Colors of the Sunset

I was planning to go to capture the blue moment that comes after the sunset, because here in these latitudes it is much more profound than in the south. Soon there will be no blue moment, when the sun takes over and hardly sets during the summer. But I had totally forgotten about the changing to the daylight saving time, so my own timing was one hour too early to sunset. Photographer has to be creative sometimes, because the place I went to doesn't look good during daytime because of many cables there are, but I figured I'd just take pictures of the beautiful colours of the sky and interesting forms of the clouds. This is photographing at its best I think, having to change your plans, but still getting something beautiful out of it!

The weird picture in the middle is an ice fishing hole that had frozen again after using.

Huskies and Writing

Today I went to see some huskies again, and it definitely did not help with my puppy fever. I spent more time petting them than taking pictures, but I am especially happy having been able to take so many good ones, because most of the dogs (and all of the puppies) are moving all the time, which makes taking good pictures more difficult :D

Yesterday I was left home alone, so I decided to start writing this story I have had in my mind for a while. I write in Finnish of course, I love how you can play with the Finnish language because it's so diverse and flexible. I got one page done and I realised I actually will have to plan the story a little more before being able to just write. So that's what I'm trying to get done now, writing and developing the story and the characters.

Now, an overdose of cuteness:

Blog Discovery

I casually ran into this web page of a nature photographer, who lives here in Rovaniemi too. I couldn't get myself to leave the page for a long while, the images are so inspiring and amazing! I'll be happy to be even half this good some day. This also gave me an urge to get more lenses to my camera as I only have two pretty basic ones, as if I could afford one in a long time... Torture at its best (;

So, I highly recommend to check this:
http://pohjoinenvalo.org/blog/

EDIT
The page is in Finnish, but the pictures should tell more than enough!

Ice Fishing

I really loved photographing an ice fishing competition one weekend here, even though the weather was challenging because of snow and wind. I am still really happy with the result, as this was one of my first times photographing an event and people, and not just nature or some artistic stuff. All the children's parents have been asked permission to use these here, and there were some who didn't want them to be used, so here we have the best of the pictures with permission to be used. One of the best pics I took I still don't know if I can use it or not, but I'll add it afterwords when I get the word.

With some pictures there was a snowflake on the lens, but let's not let it bother (;

Birdies

Northern Lights

I went to a northern lights photography seminar two nights ago, and it certainly would have been helpful before taking these pictures. Here they are anyway, and for my first northern light pics I am happy with them (: