It didn’t at all matter for what day we booked tickets for the ferry over to Tallinn because the forecast is entirely useless this time of the year here. Well, it’s not that it’s useless – it’s just that the weather is constantly changing, it just doesn’t stay still. So Wednesday it was, and as we pulled into port, it was raining insanely hard to the point I didn’t want to get off the ship. By the time the bridge docked, the sun was out in full. And it carried on like that for the entire afternoon, so there was a fine balance of dodging into alleys & hiding the camera to purposely getting lost in the old town.

I will say everything about today was perfect. Everything. Every little detail. Every fine ounce of creativity that flowed, and still is flowing, re-discovering the coffee house from two months ago, rendezvousing with so many right people, appreciating magnificent displays from mother nature and everything in between. See, the wonderful thing about life is as something is active within me – it follows me where ever I go, and with a little fine tuning, all those things are wanted & deliberate. What is more perfect than that?

If only this photo actually did the sky justice. Geeeeez!

One of my favourite images from the road this year. Smell, taste, feel - it's all right there in my hot chocolate.

Fortunately, this was the payoff of winds that blew me down the deck on my feet & near freezing temperatures.

Cute little video inside my favouritest cafe on the planet!   Think I heard them say they were from Nova Scotia!

Remember I said my previous post was my favourite in a long time? I think I lied, big time. Scrolling through these, and taking a look at some of what I have to come for my blog sitting in Lightroom right now… I love my photography, and it’s been a while since I’ve said that and felt it so it feels good, indeed! I have a lot of cathedral photography from Helsinki, and wanted to save, what turned up to be only some of them, for a separate post because I really feel they all click well with one another here, and I’ve narrowed them down quite a bit – hence all the collages, because there’s so much!

Helsinki Public Library... What are you kidding me?! A library?!

Okei, so Helsinki Extreme Day may not have been that extreme, but I was just really cuing up for this post because it’s probably one of my favourites in some time. While Helsinki may not get the midnight sun, it really wasn’t far from it and I wasn’t even there during the longest days of the year. The sun sort of set, well it set, but the sky never darkened because the sun never sat too far below the horizon which made for some of the most phenomenal twilight skies I’ve witnessed, and compared greatly to my Winters in Norway – except on the opposite side of the scale, and instead of the sun never rising – it nearly never set here. So a lot of these photos vary from 22:30 into the wee hours of the morning!

Here’s just a little sample of how easy it is to stay charged all through the night with unbounding energy because everytime I looked out the window, the sky just became more and more beautiful filling with every deep blue & purple imaginable all through til the morning sun! The image on the left was taken at 02:58, and the right image at 00:03 both on 21st July!