In Finland this week, I wound up with a free Saturday,
so I planned to get up early (easy when you are so many
time-zones away from home) and get some photos.
Any place you go looks unusual and even spectacular
as the sun is coming up. Helsinki is already spectacular,
in my opinion, so the dawn just makes it exponentially so.
The result, I wound up with so many photos...
...that I will make it into two or three blog posts !
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Photo by Mark W. Laughlin
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The Greek Orthodox Uspenski Cathedral looms over both the Eastern and Southern Helsinki Harbor areas, as it sits on a hill separating the two. (I'll have more daylight photos in subsequent posts)
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The Eastern Harbor area,
very quiet on a pre-dawn Saturday...and pretty chilly too.
I feared for a time that if I didn't manage to keep warm,
I might have to take a break and get out of the wind.
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As the sky brightened, it just proved once again...
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...that when presented with a grand sky...
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...and cool subject matter like this...
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...it does not take a genius to make it look good !
(not sure if the one above is my favorite...)
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More masts, silhouetted against a wonderful sky.
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Photo by Mark W. Laughlin
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I have a great shot of this ship, against a soft, blue-gray evening sky, taken on the way to dinner a couple of nights before. It will post it with other Helsinki photos to come.
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(...or this final look at that ship...my favorite I mean.)
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And so, with the sun up, folks in the harbor area began to move about, running and walking dogs in the chilly air. I continued on to what would be a 6.5 hour, 220-photo walking trip around one of my favorite cities.
My wife asked if I had been walking all by myself. I laughed, "Are you kidding ?!? ...Who else would get up in time, to leave the hotel more than an hour before sunrise, and hike with me for hours while I shoot photos !!!"
A fun day, with a great place to hang out,
and wonderful cooperation by the weather !!!
Y'all take care,
- Mark W. Laughlin
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