Tallinn Daily Photo

Tallinn Photographer Wanted

2007-07-22T19:13:00.000+03:00

Thanks to Everyone for their kind, wacky, interesting comments. And my apologies for not answering anything. I no longer live in Tallinn so the site is available to any photographer who wishes to take over. Just drop me a line and we'll arrange the transfer.

Tallinn Daily Photo:vacancy for photographer!

2006-10-27T13:53:00.000+03:00

Hello All,
Those who visited this site at any time must have noticed I stopped posting a while ago. Basically, I am swamped in work and realised that I was actually not even going out enough to take photos anyway. So it's on hold. But: if anyone knows a Tallinner who would like to take over the site, ask them to contact me. Otherwise, it has to wait till I've got my head above water again.

2006-09-15T21:28:00.000+03:00

In the park.

2006-09-14T11:29:00.000+03:00

The same. Daytime.

2006-09-13T22:36:00.000+03:00

Nuit.

2006-09-12T21:24:00.000+03:00

Tuesday disappeared in a nightmare of computing. To compensate my crowds of downcast viewers, a (retrodated) picture of electrical sheathes.

2006-09-11T21:52:00.000+03:00

Diplomatic car.

2006-09-10T13:44:00.000+03:00

View down Viru tänav (street) one sunny afternoon

2006-09-09T20:12:00.000+03:00

Street sign, and no prizes for guessing anything.

2006-09-07T11:34:00.000+03:00

Front of the Russian Museum. There are even rumours it might open one day.

2006-09-06T20:03:00.000+03:00

A quiet street in Tallinn old town.

2006-09-05T15:39:00.000+03:00

Only one came down.

2006-09-04T18:59:00.000+03:00

And this one, peeking its onion skull from behind the trees, is St Basil's

2006-09-03T11:22:00.000+03:00

Without sticking my hand in the fire, I think this one is St Michael's Swedish church.

2006-09-02T05:25:00.000+03:00

Kiddies' time at the outdoor opera. (Trouty got the pancake!)

2006-09-01T07:57:00.000+03:00

Factory visit.

2006-08-31T22:21:00.000+03:00

Beats Nintendo any day.

2006-08-30T20:45:00.000+03:00

And what else at the end of the yellow brick road?

2006-08-29T20:54:00.000+03:00

Evening.

2006-08-28T14:27:00.000+03:00

And here it is a day or so later. Anyone interested should type "Coprinus comatus" in Google and find out why.

2006-08-27T22:59:00.000+03:00

The shaggy mane mushroom, Coprinus comatus, also known as inky cap or "lawyer's wig". Interesting one this, stay tuned...

2006-08-26T18:30:00.000+03:00

Any ideas?

2006-08-25T01:19:00.000+03:00

And this one is almost certainly the same as yesterday's, but found a couple of kms away in a park. (The same... same species not same individual. Fungi may be highly air-transmissible, but either as spores or mushroom pancakes.)

2006-08-24T12:09:00.000+03:00

Back to mushrooms. I only have a moderate interest in fungi. Once, though, at a lecture at the British Natural History Museum, I was very surprised to hear that a very much larger proportion of mushrooms are edible than actually believed. One rather startling story was that one species, identified empirically as poisonous in western Europe was considered a delicacy in Russia. Yes: identical, same chemical composition, same everything, different expectations, different effects.

2006-08-23T20:40:00.000+03:00

And today, for the birthday of my friend and mystery DailyPhotoBlogger, a gift.

2006-08-22T16:58:00.000+03:00

Sunset on cyclists.

2006-08-21T22:13:00.000+03:00

Summer comes to an end.

2006-08-20T13:55:00.000+03:00

Today, 20th August, is one of Estonia's various Days of Independence, this time from Soviet rule in 1991 after the 5-year-long Singing Revolution. Today, the Presidential Palace gates are open for people to see the gardens and hear the bands.

2006-08-19T00:55:00.000+03:00

Museum visitors

2006-08-18T22:45:00.000+03:00

Building in town centre

2006-08-17T01:37:00.000+03:00

Ye Olde rustic woodman's cottage, sort of. How many cities would you see the like of this ten minutes' walk from the centre?
PS: to compensate for my own rather uninspiring photography (waiting for someone to take over TallinnDailyPhoto...), check my new link of Estonia photos below

2006-08-16T11:21:00.000+03:00

They say all these old railway lines will disappear one day (when enough dollars or euros have been pumped in), allowing the sidings and shunting-yards to metamorphose into splendid new homes...

2006-08-15T16:55:00.000+03:00

One of the old buildings in Kopli, a one-time elegant residential neighbourhood which has undergone several social upheavals over the past 50-80 years. Who knows, in another 10 years, it may be up again?

2006-08-14T23:32:00.000+03:00

Yet another new building in Tallinn.

2006-08-13T22:39:00.000+03:00

I'm sure they're going to stop laying those tracks before they get to the wall.

2006-08-12T01:34:00.000+03:00

Couple

2006-08-11T23:32:00.000+03:00

Man contemplating the odds of having a smoke and his significant other not noticing.

2006-08-10T22:04:00.000+03:00

Another ot Tallinn's tower, currently under repair due to attack by 16th-C Lithuanian brethren

2006-08-09T05:41:00.000+03:00

What better place to write (spray) grafitti?

2006-08-08T22:40:00.000+03:00

This time they managed to get the walls straight.

2006-08-07T09:42:00.000+03:00

Brand new: they dug up the plot and pitched these 50 or so huts in about five weeks (I'm probably exaggerating).

2006-08-06T22:57:00.000+03:00

One of the older houses in north Tallinn, a bit too close to the tram for peace and quiet, but good to have public transport nearby.

2006-08-05T02:47:00.000+03:00

Don't know what this building near the station is (or was).

2006-08-04T22:45:00.000+03:00

Amazing what a car and a bottle of vodka can do to a wooden house.

2006-08-03T16:04:00.000+03:00

One of Tallinn's many medieval towers. For (a little) more information, see Kiek in de Kök

2006-08-02T03:18:00.000+03:00

And a couple of goths for good measure. Locals (I heard them talk).

2006-08-01T23:13:00.000+03:00

I noticed that I rarely have people in my pictures. To compensate, here is Viru, Tallinn olde towne maine dragge, on a busy day. Some of the people may be short-term visitors to the capital.

2006-07-31T07:54:00.000+03:00

Any guesses what this is?

2006-07-30T21:53:00.000+03:00

Another odd building in northern Tallinn

2006-07-29T21:36:00.000+03:00

Street in northern Tallinn, sometime last autumn.

2006-07-28T16:45:00.000+03:00

Sunset.

2006-07-27T16:39:00.000+03:00

Part of the beauty of Tallinn lies in its innocent paradoxicality. Here, a tumble-down part of town bustling with lots ready to be devoured by concrete sky-rise, still half-heartedly rusting its Soviet past away, and in the middle, regularly-painted (i.e. every 20 years) a lighthouse. Sometimes even Tallinn itself forgets that it's a port.

2006-07-26T21:13:00.000+03:00

Rabbit-proof fence opening out of the defunct Tivoli fairground of Tallinn. There are rumours that someone may even develop the land. Well, well, what a surprise...

2006-07-25T14:04:00.000+03:00

Wall.

2006-07-24T22:25:00.000+03:00

I understand this building belongs to a Tallinn transport authority, but what its purpose is I don’t know. Looks like it’s been empty for years.

2006-07-23T11:59:00.000+03:00

Tallinn super mare: not a melanin-invigorated cell in sight...

2006-07-22T22:25:00.000+03:00

While parts of town are being demolished - listed building or nay - at an urgent pace, others remain blissfully unaware of the 21st century. This one even had a security guard determined to stop me photographing the high-tech premises and sell the photos to the highest industrial bidder.

2006-07-21T23:08:00.000+03:00

No caption.

2006-07-20T23:06:00.000+03:00

Moved house (yesterday actually) and missed a post. Still summer, so still some interesting moonrises to see

2006-07-19T21:35:00.000+03:00

Statue in honour of the Russian ship Russalka which went down many (i.e. I don't know when) years ago.

2006-07-18T16:03:00.000+03:00

Red Sea, Tallinn...

2006-07-17T01:30:00.000+03:00

Stairs leading up to the attic in Tallinn's Tammsaare Memorial Museum

2006-07-16T21:55:00.000+03:00

No prizes for guessing what this is, but guess anyway...

2006-07-15T10:50:00.000+03:00

Still building...

2006-07-14T00:38:00.000+03:00

Tallinn race-track. Just a lazy afternoon with one horse training, then for three minutes: lightning.

2006-07-13T16:45:00.000+03:00

There's still some pagan stuff going on in the Baltic states, how much due to romantic aspirations for otherness I'm not sure, and Estonia leads the way in Europe for lowest church attendancy, but... Whatever, I like it here.

2006-07-12T22:44:00.000+03:00

Even Babylon never had it so good: rooftop parking, with spaces!

2006-07-11T22:01:00.000+03:00

Apart from the now well-established Russian community, scions of former "voluntary" emigrants for Soviet glory, numbering 20+% of the population, the remaining nouveau Estoniens can be numbered in digits rather than percentages. The Indian cohort can, I'm told, be counted on the fingers of both hands, as long as you're decimodactyl.

2006-07-10T17:53:00.000+03:00

What is this? Ideas?...

2006-07-09T22:44:00.000+03:00

Ants.

2006-07-08T01:00:00.000+03:00

As to this guy, either a Rasta who seriously dreads shaving, or someone who didn't agree with his dinner.

2006-07-07T16:15:00.000+03:00

Estonian alcoholics don't just die, they deliquesce.

2006-07-06T02:26:00.000+03:00

Herring-gull and cat on a window-ledge, cabbage soup in the background.

2006-07-05T22:28:00.000+03:00

Did they build these houses to save money on curtain material? Or were they just very tall?

2006-07-04T18:59:00.000+03:00

Tallinn rooftop scene: 1 pigeon, 3 builders, 2 planks (+ clouds, misc.).

2006-07-03T16:49:00.000+03:00

Curious-looking tree.

2006-07-02T11:58:00.000+03:00

View up the wall of the Holy Ghost church in Tallinn.

2006-07-01T16:19:00.000+03:00

And what exactly this is I don't know - a shrine maybe -, found it in north Tallinn close to Kungla street and the "Estonia" piano factory. If I find out, I'll post.

2006-06-30T23:32:00.000+03:00

View of the Church of St. Simeon and Prophetess Hanna, originally built in the mid 18th C.

2006-06-29T19:31:00.000+03:00

Pointy roof of building in the old town.

2006-06-28T19:24:00.000+03:00

Tallinn town-wall and ramparts.

2006-06-27T01:17:00.000+03:00

And here, to prove we're not lacking in courtyards, is another one...

2006-06-26T19:14:00.000+03:00

With lunch served outdoors in a cobbled courtyard.

2006-06-25T23:12:00.000+03:00

Further down the same passageway, one of the cutest streets of Olde Tallinn.

2006-06-24T22:45:00.000+03:00

Saiakang, literally 'white bread passage' from days when only plebs ate healthy wholemeal bread. Following this, a week of pretty postcard pictures of (mainly) old-town Tallinn.

2006-06-23T21:23:00.000+03:00

Today it rained.

2006-06-22T19:14:00.000+03:00

Blue skies and silver blades: Tallinn's abandoned prison.
A philosophy student was given a paper to write: Can a good man be happy on the rack?
His dissertation was short: If he were a very good man and it were a very bad rack, then maybe.

2006-06-21T23:42:00.000+03:00

Caught in the act of being happy.

2006-06-20T15:06:00.000+03:00

Clock on the wall of the Holy Ghost church. Does any of my multitude of visitors notice any discrepancy?

2006-06-19T23:58:00.000+03:00

One of Tallinn's towers - which, I do not know...

2006-06-18T16:03:00.000+03:00

No caption.

2006-06-17T23:26:00.000+03:00

This is one of my favourite graffitis in Tallinn. There's something struggling about it, and a cross between baroque and Escher. Pink too.

2006-06-16T10:27:00.000+03:00

One of nature's take-aways.

2006-06-15T21:24:00.000+03:00

Afternoon light on one of the Tallinn Art School annex buildings

2006-06-14T23:21:00.000+03:00

Early morning in Kadriorg Park (early in the year too).

2006-06-13T20:52:00.000+03:00

Metallica Concert. Thousands of spotty geriatrics traipse out to a night of noise and beer. Surly bikers walk politely, and camp followers scavenge the empties.

2006-06-12T23:39:00.000+03:00

And what these are, I haven't got a clue either. Any ideas?

2006-06-11T10:22:00.000+03:00

A 10% discount on holiday let accommodation in Tallinn (available soon) to the first person able to tell me the name of this pink-flowered tree (no postcards please).

2006-06-10T22:24:00.000+03:00

Famous Estonian writer (and raven).

2006-06-09T22:03:00.000+03:00

Some roads just take longer to cross.