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Sini Tuulia

@sinituulia@eldritch.cafe · 2 months ago

From yesterdays walkies in the forest behind Mum's neighbourhood.

#Photography #Finland #Winter

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Prettily blue photo of setting sunlight cast through the sieve of a stand of Scot's pine and leafless deciduous undergrowth. The foreground is a flat plane of the end of a road, with tracks of tires dug into the pure white snow. The blue shadows of the trees dip into the tracks and footprints, like graphite into the impressions of writing on a fresh piece of notepad paper. A cool frosty haze sits gently atop everything, the branches of the perhaps even 100 year old trees heavily laden with snow and frost.

Within the forest now, looking out across what would be a grassy meadow in summer but is a blanket of trod on snow in the winter, and towards the edge of a lake. The shadows of the trees stretch across the snow, radiating outward from the point of where the distant but bright winter sun sits low in the sky. In addition to myriad different size human footprints, there's tracks of toboggans, bikes, dogs. Fluffy spruces have been made slim by the snow dragging their branches down.

Walking within the forest, looking over a fallen tree and onto the lake. On the opposite shore the sun no longer directly touches the forest of conifers and frozen over wetland shore, and it's all a soft powder blue, with the peach rose pink glow of the setting sun colouring the horizon with a gradient of warm to deep cold blue. The fallen tree, half covered in snow but less than its surrounds, has snowed on footprints going across it, speaking of many people sinking into the snowbank to go sit on the tree trunk, maybe even balance on it.

#winter #finland #photography

Sini Tuulia

@sinituulia@eldritch.cafe · 2 months ago

Extra photo not quite in the same mood:
Trees, they're really quite good.

A photo looking up into the tops of snow and frost covered Scot's pines. Scraggly along their lower trunks, with red bark, they have full brushes of branches with just so very many pine needles, in the shape reminiscent of the most majestic of broccoli. A deep blue cloudless winter sky peeks between their tops, the trees having grown crown shy. With how much denser the newer branches are and how tall the trunks, it's possible these are quite old, having gotten over the phase of growing straight up as fast as possible, having calmed down about it decades ago. Trees, quite good.

Sini Tuulia

@sinituulia@eldritch.cafe · 2 months ago

Alt text typed up in a poetic haze of being in the middle of my morning coffee, with a cat on my lap and some nice swing jazz playing. What are words?

Sini Tuulia

@sinituulia@eldritch.cafe · 2 months ago

One more, why not. I don't think it's very special as a photo, but it is a very quintessential view of a normal little forest in Finland, and thus perhaps of some interest.