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Marina January 25th 04 05:12 PM

Pics: Ice Sculptures at the zoo
 
Last weekend and this weekend, an international competition in ice sculpting
was held at the Helsinki Zoo. I went to see some of it. Last week's
sculptures were exhibited, and this week's competitors were working on their
scupltures in front of the audience. I took my camera, of course, and here
are some of the pics.

In addition to some ice sculptures and the artists, I managed to snap some
pics of animals, mainly big cats. Both lions and tigers seemed to enjoy the
snow. There is also a sequence of the lynx trying to eat a bit of meat that
I think was partly frozen, judging from the faces the poor lynx made while
gnawing on it. The animals all have access to warm comfy houses all the
time, so they were out in the snow by choice.

http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/...bum?.dir=/c13c


--
Marina, Frank and Nikki
Email marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi
Pics at http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/frankiennikki


Debbie Wilson January 25th 04 05:26 PM

Marina wrote:

Last weekend and this weekend, an international competition in ice sculpting
was held at the Helsinki Zoo. I went to see some of it. Last week's
sculptures were exhibited, and this week's competitors were working on their
scupltures in front of the audience. I took my camera, of course, and here
are some of the pics.


(snip)

Fantastic pics Marina - thanks for sharing them! I particularly loved
the Mammoth mother and baby sculpture. Kind of a homage to the Ice Age,
I felt.

Also amused to see the very apt name of one competitor, 'Kimmo Frosti' -
well, it's apt in English, anyway ;-)

Deb.
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Marina January 25th 04 05:41 PM


"Debbie Wilson" wrote

Fantastic pics Marina - thanks for sharing them! I particularly loved
the Mammoth mother and baby sculpture. Kind of a homage to the Ice Age,
I felt.


Oh, yes, that wasn't in the competition, that was made by all the
competitors together. I liked it a lot (it reminded me of the portrait of my
Dad that hangs in the Science faculty of the university - the artist, Hubert
Pepper, painted a train of mammoths in the background. My Dad was a
palaeontologist). I only wish there had been some sunshine, because that
would have shown up the sculptures better. I took 65 pics and only posted
22, so a lot did not come out good enough. I'd also have liked to see the
mammoths in the dark, because they were lit up from behind with blue
lanterns. They probably look quite eery and alive in the dark.

Also amused to see the very apt name of one competitor, 'Kimmo Frosti' -
well, it's apt in English, anyway ;-)


LOL! In Swedish too, but not in Finnish. It's probably a loan from Swedish.

--
Marina, Frank and Nikki
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Pics at http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/frankiennikki


dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers January 25th 04 05:55 PM

Fine pictures, Auntie Marina. The cats are wonderful, but not as wonderful as
Frank, of course.

Purrs, Waffles


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Karen Chuplis January 25th 04 06:03 PM

in article , Marina at
wrote on 1/25/04 11:12 AM:

Last weekend and this weekend, an international competition in ice sculpting
was held at the Helsinki Zoo. I went to see some of it. Last week's
sculptures were exhibited, and this week's competitors were working on their
scupltures in front of the audience. I took my camera, of course, and here
are some of the pics.

In addition to some ice sculptures and the artists, I managed to snap some
pics of animals, mainly big cats. Both lions and tigers seemed to enjoy the
snow. There is also a sequence of the lynx trying to eat a bit of meat that
I think was partly frozen, judging from the faces the poor lynx made while
gnawing on it. The animals all have access to warm comfy houses all the
time, so they were out in the snow by choice.

http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/...bum?.dir=/c13c

It's a good thing you gave directions on the snowy owls!! I wouldn't have
seen them otherwise.

Karen


Marina January 25th 04 06:15 PM


"Karen Chuplis" wrote

It's a good thing you gave directions on the snowy owls!! I wouldn't have
seen them otherwise.


Well, we had a hard time spotting them ourselves. ;o) We stood looking at
the one on the ground for ages, then suddenly something moved above it, and
we realised what had looked like a clump of snow was another owl!

--
Marina, Frank and Nikki
Email marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi
Pics at http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/frankiennikki


Marina January 25th 04 06:26 PM


"dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers"
Fine pictures, Auntie Marina. The cats are wonderful, but not as wonderful

as
Frank, of course.

Purrs, Waffles


Of course, Waffles, but you should have heard that lady lion roar! Very
impressive!

--
Auntie Marina


dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers January 25th 04 09:05 PM

Of course, Waffles, but you should have heard that lady lion roar! Very
impressive!


I can imagine, but not as impurresive as the way Frank can make me roar ;-)

Purrs, Waffles


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Brenda January 25th 04 10:10 PM


"Marina" wrote in message
...
Last weekend and this weekend, an international competition in ice

sculpting
was held at the Helsinki Zoo. I went to see some of it. Last week's
sculptures were exhibited, and this week's competitors were working on

their
scupltures in front of the audience. I took my camera, of course, and here
are some of the pics.

In addition to some ice sculptures and the artists, I managed to snap some
pics of animals, mainly big cats. Both lions and tigers seemed to enjoy

the
snow. There is also a sequence of the lynx trying to eat a bit of meat

that
I think was partly frozen, judging from the faces the poor lynx made while
gnawing on it. The animals all have access to warm comfy houses all the
time, so they were out in the snow by choice.

http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/...bum?.dir=/c13c


--
Marina, Frank and Nikki
Email marina (dot) kurten (at) pp (dot) inet (dot) fi
Pics at http://uk.f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/frankiennikki

very cool!
Brenda



John F. Eldredge January 25th 04 10:29 PM

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On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 20:15:03 +0200, "Marina"
wrote:


"Karen Chuplis" wrote

It's a good thing you gave directions on the snowy owls!! I
wouldn't have seen them otherwise.


Well, we had a hard time spotting them ourselves. ;o) We stood
looking at the one on the ground for ages, then suddenly something
moved above it, and we realised what had looked like a clump of snow
was another owl!


20 years or so ago, while I was in college, I worked 5 years as a
security guard. The pay wasn't great, but it was easy to get weekend
hours that fit in well with going to college during the week. During
most of that time, I was stationed at a factory located next to the
Cumberland River in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. On one extremely
cold winter night, I was checking the back parking lot around 3 AM
and saw a snowy owl flying down the river. It had a wingspan of at
least six feet, and was solid white. I couldn't hear it go by, even
though it was only about 50 feet away (roughly 16 meters). I was
rather surprised to see it, as they are generally Arctic birds and
Nashville is about as far south as Algeria. I asked a keeper at the
Nashville Zoo a few days later, and learned that, when there is a
shortage of prey animals in the Arctic, snowy owls have sometimes
been seen as far south as the Gulf of Mexico.

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