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I will take with me: - The warm humid and hazy gl

I will take with me:

- The warm humid and hazy glow of Florida Keys sunset.

- The feeling of wet deer nose and delicate little whiskers inspecting my skin.

- The moment of connection and oneness between two species where you forget all the invisible lines and borders we have placed between animal and human animal…if you don’t know that moment I’m talking about; you are missing out on something primal and elemental.

- Short two days that will remain for an eternity.

Forever on my skin and as a cozy warm feeling in my heart; the curious case of the Key Deer 🤎.
I left another little piece of my heart behind again,
I sprinkle pieces all over in these interactions…
which is why; the entire world can feel like home.

🦌
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I’ve never before had to clean my gear from deer

I’ve never before had to
clean my gear from deer drool before but
There’s a first for everything 😀🦌👅
And at least I know my gear choice is good for wildlife!

The endangered Key Deer 🦌 are quite used to living around human establishments as that is most of their habitat. There are lands set aside for them as a refuge but instead of the more natural areas they tend to hang out on people’s yards…because
a) that’s where the grass and gardens are greener
and
b) Though illegal, some people give them some treats 🍎 🥕 from time to time, so they often come check and even taste 👅 a new person (and their gear) out.

Though it was truly wonderful to be appreciated and connect with these beautiful lil deer 🦌 ; them being this used to humans leads them to approach vehicles which can lead to accidents. So feeding or touching the deer is not allowed.
It was hard to keep my hands to my self and not touch them…but instead I just let them touch (and taste) me and my stuff.

How have you figured out you’ve got good 📸gear for wildlife?

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I just can’t with these guys 🩷🦌! You neve

I just can’t with these guys 🩷🦌!

You never know if you’re going to find them or see them…if they’re gonna disappear into the bushes in a blink of an eye or try to get in your car with you 😀.

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The 🇫🇮Finnish National animal has over 200 d

The 🇫🇮Finnish National animal has over 200 different names in the Finnish language…

The bear 🐻 used to be sacred, and you needed various ways of talking about him without saying his name and accidentally calling him to you.

In the modern days the bear has gone from sacred to a trophy to some 🩸 …but it seems the attitudes towards respecting and protecting the Finnish bears are slowly getting stronger.

Bearhaps there is a world in which not only the Finnish people get to live in peace and independence; but their national animal will get to as well?

Happy Finnish Independence Day!
🐻
Hyvää itsenäisyyspäivää!

Karhu, Kontio, Otso, Mesikämmen, Metsän kuningas, Nalle, Kultaherra, Otsonen… What other names for the amazing Bear do you know?

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So happy I took myself on this expedition!🩷 Na

So happy I took myself on this expedition!🩷

Native and imperiled: The Key Deer 🦌
A smallest subspecies of White Tailed Deer, The Key Deer can only be found in the Florida Keys!

The largest bucks grow to less than a meter high at the shoulders and weigh about 35 kg.

“Key deer are found only in the Florida Keys, the archipelago of islands off the southern tip of Florida.

While their historic range probably went from Key Vaca south to Key West, their range now includes about 26 islands from Big Pine Key to Sugarloaf Key and they can swim from one island to another.

Key deer numbers fell to less than 50 in the 1940s.
Hunting and habitat destruction led to their almost disappearance.
Establishment of the National Key Deer Refuge in 1957 helped this Florida-only subspecies survive.

Other important steps in its conservation were adding fencing along roadways, imposing stricter speed limits and stepping up law enforcement.

The current Key deer population is estimated to be 700 to 800 deer, with the greatest concentrations on Big Pine Key and No Name Key.

While its population is considered stable for now, the Key deer remains listed as a federally endangered species”

And seriously ➡️ How cute 🥰 are the Key Deer!?
🦌

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If you enjoy observing or photographing larger bir

If you enjoy observing or photographing larger birds
👉🏼 Florida is the place to be!

Herons, egrets, ibis and even vultures are practically a daily occurrence…whether you are in a more natural area or in a city.

It’s relatively easy to find these larger birds and get quite close to them…the main challenges then center around finding nice light and background AND filling the frame with a bird that’s all beak, neck and legs 😀.

This Tricolored Heron stands about 60-70cm tall and here he was about 2,5m from me…I could barely get far enough to get my lens to focus (had to lean over the boardwalk backwards).

Though many of the heron and egret species were nearly hunted to extinction when their feathers 🪶 became popular a fashion accessory back in the day; today many of the species populations are stable.

The biggest threat for the birds is habitat loss…but there are many small local and larger conservation and rewilding efforts going on across the State.

I remember being blown away by all the large colorful birds when I first moved here…and I’m still blown away by them today. Nature just is so amazingly fascinating, creative and stunning 🤩.

📸 Nikon Z9 with Nikon 500mm 5.6PF lens @ 1/1250sec 5.6 ISO1100
📍South Florida, Nov 2023

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I left Florida and moved to Finland at the end of

I left Florida and moved to Finland at the end of 2017 and the first time since I left; I got to go back home to Florida in 2023. Twice!

I’m originally from Finland but lived in the States long enough to call it too home and to become a citizen.

When I first moved to Florida, I was really interested about its nature…for curiosity and for mine and my dogs safety ( I wanted to be able to spot and recognize all the venomous snakes, spiders etc)
👉🏼 So I found University of Florida’s Florida Master Naturalist courses, did them all in a few year period and graduated as a certified Florida Master Naturalist.

And now I’m a Florida Master Naturalist living in Finland refreshing my knowledge about the Finnish nature and biology in general by taking biology and environmental sciences courses from University of Jyväskylä.

I LOVE Florida nature!
and
I LOVE Finnish nature!

Two very different biomes, environments, climates…
two places I consider home.🧡
So thankful for this year of being able to dive into the nature of both!

Which Florida photo is your favorite?

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It works both ways… My blind is made of fabric a

It works both ways…
My blind is made of fabric and plywood…his is made of branches. We were both very subtle 😀🐻👁️

🐻
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What we are doing to the forests of the world is b

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.
-Mahatma Gandhi

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When suspicious, the Pied-billed Grebe may sink sl

When suspicious, the Pied-billed Grebe may sink slowly until only head is above water… she is like a little spying submarine 🪶.

Cute lil birdie 🥰

📸Nikon Z9 with Nikon 500mm 5.6PF lens @ 1/800sec F5.6 ISO1250

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So I’ve spent most of my vacation in Florida wit

So I’ve spent most of my vacation in Florida with Covid.
It’s my first time with this illness and let me tell you it’s been quite the ride! I’ve had like ALL the symptoms and just when I’ve thought I’m getting better…a new symptom arises.

But I’m on the road to recovery now, definitely feeling more alive again…and now that I got my hearing back (yes lost that too along with taste and smell); there’s a new found appreciation for the little things. Like loud chirping birds on top of my head 😊.

I’ve always been pretty good at finding joy in the little things and moments…especially in nature. But I guess it’s good to be reminded that life and health and senses might not always be there…to really make the most of them when they are!

Have you had Covid? Did you loose your hearing or sense of smell or taste? I’m still waiting on the sense of smell to come back…how long did it take you?

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Gorgeous at a distance and bizarre up close is the

Gorgeous at a distance and bizarre up close is the Roseate Spoonbill. Locally common in coastal Florida, Texas, and southwest Louisiana, they are usually in small flocks, often associating with other waders. Spoonbills feed in shallow waters, walking forward slowly while they swing their heads from side to side, sifting the muck with their wide flat bills.

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Wood Stork Mycteria americana The only native sto

Wood Stork
Mycteria americana

The only native stork in North America.
Large peculiar looking bird 🤍🖤

The Wood Stork (Mycteria americana) is a large, bald-headed wading bird that stands more than 3 feet (0.9 meters) tall, has a 5 foot (1.5 meter) wing spread, and weighs 4 to 6 pounds (1.8 to 2.7 kg). It is the only stork breeding in the United States and was placed on the Federal Endangered Species list in 1984.

Big boy 🐊 didn’t fit in the frame. Good day!

Big boy 🐊 didn’t fit in the frame.
Good day!

American alligators are large crocodilians found only in the United States. They can grow to be more than 12 feet (3.6 meters) in length and weigh as much as 1,000 pounds (450 kilograms), with males being slightly larger than females on average.

American alligators can be found in the coastal wetlands of the U.S. Southeast, as far north as North Carolina and as far west as eastern Texas. Their range extends down to southern Florida and includes the Everglades. These reptiles are usually found in slow-moving freshwater rivers, but also inhabit swamps, marshes, and lakes.

American alligators were once threatened by extinction, but after being placed on the endangered species list in 1967, their population increased. This species is now classified as least concern. The main threat to these reptiles today is habitat loss caused by wetland drainage and development.

The American alligator is an important keystone species of the Southeast. Alligators use their tails to dig burrows in mud for nesting and to keep warm. When an alligator abandons a burrow, the hole left behind fills with freshwater and is utilized by other species for breeding and drinking. If alligators are removed from their native ecosystem, it would affect countless other species.

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Life is short. What are you waiting for? Let’s

Life is short.
What are you waiting for?

Let’s go, you’re ready enough to take the first step.

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I think most of us understand that, if you don’t

I think most of us understand that,
if you don’t consciously take
responsibility and heal your trauma; you’ll end up either causing trauma to others or attracting more of it towards you.

Today it’s Father’s Day in Finland. My dad gave me the gift to see and create beauty, a passion for food, curiosity to explore the world, love of nature and animals… and a large portion of trauma as he inevitably passed on the horrific traumas of his past creating chaos, instability and violence in our home.

When I was 16, I lost him completely. And due to the choices he had made choosing a new wife; I wasn’t invited to the funeral either.

But this is not a sad story.
In fact I’m now grateful for all the good I got from him and so proud of myself for choosing to begin working on my self and to heal my trauma some years ago.
I’m now 43 and this is going to be the best decade of my life this far!
It’s never too late to take charge and make a change you know😉

Very few of us avoid some sort of trauma, but too few understand its effects on themselves and others and even fewer take responsibility for it.

The more I learn, the more I see how much this world needs healing and how childhood and other trauma controls us adults to cause chaos, instability and violence to other humans, non-human animals and the environment.

I think in order to save species, to save the environment, save the earth as we know it…we need to consciously work on saving our selves, to heal. As long as we don’t; we keep passing the hurt and chaos on.

That’s why I share my story and art,
turning my trauma into purpose and hopefully inspiring others to do the same.

Love is the answer, it always has been.
Let’s own our stories, and make this the best decade the earth has ever seen, shall we?

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If you go photograph bears 🐻 from a blind, it’s no surprise there are bears around…and not just when you are in the blind; but also on the way and back.

Usually you won’t see them but they’ll see you.
Sometimes you see them on your way to the blind and sometimes you see a bear 🐻 walking on the path to the blind right before you are supposed to leave the blind…

That is what happened one morning as I was about to leave my blind. It was a beautiful sunny morning and I was the only photographer in that area. So I gave him 🐻 a few moments to wander off from the trail before I walked in his paw steps to soak up the sun.

This is the world I wanna live in. A world where there’s wildlife in the wild and we share our paths🤎.

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Photography is an art of observation. It has littl

Photography is an art of observation.
It has little to do with the things you see,
and everything to do with the way you see them.

🧡I hope you’ll observe a lot of beauty, love and life this weekend✨!

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Monday night I figured that I have some holidays l

Monday night I figured that I have some holidays left and a two week window in about a week that I don’t have anything major going on in Finland…

A few messages later I booked flights yesterday to South Florida. And I also have a contact and some gorillas 🦍 to see in Uganda!😃 But maybe more on that later on.

This year has been filled with big losses, big decisions, huge passion…so many goodbyes to the old and shaky yet determined steps towards something new. I like this journey 💚.

So here’s what’s gonna happen next:
- I sold my house and will move (end of Dec) to a new (I think temporary) home close to a area I enjoy nature and wildlife wise.
- So after new year I’m focusing on building a new routine around a new home and opportunities.

End of next week I’ll head to my friends place in Ft Lauderdale FL for a few weeks.
☀️ My main plan is to chill, soak up some sun, take long walks on the beach, eat…and explore what wildlife I can find in the city and surrounding natural areas.

There’s two State Parks near by and of course Everglades National Park. Good thing I got that annual pass last Feb 🥳.
So I’ll rent a car and try to explore as much as I can.

😎What would you like to see from South Florida during my trip?
🐊I’d love to show you, so just let me know!

Feels great to go home to the US again. So excited and happy 😊!
We’ll take off end of next week.

There is no photoshop or filters for your energy.

There is no photoshop or filters for your energy.
That energy is what matters.

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