Thank you, power plant!

Note about the happenings last week: it isn't normal for the ice to leave with such a rumble, but a mistake that was made in the nearest power plant along the river - they made too much water run through. Still, I think it was really good luck to happen to stay in the house along that part of the river, just where the ice happened to stop, and to travel at the time when all this happened, not a week or day later. I say it's all about luck sometimes!

Tomorrow I hope to get to photograph the first of May's celebrations here in Helsinki. I wish it won't rain, because I haven't bought rain protection to my camera yet, nor a tripod nor a couple of lenses and filters I'm interested in. I'm saving my money until the trip to Chile in June, because there all that is cheaper. And it's good to get to know my camera well enough first, right?

I noticed that almost all my photos by now are about nature, but tomorrow I hopefully get some people in the picture too!

And not the last pics of the ice.
The two first ones are taken at a different shore than the rest.

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This one is my favourite of all these ice pictures: 

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And when you get just a little closer, it get's even prettier:

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Close and far

Second part of the best pics of the moving of ice in Kemi River, Lapland.

Close and Far:

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Difficulty of choosing

Because there were so many pictures of the springlike Lapland, I couldn't possibly fit them in just a couple of pics, so I will have material for more posts for the next days. And of course there are pictures of other things I met during the one week trip to north.

Oh, and I always add the watermark to at least make it more difficult to use my photos without my permission.
If you want to use my pictures, ask me and I will send you the original file after an agreement. 

First here are some photos of the Kemi River before the brutal moving of the ice, a couple of views after the happenings of the next days, and, as a visiting star, one of my uncle's hunting dogs!

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Ice is moving

in the Kemi River with rumble. I never could have imagined how incredibly beautiful and stunning the beginning of the spring might be here in the north. The sound of huge ice floatings crack is something indescribable; you should experience it yourself to believe. The dock of my uncle here broke when the ice masses pushed it up, even though it had been taken into the land during the winter. It just wasn't far enough considering all that unbelievable power in the river. I have taken some amazing pics, which I will put here on Saturday when I get back home to Helsinki (after ten-hour-drive).

I really hope someone else too has experienced this at least once in their lives.

Waiting for the pictures.
Picking up the best ones and editing them will probably take more time than normally: inspired by the beauty, I have taken about 500 pictures by now, and more is coming!

This is me writing this by the awesome river shore of my uncle.

The first picture

As an early high school graduation gift I got a perfect professional camera I had been dreaming for years. When I was little, I imagined I would become a photographer for National Geographic or another big magazine, travel around the globe with my camera to meet extraordinary places and different people, but the rough reality made me to love photography more as a hobby than a future career.

So I am not more than an enthusiastic amateur, but I still wanted to start sharing my pictures somewhere in a more selective way than in Facebook. From words to actions: here you can see the first picture taken by me in this blog!

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I will surely write about other subjects too and not only photography, and hopefully I get to capture as images much of what I'll write about. My biggest passions are horses, nature, living in the moment and love. Carpe Diem - no very original, but a well describing motto for my life. I always try to live in the moment and keep my eyes and heart open for beauty (obviously, from there came the idea for the blog's name). I am an open, happy and thoughtful person, and with my photos I try to get people think, stop and smile - just not always at the same time. Oh well, that's for as long as I can speak about my photography so far, as I'm not so experienced yet and it's probable to take its own shape when I get into practising more.

When I get it translated, you can read more about me in the "About the Writer" -section.

And now the best pics from the same trip I did to Nuuksio National Park (near Helsinki in Finland) where the first one was also taken:

(As I have understood you get the images bigger by clicking, we'll see soon!)

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Blog translation project begins!

This is a blog I started a couple of weeks ago in Finnish, but now decided to start writing in English too, because of the huge amount of friends overseas. Also I don't want to define the people who can read my blog by some language that only five million people can speak in the whole world... 

So I'll start by translating the 11 posts I already have posted and fixing the looks of this page to be the same as in the original one, which you can find here until I get a proper button somewhere to lead any curious souls there.

I hope I can reach more people this way, and I hope you enjoy reading and watching my posts!

P.S. My English might not be perfect, and if you know better and notice some horrible mistakes, I don't mind being corrected (:

Here's an image of me just to add some color here: