Back in Padova

9 February 2020
by Arnaldo Pellini
Black and White / Street photography

I had to take a break from Padova. I travelled last week and did not have the street photos from Padova with me. This is where I left it last week. I am sitting on a marble bench in downtown Padova. I wanted to sit after having walked the whole morning. I sit and feel my back stretching. I sip some water from my flask. People walk around me. Some eat an icecream. Others are into their calls on their smartphones. Some seem to be in a hurry. Some walk slowly as if they are killing time. I take my camera out. Zoom to about 35mm and start taking taking photos of pedestrians walking past me.

Pedestrians, Padova 2019
Pedestrians, Padova 2019
Pedestrians, Padova 2019
Pedestrians, Padova 2019
Pedestrians, Padova 2019
Pedestrians, Padova 2019
Pedestrians, Padova 2019
Pedestrians, Padova 2019

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Mökki

8 February 2020
by Arnaldo Pellini
Uncategorised

It is getting cold not that the sun has set. I need to get down to the lake and fetch some water for the sauna. I need to get the shovel to break the thin layer of ice that has formed during the day. I get the rubber boots and put them on. Gloves. The ice is not too thick but thick enough that I need to hit it few times before going through. I filled the buckets and start to walk back to the cottage. I can smell the firewood in the air. The sauna maybe needs 10-15 more minutes and it is then ready at the right temperature. Before walking up I turn to the lake. I can see the ice surface covered by snow. Silence. No wind. I look up. I see the tiny flashing lights of an plane flying high up and east, maybe Asia. The sound of the engines reaches me mid-way up towards the cottage.

Ihamaniemi, Finland 2020

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Fallen trees

4 February 2020
by Arnaldo Pellini
Black and White / Forest

Trees fall in the forest. Young trees as well. Sometime their roots cannot go deep enough due to stones and boulders. Sometime it is a storm that is too strong for them. Sometime the ground is too step. But even when they fall, they can survive as their rts find a way to get back into the ground and bring life back to the rest of the tree.

Fallen tree, Ihamaniemi 2020
Boulders, Ihamaniemi 2020
Crossing, Ihamaniemi 2020

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Survivors

3 February 2020
by Arnaldo Pellini
Black and White / Forest

Commercial forests means that you may see a pine and birch tree forest growing for many years and at one point machines come in an cut the trees leaving only few standing. It is a strange view when you get on top of a hill and you see some barren hills next to hills where the trees are growing. When an area is cut, they always leave few older trees standing which may shed seeds and help the regrowth. These lonely trees have always looked like survivors to me.

Hill tops, Ihamaniemi 2020
Survivors, Ihamaniemi 2020

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Frozen lake

2 February 2020
by Arnaldo Pellini
Lake

There are no clouds in the sky. There won’t be many hours of daylight. So, better to hurry and go for a walk in the forest along the lake. The temperature has gone up and down around 0 C. During the days the ice sheet loosens up. At night time, when the temperature drops below zero, you can hear deep and mysterious sounds that runs along and below the ice surface when it tightens up again.

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Intermezzo

1 February 2020
by Arnaldo Pellini
Black and White

I need to stop the series of street photos from Padova. I am in Helsinki at Vantaa airport to get on a plane. I thoughts I had saved the photos on my hard disk and planned to continue to post them during the this coming week. I must have done something wrong while copying the files. So, I will post a series from last New Year when we spent a week at our cottage in Eastern Finland. I will resume to Padova series, when I get back in a week.

Ihamaniemi 2020

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