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One thing I’ve been wondering about is how everyone looks so familiar here. Every time we visit the town, I keep staring at people (especially the older ones), thinking that I know them. It wouldn’t be impossible because this is where my family comes from (almost all of the younger ones have moved elsewhere but…
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Funny how time flies when you’re doing nothing. I honestly can’t remember exactly what I’ve done from day to day since I arrived to our summer house in Savonlinna. Somehow it sounds like I’ve been making perfect use of my holiday though… My sister with family and dog in tow arrived a couple of days…
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Since it’s a long drive from Loos to Stockholm to catch the morning ferry, I drove to Älvkarleby for the night. It also provided me a chance to catch some sea air (not that I really crave for it) so I headed straight to the beach. I had planned to take some long exposure pictures…
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I hadn’t made any plans for my last day of this mountain trip, so when my photographer friend suggested Mittåkläppen with a plan B (=waffles in Djupdalen!), I didn’t need to think twice. The day dawned just like the two previous, cool and cloudy with little wind and maybe a small chance of rain. In…
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You know you’re in the mountains when a herd of reindeer runs past your window while you’re having breakfast! Today’s planned excursions were the Hamrafjället and Vättafjället mountains. Hamrafjället is something that no botanist should pass by, in fact the nature is so special that it’s protected as a nature reserve. Just a few metres…
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My holiday has officially begun! My plan is to spend 3 days in the mountains, come home for a re-pack and then take the ferry to Finland where I will spend the rest of the holiday.My first target was Ljungdalen. I had found a great botanical book about Härjedalen where the author gave some tips…
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I had another look at the round-leaved wintergreens I had dismissed as un-photographable yesterday. With some generous gardening – and by that I mean weeding – I was able to get a clean background so I guess you could call this destructive photography rather than creative, I feel kinda bad for doing that. I have…
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June started off with a bang, with high summer temperatures. The period came to an abrupt end with a few days of rain – and the odd snowflake! No kidding. The rest of the month was rather dull, weatherwise, with temperatures between 10 and 20 degrees and hardly any rain at all. And speaking of…
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Last year I discovered one-flowered wintergreens (Moneses uniflora) and round-leaved wintergreens (Pyrola rotundifolia) too late to shoot them, so I was determined to get them this year. Only problem was, I wasn’t seeing either of them in the locations where I found them last year, but after exploring the forests around me, I found them…
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Finally, an overcast day with little wind! I had a list of eight flowers I should theoretically be able to shoot today, and when I finished my shooting, I had nine. Only four of them from my list, though! Amazing things happen… I wanted to shoot early marsh orchids and was happy to find them…