while watching tng, i noticed fireworks out in the sky, for the chinatown 100 fireworks grand celebration. (there will be some more fireworks soon, due to a fireworks festival.) i grabbed my camera as well as my tripod, and started taking pictures.
here are some impressions from the fireworks. shot with iso 6400.
when the fireworks were over, i played around a bit more. here are two nice shots.
in march, we did a trip to finland, mostly to lappland.
starting in helsinki, we took a train up to rovaniemi. then, we took a bus to vikajärvi, a small municipal around 30 km north-east of rovaniemi.
we stayed in a cottage right next to lake vikajärvi:
we had a lot of very soft, powdery snow there. enjoy some pictures of the cottage and its surroundings:
here are some night photos, shot from the cottage to the outside. during daylight time, we never saw any animal, except birds somewhere in the sky. during night, we didn’t saw any animal as well, but we heard treacherous crackle from the surrounding woods and saw tracks of smaller and larger animals in the morning. for these reasons, we never really left the cottage during night.
we also had a good view on the moon:
after a long stay in the cottage, we spend a few days in rovaniemi. we visited the artikum. the historic train is situated next to the railway station, and the last strange photo is from the lamp in our hotel room.
just made some photos of today’s lunar eclipse, after missing the last one. here are some of them:
note that the last one had a shutter speed of 70 seconds. the moon moved a lot during that, as you can see. two more pictures of the night:
