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The photographs were taken on January 26th by river Vantaajoki at Pitkäkoski rapids.

(Posting title is from the poem Papulæ (Order I.) by Sylvia Legris.)

On a bicycle, to Pitkäkoski rapids

Fishing

Bridge over Vantaanjoki

Calopteryx virgo

Summer day

Sedum

Sedum

Pond

Myosotis arvensis

I have ridden the bicycle only a couple of times during the last two weeks. Today I made a longer, 100 minute ride, with some stops for taking photographs. I went to look at the landscape along the Vantaajoki river, and to the rapids at Pitkäkoski. It was a somewhat hot day, but there was some wind, and of course on a bicycle you get free cooling anyway.

Here is a sort of photo essay about the ride; I enjoyed it although I should have remembered to take some water for drinking.

Bright

Path, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Fence, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Pitkäkoski, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Ice, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Trees, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Sun, originally uploaded by jiihaa.

Today was a bright day, a little bit of cloud cover but not too thick. Here are some photographs from Pitkäkoski, "Long Rapids", of the river Vantaa. There is plenty of snow, although the depth of it has decreased thanks to compression. It was quite a change to have so much sunlight - I have been using exposure lenghts of 1/2 second, today I used 1/1000 second.

Update: Speaking of fast exposures, this is something else: "Professor Anne L'Huillier of Lund University in Sweden has been awarded one of five L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards for 2011. She won the award 'for her work on the development of the fastest camera for recording events in attoseconds (a billionth of a billionth of a second),' her citation read."