Kategori: The Quiet Picture
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Time for another short mountain break. I just can’t give up on those orchids, and now it should be the high season for them. The summer is putting on the heat and the mosquitos, gnats and other flying nuisances are out in their force so you don’t really get a moment’s peace to when you…
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I took my broken tv to the recycling centre for disposal, so I am now officially and definitely tv-less. It’s funny how the tube has dominated my living room – not just when turned on, but also when turned off. The room seems bigger now that the tv is gone. * * * Just read…
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Just to show that I do sometimes persevere and follow up on my ideas, I finally took the shot of the Lo(o)s Monument I talked about in June. I underexposed generously in order to get a proper silhouette and not to wash out the sky. I also only let the edge of the sun to…
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Thunderstorms are pretty common this time of the year. I’ve never fallen a victim of one until today though – it fried my tv. I had switched it off, but not disconnected from the mains power. Suddenly I heard it crack and a moment after, I heard the thunder right by my house. Naturally I…
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So you know how I always go on about the joys of discovering new detail when doing close-up photography? Well, proof is in the pudding. Look at the insert. Doesn’t that look just like some pre-historic fish? I didn’t notice the little ”eye” when I was taking this picture. In fact, I had trouble noticing…
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Surprisingly, it wasn’t raining this morning. I didn’t care, I just simply wasn’t inspired to photograph anything or look for flowers, just wanted to go home. As usual when I make a hasty exit from Funäsdalen, I took the scenic route via Sörvattnet and Lofsdalen. I have been eyeing the old pine roots on one…
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The law of diminishing returns… my holiday is drawing to an end, but the rainy days and photographic slump are not. We drove to Mittåkläppen with high hopes to hike up the mountain in search of exciting flowers. We had barely reached the tree line when it started raining, and then it started pouring, so…
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We Finns seem to have an affinity for tar. Historically, tar was very important – together with the sauna it was a cure-all and it worked brilliantly for everything else, too. Tar was (is) naturally used elsewhere in the world as well, but nowhere has it remained as popular as in Finland. We even have…
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If I ever again decide to have the midsummer week as a holiday, please do me a favour and remind me that I’m an idiot. How many years has this happened now? June is statistically one of the rainiest months of the year… so I shouldn’t be surprised to find that days just get washed…
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Today is the first day of my summer holiday (of one week). It figures that the sky is overcast. I don’t really mind that, but I do mind the heavy wind that is being forecast for the whole week. The overcast conditions are favourable for flower photography, but the wind is anything but. We’ll see…