Covered in ice

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We had a storm right after Christmas. Driven by the strong wind the waves crashed hard against the coast. Everything got very wet. Fortunately for me the temperature was below the freezing point and the water froze on rocks and plants covering everything with ice within a few meters from the sea. A strange fantasy landscape was created.

© Ove Lillas

I took my oldest daughter (or maybe she took me, I really don't know which) for a photo shoot, capturing the scenery the day after the storm. The coastline looked surreal with all the ice. Walking was a challenge. But the photos turned out quite nice I think. I haven't seen her photos yet but it's hard not to get interesting pictures from a landscape such as this.

The fantasy landscape. © Ove Lillas

Right now it's the darkest time of the year. The sun rose slowly as we walked around with our cameras. As a matter of fact sunrise lasts for like a couple of hours and then we have two hours of sunset. The sun is moving almost horizontally and barely makes it above the treetops. The light is beautiful as long as the sun isn't covered in clouds.

The sun at noon. © Ove Lillas

The photographers: Me and my daughter Nora.

Ice Age

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It's that time of the year when you can expect almost any weather in Finland. A few days ago we had sunshine and spring in the air. Yesterday it rained like it was October. Today the snow has covered the ground completely. Sometimes it's comfortably warm. Sometimes icy cold, like the night when I took the photo in my very first entry of this blog. –10° Celsius, the thermometer said.

Some years ago in early April it was raining although it was like –5° C. Everything got covered in ice and there were tiny icicles everywhere.

I took the camera for a walk, of course, and it felt like walking around in a fairy tale landscape.

Every little part of every plant had a shell of ice several millimetres thick and totally transparent.