Kategori: The Quiet Picture
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I played a real tourist today and took a cruise from Savonlinna to Punkaharju and back. I got a good look at the Saimaa lake system and islands (no less than 40000 of them, including the small islets) and a short hike on the nature trail in Punkaharju. I can now proudly say that I’ve…
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Let’s not forget that however we nature photographers try, Mother Nature is still the best artist there is. Our job is just to document it.
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…comes the sun. Even the wind was behaving itself so I got some flower photography done for a change. Don’t ask me how I did the background in this one. It was grass and it wasn’t very far away but somehow it seems to have been far enough. All I did was to adjust white…
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Third day straight, hard wind. Add the dark skies and the occasional shower and you can imagine that my photo album is not exactly exploding. But I’m still producing at least one picture per day and coming up with new subjects – for a better weather. I did some local sightseeing today. Since we’re surrounded…
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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…