I’ve been a bit lazy about updating the blog so here’s a bunch of random pictures and thoughts from the past week.

As I mentioned in the last post, I went on an excursion with the camera club to Klövsjö. It was actually quite nice and we got 50/50 weather – pouring rain in the morning and warm sunshine in the afternoon. The first visit was up to Fättjeåfallet and the trail there was possibly even more rocky than I remembered it. In those rainy conditions, I started having awake nightmares about slipping on a wet rock and splitting my skull. But there were no accidents and I actually got some pictures as well. While everyone else was concentrating on getting full blown closeups of the waterfall, I took in all the new greens and used them for a foreground. In those wet conditions, the greens were incredibly intense. It’s not often I think about pulling back saturation, instead of adding it!

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Back at work, we had some scheduling issues with our vacations and I decided that I might as well have my vacation earlier than originally planned. After the long weekend at the cabin, it was clear to me that summer was proceeding way faster than it did last year, so starting my vacation from the midsummer would work fine, the mountains are almost clear of snow so I can do the hikes I want to do. I also rescheduled my obligatory visit-Finland-once-every-two-years to September instead of Christmas. I will have two weeks off in September, first week at the cabin and second in Finland.

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In Föne, I’m trying to visit all the river spots that I’ve scouted earlier. The water has risen a little bit so I have less of the rocky shoreline to shoot, but I did find one spot that even gets evening light, which is not at all the case along the whole river as it passes Föne.

I also visited one lake that I’ve often passed by and thought it looks nice. This time I walked around it, and saw that it was much better than I ever thought when looking at it from the road. It shot to #1 on my list of places to visit on a calm and sunny evening!

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So now I’m just waiting for my vacation. The weather is not looking to be very good so I’m not expecting to get much landscape work done and will put my efforts in scouting instead. And conquering mountains!