Haparanda Old Water Tower and Sunset

Days are already quite short here in North Europe. I took this photo two days ago from Finland and Sweden border towards Haparanda old water tower in Sweden. Time was 14:32 Finnish time or 13:32 Swedish time and like you see sun is already very low. Official sunset time was about 30min later.

Place: Haparanda, Sweden
Photo: Haparanda old water tower and sunset
Date: 16th of November, 2017

Camera: Canon PowerShot G15
Shot: 1/2000 sec. f/3.5 27.849mm ISO 80

Editing: HDR effect using online editor Pixlr, cropping.

It's still little a bit more than one month for the shortest and darkest time of the year. That will be just before Xmas. Hopefully there will be some snow and then it doesn't look so dark. At least after today the view is totally white.

Regards,
Mika

Railway Bridge Between Sweden and Finland

Here is another photo regarding old railway bridge between Haparanda, Sweden and Tornio, Finland.

Place: Haparanda, Sweden
Photo: Railway Bridge Between Sweden and Finland
Date: 12th of August, 2017 

Camera: GoPro Hero5 Black
Shot: 1/1000 sec. f/2.8 3mm ISO 100

Editing: Contrast, highlights, sharpening, cropping.

Great Torne River!

Regards,
Mika

Sunset with Twist

I took this sunset photo yesterday here in Tornio. Then I edited and played with the color settings and this is the result. Looks more like a painting now.

Place: Haparanda, Sweden
Photo: Sunset with twist
Date: 17th of August, 2017

Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Lens: Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Shot: 1/160 sec. f/8 42mm ISO 100

Editing: I took the photo using strong color settings in camera. After that I used in the editor color settings like tint, temperature and saturation. Then some cropping.

Does it look natural? No. Does it look beautiful? Yes. What do you think?

Regards,
Mika

Seskarö Bridge in Sweden

If you go to visit in Seskarö beach or campsite you will see also this beautiful Seskarö bridge.

Place: Seskarö, Haparanda Municipality, Sweden

Photo: Seskarö bridge
Date: 26th of July, 2017

Camera: Canon EOS 60D

Lens: Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

Shot: 1/320 sec. f/13 50mm ISO 100

Editing: Contrast, sharpening, highlights, cropping. 

Seskarö is beautiful place to visit. Even if go to watch only the bridge. 

Regards,

Mika

Boats in Haparanda Marina, Sweden

Few days was beautiful summer day and I visited Haparanda Marina.

Place: Haparanda Marina, Nikkala, Sweden
Photos: Boats in Haparanda Marina (Haparanda Hamn)
Date: 31st of July, 2017

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

Boats closer.

View to the sea.

Fishing boats.

Marinas are great place to visit, when sun is shining and it's warm summer day.

Regards,
Mika

Water Towers in Haparanda, Sweden

I took this photo from Tornio old water tower in Finland and the water towers in the photo are in Haparanda, Sweden. Distance by road between Tornio old water tower and Haparanda old water tower (red tower) is about 2,9km.

Place: Haparanda, Sweden
Photo: Water Towers in Haparanda, Sweden
Date: 29th of June, 2017

Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Lens: Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS
Shot: 1/400 sec. f/7.1 250mm ISO 100

Editing: Contrast, highlights, sharpening, cropping.

Tornio water tower is great place to visit. Visitor can see from the tower the whole Tornio-Haparanda border area including mighty Torne River, which is longest free-flowing river in Europe.

Regards,
Mika

New Year's Eve Twice in Tornio Finland and Haparanda Sweden

Yesterday evening was New Year's Eve. Here on the Finland and Sweden border new year is every time twice. Even Tornio in Finland and Haparanda in Sweden are almost like one city, there is anyway border between and both countries Finland and Sweden have different time zone. This means also fireworks is twice.

This time the both cities celebrated the New Year's Eve together in the same place just on the border. First band played, then fireworks in Finland, band continued and one hour later fireworks in Sweden.

Place: Tornio, Finland

Photos: New Year's Eve

Date: 31st of December, 2016

Camera: Canon EOS 60D

Lens: Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

Temperature was about -5C, but party band After Ski played and kept the people warm before fireworks.

Band and the screen.

Party band After Ski.

Fireworks.

More.

And more.

Today is 1st of January 2017, so here starts the new year. Happy New Year!

Regards,

Mika

Sunset on Tornio Finland and Haparanda Sweden border

Tomorrow on 21st of Dec 2016 is the shortest day of the year. I took this photo today just before sunset at 13:21. Today sunrise was 10:53 and sunset 13:49. Sun was above the horizon only 2h56min.

Place: Tornio, Finland
Photo: Sunset on the Tornio Finland and Haparanda Sweden border
Date: 20th of December, 2016

Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Lens: EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Shot:1/60 sec. f/7.1 19mm ISO100

Editing: A bit cropping and sharpening.

When I took this photo I'm standing in Finland side, but the building on the background are in Haparanda Sweden. The borderline goes just somewhere on that canal area.

Regards,
Mika

Underpass from Finland to Sweden

Yesterday was a bit chilly weather and temperature was -21C. I walked anyway on the borderline here in Tornio and took this photo. This is underpass from Tornio Finland to Haparanda Sweden. Haparanda old water tower is in the middle of the photo.

Place: Haparanda, Sweden
Photo: Underpass from Tornio Finland to Haparanda Sweden
Date: 6th of December, 2016

Camera: Canon PowerShot G15
Shot: 1/250 sec. f/2.8 11.976mm ISO 80

Editing: Cropping and sharpening

I took this photo 2:20PM, so it was about 17min after official sunset time.

Regards,
Mika

Sunset in Haparanda, Sweden

Day is very short at the moment here in Lapland. I took this shot 2:11PM and it was already sunset time. This photo was taken in Tornio Finland, but the view with the water tower is in Haparanda Sweden.

Place: Haparanda, Sweden
Photo: Sunset in Haparanda, Sweden
Date: 1st of December, 2016 at 2:11PM

Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Lens: Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS
Shot: 1/640 sec. f/10 131mm ISO 100

Editing: Cropping and sharpening.

At the moment sun is less than 4 hours above the horizon.

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

Rajalla Mall in Tornio

I took this photo today from the border of Finland and Sweden. The Rajalla Mall in the photo is in Tornio in Finland side, but I took this photo from Haparanda Sweden side.

Place:  Tornio, Finland
Photo: Rajalla Mall in Tornio
Date:   25th of October, 2016

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

Editing: B&W conversion, more contrast, highlights down, more sharpness, cropping.

Tornio is my home town, but this was also new angle to the mall for me too. Always something new.

Regards,
Mika

Small Frogs

I was watching yesterday swans on the seaside, when I suddenly realized there are jumping something just next to me. There was several small frogs. Size of the frogs were about 3cm.

Place:    Riekkola, Haparanda, Sweden
Photos: Small frogs
Date:     7th of September, 2016

Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Lens: Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS

Editing: Sharpening, contrast, saturation, cropping

This was nice, when the frog was on the leaf.

Same frog. Just different angle.

Here another small frog tries to hide and be invisible.

I haven´t seen frogs here in Finland or just other side of the border in Sweden for long time. Here are frogs, but I just haven´t been in that kind of place recently.

Regards,
Mika

Snowmobiling on water

Sometimes it´s possible to see something, which is not normal. It can be for example snowmobile riding on water.

Place:   Tornio River in Haparanda, Sweden
Target: Snowmobile on the water
Date:    15.7.2016

Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Shot: 1/1600 sec. f/5.6 250mm ISO320

Editing: Only cropping and some sharpening.

I like motor sport and taking photos about motor sport. Just have to set the shutter speed to fast enough and that´s it.

More snowmobiling photos on water in Tachometer.

Regards,
Mika