For several years tradition for beginning of the year has been visiting Lux Helsinki light art event.

This year it was quite mild weather. But I remember difficulties of shooting on some earlier years events. Either because cold made my fingers so numb that I couldn´t handle camera or in other year camera itself freezing because batteries could not give enough power. In both cases solution has been to escape into some cafe for warming up. Hot chocolate (with maybe some rhum in it…) is good for photographer. For a camera just sitting for a while on table inside is enought to wake up.

This year Lux was also test event for a new camera I bought just before christmas – nice little present for myself. But I’m not going further with that issue now…

This was about Lux itself.

It was a bit disappointment for mee. Too much light spectacle, not enough small, clever, funny ideas. It’s of course matter of taste. Large projections onto walls of famous buildings are often impressive, but they easily turn showy.

Maybe the event has grown in it’s popularity over it’s own limits. It has to go big, if there are big masses of people visiting. Small and funny things of Lantern Parks of previous years might just disappear into crowds. Maybe.