Wednesday, June 23, 2004
Hooray! At last I am able to post some pictures on this thing. Although not quite the way I was hoping for, but good enough for the time being. Here are some photos from our trip to Lapland and the Midnight Sun Film Festival.
http://www.cadimef.net/valokuvia/lapland2004/indeksi.htm
For some reason I can't create the hyperlink, but you can open another window and copy and paste the url address. Not quite working condition, but I am getting there.
Let's go through them one-by-one. All but one of them was taken at 2:30 in the morning at the lake. Karoliina and I had just walked back from the party and decided to check out the scenery and we were real glad that we did. The water was so still, it created an almost perfect mirror reflection. And luckily for us the sky was as beautiful as could be imagined.
That close-up picture is one of a dozen or so that we took, trying to get the perfect picture, but it never came about. After realizing that we were a bit full of ourselves and we that our super model days were long since over, we gave up and decided on the one that was the most fun.
The picture not taken at the lake was taken in Rovaniemi, which marks the crossing of the Arctic Circle - as you can see. This stop also happens to lay claim to the home of Santa Claus and it is Christmas here all year round. Christmas music blaring on the loudspeakers, food in the cafeteria, Santa Claus working all day, everyday so that visitors can plop their kids on his lap regardless of the sunshine and warm weather outside.
Today we have an office party at 4pm with mini-golf and everything! It should be the perfect opportunity to talk bad about other people while they are not around and get a little tipsy. Not that anyone needs to do that considering the largest celebration this side of New Year's - Johannes or the Mid Summer - is this weekend. Karoliina and I are joining our friends Mari and Greg at their summer house for the weekend. They also have a newborn baby, Neelo, which should make the time a little more interesting.
I must admit, the pictures are fun, but now that everyone can see what I am talking about, do I still need to talk about it? If a picture is worth a thousand words, where does that leave me?
http://www.cadimef.net/valokuvia/lapland2004/indeksi.htm
For some reason I can't create the hyperlink, but you can open another window and copy and paste the url address. Not quite working condition, but I am getting there.
Let's go through them one-by-one. All but one of them was taken at 2:30 in the morning at the lake. Karoliina and I had just walked back from the party and decided to check out the scenery and we were real glad that we did. The water was so still, it created an almost perfect mirror reflection. And luckily for us the sky was as beautiful as could be imagined.
That close-up picture is one of a dozen or so that we took, trying to get the perfect picture, but it never came about. After realizing that we were a bit full of ourselves and we that our super model days were long since over, we gave up and decided on the one that was the most fun.
The picture not taken at the lake was taken in Rovaniemi, which marks the crossing of the Arctic Circle - as you can see. This stop also happens to lay claim to the home of Santa Claus and it is Christmas here all year round. Christmas music blaring on the loudspeakers, food in the cafeteria, Santa Claus working all day, everyday so that visitors can plop their kids on his lap regardless of the sunshine and warm weather outside.
Today we have an office party at 4pm with mini-golf and everything! It should be the perfect opportunity to talk bad about other people while they are not around and get a little tipsy. Not that anyone needs to do that considering the largest celebration this side of New Year's - Johannes or the Mid Summer - is this weekend. Karoliina and I are joining our friends Mari and Greg at their summer house for the weekend. They also have a newborn baby, Neelo, which should make the time a little more interesting.
I must admit, the pictures are fun, but now that everyone can see what I am talking about, do I still need to talk about it? If a picture is worth a thousand words, where does that leave me?
// posted by Howard @ 10:13 AM 
