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		<title>Back online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you tried to visit the merciful house during the past week, you have noticed it hasn&#8217;t been possible. Also, if you have tried to send e-mails directed to addresses under this domain, they have bounced back to you undelivered. The reason behind this is that I decided to move the domain under a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Built-in hazy skies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Found a gimmicky but fun shooting option from my Canon point-and-shoot camera called &#8220;color switch&#8221;. Basically I select a color with my camera and choose another one the camera will swap it into. It&#8217;s a cheap trick but it actually turned out to be quite fun to use! Sure, it is something that can be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mercifulhouse.net/?p=347</link>
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		<title>Making of a low budget music video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The need for a music video About half a year ago, chatting in a bar with a friend who is a member of a ambient-industrial-noise band called Älymystö, it became apparent they didn&#8217;t have enough music videos to promote their music, only one to be exact. As I thought about it afterwards, I remembered I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mercifulhouse.net/?p=308</link>
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		<title>Growth in a momentary frozen state</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The past week here in Helsinki has been quite magical as all the trees have been covered in a thin layer of frost due to some weather condition of fog pouring down to sub-zero conditions. I fail to remember when was the last time I saw something like this in Helsinki. These are the kind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mercifulhouse.net/?p=310</link>
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		<title>Back to film</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this autumn I dug up my old soviet Zenit slr-camera and bought a roll of black and white film. I actually have two Zenit bodies, but I wasn&#8217;t sure which one of them leaked light inside, so I was pretty much snapping photos just to get them developed so that I can see the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mercifulhouse.net/?p=272</link>
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		<title>Photoshop scrubs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m throwing in some images I fooled around with Photoshop a few months ago. I call these kinds of images I make &#8220;scrubs&#8221;, image files that don&#8217;t have any purpose other than practicing different kinds of effects with varying success. In these particular scrubs I was focused on photo retouching (playing with colours and contrast [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mercifulhouse.net/?p=247</link>
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		<title>Injecting mood into photos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago I noticed one thing. Basically ever since I bought and used my now broken 35mm/2.0 lens with my Digital EOS camera, I aimed for crisp, clean photography. While I managed to capture good photos, somehow I lost track at some point what photography is all about (or can be). Surely it isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mercifulhouse.net/?p=155</link>
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		<title>From nothing to animated image</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spontanious sketching Over a month ago, one afternoon while just idling on my sofa wondering what to do, I suddenly got up, grabbed my Wacom-tablet&#8217;s pen and started to draw something in Photoshop. It didn&#8217;t matter what, I just wanted to do something creative instead of wasting the day away. After some no-brainer sketching, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mercifulhouse.net/?p=118</link>
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		<title>A few watercolour paintings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I might as well throw in some watercolour paintings I did while I was in the countryside. I&#8217;ve been painting with watercolours for two years weekly during spring and autumn courses, but hardly by myself at all. Now that I was away from other distractions, I found myself painting quite often, which I didn&#8217;t mind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mercifulhouse.net/?p=101</link>
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		<title>Few summer photos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just uploaded some photos I took while in the countryside. Not that many this time around as I tend not to take photos that I feel I&#8217;ve already taken before. I really should reinvent my style of photography somehow. Maybe it will happen now since I broke my trusty EF 35mm f2.0 lens, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mercifulhouse.net/?p=85</link>
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