Austrian Motorcyclists On Winter Trip in Finland

There are few motorcyclists here in Finland, who ride also in winter. Today I saw two motorcyclists even weather was quite cold. Almost -20C and also some wind. Anyway these guys were not local. They were on winter trip from Austria!

Place: Hallituskatu, Tornio, Finland
Photos: Winter motorcycling
Date: 3rd of February, 2018

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

Stop on Hallituskatu, Tornio.

Cheers!

Adventure continues and back to road.

Unfortunately I couldn't talk with the guys. Anyway this kind of motorcycling need some attitude.

Regards,
Mika

Snowland

It's time for the first photo of the year. This time street view from Tornio, where has been lot of snow on this winter. At the moment official depth of snow is 70cm (27.56 inches) and there is still about three months to go on this winter.

Place: Tornio, Finland

Photo: Snowland

Date: 7th of January, 2018

Camera: Canon PowerShot G15

Shot: 1/250 sec. f/2.8 6.1mm ISO 80

Editing: Only cropping.

Happy New Year 2018!!

Regards,

Mika

Tornio 2017 in Photos

Tomorrow is already last day of the year, so it's time to summarize this year 2017. I created this video, where is possible to see how the seasons change from one to another and something what happened during the year here in Tornio near Arctic Circle.

Place: Tornio, Lapland, Finland
Video: Tornio 2017 in photos
Date: January 2017 - December 2017

Cameras: Canon EOS 60D and Canon PowerShot G15

Enjoy!

I created same kind of video also last year first time - so this is Tornio in 2016.

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Happy New Year 2018!!

Regards,
Mika

iPiccy Online Editor - Shine on Tornio Bridge

I edited this Tornio old bridge photo using online editor called iPiccy. It has lot of different kind of effects and tools to edit photos.

Place: Tornio, Finland
Photo: Shine on Tornio old bridge
Date: 3rd of December, 2017

Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Lens: Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Shot: 1/30 sec. f/5.6 15mm ISO 400

Editing using iPiccy Online Editor: First I cropped the photo and used HDR effect. After that I added Shine effect, where is possible to set the center point, radius, intensity and also color of the rays. In this case I set the color to violet/purple.

End result after editing is quite interesting. What do you think?

Regards,
Mika

Two Cities - Two Countries - One Photo

I took this photo next to our home in Tornio city center. On the front the buildings are in Tornio in Finland and in the middle there is Haparanda old water tower in Sweden.

Place: Tornio, Finland
Photo: Two Cities - Two Countries - One Photo
Date: 17th of December, 2017 at 14:00

Camera: Canon PowerShot G15
Shot: 1/125 sec. f/2.8 30.5mm ISO 320

Editing: Clarity, cropping.

Like you can see these two cities are in practice one even there is border between. That's why Tornio-Haparanda is also called Twin City. 

Regards,

Mika

Sunset in Frozen Torne River

Now Torne River is already totally frozen. This photo I took three weeks ago, when the middle part of the river was still open.

Place: Tornio, Finland
Photo: Sunset in Frozen Torne River
Date: 9th of November, 2017

Camera: Canon PowerShot G15
Shot: 1/2000 sec. f/2.8 6.1mm ISO 80

Editing: HDR effect, Rouge effect, shadows, clarity, cropping.

At the moment sunset is here in Tornio already at 13:58 and sun is above the horizon only 3 hours and 25min.

Regards,
Mika

Christmas is coming

It's only two and half week for the Christmas and it's easy to see. This christmas tree photo I took on the front of Rajalla Mall in Tornio.

Place: Tornio, Finland
Photo: Christmas is coming
Date: 3rd of December, 2017

Camera: Canon EOS 60D
Lens: Canon EF-S 15-85mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Shot: 1/60 sec. f/5.6 50mm ISO 1250

Editing: Cropping.

Soon this year will be also over and it's new year 2018.

Regards,
Mika