Monday, January 17, 2011

The Extraordinary Ordinary - Wintry Muffin-Tops, Finland...


It's interesting how both snow and sand can, when present in quantity, 'buffer' - even out - their settings, providing an almost Pompeian dilution of details and features of the objects on which they lay. Granted, snow is usually seasonal whilst sand often occupies a bit more permanent, and thus perhaps more permeating, presence.

The included photos are probably a first submission of pictures from a series, all taken during a recent trip to Finland... As different as the context - in regards to their climate, nature vernacular and culture is - it's inviting to look for and speculate about the similarities between a country in northern Europe and a nation in the Gulf...










2 comments:

Hedvig said...

Lovely pictures Tom. And how you must have welcomed some wintery weather after the heat of Qatar! Love to the ladies.

Sophie x

Thomas Modeen said...

Thanks Sophie...

Finland was very lovely and seasonal... Right now Qatar is not too bad though, with about +18 in the morning and low 20ies in the afternoon...

Happy greetings to your family too...

Tom & the Dudettes...