A roadtrip closer to home, around the archipelago route(http://www.archipelagoroute.com) Pargas-Nagu-Korpo-Houtskär-Iniö-Gustavs by car/ferry. Text/links/images to follow, for now pics from days 1-2 are on picasa: http://picasaweb.google.com/anders.e.e.wallin/ArchipelagoRoute2010August#

This swedish wikipedia page has images of the metamorphosis from egg to young caterpillar, mature caterpillar, and finally moth. This is a bad mobile-phone photo (where are my two DSLRs when I need them!), but there’s a nicer one from 2005 here (or try a big 1920 pixels wide image).

The dry dock at Suomenlinna, a quiet and calm place this evening.

Last week was mostly flu and occasional fever. Managed a careful 7k jog on Saturday with newly bought Camelbak Fairfax (45eur + postage through amazon.de) . The Finnish retailers (including those at the HCR expo) seem to think that asking 69.90euros is just fine – no thanks! The Finnish summer is cold but short – the [...]

I took some astro-photos on Sat-Sun night, and then these “winter wonderland” pictures on Sunday morning. -15 C is not cold or unpleasant if you dress well and keep moving and generating heat. If you stand still or the wind is blowing then anything colder than -10 C is miserable. Shot with the 17-40/4L and [...]

After almost three years of renovations the Helsinki Natural History Museum re-opened its doors in May 2008. The museum has free entry on Thursday afternoons between 16 and 18 which we decided to take advantage of. It is housed in a 1913-built building originally used as a Russian school, then as a the Finnish Officer [...]

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Testing how 720p @ 30 fps recorded with the 500D looks on youtube: Unfortunately the blog theme calls for 450 pixels wide pictures and videos, so you’ll have to click through to youtube to see the glorious HD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7xq1h5KwuE