Picture Perfect: Horizons

One summer night,
out on a flat headland…

Tender Moments – before the sunset

I do not wish to think of snow, that we have by the bucket load!
I do not wish to think of cold, it is only freeezing!
I do not wish to think of winter …
So hence, this

Picture Perfect: Look-a-like

© Photo: Riihele. All rights reserved The sky looks like the water,the water looks like the sky, looking like they were painted in soft and muted watercolours… This photo was taken by me in Ein Bokek by the Dead Sea last year. The pic is totally untouched for it is as it was.  Here is [...]

Picture Perfect: CURVES

My curves are not crazy.
Henri Matisse(1869-1954)

KALANIT — Anemones

This is the time of the year, as it is the midwinter here in Finland, that I do so miss these scenes of Israel. In Israel, February is the month when the first trees start to blossom and also the spring flowers, like the Anemones aka Kalanit, in Hebrew, put their colourful show on all [...]

PICTURE PERFECT: WATER

“Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink…” It’s from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge – when the Ancient Mariner is stuck in the middle of the sea. Planet Earth has a total surface area of close to 197 million square miles. Most of this surface is covered by water. [...]

HOLOCAUST Memorial Day 27.1.

The photo is part of The Names at the Yad Vashem* Museum in Jerusalem by me. January 27, aka today is the annual official day for the remembrance of the victims of the Nazi-era worldwide and here is the what the UN has decreed on the same: “International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27) is an [...]

PICTURE PERFECT: ANTICIPATION

The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order. ”But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing [...]

On A Wing and A… Slide Show

  The slide show is a story of the flights which I took in May on the way to & from Israel via Vienna – the first few photos with the evening sky – then leaving Israel in the morning haze and landing on again in Vienna midday. The next flight is totally un-photographed simply [...]

Looking Good: HAIR

“I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.” Bette Davis (American actress 1908-1989) All of the females know the saying: ‘To have a Good Hair Day’ when everything of you and on you looks absolutely a million dollars! The opposite is also so familiar to us. I came to think of this [...]