian Shrine’s torii gate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2015 05:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s one more shot of Heian Shrine&#8217;s torii gate. I took this on the way to our next stop and tried to capture the gate from below to emphasize its size. I&#8217;m not sure if this image really conveys its enormity, but I do like the contrast between the red gate and the blue sky. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Omikuji at the Heian Shrine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2015 05:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Omikuji are fortunes written on strips of paper that visitors can buy at Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples. People can make a small donation and select a random fortune from a box. The omikuji contains a general fortune which varies between great luck and great curse. The fortune paper also includes fortunes regarding different aspects [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Prayer plaques at the Heian shrine (and a giveaway!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2015 06:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[See this photo on Flickr First things first: I&#8217;m currently running a giveaway on Google+ and Instagram! A Japanese friend of mine sent me a few copies of his band&#8217;s new album &#8220;Adaptation&#8221;, so I decided to give them to someone who might like the music. Participating is simple and doesn&#8217;t require you to follow [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Heian Shrine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2015 05:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a short walk from the giant torii gate to the actual shrine. You enter the shrine through the main gate, called Ôtenmon, pictured above. The Heian shrine is a shinto shrine built in 1895 to commemorate the 1100th anniversary of Kyoto, and it was modeled after the old Kyoto Imperial Palace. In reality, many [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2015 19:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We started our shrine tour from the Heian Shrine. The whole shrine area is quite impressive in its size, but one of the most notable features of the shrine is the huge torii gate on Jingu Michi road. The gate is built in 1929 and, according to statistics from 2006, at 24.2 meters it is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Okazaki Canal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2015 06:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This location is on Jingu Michi Street, right next to the Heian Shrine&#8217;s great torii gate. You can see the gate and its surroundings on Google Street View on the map below. Although Okazaki Canal might not be as beautiful in the autumn as it is in spring, when the cherry trees on the banks [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Shirakawa Canal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2015 06:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[See this photo on Flickr On our second day in Kyoto (and the fifth morning in Japan) the rain finally stopped and we were greeted by a beautiful morning. Because we&#8217;d crashed out early the night before, we woke up at about 6 a.m. After breakfast we quickly packed our stuff and took our backpacks [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2015 06:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The morning after we returned from Sendai we left Tokyo again, this time for Kyoto. We managed to got up early enough to be on our way to Shinjuku and Tokyo Station at 8 a.m. We’d already developed a routine for the mornings, which made getting on the way faster. This time we bought the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>New year, new tricks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2015 07:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re already well into 2015 and I&#8217;m ashamed to notice that I&#8217;ve let this blog and my other social media endeavors wither as I&#8217;ve become busy with all kinds of work and photography-related things. That is about to change, however. As an unofficial new year&#8217;s resolution I&#8217;ve decided to post more images this year and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Nikka’s Miyagikyo Distillery</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2015 10:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nikka distilleries were established by a man called Masataka Taketsuru, who established the company&#8217;s first distillery in Yoichi in Hokkaido in 1934. The Miyagikyo distillery in Sendai was established in 1969. Interestingly, before launching his own company, Taketsuru helped to establish Japan&#8217;s first distillery for the company that would become Suntory. There&#8217;s a short history [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2014 21:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We finally arrived in Sakunami a little past noon. Although the distance between Ayashi and Sakunami is only about 13 kilometers, it still took about 20 minutes to get there. When we stopped at Ayashi, I thought it was a quiet little station, but compared to Sakunami it was actually quite busy. Sakunami station was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Day 4 – Ayashi</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2014 09:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After the dance performance, we hopped on a train that would take us to our next destination, Nikka&#8217;s whisky distillery in Sakunami! Actually the first train took us only half way there, to a small town called Ayashi, where we had to wait for another half an hour for a train to Sakunami. See this [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>1.10.2009 – Day 4: Dancers at Sendai Station</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2014 12:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[See this photo on Flickr The great thing about traveling is that you never know what happens next. When we got to the station, we noticed that it was unusually crowded and there were a dozen mascots standing in a row inside the station. It seems that the city of Sendai and Miyagi prefecture organized [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>1.10.2009 – Day 4, part 1: Sendai in three photos</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2014 08:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We woke up early because we had a busy day ahead of us. After a sturdy breakfast we checked some details from the Internet at the hotel lobby, packed our gear and headed back to Sendai station. Here&#8217;s a few images from the walk back. These are not very representative of any tourist attractions Sendai [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>30.9.2009 – Sendai at night</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2014 07:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After resting for a while, we decided to hit the town. We had planned to find a restaurant that serves a local specialty, cow tongue, but decided that cows need their tongues more than we do. Instead, we walked around in department stores, of which there are plenty around the train station, bought a sushi [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ryokan Chitoseya</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2014 10:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Since we hadn&#8217;t booked a hostel in advance, we had to settle for what was available when we got there. The nice people at the tourist counter managed to arrange us a room at a traditional hostel called Ryokan Chitoseya (also called Chitose Youth Hostel). Chitoseya isn&#8217;t located too far from the station &#8211; it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Tomorrow everything will be better</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 15:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still working on bringing my old travel blog over to the new site, but I&#8217;ve also been working on some old images. This one was taken in Sendai and I intended to process it as a &#8220;realistic&#8221; travel image until I realized that there was a person in this image. I can&#8217;t believe that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Endless horizon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2014 08:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I know I promised to upload travel photos, but I stumbled upon this image from the flight from Helsinki to Paris and wanted to upload it first. I didn&#8217;t actually get to see Paris, but we had a short layover at Charles de Gaulle airport when we visited Japan in 2009. I was going to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Evening flight</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m slowly working through my back catalogue of images and although I&#8217;m not finding as many gems as I wanted, there is an occasional image that I like. This was a pretty simple image to finish. I cropped the image to square format to get rid of the needless space on the edges and removed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A bumblebee on a Tansy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2014 10:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Bumblebees are busy little fellows and surprisingly fast when you try to capture them. I wasn&#8217;t even using a proper macro lens, but the depth of field was still narrow enough to make it difficult. After an hour of trying, this was the best image I got. I took this on the same evening as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A fireweed flower on a meadow</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jan 2014 08:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[First of all, Happy New Year! This image of fireweed flowers caused me some grief because I wasn&#8217;t sure what to do with it. The original framing left too much space around the flowers and there was nothing in the image to catch your eye. After trying a few different cropping options, the square format [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A couple looking at a bonfire</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2013 10:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The holiday is over and its time to head back home. This is the last image from the midsummer series, but I&#8217;m going to stick with the summer images for the time being. With the temperature being above zero and the constant rain there isn&#8217;t much to photograph right now. Unlike the previous image that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A midsummer silhouette</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 15:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s some light for your Christmas eve. It&#8217;s not a very festive image, but I don&#8217;t have access to my images at the moment as I&#8217;m not home during the holidays. I&#8217;ll take a couple of days off from blogging during the holidays and return with more images after Christmas. Meanwhile, have a Merry Christmas, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2046</post-id>	<dc:creator>explodingfish.net@gmail.com (Sami)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Midsummer bonfire</title>
		<link>https://explodingfish.net/2013/12/20/midsummer-bonfire/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=midsummer-bonfire</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 10:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s some light for the darkest time of the year. It&#8217;s interesting how old non-Christian traditions like burning a bonfire still live on in a society that has been prevalently Christian for hundreds of years. I hope these traditions continue to be part of our lives in the future. Happy winter solstice, everyone! See this [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2045</post-id>	<dc:creator>explodingfish.net@gmail.com (Sami)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Midsummer eve</title>
		<link>https://explodingfish.net/2013/12/19/midsummer-eve/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=midsummer-eve</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2013 10:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s almost time for winter solstice, but my image editing odyssey has brought me to a set of images from another of our great pagan festivities, midsummer eve. I took these a few years back in Kuokkala where the city of Jyväskylä was burning a bonfire. It attracted a fair number of city-dwellers and provided [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2043</post-id>	<dc:creator>explodingfish.net@gmail.com (Sami)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Waiting for the train</title>
		<link>https://explodingfish.net/2013/12/11/waiting-for-the-train/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=waiting-for-the-train</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Dec 2013 19:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t consider myself a street photographer, but I like to photograph people in their environments, especially when I&#8217;m traveling. I saw this young woman waiting for a train at Helsinki railway station from the platform I was standing at and thought that the train cars provided interesting frames for the image. I didn&#8217;t see [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2041</post-id>	<dc:creator>explodingfish.net@gmail.com (Sami)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Heikki Hallanoro at Bar Vakiopaine</title>
		<link>https://explodingfish.net/2013/12/09/heikki-hallanoro-at-bar-vakiopaine/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=heikki-hallanoro-at-bar-vakiopaine</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2013 17:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that I was going to see a friend of mine play at a local bar and promised to post some images later. It took me a while, but here&#8217;s one of my favorites from that evening. Needless to say, the show was great and entertaining as he was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2039</post-id>	<dc:creator>explodingfish.net@gmail.com (Sami)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Quiet sunset at Lake Tuomiojärvi</title>
		<link>https://explodingfish.net/2013/11/25/quiet-sunset-at-lake-tuomiojarvi/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=quiet-sunset-at-lake-tuomiojarvi</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 21:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A simple click of Lake Tuomiojärvi I made during an evening walk. It&#8217;s a shame I didn&#8217;t take more than one photo of this beautiful scene, but then again, this one photo is all I need to remember the moment. See this photo on Flickr]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2023</post-id>	<dc:creator>explodingfish.net@gmail.com (Sami)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Autumn leaves in the wind</title>
		<link>https://explodingfish.net/2013/11/19/autumn-leaves-in-the-wind/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=autumn-leaves-in-the-wind</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2013 09:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s one more autumn image to start the week. One of my goals this autumn was to photograph leaves flying in the wind. There was a strong wind on the morning I took this photo and I knew it was probably one of the last days before all the leaves were gone. I saw these [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2022</post-id>	<dc:creator>explodingfish.net@gmail.com (Sami)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Maple leaf</title>
		<link>https://explodingfish.net/2013/11/15/maple-leaf/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=maple-leaf</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2013 13:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A quick update for Friday afternoon before I have to get going. Here&#8217;s the second image from the autumn series I shot a month ago. When it comes to autumn and mobile phone photos, a hand holding a maple leaf against the sky or sun is probably one of the most common photographic clichés. Still, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2020</post-id>	<dc:creator>explodingfish.net@gmail.com (Sami)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Autumn at Lake Palokkajärvi</title>
		<link>https://explodingfish.net/2013/11/13/autumn-at-lake-palokkajarvi/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=autumn-at-lake-palokkajarvi</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2013 10:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Autumn is almost over and the leaves are already gone, but I haven&#8217;t had time to post any autumn images yet. I&#8217;m going to fix that by posting a series of images I took on a beautiful morning in early October. This boat is one of many boats on the shore of Lake Palokkajärvi. I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2019</post-id>	<dc:creator>explodingfish.net@gmail.com (Sami)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Long and winding road</title>
		<link>https://explodingfish.net/2013/11/11/long-and-winding-road/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=long-and-winding-road</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2013 10:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m trying to catch up with posting images I&#8217;ve post-processed recently. I took this one in May only a few hundred meters from where I live. I liked the original version, but thought it was a bit too light. Because the image already had a painterly quality to it, I decided to emphasize it by [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2017</post-id>	<dc:creator>explodingfish.net@gmail.com (Sami)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Pappilanjoki River on a sunny spring day</title>
		<link>https://explodingfish.net/2013/11/04/may-10-2009-kosulanlampi-2/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=may-10-2009-kosulanlampi-2</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2013 10:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This image was pulled from the previous version of this blog. I took it in Rantasalmi, my home town, a few years ago on a sunny spring day. There&#8217;s a small river called Pappilanjoki (Parsonage&#8217;s river) that connects two lakes, Lake Kosulanlampi and Pieni Raudanvesi. Both Lake Kosulanlampi and the river have become eutrophic due [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2014</post-id>	<dc:creator>explodingfish.net@gmail.com (Sami)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Apartment buildings lit by the setting sun</title>
		<link>https://explodingfish.net/2013/10/07/april-30-2009-kuokkala/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=april-30-2009-kuokkala</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sunset reflecting on windows of apartment buildings in Kuokkala and apartment buildings reflecting on Lake Jyväsjärvi. This photo was taken on Kuokkala bridge from where there&#8217;s a nice view to both the city and the lake. This in an older image that I&#8217;ve previously published on the old incarnation of this website, but I recently [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2013</post-id>	<dc:creator>explodingfish.net@gmail.com (Sami)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>The first spring flower</title>
		<link>https://explodingfish.net/2013/10/03/the-first-spring-flower/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=the-first-spring-flower</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 11:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[bloom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Color Image]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coltsfoot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flower]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forest]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[leaf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leaves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new life]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[This image of a coltsfoot in spring forest is one of the older photos I&#8217;ve been post-processing recently. It was taken on the same evening as the series of spring leaves I&#8217;ve been uploading on my Tumblr blog. Originally this image had warmer light and it was a bit soft, so I accentuated the details [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2012</post-id>	<dc:creator>explodingfish.net@gmail.com (Sami)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>A bohemian waxwing eating a rowan berry</title>
		<link>https://explodingfish.net/2013/09/23/a-bohemian-waxwing-eating-a-rowan-berry/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=a-bohemian-waxwing-eating-a-rowan-berry</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2013 09:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[To continue the bird theme of the previous image I posted, here&#8217;s an older one from last winter. Unlike the last one, this image hasn&#8217;t been modified if you don&#8217;t count slight cropping. A flock of waxwings were feeding right next to the road one morning last October and provided a good opportunity to get [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2011</post-id>	<dc:creator>explodingfish.net@gmail.com (Sami)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Great tit on a red fence</title>
		<link>https://explodingfish.net/2013/09/19/great-tit-on-a-red-fence/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=great-tit-on-a-red-fence</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Sep 2013 09:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[environmental portrait]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Birds are one of my favorite subjects. I&#8217;m not particularly picky about what birds I photograph as long as I&#8217;m happy with the final image. Because I&#8217;m not taking these photos for a competition or National Geographic, I don&#8217;t mind adding things to the images or removing stuff in post-processing if I think it will [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2010</post-id>	<dc:creator>explodingfish.net@gmail.com (Sami)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Rhinoceros ratsnake</title>
		<link>https://explodingfish.net/2013/09/11/rhinoceros-ratsnake/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rhinoceros-ratsnake</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Sep 2013 09:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Rhinoceros ratsnake seems to have quite a few names, such as as Vietnamese longnose snake, and it must be the funniest looking snake in the world. Unfortunately I couldn&#8217;t go to Vietnam to photograph this one, but had to settle for Helsinki Zoo. See this image on Flickr]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2009</post-id>	<dc:creator>explodingfish.net@gmail.com (Sami)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Meet Myyrä the Cat</title>
		<link>https://explodingfish.net/2013/09/09/meet-myyra-the-cat/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=meet-myyra-the-cat</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 09:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is Myyrä the cat, the newest member of our household. The photo was taken when she was a bit over 11 weeks old, a week before she moved in with us. She&#8217;s now 16 weeks old and growing up to be a fine cat. See this image on Flickr License this photo on Getty [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2008</post-id>	<dc:creator>explodingfish.net@gmail.com (Sami)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>A train at Pieksämäki Station</title>
		<link>https://explodingfish.net/2013/09/06/train-at-pieksamaki-station/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=train-at-pieksamaki-station</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2013 09:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I visited my home town recently to meet some friends. On the way back to Jyväskylä I had to wait for the train at Pieksämäki station, and having nothing better to do, I snapped a few photos with my phone. I&#8217;ve actually posted a couple of those photos on Tumblr, including another version of this [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2006</post-id>	<dc:creator>explodingfish.net@gmail.com (Sami)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Reeds and falling snow</title>
		<link>https://explodingfish.net/2013/09/04/reeds-and-falling-snow/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=reeds-and-falling-snow</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 09:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I took this photo very shortly after I purchased my first DSLR, but it&#8217;s still one of my favorites. It is one of the few of my early images that came out the way I wanted despite my very limited skillset and now after post-processing it again, it looks even better. The photo was taken [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2005</post-id>	<dc:creator>explodingfish.net@gmail.com (Sami)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Black-headed gull diving into water</title>
		<link>https://explodingfish.net/2013/09/02/black-headed-gull-diving-into-water/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=black-headed-gull-diving-into-water</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Sep 2013 09:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I see these gulls circling over the lake almost every day and had planned on spending some time with them. Last May I finally took a moment to photograph them at a bay near our house. Not a perfect shot, but probably the best out of the bunch. Next time I have to reserve more [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2004</post-id>	<dc:creator>explodingfish.net@gmail.com (Sami)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Misty sunset at Lake Palokkajärvi</title>
		<link>https://explodingfish.net/2013/08/26/misty-sunset-at-lake-palokkajarvi/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=misty-sunset-at-lake-palokkajarvi</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 09:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I think misty nights like this are one of the nicest things about Finnish summer. In this case, I don&#8217;t even regret that I didn&#8217;t have a DSLR with me because the mobile phone did a fairly good job in capturing the scene. I created the image by merging three exposures in Photoshop and removing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">2003</post-id>	<dc:creator>explodingfish.net@gmail.com (Sami)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Fishing by the lake</title>
		<link>https://explodingfish.net/2013/08/19/fishing-by-the-lake/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=fishing-by-the-lake</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 07:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In July, I visited my home town in Eastern Finland. These visits usually include swimming in the lake and going to sauna. After we&#8217;d done swimming, I took a few sunset shots on the shore and my father spent a while casting his fishing rod. For some reason, I haven&#8217;t got that many photographs of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">1999</post-id>	<dc:creator>explodingfish.net@gmail.com (Sami)</dc:creator></item>
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		<title>Photographing traditional Japanese martial arts</title>
		<link>https://explodingfish.net/2013/08/05/photographing-traditional-japanese-martial-arts/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=photographing-traditional-japanese-martial-arts</link>
		
		
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 09:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago a friend of mine asked me to photograph a Suiō-ryū Iai Kenpō seminar here in Jyväskylä. Suiō-ryū Iai Kenpō is a style of classical Japanese swordsmanship, and what made this seminar special was that the sōke, or grand master, of Suio-ryu participated in it with a number of other teachers from [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jul 2013 16:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I went out to photograph the sunset on a cold January afternoon because it looked like there might some nice colors in the sky. As I was looking for a good position, this man skied past me and I knew I had to get him in the frame with the sun. I had my camera [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A great tit with snow on its beak</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jul 2013 12:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I took this photo of a great tit last December on one of the last days of the year. We spent a day away from the city near Pieksämäki. It was a fairly cold day, but very productive in terms of bird photography. I haven&#8217;t had the time to go through all the images yet, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Sunset on a hill</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jun 2013 09:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a small hill with a relatively nice view near our apartment where we sometimes go. I originally shot this photo bracketed to make an HDR image, but ended up using only one exposure. Apart from the sun there wasn&#8217;t much need for the extra dynamic range. I think I&#8217;ll try to make the HDR [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Crows over a lake</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 11:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This image is also from 2007. It was taken just a little after the one I posted earlier. Well, actually it&#8217;s a composite of a few photos, but the base image was taken in 2007. This year I plan to do more processing than before, so some of these experiments might go a bit over [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Walker</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jun 2013 09:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another image from 2007. Google was kind enough to give me a free copy of Nik&#8217;s plugin bundle and this was the first image tested it on. I used a very randomly selected set of filters from Color Efex to get this look and the image instantly became one of my favorites. As a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Winter sunset</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been going through old photos again and trying new processing techniques on them. I haven&#8217;t used textures before, but I think after this experiment I&#8217;m going to try to use them more often. The original photo was taken in 2007 on a frozen lake in Eastern Finland. By the way, I have a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>New beginning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 09:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[See this photo on Flickr I&#8217;ve neglected the blog for quite a while again, partly due to work and partly because I was updating the layout. Finally everything works almost as it should so it&#8217;s time to start posting new photos. I have also decided to move my old photo blog at scumbucket.explodingfish.net to explodingfish.net. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>30.9.2009 – Day 3, part 1: Tokyo-Sendai</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On the third day our plan was simply to get ourselves to Sendai. We&#8217;d planned to get up early, but that didn&#8217;t happen because of jet lag and we ended up leaving to the station at noon. We stopped by a convenience store on the way to the station to get breakfast and umbrellas because [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>29.9.2009 – Day 2, part 2: Tokyo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Luckily our friend called us soon afterwards and told us that he&#8217;d managed to take care of whatever business he had and that we could head to his apartment in Chôfu. We had some lunch in a MOS Burger near the station while waiting for my friend, handed him some souvenir chocolates, cleaned up and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>29.9.2009 – Day 2, part 1: Are we in Tokyo?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We landed at Narita airport at 6:50 am. It was raining, just as we thought when we left Finland, but despite the rain the weather was really warm. As we got out of the plane, we were greeted by the warm air that felt pleasent after the long flight. I still remember how strange that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>28.9.2009 – Day 1, part 2: Paris – Tokyo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We had a two-hour layover at Charles de Gaulle Airport meaning we just had time to move to another terminal, pass the security check and do some souvenir shopping before boarding the flight. One thing that I find really annoying about this airport is that in addition to checking my laptop, they made me unpack [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>28.9.2009 – Day 1, part 1: Helsinki – Paris</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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We woke up at 4:15 am and after a couple of cups of coffee and final packing manouvers we left to the airport at 5:30. It was raining and the weather was freezing in Helsinki, so leaving to Japan for three weeks was feeling like a better idea all the time. We were pretty sure [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>27.9.2009 – Day 0: Helsinki</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I originally created this site as a travel blog when I visited Japan in 2009. This site has since gone throuh a number of changes and it&#8217;s now more of a photography site than a travel blog. I wanted to keep the original travel entries here, however, because personally I like to read this kind [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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