People of Two Homes

After a pause this long I had to check what was the last post with pictures about, and so I will put here now the last pics of Chile. Tomorrow I'll start posting more recent pictures I have taken here in Rovaniemi these days. Yesterday for example we got surprised by a group of reindeer one block from our apartment, so I ran to get the camera.

The moving went well, and getting the stuff to the third floor without an elevator happened much faster that I would have thought. A couple of days ago the last box was finally emptied, and now only a few little things are waiting to have a place in the apartment. Otherwise it actually looks like a home! It is so wonderful to finally have my own place both physically and mentally. I am already loving this place: the apartment is perfect for me and O, it lies close enough to everything, and still the whole city is much more peaceful and green than Helsinki (the capital). It feels good to be here.


O said something interesting a while ago, he said that it's natural to feel like going home when flying towards Chile, but it's peculiar that it feels like going home also when going back to Finland. I thought that I actually feel the same - seems like we are people of two homes.

Even though I will cross all the lines I put to myself about how many pictures I can publish at once, here come the last images of Chile! And I happen to appear in three of them, wohoo!

Random pics from Chile

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Valparaiso and other stuff (:

First one was taken during the "super moon -night", and I was trying my new tripode for the first time, as my pretty new lens (Sigma, 70-300mm) so the session was more getting used to them than creating a beautiful view with the huge moon in it. At last, after ten minutes of trying different settings, I found out how to make the moon look like it looks in the picture. I mean, if you haven't taken pictures of an iluminated ball in a black background, it's not going to be perfect with the first try :D

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After the Rain

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