The winter is taking a turn towards light

[Katariina Roiha]

Our days in dark polar night are soon over. The Sun is showing up for the first time in two months the 17th of January. Daylight is on a clear day somewhat enough for my lense...

Our little finnish-scottish A-Peli is partly enjoying the cold (we had -36 C for a week) and partly not. The not-part is the lack of exercise.No living creature can be out with those minus degrees!
Thank god the temperature warmed up to -15 and we had the chance to let go all our anxiety!

and off we went...

It got a little sweaty at times. A-Peli is so used to freezing cold weather that -15 seems nothing :)

When we reached the top of the mountain, two of our english setters we found on point...

No chance in seeing the grouse. They´re white and daylight is hardly enough for the eyes...

A-Pelis little nose was very much interested in the scent of grouse...

After 2 h of heavy running in the snowy mountain we were happy and all our anxiety gone with the wind!

some pictures of the River Teno

and the faint hint of sun somewhere

[ursula wilby]

Fantastic...but I am still glad I dont have quite that low a temperature here.
But totally brilliant photos...as always!

[sammi pease]

Great photos Katarina....I love the snow...but I don't envy those temperatures you have...!!!!

[Nadine Bonjean]

-36* ? :(

[Laura Kolbach]

wonderful!

[Robert Krajnc]

Beatiful photos and story! It is good that camera worked by this cold:)))

[Ewa Wojcik]

Beautiful photo's but -36* brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :)

[Anna Kazimierowicz]

Beatiful shots!!! First and last one are great!!!

[Susan Russell]

FANTASTIC! Really lovely photos! Reminds me of a ew years ago when I visited Tromso during January and the sunlight was seen for the first time of the winter, during my visit. My photos did not turn out nearly so well as yours did, though. Really lovely! I will try to send one that my husband Ken took yesterday.

[Carmel Murphy]

Peli looks like an Irish Red and White!! Beautiful shots! And we think -10C is cold!!!;o))

[Myra Thomas-Rhodes]

WOW!! Katariina. Tremendous photos of such a cold world, and with so little sunlight at this time of year. Some of us can't really imagine it! Thankyou for the beautiful insight. Stay warm!
M XX