Photographer's Note
Nuuksio National Park is inside the so called Nuuksio lake uplands, the most extensive and ecologically important continuous backwoods area in the Uusimaa Region. The national park is inside three municipalities, Espoo (my home city), Vihti and Kirkkonummi.
Nuuksio lake uplands is a real treasure for nature lovers and is ideal for hiking trips lasting one or two days. Being less than 40 km from the urban areas it has been a popular outdoor recreation area already for a long time.
Typical for the landscape is the steep topography of rocks, numerous lakes or ponds and marshes in the valleys. The height of the terrain varies between 24 and 114 m.
Due to the broken bedrock the vegetation is mosaic like. On the bottoms of the ruptured valleys there are wooded swamps, where the main woods are pines and spruces, with occasional birches or alders. The most versatile and lush forests are located on the slopes and bottoms of the valleys, where you can also find aspen, and sometimes even linden or maples. The vegetation on the rocky hills varies from dry lichen rocks to damp moss dips.
This small lake is called "Hynkänlampi". It also has a name "Jylhälampi" in some older maps and that name means "craggy pond", which name fits well to this pond.
PP:
- Adobe RAW: Tint +6 -> +10, Recovery 25 (to make the sky less dull), clarity 40.
- PS: cropping to 4:3 to remove "noisy" left edge and sharpening. After resize and framing light sharpening again.
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Longroute
(19600) 2008-06-20 11:16
A park I'd like to visit!
Water and pine trees have always a charm to me. Ideal also for canoeing. To my eye is a fine composition but I cannot say why, isn't it enough to show such nature's beauty?
Ciao,
Donato
Emile
(20352) 2008-06-23 15:47
Hola Lasse.
Wonderful composition, beautiful landscape captured with nice natural colors and a high POV. You have a magnificent country which I visited few years ago, hope will be back in the future.
Well done.
TFS.
Best regards.
XOTAELE
(476) 2008-07-12 4:07
Fantástica panorámica.
Fabulosos tonos muy bien presentados.
Saludos y tfs, JL.
daddo
(28748) 2008-08-04 3:12
Hi Lasse. i like this one too, maybe more, as it gives us the open spaces and a sense of release, of flight. Fine clarity, excellent POV and controlled colours.Regards. Klaudio.
Photo Information
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Copyright: Lasse Lofstrom (ellelloo)
(6572)
- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2008-05-05
- Categories: Nature
- Camera: Canon 400D (Digital Rebel XTi), Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM
- Exposure: f/8, 1/125 seconds
- More Photo Info: view
- Map: view
- Photo Version: Original Version
- Theme(s): Nuuksio National Park [view contributor(s)]
- Date Submitted: 2008-06-19 11:44
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by ellelloo, last updated 2008-06-20 11:47 - To Emile: Thanks Emile (1)
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by ellelloo, last updated 2008-07-12 06:25