Today me and my friend took a drive to a neighbouring town and hiked up a little mountain. We are in Finland, so when we say mountain, it's more like a hill to people living anywhere else than in the Netherlands. The mountain is 180 meters high, so the hike up only took something like 15 minutes and it really wasn't that bad.

I was pretty bummed about the weather because the morning was nice and sunny but as we got to our destination, the sky had turned dull grey. Horrible conditions for photography, the worst really! The scenery was really nice, like you can see, but the lighting conditions really dulled everything down. The only saviour was the autumn colours on the leafy trees.

I was really struggling with Photoshopping these pictures because I tried to make them look less grey and flat, but without completely switching up the sky and painting on lights and shadows that didn't exist, there was nothing to be done. Not with my skillz. Nature pictures are usually so easy to do because I try to shoot only when the conditions are great and there is good skyporn. I fiddled with the dials what felt like an eternity, and I'm pretty much blind to these pictures at this point, I have no idea whether of not they are worth publishing, you tell me.

Shot with the Nikon D7200 and Sigma 50-100mm f/1.8.

_{Say Hi to my friend!}

Hyyppäänvuori left me hungry and I want to go back some day around sunrise or sunset!