Chinese New Year in Helsinki!
Feb 10th, 2008 by Juha Ylitalo
It might sound bit strange, but even Helsinki had its own celebration for Chinese New Year in last Wednesday. Event was held in area that used to be bus terminal, but is now days place for all kind of interesting events. I pretty much skipped the part, where they had food stands, travel agencies etc. and went straight to Töölönlahti for the main event, which was fireworks. Fireworks only lasted for something like five minutes, but that period was real blast.
Firework photos
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Beautiful. Chinese New Year and Helsinki just doesn’t seem right. I am used to a warmer climate and dragon dances.
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There would have been dragon dancers from Beijing in bus terminal, but those places are usually so crowded that I don’t even try to go there and take photographs about them.
What comes to weather, this year was pretty decent. Last year the bus terminal’s area had ice at the bottom and water on top of it so you had to be careful when you walked around there, but this year ground was free of snow, ice, etc. and temperature was couple degrees above freezing point (+2C or so) so it was easy to operate cameras, etc.
Wow, what a stunning shot! Happy New Year Greetings from Singapore … its not in China
it looked like trees to me.
not many photographers can take good shots of fireworks. good job.
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