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dsmaxemil t1_itga5gx wrote

It’d to be Finland :-)

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wanawanka t1_itgcfvo wrote

Not colorado!? HAVE AN UPVOTE!

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BitOCrumpet t1_itghcrw wrote

Breathtakingly quietly stunning.

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RainbowandHoneybee t1_itgjdlq wrote

Wow, stunning shot. White trees and green grass in the mist, so dreamy.

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skexzies t1_itgxjc0 wrote

Beautiful for sure! And oddly, I have to admit that this is the very first picture I've seen taken from Finland. Now I'm wondering what other countries I haven't seen.

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qevoh t1_ith39l9 wrote

That's beautiful, love it

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TheOnlyBliebervik t1_ith3i1h wrote

Birch trees only grow in Canada. This is 100% fake

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RLTWTango t1_ithbcbc wrote

Beautiful picture! As a displaced Scandinavian living in Texas, I sure miss birch trees. I really want to plant a river birch in my backyard this year.

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clarke_thecreator t1_ithbis8 wrote

Replying to TheOnlyBliebervik (#190,618)

… no they don’t. There are multiple species of what a non-taxonomist would refer to as birch trees. The silver birch tree (betula pendula) is the national tree of Finland and is native to most of Europe and Asia. It’s considered invasive in some parts of North America.

The white birch (betula papyrifera) or the gray birch (betula populifolia) would be two of the species found in North America, and they do grow in the United Stares, not just in Canada.

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Tasonir t1_ithbvdg wrote

Replying to TheOnlyBliebervik (#190,618)

I had a birch tree on my property growing up in Long Island, New York. I mean it's not terribly far from canada, but it wasn't upstate either, they have a range down into the US as well

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LLLLLdLLL t1_ithcd9p wrote

Replying to Northlogic2 (#189,817)

He's most known for 'the kiss', but this particular series is my favorite. 'Farmhouse with birchtrees' is so simple and yet it takes you right there. As if you are walking towards it yourself. The perspective is lovely and you share that quality. I love the colors and the fog in your picture as well!

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Northlogic2 OP t1_ithd3lr wrote

Replying to LLLLLdLLL (#191,290)

It's very humbling to be compared to an skilled artist, thank you for that. How I began to shoot forests and trees with this composition came when smartphones started to have optical zooms. Huawei P30 Pro was the first with an optical 5x zoom (if I remember correctly) and it gave me new ways of composing images. I have been shooting with DSLR for a long time, but with it I mainly used wide angle lenses. I always wanted to try and achieve this kind of an idea that the viewer is in the "depth of the forest" or that you could sense the dimensions and volume some how better, I feel like using zoom instead of wide angle works better for that goal!

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Northlogic2 OP t1_ithe35i wrote

Replying to bigsoftee84 (#191,364)

In Lapland, there are quite a bit of birches, but not many places where it would be predominantly birch, so this is kind of a nice unique spot. There is a field opening behind the grove, and especially with the mist it creates this pretty cool effect of the grove just falling out into the white space

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Magpie1979 t1_ithehuz wrote

Is it me or is the central tree looking at me? It doesn't look happy.

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bigsoftee84 t1_ithgyqx wrote

Replying to Northlogic2 (#191,431)

Excellent shot. We have like a dozen different types kicking around the state of Maine. I've got a massive grove of white birch, a couple small ones of river, some yellow/paper kicking around.

I've always got almost a zebra like effect from white birch groves, the bigger they are, the more disoriented it makes me. I love it, only time I've been lost in the woods was because of a huge grove of white birch. Like stepping into another dimension.

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0xKaishakunin t1_ithh1xs wrote

Post it to /r/thelongdark it fits well there.

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GirlNumber20 t1_ithle3a wrote

I wish I could just disappear into the trees. I live 4,600 miles from this, but it’s clearly the land of my people.

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livewireca t1_ithynef wrote

Beautiful photo. I have seen similar forests in Manitoba Canada

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Aldodzb t1_iti8473 wrote

Reminds me valheim

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2bunreal24 t1_itijmgi wrote

Are there bugs? This looks like there would be bugs

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Neanderthal_Gene t1_itilt1b wrote

Beautiful. I miss Finland sometimes (lived there in the 90s for a year) Was it Birch I would have cut and used to make vastu with for sauna?

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Northlogic2 OP t1_itinqt1 wrote

Replying to 2bunreal24 (#194,148)

There was an absolutely hellish amount of mosquitoes at the start of the summer, but the number went down to a very manageable one about halfway into the summer, fortunately

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JR2005 t1_itip747 wrote

When I see trees spaced like this, my mind goes to Johnny Cage vs Scorpion in Mortal Kombat.

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farxhan t1_itir8zm wrote

I don't think we have birch tree in my country, so the only exposure I have is Minecraft. Thank you for posting this picture!

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Klaumbaz t1_itityot wrote

Your birch looks like my quakies here in Utah.

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Violated-Tristen t1_itixsb5 wrote

The smell of this is in my dreams. I miss my woods SO much.

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Zgerv t1_itizqnv wrote

Valheim, lawl

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misirlou22 t1_itj00ow wrote

Replying to disturbedsoil (#195,142)

Aspens are part of the populus genus, which includes poplar trees. The quaking Aspen has similar white bark to some birches, aka the betula genus, but they aren't closely related. Different taxonomic families.

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wryaant t1_itjcfz4 wrote

Beautiful. You post inspired me to post my own version of this photo of birch trees taken while on vacation with my family this past summer.

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OCNSkyHawk t1_itjcwk6 wrote

Slenderman would fit in real nicely in the background, barely visible through the mist.

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KeeksTx t1_itjmi5k wrote

I love this. My gramma was Finnish and lived in upper Michigan on Birch street. ❤️

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GoogleIsYourFrenemy t1_itjpiv6 wrote

There is this part of my brain that keeps saying: "the picture is upsidedown"

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Cauhs t1_itjuyd6 wrote

Replying to Magpie1979 (#191,457)

Fun fact, birch are often grows a lot of stem as one colony. If you feel like one is watching you, all the birch in the area will also sense you by their shared network of roots and rhizomes.

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konstantine73 t1_itkkgjp wrote

I have a friend that has a phobia of forests he gets freaked out and just thinks he is going to be killed I kind of see what he means with this pic although it is beautiful.

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Psychotherapist-286 t1_itkse1d wrote

That’s beautiful! Reminds me of the pictures I took in Colorado of the Aspens.

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GirlNumber20 t1_itlamqu wrote

Replying to Northlogic2 (#194,475)

I had a roommate in college who was Finnish, and she used to give me rye crackers with some kind of white cheese spread on them and tell me about hitting herself with birch branches in the sauna before jumping naked into the snow. It sounded like a good time.

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PrinceHumperTinkTink t1_itlgdzu wrote

If someone found this in Valheim, it would be like hitting a jackpot.

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Northlogic2 OP t1_itzod0w wrote

Replying to Violated-Tristen (#258,615)

Sounds awesome! I've been to Canada, but only to Toronto and Montreal, Canmore and Lake Louise. I took a bus from Lake Louise back to Montreal so I crossed quite the many provinces of Canada. When I passed by Thunder Bay, I was thinking to myself (this sure looks like home) and later on I found out that there's quite a bit of Finns living there!

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konstantine73 t1_iu074g0 wrote

Replying to Northlogic2 (#255,766)

He hasn't explained it to me he just gets freaked out even talking about a forest even without intentions to be creepy or anything, it's weird I know. 🤷 I've just googled it it is either hylophobia, xylophobia or dendrophobia, I didn't realize it was a real thing hmmm, we learn something new everyday 👍

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