Husky Farm
After our Husky sled-ride, we got to visit the farm where they were kept:
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Husky Sled Ride
One of the highlights of our trip to Finland was the Husky Sled Ride that we experienced. This was great fun and the dogs were brilliant:
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Arty Lake Inari
I’ve experimented a bit in post-processing with the three images below. The idea was to create a set of arty digital photographs that hopefully depict some of the key elements of the beautiful winter landscapes around frozen Lake Inari – the gloomy blue half-light, the icy-cold stillness and the promise of a warm welcome visible in the distance:
- “Blue Horizon”
2. “Frozen Tracks”
3. “Homeward Bound”
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Inari Church
Inari village has a population of about 600-700 people, but in the sparsley populated area of northern Finland (where there are more Reindeer than people) this counts as a bustling metropolis.
Below are a couple of images of the pretty little Church that we passed on our walk into the village:
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Neue Freunde
One of the best things about our trip to northern Finland over Christmas was that we met new friends Claudia and Tobi from Hannover in Germany.
Tobi is a fellow photography enthusiast, so we bonded over our shared interest, and Claudia and Liz are like “two peas in a pod”…..which for Tobi and I just meant double-trouble.
Since we returned home we have stayed in touch and plan to meet-up with them in Germany later this year.
From left to right: Tobi, Claudia and Lizzy:
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A Walk in the Woods
A few shots from our 4 hour snow-shoeing trek in the beautiful forests that surround Inari in northern Finland.
If 4 hours sounds a lot, it wasn’t really….especially when you consider that some of this was spent cooking and eating lunch around the campfire.
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Strange Light
Below are three images from our recent trip to Inari in northern Finland, where the atmospheric conditions, near darkness and 30 to 60s long-exposures have resulted in some strange light effects and colour casts.
I did think about not sharing these images on the grounds that the white balance is clearly a bit off. But the more I looked at them, and worked on them in post processing, the more I came to quite like the results…..I think they have an interesting other-worldly quality to them.
Incidentally the red light trails in the second image are from a line of snowmobiles crossing frozen Lake Inari during the long-exposure:
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Winter Wonderland
The shots below are of the Juutuanjoki river which flows between Lake Paatari and Lake Inari in Finnish Lapland. As you can see, although largely frozen over and covered in snow, the river still flows rapidly in a number of places along it’s 10km length:
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Reindeer Farm Visit
Over Christmas we spent a week in Inari, a small town in Lapland, northern Finland, about 250km north of the arctic circle. The Finnish capital of the Sami (the indigenous Reindeer herders of nothern Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia) Inari is a perfect place to try out a few winter activities and marvel at the amazing landscapes.
Given the location (Lapland has more Reindeer than people) it seems appropriate that the photos for my first post come from our visit to a local Reindeer Farm where we learnt all about these wonderful animals and the culture of the Sami people:
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Lichfield 15
For my final post from Lichfield, here is a rare shot of my darling (and long suffering camera-widow) wife with the Minster Pool in the background:
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