My Shot of the Day: Pic du Midi France Hautes-Pyrénées
Pic du Midi France , Hautes-Pyrénées. I'm in the little village of Bagnères-de-Bigorre right at the base of the mountains. Spring time, flowers popping out everywhere! ##
Pic du Midi France , Hautes-Pyrénées. I'm in the little village of Bagnères-de-Bigorre right at the base of the mountains. Spring time, flowers popping out everywhere! ##
Of course the Portuguese had gotten all out of control. Timayya had done his work well and the Bijapur kings were out of the way. Goa belonged to Portugal and everyone was rich from slaving and spices. Other than to…
Morning train south from Vasa. The air is bright and blue and clean. Talitiainen, the Great Tit, sings its squeaky wheelbarrow song. Trumpeter swans bark overhead. The first day of spring (my lovely daughter's birthday...on the plane home this morning)…
Ice Fishing. The Perfect Shot. It wasn't the first train of the day but I was on my way from Helsinki to Vasa by 9am yesterday. The journey takes about five hours and is about as comfortable as you…
Helsinki The skyline of Helsinki Finland and the Baltic Sea beyond on March 12, 2012. Taken from the Atelje Bar on top of Hotel Torni just after sunset. ISO 100, f/7.1, 4.0s I spent the day recovering from the last…
Tonight I set out to capture the Aurora Borealis from the coast near the Mehlahti section of Helsinki Finland - but that didn't work out so well. A brief snowstorm appeared from some thick, pink clouds and my exhausted, jet-lagged…
There is plenty of light but not exactly sun here in early spring. The wind is howling off the Gulf of Bothnia stirring up the snow and cutting visibility. All the bulldozers, bobcats and dump trucks are working around the…
If I've learned anything about myself in 41 years of living it is this: I am, as my friend Victoria says, the "nomad-wanderer-gypsy-rambler-forever-traveler....." It is just me. It always has been and it always will be. I don’t typically get…
In Moby Dick, Melville told us about the "Norway maelstrom". Well, this is it. For over two-thousand years this amazing place has gripped the northern mind. Located at the base of the 250 million year old Caledonian Fold Belt Mountains…
Guest Post by Erik Hoffner Before departing for a recent reporting assignment for Yale Environment 360 reporting on Sweden’s forestry industry I read Jim O’Donnell’s book that chronicles his 1500-mile trek across Finland. Biodiversity activist Olli Manninen What Jim described…
Anyone who regularly reads this blog knows that I am a lover of both Finland and Scandinavia in general. I've spent so much time in the north of Europe that it is very much like my second home - my…