Today I got my hands dirty and did some repairs to the bicycle. I hope it is now ok until I need to install the winter tires.
The conditions for commuting by bicycle are excellent even though the nights are getting to be cold. Today we had 7 °C in the morning and 22 °C in the afternoon. It is dry and sunny.
The photographs were taken on July 25th on top of the Vuokatinvaara hill.
(Posting title is from the poem The Chain Gang by Robert Winner.)
I walked for two hours this morning at Tremanskärr, exploring the swamps and forests in the east parts of the area. There were plenty of raspberries to eat.
The photographs were taken at Vuokatti on July 25th, walking around the Vuokatinvaara hill and up and down the smaller hills. The UKK walking route goes south to Koli.
(Posting title is from the poem Bears at Raspberry Time by Hayden Carruth.)
Here are some photographs which didn't make the cut into the photo book of the trip to Salla, Lapland, titled Climbing hills and fells: Vuokatinvaara and Sallatunturit. See the Scribd version or the Blurb version.
I wrote about the book-making project in five installments: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4 and part 5.
In retrospect I should have paid more attention to what I was doing, but there was so much other things going on that my attention wasn't quite focused on the task. And thus I needed to iterate a bit more, which resulted in mistakes, which required extra work, etc. But in the end I'm rather pleased with the results, with the errors and all. It is a bit too simplistic as a book, the layout could have been much more creative, but I'm happy with it as it is now.
And having a printed book always feels good. Last year I didn't make any, so it was time to refresh the skills a bit.
(Posting title is from the poem Cut Out For It by Kay Ryan.)
While going through the photographs from the memory cards I realized there were some taken before the trip to Lapland. These were taken at Petikko on July 16th, the day before we started the journey northwards.
I'm thinking that perhaps I should make a photo book from the photographs from the trip to northern Finland, using the same process and format as in my SoFoBoMo photo books. It would require a bit of extra effort, but having a printed book in hand would be nice, and of course there would be an on-line (PDF etc.) version as well.
But what would be a good title for the book? "Up north and up hills - Vuokatinvaara and Sallatunturit" would be a possibility. Or just "Walking up hills in northern Finland". I think I would focus on the photographs taken while walking at the hills of Vuokatinvaara, and those taken at the hills of Sallatunturit. However, maybe the book could contain some of the other photographs from the trip as well, but I'm not sure how they would fit the theme.
I have so far gone through about 1/3 of the photographs, but there is still plenty to go through. After this phase I should be able to decide whether to try making a photo book or not.
(Posting title is from the poem O. by Robin Blaser.)
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