Finnish forest trip - Photography and uninteresting blabbering

Today we went to a trip to the forest. At first I had thought this man in the sign is a grandpa leaning on the stick, but instead it might be a hiker with a stick and a backpack.

Who knows.

I'll go with the grandpa option.

This is one of the multiple forest hiking routes, this one was approximately 7 km long (based on the professional evaluation by one of the people in the group) and as I had told everyone "It's quite short", it turned out it wasn't. As walking 7 km in a forest is not fast. Especially if we have mosquitoes and photographers with us.

You can imagine the amount of moss and vegetation on the ground floor of forest. Then we have bunch of people crawling down on their knees every 2 minutes and attempting to get the perfect shots.

Also comparing the cameras. In the end it feels I spent more time on discussing about cameras than actually taking photos.

Most photos were ass-photos of other people. Mainly for two reasons:

1. I was mostly walking behind everyone else because I'm a fat bastard as I often stopped to take photos
2. When I took a photo of someone else, they usually weren't looking at the camera.

The few occasions someone watched at the camera, this is what came out.

"Aye, my father was a tree, this is the reason for my looks."

Luckily in Finland we don't care much for how people look.

And as you can't can see in image above, we were a bunch of people going through the woods. I had many occasions to great some great photos of their asses from the beautiful nature around everyone. I'm just saying this so you all will be really disappointed the image isn't showing.

I'll try to edit the post later and upload it again, so in case you can see an image instead of a text, you can congratulate me for fixing this.

The woods are full of life. Even though we didn't see animals (except for the insects and one frog. I didn't see the frog though) and you might not even notice all of it unless you get down on your knees to look closer. I will promise to take the same forest path when I have a macro lens so I can get even better photos from the walk.

Now you'll have to stick with the few good ones I have.

Even spending a small moment out in the woods helps to reduce your stress levels, helping to lower the blood pressure levels. This can be improved even more by... stretching in the woods?

In the Finnish woods we might have trolls lurking behind the trees, looking for weak and tasty travelers so they can eat them. This is why you should watch out.

This might also be one of the reasons some of us kept a faster pace - as the trolls might eat only the slowest ones.

The photographer with the red shirt managed to catch a perfect photo.

She saw a rare sight - the large and hairy king of the woods. Usually it's the bear, but today it was just a bread.