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Bridge engineering
I shouldn’t have complained about the light yesterday. Today was worse. And the wind was bad, too. Just the dullest circumstances possible for photographing the autumn colours, but I tried. Just needed to avoid having sky in the composition, or large areas of water. But one thing that works fine on days like these is long shutter speeds. So on with the polariser and ND64 and watch the 20 sec exposures smooth our those nasty wind movement details!
Today I found a new route for my local hikes in Loos. There’s a new road which provides me with a shortcut to Österhocklan east from the Eagle Mountain, I used the route already late last winter actually but I had no idea that it was passable during the other seasons. The road ends kinda in the middle of nowhere, but then you just have to cross over to the snowmobile trail, the trail is not all pleasant to walk on but it’s only a few hundred meters before you reach the bridge over the creek. And by bridge I mean the new bridge which is very solid under the foot, not this old bridge which has finally given in and split in two. And after that, you can take the road which leads back home via Loossjön. A nice 9 km trip in all, took me 4 hours today but it did include quite a few photo stops despite the less-than-photographic weather.
The best part of the whole thing was that I found a new tarn, it’s very close to the road but it’s kinda hidden behind a small hill so it’s not visible from the road. It was a total surprise, it felt like an oasis of wilderness with dead trees lining up the little lake and then forest all around that almost looked natural (=no obvious signs of logging). I’ll be back, light permitting!
1 commentGhosts
The opportunity to photograph the ghost orchid was so unique that I just had to get back there, this time with the zoom lens to capture the environment as well. I should mention that “ghost orchid” means different flowers in North America and Europe. Dendrophylax lindenii is the American ghost orchid, and Epipogium aphyllum is the Eurasian ghost orchid.
It was raining quite a lot but the Stormjacket came through for me so I think my camera is safe. But as far as Sundays go, well, I just can’t think of anything better than walking through a rain soaked forest in cool weather!
Deserted
Third day straight, hard wind. Add the dark skies and the occasional shower and you can imagine that my photo album is not exactly exploding. But I’m still producing at least one picture per day and coming up with new subjects – for a better weather.
I did some local sightseeing today. Since we’re surrounded by lakes, there’s a dead end (and a boat) in every direction but one. So I saw a lot of water, some dramatic cliffs and plenty of forest with summer residences (and the occasional permanent residence) scattered all around, by the water of course. And then there are some deserted houses as well, some more recent than others.
