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

Sun Is Coming Back

I always start having much more energy when it's noticeable that the days are getting longer again. I visited my grandparents, and there went to introduce my camera to the countryside's forests during sunset. The pictures in the earlier post are actually from the same walk.

Nature makes me feel so relaxed and simply good, happy. It's like I don't have anything to worry about, and I can feel myself in the moment being part of everything. I might have already written that, but I really can't stress enough how important nature and that feeling are to me, and how important it is that everyone should feel like that sometimes. That feeling makes my problems seem silly and unimportant, and I remember not to worry so much. I think it's kind of meditation.

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Winter Wonderland

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Waiting for Hiking!

The hiking trip to the national park of Pyhä-Luosto was postponed for tomorrow, and the friend can't make it so it's going to be just the two of us.

In the mean time I made some pancakes and korvapuusti, a Finnish pastry. Also one picture from the last post got left behind for some reason so I'll just put it here.

I can't wait our little hiking trip! I've always wanted to go hiking to Lapland with a tent, camera and good company of course. Thanks to its quiet, ascetically beautiful nature it's my favourite place here in Finland, and if I'd stay in this country, I would want to live right here in the north. Right now the plans are returning to Chile in some point, and why not live in other places for a while too, but you never know until the moment is up. And I love it, it would be boring to know everything about your future exactly for sure before it happens. What's the point in mourning if your plans don't go the way you want, just enjoy the life as it comes (;

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Barley fields

I couldn't get many good pictures from our mission to pick mushrooms, because it started raining, and my camera still hasn't got any rain protection. We didn't get many mushrooms either, because even though there were many, there was none of the kind we went looking for. At least it was a nice walk in the woods (:

Tomorrow I'll go hiking with O and a friend for two days to a place called Pallastunturi. I hope I'll get many pictures there!

Have a nice starting of the autumn!

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