Swimming Pool is Open in Torne River - Ice Swimming

It's again that time of the year, when river freezes. It means also ice swimming.

Place: Tornio, Finland
Photo: Swimming Pool is Open in Torne River - Ice Swimming
Date: 31st of October, 2017

Camera: Canon PowerShot G15
Shot: 1/400 sec. f/2.8 10.013mm ISO 160
Editing: For this first photo I used HDR effect, clarity and cropping.

Swimming pool is open.

Swimmers.

Have you tried ice swimming? If not, try it. I have tried twice in this same place few winter ago and it was interesting...and refreshing.

Regards,
Mika

Deep Art Effects | Android App - Under the Bridge

Sometimes it's fun to play with different kind of photo apps. Few days ago I accidentally found app called Deep Art Effect. The app has lot of different kind of effects how you can edit the photos and most of the effects are quite wild one.

First the original photo, which I took using HDR mode in my mobile phone under the old Tornio bridge.

Place: Tornio, Finland
Photo: Under the Bridge
Date: 7th of January 2017

Camera: LG G2 mobile phone (Android)
Shot: 1/800 sec. f/2.4 3.97mm ISO 50 HDR-mode

Editing: Deep Art Effects App.

This is the same photo after using one of the filters. It looks like painting.

Looks quite cool. This is only one of the many this kind of apps. Sometimes the apps may surprise.

Regards,
Mika

Frozen River and Sunset

I took this photo yesterday, when I was biking on the riverside. I took this photo from Finland, but the background of the photo is Sweden.

Place: Tornio, Finland
Photo: Frozen Torniojoki (Tornio River) and sunset.
Date: 24th November, 2016

Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Lens: Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

I took this photo at 1:59PM, but sun was already very low. Official sunset time at the moment here in Tornio is 2:33PM.

Regards,
Mika

Winter is coming - Frozen Tornio River

Here is Northern Finland days are getting colder and last days have been already subzero days. At the moment temperature is -12C, so it means the river has already frozen. This photo I took two days a go on Sunday.

Place: Tornio, Finland
Photo: Frozen Tornio River
Date: 6th of November, 2016

Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Lens: Canon EOS EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS

Editing: Cropping

One interesting point of the photo. I took this photo at 14:45, but sun was already very low. Today two day later sunrise was 8:44AM and sunset was already at 3:29PM, so sun is above horizon only 6h 45min.

Regards,
Mika