Kalle Lintinen PhotoBlog

We were in Hanko last June and saw plenty of boats. The southern tip of continental Finland is quite unique by Finnish standards, as you ...

Just like yesterday's photo, this was shot in Villa Elfvik as well. I guess the picture speaks for itself: a bare wavy trunk of a tre...

I was visiting Villa Elfvik in Espoo last summer. It is a piece of the old Espoo in the middle of the highly urbanized city. Espoo doesn...

Today's photo is a sister of the last photo of the day. This time there is no ambiguity on what the ring is for. If you look closely...

Today's photo is of a very familiar sight to anyone who has used the ferries crisscrossing the Baltic sea. These containers (or pods...

This is the sister piece of the previous photo, shot two hours after and more in the center of Turku. The Aura River definitely holds a s...

Turku like many cities in Finland used to be dependent on industry for its economy to roll. Gradually as the country has modernized, so h...

Following on the Kakola theme, this shack is located right next to the castle-like prison. It must have served as some kind of a monitori...

The Kakola prison, already mentioned a couple of days ago is an imposing structure. The prison is made from the granite of the hill it wa...

I didn't exactly know what a gas bell was, before I saw these structures in Turku and had to look up what they were. Apparently when ...

The river Aurajoki (or the Aura river) runs through Turku. In Turku they define thing by saying "on the other side of the river...

We were in Turku a few days ago, after quite a while, seeing how the previous capital of Finland fares. The Kakola prison used to be qu...

This is the third photo of the day with tracks. The first tracks were regular train tracks , the second were tramway tracks , but this th...

The last photo of the balloon series is appropriately flying into the sunset. An amazing remark is that this is actually a handheld HDR p...

There are several ways in which hot air balloons offer a unique flying experience over the more common means of flying. One of them is th...

Zooming a bit closer to the edge of the Pyhäjärvi Lake one can see that Finland isn't entirely forest. There are quite a few smalle...

I already posted one photo of my first (and thus far the only) hot air balloon trip , but I think I got enough unique photos to post a co...

We had a lovely balcony garden at our home in Pau. The balcony itself was a crude construction: one meters by eight meters of pale yellow...

The last photo of the current Ossau series is at the same time pretty ordinary, but at a longer glance has a bit more depth. When retur...

After descending a steep slope we reached the sheep munching on the grass, completely ignoring us. For me it was all the better, as I cou...

Okay -I could have been a bit more creative with the title, but I just can't help when I see a nice pun coming along. The other sid...

Climbing again a bit higher up the Pyrenees, the ground becomes almost void of anything but grass. At circa 3000 meters above sea level t...

Following from yesterday's trek, a bit higher up the Ossau trail the track turns a bit steeper and a bit more of the scene opens up. ...

Today's photo is from one of my favorite spots.  Pic du Midi d'Ossau  and the surrounding hills are in my opinion the jewels of t...

On our way to rocky mountains, we first had to traverse a rocky road. The path to Circue du Gaverne was partly paved, but partly sprouted...

As well as   Waterfalls , Gavarnie has a spectacular view of the Circue and the surrounding Pyrenees. For perspective you can just see my...

Spiderweb is a challenge to photograph. Oftentimes it's easy to see spiderweb in nature, but usually it's just too thin and not e...

It is curious how living in an altogether historically rich country alters ones perspective. France is so filled with historically impo...

I was in Biarritz at the end of October 2011, showing the South of France to my parents and my sister. It was the last really warm days (...

We were touring the South West of France in late November of 2011. We had already been to most of the major tourist destinations and we w...

Today's photo is already the third one of the day trip to Pyrenees. But along with stunning mountains  and graceful birds  there wa...

Lately I've been a bit critical of shooting just clouds, as I've felt that they aren't sufficient by themselves as subjects o...