Factory

Found from the vaults. Picture taken in 2016.

Great deal of photography is about exclusion. It is a magic of leaving things out from the picture, things the person who views the image does not necessary know about.

If you haven't ever visited Tampere Finland, and seen this building, you can not know what is around this view. You can't know how tall the building is, if it continues far to the left or right, or what is below. But you can use your imagination!

So, the picture is like a fictional book. You can complete the story with everything you have experienced before. Fill in the empty spaces not told. Build the rest with your dreams and nightmares. See the chimneys that reach the sky. Smell the smoke and hear the sounds of machines.

♫ Watching the Foundry from FREE Spunkshine debris by Spunkshine

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Pam J ^club

Superb commentary !

6 years ago.

Sami Serola (inactiv… ^club has replied to Pam J ^club

Thank you, Pam. That is something I once wrote on 'Shoot and Tell' blog I tried to get started with two of my online friends. It never succeeded.

I suppose I should now republish some of those articles of mine here at ipernity.

6 years ago.

Diane Putnam ^club

I hear pshhhhh-clank-clank-clank! I heard it immediately, before I read your comment. Quite an intimidating place, until I look at the lovely brick details.

6 years ago.

Sami Serola (inactiv… ^club has replied to Diane Putnam ^club

Thank you, Diane.

It is surprisingly noiseless factory. Good sound proofing I guess. It is a paper mill in the middle of the city.

Two more shots:

6 years ago.

Diane Putnam ^club has replied to Sami Serola (inactiv… ^club

Paper mill! In my experience, a paper mill smells hellishly horrible! Is there some Finnish magic to having it in the middle of a city?

6 years ago.

Sami Serola (inactiv… ^club has replied to Diane Putnam ^club

Surprisingly it does not smell. And I don't know why. They produce there some very special and quality paper, and they import the ready made cellulose from somewhere else. Maybe that is the reason why the factory does not smell.

6 years ago.

Sylvain Wiart has replied to Sami Serola (inactiv… ^club

Only the kraft paper factories smell hydrogen sulfide, but not only :-))

6 years ago.

Sami Serola (inactiv… ^club has replied to Sylvain Wiart

The imported pulp used at this factory is Bleached Chemi-ThermoMechanical Pulp (BCTMP). Maybe that also explains the lack of smell.

But yes, I remember the awful smell of kraft paper factory from my childhood, when I lived in town of Rauma on west coast. One got used to it, but when coming home from some long vacation trip, the smell was terrible =/

6 years ago. Edited 6 years ago.

aNNa schramm ^club

eine Fabrik aus schönem Backstein und danke für deine Geschichte ...

6 years ago.

Sami Serola (inactiv… ^club has replied to aNNa schramm ^club

Danke schön, aNNa.

6 years ago.

Ulrich John ^club

Toll ! And nice words ! Like them very much together !

6 years ago.

Sami Serola (inactiv… ^club has replied to Ulrich John ^club

Thank you very much, Ulrich.

6 years ago.

Gudrun ^club

Restricting your compostion to just a part of the factory does indeed inspire the viewers' imagination!

6 years ago.

Sami Serola (inactiv… ^club has replied to Gudrun ^club

Thank you, Gudrun. It is something I started to consider explicitly when having discussions concerning the aspect ratio. Image always lies! Because of the limitations of the space where the image gets represented, the image never can't show the whole context. One can of course try for example those 360 images, but even then there are several variables that remains "hidden".

6 years ago.

Boarischa Krautmo ^club

good shot!

6 years ago.

Sami Serola (inactiv… ^club has replied to Boarischa Krautmo ^club

Thank you, Boarischa.

6 years ago.

John FitzGerald ^club

I agree completely. ANd I just realized there's a statistical explanation here -- a photograph is a non-random sample, so we cannot know the accuracy with which it depicts the surroundings.

6 years ago.

Sami Serola (inactiv… ^club has replied to John FitzGerald ^club

I had to search and read to understand that, but I think I understood the point =D

It is for example fun to try capture "nature photographs" in the middle of the urban area. With careful composition one can find details that looks like taken somewhere in wilderness.

6 years ago.

Sylvain Wiart

avec ce cadrage serré, ça pourrait être à New-York !

6 years ago.

Sami Serola (inactiv… ^club has replied to Sylvain Wiart

Merci, Sylvain =)

Something like that. I for example like to make crops where tall buildings looks even taller and bigger than they really are:

6 years ago.

Gabi Lombardo ^club

great details - well seen.....

6 years ago.

raingirl ^club

Great write on this confident photo.

Perhaps you have already posted your other articles here on ipernity. I'd love to read them.

4 years ago.

Sami Serola (inactiv… ^club has replied to raingirl ^club

For a moment I had to figure out what you mean ;-)

Then I read through the old comments, and understood.

Here are the mentioned old articles, published elsewhere, when me and my two "old" friends still tried to rescue "Shoot & Tell".

shoottell.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-new-beginning.html
shoottell.blogspot.com

But it soon fell only on my shoulders. The very original group, we had at former MyOpera social media web site, was established and administrated by Eva: www.ipernity.com/home/2491154

Unfortunately we never really managed to get it work here at ipernity. So, the group got abandoned, and finally closed.

4 years ago. Edited 4 years ago.

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