Been a few weeks since I spent the weekend in Stockholm, apparently I've begun to procrastinate about writing on the blog (I have several book-reviews that I could/should/want to write as well). To get this off my chest I'll just dump a bunch of pictures and short descriptions. Sorry for the lack of more in-depth information and tips.
Stockholm is a city with water closeby everywhere:
The Vasa-museum is one of the most interesting museums in Stockholm, the Vasa was a grand ship built in the 1626-1627 but was designed wrong and sunk right after launch. It was recovered much later and stands now as one of the coolest attractions in Stockholm. First picture outside the museum. These are the conditions that the divers has to work under when recovering it, pretty scary:
Another interesting part of Stockholm is the older part of the city:
As you can see in the pictures the weather was a bit grey and muggy so I didn't take that much pictures. It was a great trip nonetheless and Stockholm is a great city that I highly recommend you visit if you ever have the chance! All my pictures from the trip can be found at Flickr here:
Sitting in an early-morning train from Tampere to Turku after the night train from Rovaniemi. Spent a short but intense weekend with my young nephew and his family, it was a lot of fun! Such a happy family!
Anyway, the morning mists in autumn are pretty epic and pretty around here.
Been busy and not as inspired to write or photograph these last few months but don't worry, still alive :). The Autumn brought new colors to photograph, sharing some here.
I do have a bunch of book-reviews to write, the Kindle is such a lovely device that just inspires you to keep reading. In fact, I need to write something about that one too.
Here is a bunch of photographs from last weekends hiking around Herajärvi in northern Savo (in Finland). For my part the hiking was just along one of the shores because my shoes and I disagreed and I got epic blisters that are still healing. The view was awesome though!
Finally got around to editing and posting some of the pictures I took on our trip to Lapland a few weeks ago. The weather wasn't especially good but to be honest, I'd almost rather have a drizzle of rain over the current heat-wave but I'm weird like that - being warm-blooded and all that. Anyway.. Some highlights, link to set at the end.
Everyone needs to create a few over-processed HDR-images to get it out of our systems before calming down and using it right :). Here are a few of mine, taken early this morning when the light was all reddish and weird.
To be fair, the rainbow-picture didn't need much post-processing to begin with, here is a more reasonable (normal) picture of it with only some minimal color-editing and cropping: I used the free and very easy to use HDRtist from http://www.ohanaware.com/hdrtist/ - you just drag and drop pictures onto the app and choose the strength of HDR. Really easy way to maul perfectly good pictures :).
It's hot in Finland, thankfully the beer is cold. I will return with more pictures and stuff sometime when my brain works again, take care people and do go read this excellent blog-post about what drowning looks like for real (hint: its not like in the movies) : http://gcaptain.com/maritime/blog/drowning/?10981 Very good to know in these hot times, stay safe!
Picture of the smoke coming from a warehouse fire on Puusepänkatu. More information (in finnish):
Suurehko varastorakennus on syttynyt tuleen Turun Puusepänkadulla. Palo syttyi noin kello 18.20, ja varasto on parhaillaan ilmiliekeissä. Aurajokirantaan nousi palon sytyttyä korkea savupilvi, joka herätti ihmisten huomion. Poliisin mukaan rakennuksen ulkopuolella on majaillut toistakymmentä romanikerjäläistä. Tässä vaiheessa ei tiedetä, onko sisällä ketään.
The Vasa-museum is one of the most interesting museums in Stockholm, the Vasa was a grand ship built in the 1626-1627 but was designed wrong and sunk right after launch. It was recovered much later and stands now as one of the coolest attractions in Stockholm. First picture outside the museum. 
These are the conditions that the divers has to work under when recovering it, pretty scary:
As you can see in the pictures the weather was a bit grey and muggy so I didn't take that much pictures. It was a great trip nonetheless and Stockholm is a great city that I highly recommend you visit if you ever have the chance! All my pictures from the trip can be found at Flickr here:
