Etikett: finland
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I arrived to my parents’ cabin in the evening on Friday. As I was driving, I had the sunset behind me and it was one of the most amazing sunsets I had ever seen. I don’t mean the setting sun itself, but I mean the sight I had in front of me – heavy rain…
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I spent the Christmas week in Finland this year, came back last night. It was quite nice, photographically a bit of a downer but I was expecting it and only had the Canon G10 with me and it turned out to be the right decision. I had been most anxious to see my mother. She…
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The first day of the last week of my holiday. The weather has been a mixed bag like it has been pretty much all month – rain and shine. At least the wind is easy, but it’s just the calm before the storm (tomorrow is promising to be blustery and rainy). I went for a…
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LappeenrantaI’ve had a couple of days to explore my old home town. I lived here for two decades, so it’s not soon forgotten. A lot has changed, and a lot has stayed the same – I still know all the shortcuts walking around the town, even if I get a little bit confused in a…
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It’s one of those strange sunny days which are not really sunny. You know, thin high cloud vailing the sun so the sky is milky blue, a total disaster for landscape photography. Lucky I’m not a landscape photographer… I did some sightseeing again and checked out Putkinotko, which used to be one of the local…
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Said and done. First thing after breakfast, I drove to Punkaharju to do an inventory of the broad-leaved helleborine. I found 23-25 individuals, some already withered, others in full bloom and some only starting to bloom. I also found one individual which was HUGE – 1 metre tall, easily. All of them were growing right…
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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…