That I cannot remember only to discover

Lake 1

Lake 2

The photographs were taken in Luukki on August 21st.

(Posting title is from the poem The Redshifting Web by Arthur Sze.)

The world as it was before language once again

Luukki 1

Luukki 2

Luukki 3

Luukki 4

Luukki 5

The photographs were taken in Luukki on November 1st.

There was a little bit of sunshine today, even though the forecast promised overcast weather.

(Posting title is from the poem The Author to His Body on Their Fifteenth Birthday, 29 ii 80 by Howard Nemerov.)

Spend my whole day in the quest

Stream 1

Stream 2

Twigs

Fungus

Stump

Mustlampi

Väärälampi 1

Väärälampi 2

On January 2nd I went to northwest corner of Luukki, to the parking place near Halkolampi, walked towards north along the west side of lake Väärälampi, explored the forests north of lake Väärälampi, where I haven't been before, and returned via lake Mustlampi and east side of lake Väärälampi. The noise from the road carries surprisingly far to the forests, but otherwise it was very quiet.

(Posting title is from the poem Love in a Life by Robert Browning.)

It is like the reverberation of a bell rung three times

Bug

Calopteryx virgo

Argynnis adippe

Fallen

Blueberry

Cloudberry

Mustlampi

Clouds

This morning I went with my daughter to see a dentist, and then I read for a while. When there was a break in the rain I walked for over two hours in the Luukki forests, going around lake Väärälampi and visiting lakes Mustlampi and Halkolampi.

There were a lot of blueberries to be eaten, and some wild strawberries as well. Of the blueberry there are two visually distinct versions, the other light blue, and the other almost black, which is due to a difference in the genes which make the black berries lack the wax cover which the blue ones have. The black is more rare, but they taste the same.

There were a few cloudberries also, though they are not ripe yet. - Except for two berries which I found in a sunny spot on an open swamp, and they tasted good.

My diet today was dominated by berries, not only because I picked some in the forest, but also because I bought a box of strawberries at the shopping mall near the dentist's office. I prepared them for freezing, to be eaten during the winter, and of course I had to taste them (and good they were).

And because my daughter likes highbush blueberries, I bought some of them also, and we had a nice evening snack eating berries.

Occasionally I think about a vegetarian diet, but I haven't really seriously thought about trying it out myself. But I have experimented with eating more environmentally friendly, meaning more vegetables and less red meat, and that isn't so difficult. But going totally vegetarian, I don't think that is for me.

(Posting title is from the poem Orange Berries Dark Green Leaves by John Taggart.)

You wish you had a river

River

Fern

Mustlampi

Twigs

Fallen

Halkolampi

Here are some landscape photographs from my walk at the Luukki forests today.

(Posting title is from the poem A River by John Poch.)

I left the green bark and the shade

Green

Mossy

Fallen

Blue anemone

Water

Väärälampi

Mustlampi

Halkolampi

We got rain during the night, and it cleaned the air. The clouds hovered above at noon, and there was a little bit of fog, when I went for a walk around three lakes in Luukki: Väärälampi, Mustlampi and Halkolampi. The moisture painted the landscape in colors, it was good to be out walking with a camera.

I'm still thinking about cameras, especially the Olympus m4/3 ones, which have image stabilization built in. And even though I don't really like the design of the OM-D E-M5 (retro is not the way to go forward), the features are interesting indeed.

But then I start to think about the LX5 and realize how good the package is, f/2.0, 24 mm at wide end, and macro which usually works like charm, helped with the effective image stabilization.

Having a m4/3 system covering all the bases which the LX5 does could be possible, but the combination would for sure not be pocketable. But what is tempting about the OM-D E-M5 is putting it together with a very good lens - maybe a macro, but even more interestingly a wide-angle lens - and using just that, no other lenses at all.

At some point I was really tempted getting a macro lens and a sensor-stabilized m4/3 body, but then I realized that the LX5 has another advantage: it is much harder to get the subject in focus with a m4/3 camera than with the LX5. And I'm not really into the kind of macro photography in which the background is fully blurred; to me that is not what photography is about.

(Posting title is from the poem Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight by Yvor Winters.)

He lit a fire with icicles

Halkolampi

Snow

Fir

Trees

Väärälampi

Water

Icicles

Pine

Today I went for a walk in the Luukki forests, around three lakes: Väärälampi, Mustlampi and Halkolampi. The last night was a cold one, so the snow was hard enough to carry a walking man. In fact, it was easier going that during summer, because the snow carried well, and there were only some spots where the sun had warmed it too much.

(Posting title is from the poem He Lit a Fire with Icicles by Kay Ryan.)

Earth’s picture book

Mustlampi

Step

Rock

Twigs

Rock

Reflect

Halkolampi

Fallen

I went with our eldest daughter to see three lakes in Luukki: Väärälampi, Mustlampi and Halkolampi. It was clouded, but the temperature was nice, -1 °C, and there was still some snow on the ground. Not a bad day to go out for a walk.