We had a long trip to the Orsa-Finnmark today. The weather was anything but photogenic, overcast and very windy so the grand view we had from our first stop at Finnberget was wasted. Since my only picture from the place is not a very good, I won’t post it but I couldn’t resist using the name in the post title (”A Finn on Finnberget”)! Finnberget is situated on top of a mountain at 638m in the western-most reaches of the Gävleborg county.
From Finnberget we drove south via Tjäderåsen and then turned west towards the Ämåsjön lake. And this road was a real discovery! The road goes very high, almost at 600m so the landscape takes on some sub-alpine features. There are big areas of marshland surrounded by forest covered hills and the really special thing here is that the hills really are covered by forest instead of ruined by logging. So this is definitely a road I will be driving again, but under better conditions so it’s possible to take pictures.
Then we followed the Ämån river south-east. There’s a couple of waterfalls along the way, the first one was a disappointment (just like Storstupet and Helvetesfallet I visited a couple of years ago, they are further downstream) but the second one was marginally better. But still, the most interesting part of the falls was the path there. I usually don’t shoot wideangles in the forest because I’m just not able to bring any order into chaos, but this half-fallen tree provided enough of a focal point for me to compose around it. And for this picture, it was the right weather!
Instead of following the river all the way to E45, we swung north towards Vässinjärvi because we also wanted to take a look at Korpmäck (Korpimäki). It’s about 20m higher than Stora [big] Korpimäki we visited a couple of weeks ago, so I’m just wondering, shouldn’t it be called Större [bigger] Korpimäki? (LOL) On the map it looks like it would be possible to get some pictures of the mountain with marshland or a tarn in the foreground, and this time reality turned out be as I imagined it. Except, not in this weather of course.
So now I have two new places I have to visit some other time in better conditions. And I’m fairly sure that there will be a lot more to shoot that these two places, I just need to get the timing right!