Misty sun rise

Posted on August 11, 2013 by Antti Känsälä

My oldest daugter Oona wanted to have an early morning nature trip during our summer holiday. I kept on looking at the weather forecast to find a suitable morning. Finally a beautiful misty morning was on it’s way. The previous evening we packed along some breakfast and set the alarm at 5:00 AM.

We headed out to the nearby fields in search of deer. Oona wanted to go and see them. She had binoculars along and I had my camera. I was hoping to get some nature shots.

It turned out to be even better than I had anticipated. We spotted two deer families:

And the nature was showing us some magic with sun rising on misty fields. The below is a shot of a crane (I think) in the mist. I really like this shot as it shows what the morning was like. Just magic! I encourage all of you to do these early morning nature trips! A few more photographs from the trip: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2013-08-03+Misty+sun+rise/

Waiting for the nature to gain some color

Posted on April 20, 2013 by Antti Känsälä

Winter is finally letting go – sun is starting to shine and nature is about to wake up. People are starting to smile. This is the best time of the year!

Early morning mist

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Antti Känsälä

There is one positive thing about the kids waking up early – you get to witness how beautiful the nature can be in the morning. This photo is taken after a cold night that apparently created a magnificent mist in the air and frost on all the trees and bushes. The most beautiful thing about it was that the light and the composition of the mist was changing constantly. I stood outside without gloves taking photos until I suddenly realized that I could barely feel my fingers. It really was a special morning! Another one of my favorites:

This photo has a totally different mood, even though it was taken at the same time.

Rest of the photos are available at: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2013-03-31+Easter+sceneries/

Timelapse

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Antti Känsälä

I did my first ever timelapse video yesterday. Timelapse has been something I have wanted to try for a long time. So when I bought a triggertrap dongle for my ipad, it was time to test timelapse functionality on that.

The timelapse is a 4 hour time period from our parking lot compressed into 9 seconds:

http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2013-01-12+Timelapse/TimeLapse3.avi

For tech geeks:

I used a triggertrap (https://triggertrap.com/products/triggertrap-mobile/) application on my ipad and a triggertrap dongle to trigger my D2x for the timelapse. The application seems to work very well. There were a few extra shots in the middle, I don’t know where and why those came. For the timelapse I used a 59s interval to shoot photos over a 4 hour time period. To compile an AVI video file from the JPGs, I used a software called photolapse.

Triggertrap contains also some other cool functions that I am looking to test in the near future in more detail:

triggering from sound
triggering from motion

Winter day

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Antti Känsälä

This has been yet another very good winter so far. We got snow in the beginning of December and it has lasted since. Today was a magnificent winter day even with some sunshine. I believe today was the second shortest day of the year. I guess the sun wanted to let us know that we are slowly getting towards summer…:)

A few more shots from today: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2012-12-22+Winter+day/

October dawn

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Antti Känsälä

After a windy Saturday, the dawn on Sunday was beautiful. This photo is from our summer place. Without our kids waking up so early, I would never get to see these moments. So after all there are positive things from them waking up so early 🙂

Summer scenes

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Antti Känsälä

During summer holidays at our summer place, we were able to witness some of the most beautiful sunsets. The week also offered some beautiful morning mist on the lake:

A collection photos is available at: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2012-07-28+Summer+sceneries/

First summer holiday week

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Antti Känsälä

This has been a perfect first summer holiday week! First we were in Sweden for a two day cruise and then enjoying the beautiful summer days at our summer place.

A couple of more summer shots are available at: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2012-07-07+Summer+and+kids/

Macros and scenery from Easter

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Antti Känsälä

It was another traditional Easter at Jenny’s parent’s summer place. And as usual the weather was amazing: two days of sunshine! The first day we got some snow and I decided to try to take some macros of the snowflakes.

During the next two sunny days, there were some magnificent sun sets, coltsfoot and ladybugs.

Rest of the photos in slideshow mode: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2012-04-08%20Easter%20macros%20and%20nature/?action=slideshow

…and in folder mode: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2012-04-08%20Easter%20macros%20and%20nature/

Winter wonderland

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Antti Känsälä

I’m having a little flu that is keeping me from doing any sports. To get some fresh air, I decided to go to Kartanonkoski in Espoo. As it was -26C this morning and sunshine, I was expecting to find a steaming stream and so I did.

Kartanonkoski is located in western Espoo. I found the place last summer, thanks to my neighbor who kindly showed the place. A google maps link to the place: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=202175199404043962572.0004b837c3c63797a3001&ie=UTF8&ll=60.198609,24.582381&spn=0.020795,0.066047&t=h&z=15&vpsrc=6&iwloc=0004b837c3c9e11446fb2.

Rest of the photos from today are at: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2012-02-05%20Kartanonkoski/

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