State of Flickr App in Japan

Now that the new Flickr refresh is out, you’d wonder if Flickr is going to do anything about the Flickr iOS App availability in Japan.

Those adds to the app “Wherevr” that appear when browsing with iOS devices are so annoying since they take you nowhere, you get alert which reports that the item is not available in the Japanese store. Not quite wherevr.

Flickr got Refresh

Wow, so Flickr got refresh. It’s funny since I was just thinking about it.

I generally like the update from the visual sense; especially the default way of viewing photo streams. It just looks much better now that images are arranged into a kind of nice, beautiful layout.  The Terabyte thing doesn’t really matter to me since I don’t think I’ll ever upload that many photos and I have pro account anyway which doesn’t have the upload limit.

Overall, I’m really glad about the refresh and the cover photo is nice little touch. See my flickr here.

"Photographer"

Here is one more shots from my session with photographer Masashi Furuka.
© Masashi Furuka 2013

Evening Moment

Here’s one of the non-flash images I shot with X100. Had some big troubles with autofocus in this dim light. ISO3200 is really clean what comes to noise. In fact I added some grain to this in Lightroom to make the image look more dynamic.

I realized however that having flash is a must for this type of outdoor night photography.

Wrong fucking planet

During 3/11 disaster in Japan I was asked to write a story about Japan to a Finnish newspaper. I refused because I really didn’t know about Japan. I still cannot write story about Japan. Just like I can’t write story about Finland either. Sorry! Wrong fucking planet.