Hey everyone!

I´ve been quite unactive in here DA at this year... Feels that my daily job kills my motivation for the photography . But now I´m at summer vacation and I try to get more active again!

At last week I were again in Northern-Finland . I tried to find some nice landscapes of cource, but my main reason for that trip was photographing wild brown bears at Suomussalmi near of the Russian border. It was a great experience! I spent whole night at the hide which were at swamp middle of wilderness forests. Sometimes the bears were only four-five meters from the hide. Brown bear is biggest carnivore of Europe and it´s also national animal of Finland. I´m happy that I get those photos which I dreamed about. Watch my gallery to see the bear pics!

How´s about flying? Well my licence course is now passed the half-way and the first solo flight is closing fast . I try to get the licence before the bad weathers of the fall and winter... I told at my last journal that there is also two rock-stars flying the licence... Those guys are Toni and Sipe from Apulanta. Apulanta is one of the most popular finnish rock bands and they have started playing at 1991. I´m happy that they are now members of our flying club!

Have a nice summer for everyone! Thanks for watching


- Janne -