Searching for the northern lights
One thing you do when in Lapland during the winter is to go out in the night and look up to the sky.
Author: Arnaldo Pellini
Classic cross-country skiing landscape
When I start the day, I follow the track with my eyes. Two parallel lines in which the cross-country skis find their way forward.
Classic cross-country skiing /2
At least one photo a day
Classic cross-country skiing /1
The classic cross-country skiing style is often used on prepared trails (pistes) that have pairs of parallel grooves (tracks) cut into the snow. It is also the most usual technique where no tracks have been prepared.
Pyhätunturi
We travelled from Rovaniemi to Pyhätunturi today. It took about three horus by bus. The more we travelled North the higher the snow. It feels we are in a different country. Of course this is still Finland and we are quite above the Polar Circle but the difference with Southern Finland where we live is quite striking. This winter we had almost no snow. It has not been really cold. It is only up here, […]
To Lapland
Let’s leave Stockholm now. Today we left a gray and without-snow Tampere and travelled by train up North, to Rovaniemi. We will stay there for one night. The next day (Sunday) we will get the bus and travel two and half hours further North, to Pyhätunturi. We will be above the polar circle and in the heart of Lapland. I will be posting as usual daily (at least one photo a day) and almost live […]
Fotografiska
Stockholm has many museums. The one I love the most is Fotografiska, the Museum of Photography.
At the museum
The Swedish Royal Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, is one of two major museums of natural history in Sweden. The museum was founded in 1819 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, but goes back to the collections acquired mostly through donations by the academy since its foundation in 1739. These collections had first been made available to the public in 1786. The museum was separated from the Academy in 1965. The present buildings for the museum in Frescati, Stockholm, was designed by […]
Art in the metro
Art in the metro
Upside down
Imagine a different perspective. Imagine a new way to see things. Imagine a new way we can live. Imagine to turn things around. Imagine if things were upside down. At least one photo a day