peterkorkala.com http://peterkorkala.com Photos from Sweden, some talks about Japan and every now and then a tip on a good music video/mp3 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:01:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en The Northern mine in Garpenberg - Sky Watch Friday http://peterkorkala.com/2008/09/the-northern-mine-in-garpenberg-sky-watch-friday/ http://peterkorkala.com/2008/09/the-northern-mine-in-garpenberg-sky-watch-friday/#comments Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:01:25 +0000 Peter Korkala http://peterkorkala.com/?p=88

This is my current workplace - the (northern) mine in Garpenberg.

I really love my new job as a diamond core driller! This week was my first week underground in a mine, earlier commissions were above ground.

There are two mines in Garpenberg (both owned by Boliden) - Garpenberg north and Garpenberg south, but in 2004 they were connected under ground (at 800-900 meters). You can go down both by car and by the elevators.

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]]> http://peterkorkala.com/2008/09/the-northern-mine-in-garpenberg-sky-watch-friday/feed/ Sky watch Friday - Shades of gray http://peterkorkala.com/2008/08/sky-watch-friday-shades-of-gray/ http://peterkorkala.com/2008/08/sky-watch-friday-shades-of-gray/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:05:51 +0000 Peter Korkala http://peterkorkala.com/?p=86

This week’s photo will be a large contrast to last week’s sunset - misty hills on a rainy evening.

Tags Sky Watch Friday, photo, woods, mist, hills

]]> http://peterkorkala.com/2008/08/sky-watch-friday-shades-of-gray/feed/ Sunset in the woods - Sky Watch Friday http://peterkorkala.com/2008/08/sunset-in-the-woods-sky-watch-friday/ http://peterkorkala.com/2008/08/sunset-in-the-woods-sky-watch-friday/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:44:03 +0000 Peter Korkala http://peterkorkala.com/?p=84

Here’s a fresh photo (about one hour old) from today’s sunset in the woods:

Happy Sky Watch Friday everyone! And thanks for all the great comments in my earlier SWF-posts!

If you’re one of my fellow SWF-visitors, why don’t you also take a look at my photo of the Lunar Eclipse the other night? First I was thinking that I should use it as this week’s SWF, but I couldn’t wait to put it up here in my blog…

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]]> http://peterkorkala.com/2008/08/sunset-in-the-woods-sky-watch-friday/feed/ A walk in the woods http://peterkorkala.com/2008/08/a-walk-in-the-woods/ http://peterkorkala.com/2008/08/a-walk-in-the-woods/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:20:40 +0000 Peter Korkala http://peterkorkala.com/?p=83 We were out in the woods for a walk this afternoon (between showers). It was really nice - the air is so fresh out in the woods - and you’re almost guaranteed to get some good photos.

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]]> http://peterkorkala.com/2008/08/a-walk-in-the-woods/feed/ A very common sight this summer http://peterkorkala.com/2008/08/a-very-common-sight-this-summer/ http://peterkorkala.com/2008/08/a-very-common-sight-this-summer/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:25:12 +0000 Peter Korkala http://peterkorkala.com/?p=80

The garden table full of water. It feels like it has rained all summer, with very few exceptions.

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]]> http://peterkorkala.com/2008/08/a-very-common-sight-this-summer/feed/ Lunar Eclipse http://peterkorkala.com/2008/08/lunar-eclipse/ http://peterkorkala.com/2008/08/lunar-eclipse/#comments Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:03:59 +0000 Peter Korkala http://peterkorkala.com/?p=79 I almost missed tonight’s lunar eclipse, but thanks to a local newsfeed (Wighsnews) about the lunar eclipse I managed to get some photos of it.

Lunar Eclipse - 1/25, F13, 55 mm. Cropped.

I tried both with long and short shutter speeds, but with the long ones the photo was way to light (and with that, the eclipse was gone).

I really want to have another lense, I’d love to have a fast, good zoom lense, but they are very expensive… But someday… :)

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]]> http://peterkorkala.com/2008/08/lunar-eclipse/feed/ Sky Watch Friday http://peterkorkala.com/2008/08/sky-watch-friday/ http://peterkorkala.com/2008/08/sky-watch-friday/#comments Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:35:32 +0000 Peter Korkala http://peterkorkala.com/?p=77

Long time no see… But here’s this weeks Sky Watch Friday:

It’s taken this week with my cell phone at the Swedish east coast (by the Baltic Sea).

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]]> http://peterkorkala.com/2008/08/sky-watch-friday/feed/ Sky watch Friday - Polar stratospheric clouds http://peterkorkala.com/2008/08/polar_stratospheric_clouds/ http://peterkorkala.com/2008/08/polar_stratospheric_clouds/#comments Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:57:37 +0000 Peter Korkala http://peterkorkala.com/?p=73 This Sky Watch Friday is from last week - I put up the wrong link in the Sky Wath Friday-comment… This weeks SWF is found here. But you may want to look at this too… :)

This Friday’s Sky Watch Friday photos will be from my archive (I think that’s Ok?), more specific from January 25, 2008. This day I saw a strange phenomena that i’ve never seen before - clouds called Polar stratospheric clouds (read about them on Wikipedia).

They are very impressing, and I took a lot of photos!

I think I need to say that the photos are not Photoshopped, only resized.

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]]> http://peterkorkala.com/2008/08/polar_stratospheric_clouds/feed/ Sunset at the Hammarsund bridge http://peterkorkala.com/2008/07/sunset-at-the-hammarsund-bridge/ http://peterkorkala.com/2008/07/sunset-at-the-hammarsund-bridge/#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:19:34 +0000 Peter Korkala http://peterkorkala.com/?p=72 Today when I drove to my job I took a detour of about 15 km, and passed the Hammarsund Bridge just about sunset. These are some of the around 100 photos I took:

The bridge is located at the northern tip of Sweden’s second largest lake, lake Vättern.

I can say that it was definitely worth the extra fifteen kilometers to get these photos! And the road on this way is much better (not as curvy and hilly as the shorter way), which is a nice bonus.

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]]> http://peterkorkala.com/2008/07/sunset-at-the-hammarsund-bridge/feed/ A day at the beach http://peterkorkala.com/2008/07/a-day-at-the-beach/ http://peterkorkala.com/2008/07/a-day-at-the-beach/#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:39:59 +0000 Peter Korkala http://peterkorkala.com/?p=71

Junior is bathing.

Laying at the beach, and junior is bathing.

A dragonfly joined us for a moment
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