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.
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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.
Layers
Some tree are gets white. Some remain green. Other lose their leaves. This is the winter. At least one photo a day
Fallen trees
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. At least one photo a day
Survivors
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 […]
Frozen 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 […]
Intermezzo
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 […]
Difficult situations for Finnish people, by artist Karoliina Korhonen
I was in transit at Helsinki Vantaa airport the other night and saw this great series by artist Karoliina Korhonen At least one photo a day
Last winter photos from Niinikumpu
At least one photo a day
To the old primary school
These are few photos from the short walk to the old primary school in Niinikumpu.