Photos from yesterday's visit to the Immilä Mill

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On Saturday, me and my son Leo took our cameras and went to the Immilä Mill that is situated in Nastola, to shoot some photos of the Immilänjoki falls, and hopefully see and photograph the otter that lives there.


Downstream / Alajuoksu

Lauantaina otimme poikani Leon kanssa kamerat mukaan, ja menimme Immilän myllylle Nastolaan kuvaamaan Immilänjoen pikkuputouksia ja maisemia. Toivoimme myös näkevämme paikallisen saukon, josta olisimme sitten ottaneet kuvia.


Postcard photo / Postikorttikuva

We had taken our dog Ninnu with us, because the little thing was so adamant that we wouldn't leave her home "alone".

When we arrived, I took Ninnu for a walk, and let Leo take some photos by the riverside while I was away.

It soon dawned on me, that I would have to leave Ninnu in the car for the time being, as the snow was quite heavy and the crud would clump into huge snowballs stuck on Ninnu's long hair.


Leo shooting photos by the riverside / Leo joenvarressa kuvaamassa

Me otimme Ninnun mukaan, kun raukkaparka vaati niin kovasti, ettei me jätettäisi häntä "yksin" kotiin.

Kun saavuimme myllylle, jätin Leon kuvaamaan joenvarteen ja lähdin taluttelemaan Ninnua.

Huomasin pian, että Ninnun olisi paras odottaa meitä autossa, koska raskas nuoskalumi tarttui pian lumipalloiksi Ninnun pitkään turkkiin.


The Mill / Mylly

When I took Ninnu to the car, I met an older lady who told me she'd seen a goosander upstream. She was also fascinated about Ninnu, she hadn't heard of a breed called Russian Bolonka before.

After Ninnu was safely in the car, I came back to shoot some photos.

I gave the long 75-300 mm lens to Leo, and took the 10-18 mm wide-angle lens for myself. I wanted to test out if I can take long exposures by hand with the built-in Image Stabilization (IS) switched on.


Flowing water / Virtaavaa vettä

Viedessäni Ninnua autolle, tapasin vanhemman rouvashenkilön, joka kertoi nähneensä isokoskelon yläjuoksulla. Hän oli myös kiinnostunut Ninnusta, eikä ollut koskaan kuullutkaan venäjänbolonka-rodusta.

Kun Ninnu oli turvallisesti autossa, palasin takaisin ottamaan kuvia.

Annoin pitkän 70-300 mm linssin Leolle ja otin itse 10-18 mm laajakulmalinssin. Halusin kokeilla kuinka hyvin voisin ottaa pitkän valotusajan kuvia, jos linssin sisäänrakennettu kuvanvakaaja (IS) on kytketty päälle.

Upstream, on the other side of the Mill, was some device of old. I couldn't really make out what it was designed for. Maybe it was some kind of transmission device for the millstones.

Yläjuoksulla myllyn toisella puolelta, löytyi jonkinlainen vanha laite. En oikein ole varma mitä varten se on rakennettu, mutta ehkä se on jonkinlainen voimansiirtolaite myllynkiviä varten.

I moved a bit closer and captured some of that movement of the flowing water.

Siirryin hieman lähemmäksi, niin että sain otettua kuvan virtaavan veden liikkeestä.


Leo was learning to capture the snowfall / Leo opetteli kuvaamaan lumisadetta

While I was upstream shooting the little rapids and the contraption, Leo was by the downstream, learning to shoot the snowflakes falling from the sky. I need to help him with the editing tomorrow, and see how it went.

Ollessani ylävirran puolella kuvaamassa pikku koskea ja myllyn laitteistoa, Leo oli alavirran puolella harjoittelemassa taivaalta putoavien lumihiutaleiden kuvaamista. Pitänee huomisissa auttaa häntä kuvien editoinnissa ja katsoa miten meni.

I decided to go check up on how Ninnu was doing, so I walked along the river, and took some photos on the way.

Päätin käydä katsomassa miten Ninnulla menee autossa, joten kävelin joenvartta pitkin ja kuvasin matkalla muutamia kuvia.

I found this small house, that I just had to take a photo of.

Löysin pienen talon, josta piti myös ottaa kuva.

From the bridge on the road one could see how the river formed a tiny pond before flowing downstream as the small rapid.

Tienpuoleiselta sillalta näki, kuinka joki muodosti pienen lammen ennen alajuoksulle ryöppyävää pikku koskea.

On the other side of the bridge I found this nice riverbend.

Toisella puolen siltaa löysin tämän kivan pikku joenmutkan.

While we didn't see the otter, we had a lot of fun. Ninnu however would likely disagree. She had to get new lumps of snow on the hairs of her feet as we took her for another walk before leaving, and it took us a while to clean her up before letting her back inside the car.

When we left, I turned the temperature of the heater to the highest, so that we'd all warm up, and that the leftover snow in Ninnus fur would melt off.


A filler photo animation. / Täytekuva-animaatio

Vaikka emme nyt nähneetkään saukkoa, hauskaa oli. Ninnu tosin oli varmaan hieman eri mieltä. Ninnu sai uudet lumipallot jalkakarvoihinsa, kun kävimme vielä pikku lenkillä ennen lähtöämme ja niiden siivoaminen kesti jonkin aikaa ennen kuin pystyimme päästämään hänet takaisin autoon.

Kun lähdimme, löin lämmittimen täysille, niin että lämpenisimme ja että Ninnun karvoihin jääneet lumet sulaisivat pois.

Such was our photo trip to the Immilä Mill

Sellainen oli kuvausreissumme Immilän myllylle



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Love these images. Not sure if I like the stills or gifs better. The flowing water is mesmerizing though. But, no pic of the pup? Here's some !LUV .1

Thank you! It was fun to shoot the water. I should probably have taken some photos of Ninnu too, but I thought she seemed a bit too bothered by the clumps of snow to be bothered for a shot. I'll take some snowy photos of her in the future for sure.

Command accepted!

These are some really beautiful shots. I really love the long exposure ones. May I ask what app you used to create the photo animations? Those are very intriguing as they caught my eye ;)

Keep up the great photography work!

Thank you! It was fun to take them, and I was surprised how well they came out. After all I was handholding the camera. Tripod would have produced better results for sure, but for handheld they were superb.

For the gif animations I used gimp. It was as simple as loading up the photos as layers, resizing them to a lower resolution, exporting them as .gif animation with looping on.

Keep up the great photography work!

Thanks, will do! 😊

Manually curated by EwkaW from the @qurator Team. Keep up the good work!

Thank you so much @EwkaW!

You're very welcome :)

I love your photos. It's really amazing view. Thanks

Great photos and scenery!!!

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