Old buildings by the river

Industry, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

These old red brick buildings stand next to the hydro-electric generating plant at Anjalankoski, by the river Kymijoki. The day was partly clouded, and there were nice cloud formations on the sky. This photo was taken on the trip to Anjalankoski last week, and for some reason I like the feeling in it. Some kind of mystery.

Granary

Rock building, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

This is an old granary building, nowadays an art gallery and a cafe (Anjalankosken kartano). The roof is wooden. The surrounding park is nice to walk around with several other well-preserved old buildings (and apparently only a few visitors). The river Kymijoki is about 100 meters away.

Clouds and pine

Lake, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

There was a rocky hill by the lake where I spent four days this week. Quite a dry place for trees, but many survive. There were some nice cloud formations, but mostly the sky was all blue.

Evening light

Lake, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

I spent four days by a lake at Anjalankoski (Finland). I took about 800 photographs, of which 500 were of nature and landscape and the rest were of the family.

The limitations of my Canon Digital Ixus 400 were quite apparent, so I didn't get even close of capturing photos of the dragonflies hovering over the water and flying over the grass. With slower-moving targets I was a bit more lucky. I'll have a look at the photos to see whether I learned something.

Also, I took about 80 photos of children playing with young frogs by the lake, and a few of those succeeded really nice. Taking these photos was a bit difficult to the slow focusing and shutter lag of the Ixus 400, but I learned to anticipate what would happen next. And just took a lot of photos.

Intriguing

Home of a bug, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

This ball of dirt was about 5 mm in diameter, and it was glued to plants in the middle of a hay-growing forest. Now I wonder what was hiding inside.

Power plant

Power plant, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Buildings of the power plant at Anjalankoski. The river is Kymijoki.

Warming up

Butterfly on pine, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

This butterfly was not at all afraid of the camera. After settling on the pine, it soon opened the wings and displayed them for all to see.

Update: This is a comma butterfly.