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New gear testing continues 📷: To shoot wildlife

New gear testing continues 📷:
To shoot wildlife with my new Canon R5 I opted for a used EF lens. So with the EF 100-400mm lens attached to my R5 via an adaptor, I did my lazy initial testing 😀…

From my living room window I have a direct view (from an angle) inside a rose bush next to my home.

Feathers 🪶 all puffed and comfy inside a snow covered rose bush on a sunny winter day there was a Eurasian Tree Sparrow taking a nap😴.

I thought it all looked so dreamy as the cloud like snow covered the branches, yet some rays of sunlight got in to give her some warmth ✨.

Now, not an optimal situation to be shooting through a window (especially since I’m not in anyway a window washing enthusiast 😅). But the point was to just get an initial feel of if and how the EF lens worked with the RF body. And if I’d gone outside, I’d interrupt her nap, that was out of the question!

I had studied reviews and everyone said the EF lenses work like a charm with the adapter. Since the comparable RF 100-500mm lens was wayyyy more expensive than the used EF 100-400mm ; was the reason I opted for the latter. I also dream of owning a prime RF 600mm one day 🤞.

✨So, I first noticed the sound the lens and camera combo make…it was weird at first having used only gear designed for mirrorless for long…I had never heard a lens humm like a small engine 😅. I’ve had that lens before years ago but don’t remember the sound …does it make that on EF bodies as well, anyone? Not that it was in any way really disturbing.

The EF lens (which I ordered used from MPB and was promptly delivered to my door at a bargain), worked perfectly on the R5 body with the mount adapter.🙌

I tested the animal eye autofocus and like many of the review say: it was great, until it was not 😅. When using it on well lit birds that came to my feeder, it was spot on a lot of the times. But if there was something distracting somewhere close that the bird was behind, it struggled and lost focus. Also for our little sparrow napper in the rose bush, since her eyes were closed or semi closed and she wasn’t facing the camera, the focus landed on the feathers 🪶.

Testing continues but for now it’s 👍 for EF lenses +RFbody

I switched from Sony mirrorless to Canon mirrorles

I switched from Sony mirrorless to Canon mirrorless. Here are my very first thoughts after taking the camera on a walk in the woods:

📷Comparing my new R5 to my old Sony a7RIV. Today had the Canon RF 100mm Macro lens attached.

✨Love the image quality of the R5! And the smaller (45mp) file size is much faster to work with than the a7RIV’s 61mp. 61mp was just way too much for me and my hard drives. 45mp is still a lot but the 20mp of the Canon R6 seems a little too little as I like to shoot landscapes etc as well.

✨The main reason I swapped was the design of the body. I used to have Canon DSLR’S prior to going mirrorless and the somewhat square shaped Sony never really felt super great in my hands. The more round shapes of the Canon R5 makes the body much more pleasing to handle. AND compared to Sony’s pointy edges: much nicer to carry on over my shoulder (see last pic), nothing is digging into or banging against my side or hip with the R5🙌.

✨However, there are a few design features I preferred on the Sony cameras: on Sony the on/off button is on the right hand side, along with all the other often used functions (at least in my use), which made it easy to use with just one hand (seeing I often have a dog in the other). On the Canon, on/off is sitting alone on the left hand side, which made one handed use more complicated.

✨ I haven’t checked exact weights or measurements but the Canon body and lenses seem bigger than Sony’s similar lenses. However the canon body and lenses seem lighter. I could be completely off here, but I don’t think of an exact number when I shoot; I think of how things feel. And like compared to the Sony body, the Canon RF lenses also somehow feel more ‘soft’ to the hand. The comparison that comes to mind is that Sony design is more masculine and ‘hard’ while Canon is more feminine and ‘soft’.

✨For the R5 and RF macro 100mm combo: Love the quality and bokeh!!!

✨This was just an initial test and observations. I shot in apperture priority and tested autofocus and manual focus. As often with macros autofocus struggles and this was no exception; the images I most like here were manually focused.

🤔Thoughts, comments, questions?👇Type em!

Join me and @soosseli at Puffin Paradise this comi

Join me and @soosseli at Puffin Paradise this coming May 🐧!
👉We’re hosting a week long Arctic Nature Photography Workshop together with @auroraholidays 👉👉link in Bio
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I spent two hours on Puffin Paradise (Hornøya) in the summer of 2020 and those two hours reminded me just how much I LOVE wildlife photography!
This image as well as all my Puffin photos are from that trip. That place, the proximity to the birds and the Arctic Nature in Northern Finland and Norway are just magnificent ✨
🐧
Ossi (@soosseli) is the main workshop leader. His cute wildlife photos are enjoyed by his huge social media audience worldwide. Ossi will talk and teach wildlife photography, tips, techniques and gear during the workshop and we’ll shoot with him in the field all week long!
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We’ll also explore Utsjoki area and look for migrating and lekking birds such as the Ruffs. And obviously practice looking for and photographing all other wildlife in the area from moose to mouse 🐭.
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Accommodation, transportation, all field trips and most meals are included in the price along with Ossi’s lectures and time.
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Would you like something like this, or know someone who would? Leave a comment below or send them the link in bio🙌.
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Also, how about that head tilt and bokeh?

#lunni
#puffin
#naturephotographyworkshops
#auroraholidays
#exploreutsjoki

Do you think ‘Nature Photography’ includes ‘

Do you think ‘Nature Photography’ includes ‘Wildlife Photography’?
🦉
I’ve noticed that some photographers describe themselves ‘Nature and Wildlife Photographers’ and some either or.
🌲
Not that it matters all that much how everyone wants to describe themselves, I’d still be curious to hear how others see it. What’s your opinion?🧐

Personally I like to photograph wildlife, landscapes, nature macros and astro/aurora. I bundle them all under ‘nature’ and hence simply go by ‘Nature Photographer’.
🌲
As a marketing pro I understand it would be great to really niche down and stick to it, if you’re doing your photography as a means of making money. For me, I do it for the love of getting to connect with nature (like with this foxy 🦊 lady who connected real close!😅), and then getting to share those moments, the love and joy with others. So I personally don’t want to niche down, I love it all and I enjoy photographing it all. It all being nature related.
☀️
So, do you think someone calling themselves ‘nature photographer’ doesn’t shoot wildlife or how is it different from someone calling themselves ‘nature AND wildlife photographer’?
🧐

This young fox 🦊 pictured, I met last summer. She came to take a closer look at me as I was laying on the forest floor with my camera. I had my 90mm macro prime lens attached to my camera, so no zooming in or out, just eye to eye with her🧡.

#foxcub
#kettu
#luontovalokuvaus
#wildlifephotographer
#naturephotographer

“She looked directly up into the Northern Lights

“She looked directly up into the Northern Lights and she wondered if those cold-burning specters might not draw her breath, her very soul, out of her chest and into the stars.”
– Eowyn Ivey

A little sunshine and forest is all I need for hap

A little sunshine and forest is all I need for happiness.

While grand landscapes and Instagram famous spots are amazing, nothing is as amazing as finding magic on your backyard.

I’ve travelled a lot in the past but more and more I feel like that’s not a responsible thing to do as a nature or wildlife photographer. For the climate, biodiversity and respect for nature; we should tell the stories of nature from where we are, our country or region and the forest next door.

What used to be the norm of every other nature photographer going to Africa to shoot megafauna, now is starting to look like an outdated thing to do, opposite of cool really. What’s cool now is local stuff, telling stories of nature close to home…it’s what we should really know best anyways. And then you can really show it’s soul through photography.

Or is it just me who thinks that the next nature photography mega trend is : local nature?

Today, close to home, playing with light and details; I felt most at home yet found the most magic 🪄 in a while.

#turunsaaristo
#lähiluonto
#luonnonsuojelu
#detailsoftheday
#aurinko
#metsä

You will never be able to escape from your heart.

You will never be able to escape
from your heart.
So it’s better to listen to
what it has to say.

Has the beginning of the new year made you think about how you’d like to live going forward…to listen to your heart?

As usual, my mind was filled with thoughts and ideas and goals…needs and wants and expectations. It was a mess!
So I sat down with pen and paper to try and make sense of it. What does MY heart really need and what does the society have me thinking I need?

At first it seemed like there was so much my heart desired. But when I kept asking if it’s me or expectations set by me or others, stuff just melted off.

In the end there were a few clear themes rising. Number one was Nature. The more time I spend in it, photographing it, telling stories about it…the better I feel. When it comes to nature, more is more, and that’ll be the main theme for my 2022.

Relationships, community and home are the supporting themes my heart longs for. I feel a strong urge to settle down. To spend more time with family and friends. And I would love to find a companion, a true life partner, love, sometime in the future, no rush but putting it out there 🤗.

Last summer I wrote about wanting a van and a flexible job as well as wanting to do more photography. Not long after I posted that, all of those manifested to reality. So 2022, let’s go!

#manifesting
#2022
#naturephotography
#luonnossakotonaan
#revontulet

And then there were two…2022 Day before New Yea

And then there were two…2022

Day before New Year’s Eve I had to say goodbye to my longest lasting love. We had over 11 good, adventure filled, beautiful years together of which I couldn’t be more thankful. That little doggie lived a big big life and both her and I knew it was time for her to adventure somewhere else in the galaxy now. Mini ❤️.

Last spring I also lost my other little girl Happy 🐾🤍.

I went into 2021 with a full pack of three amazing rescue doggies with whom we had travelled the world with. Today, the first day of 2022, there’s only me and Oopz left.

So after a few rough days, me and Oopz decided to start the new year with an adventure. We went to look for our girls in heavens to a spot we all once shared together. We went to howl at the skies to ease our pain. We went to look for them in the stars ✨ to say thank you and good bye and that we love you!

However, before it got dark enough for starry skies, Oopz got chilly…so we came home and I added all the stars for the girls ✨✨🐾✨✨ by combining two images…we needed a little bit of magic 🪄 today.

Wish you a bright new year.

#dogswhoadventure
#mypack
#2022
#turunsaaristo
#tähtitaivas

So many of you here! Thank you✨. I’d love to g

So many of you here! Thank you✨.
I’d love to get to know you a little bit. Please comment below ⬇️
1.where are you from?
2.do you photograph or just like to enjoy watching photographs?
3. Have you seen the northern lights?

Here’s a little about me:
- I’m originally from Finland but have lived on three continents all together (Europe,Africa and Americas). I’m a dual citizen of Finland and United States 🇫🇮❤️🇺🇸.

-I picked up my first “proper” camera back in 2008 after my first trip to South Africa and Zambia. I loved it there but I didn’t love the fact that my little compact camera couldn’t help me record what I felt there.

- I am absolutely nuts about nature and wildlife and will often risk my own well-being or safety to help or protect wildlife. There’s nothing I’m as passionate about as trying to fix all the injustice against ecosystems and nonhuman living beings.

- I took my first Northern Lights photos about three months ago and have been hooked ever since.

Thanks 😊 for reading and being here! I’d really appreciate it if you’d tell me a little about you in the comments💜

She wanted to be magic: To wave a wand 🪄 and s

She wanted to be magic:
To wave a wand 🪄 and stop the pain
Of those hurting;
To bring a smile
to those who were sad;
To give hope
to those who felt hopeless;
But she was simply a photographer,
And pictures were the only magic 🪄 she had.

A lone tree in the frozen wilderness basking in the light of the polar night.

#polarnight
#kaamos
#kaamoksenvärit
#tunturikoivu
#magiclife

Here’s how it works: ✨The lights explode and I

Here’s how it works:
✨The lights explode and I scramble to set up my tripod and camera, and try not to loose any fingers to frostbite in the process.

✨I hope my manual focus is still tack Sharp from the last shoot, cause the lights just exploded and I feel the urgency (read don’t have the patience to refocus on a star again). Turns out the focus was not spot on, but I feel it’s good enough and it actually emphasizes the stars a bit 😁💫.

✨I’ve also been impatient in setting up the remote control I got for the camera, so I’m using the cameras built in timer ⏱. It gives me 10 sec from button push to run (and not slip on the icy road) to a distance I estimate will look good. I’m at this by my self so I don’t have anyone to pose for me, and the lights could disappear in a second so I don’t have the time to really test it out first either.

✨My camera is set up in the middle of the road. I push the button and run to about 15m from it and start posing. My shutter speed is at 3,2sec, so I must stand perfectly still for the duration of 5 shots; not to be blurry in the picture. My back is turned to the camera. Good thing this road doesn’t have that many cars going by…otherwise it would turn into a action scene from mission impossible where I’m trying to run to the camera on the icy road before the car reaches it. I trust I would notice the car lights in the darkness in enough time.

✨click click click click click, run back to see if I got the shot. I think I did but the lights are still there so: repeat the process 3 times.

✨It’s late, go inside and get warm. I’m impatient so I start uploading the shots to Lightroom. I took 186 pictures. I’m impatient so I start going through the pics rather than calming down to go to sleep. I get more excited as I scroll from an image to the next. I edit some. I post one on IG. Now it’s really late and I’m on fire! No way I’m sleeping for an other hour or two, I need to simmer down!

✨I finally go to bed, but I can’t sleep. Still too excited about the lights.
✨3am, I fall a sleep but it feels like I’m awake. Auroras still dance under my eyelids, like when you’ve been at sea all day and the bed feels like it rocks with the waves.

Today at 2pm. 4th day of the Polar Night, when the

Today at 2pm. 4th day of the Polar Night, when the sun doesn’t rise above the horizon. 48 days of the Polar Night left here in Utsjoki.

Right now it’s “light” out (as pictured) about three hours a day. It will get shorter all the way until Christmas; after which the days will start getting longer again and few weeks after we might even see the sun peek over the horizon!

Personally I’m not sure yet how I’ll cope with the Polar Night. When the moon is not bright it’s pitch black outside most of the time. The white snow helps a little bit and obviously there’s also the Northern Lights that occasionally light up the landscape in green hues. When the moon is full and bright, with the help of the reflecting snow, it really beautifully lights up the world here. I’ve truly found new appreciation for the 🌙 moon.

Could you live somewhere where the sun doesn’t rise for 52 days?

#kaamos
#polarnight
#kuutamo
#polarlight
#utsjoki

Hearts are wild creatures! That’s why, our ribs

Hearts are wild creatures!
That’s why,
our ribs form a cage.

#revontulet
#wildatheart
#wildcreatures
#creativespirit
#auroraborealis

If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’

If she’s amazing,
she won’t be easy.
If she’s easy,
she won’t be amazing.
If she’s worth it,
you won’t give up.
If you give up,
You’re not worthy.
…Truth is,
everybody is going to hurt you;
you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

- Bob Marley

#solofemalevanlife
#lofoten
#sheisamazing
#hellofrom
#valokuvaajanaiset

Well tonight was pretty great 💜 #auroraboreali

Well tonight was pretty great 💜

#auroraborealis
#revontulet
#suomenluonto
#valokuvaajanaiset
#hyvääyötä

Leave nothing but footprints. Take nothing but pic

Leave nothing but footprints.
Take nothing but pictures.
Kill nothing but time.

#suomenluonto
#tunturilappi
#auringonlasku
#utsjoki
#ailigas

Funny story, as I was setting up my tripod in that

Funny story,
as I was setting up my tripod in that body of water, a pool of water of sorts separated from the river next to it by a little highway of rocks; I had my head lamp on as I placed my tripod in the water and suddenly a pair of googly eyes 👀 stared back at me from the pool!

A tiny catfish or similar was right next to my tripod leg and rubber boot, looking at me like “What in the actual F you doing lady?!” 😅

He hung out by the tripod for a minute but as I went to grab my phone to get him on video, he left. And so I made this picture instead 😀.
Or would you have rather seen a picture of the annoyed catfish in the dark water?

Was a good Aurora night tonight!
💚

#auroraborealis
#suomenluonto
#tenojoki
#utsjoki
#auroraholidays

You know, as great and liberating and empowering a

You know, as great and liberating and empowering as my solo travels have been, I was recently reminded how much connection and sharing matters too in the experience.
❤️ I am so thankful for you, all of you here, that are sharing this journey with me. Thank you.

Are you dreaming of that travel companion too that stays when the road gets rocky at night and who sits with you in these landscapes sharing experiences when the sun is up? Or are you already living the dream?

#livingthedream
#solotravels
#sharingisbeautiful
#ruska
#utsjoki

Not all storms come to disrupt your life. Some com

Not all storms come to disrupt your life.
Some come to clear your path.

The full moon lit up the fall foliage on the shores as a geomagnetic storm made lady Aurora do a twirl in the sky. I did a whole different kind of dance on the slippery rocks of the river that runs upwards. This world we live in is a wondrous place indeed.

#lovestorms
#myrsky
#auroraborealis
#tenojoki
#ruska

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to be

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

-Camus

#freedomlifestyle
#ruska
#autumnphotography
#ailigas
#utsjoki

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