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Title: To our Finnish members
Post by: mensa180 on January 19, 2009, 08:31:19 PM: Do any of you have some pictures of the Finnish landscape?

If you had some showing general flat lands and then lakes that would be great.

It is needed (well not needed but wanted) for a school project.
Title: Re: To our Finnish members
Post by: DMBEAR on January 19, 2009, 10:40:21 PM: Also, show your Babes. Show the dang babes! :rock :eek: :pray :salute
Title: Re: To our Finnish members
Post by: Jack16 on January 19, 2009, 11:18:04 PM: Here is a website with pictures of Finland on it. (you can also find photos of just about any other topic)
NOTE: all these images are big, so you might have to resize them a bit. :aok

http://www.morguefile.com/archive/index.php?display=139990&
Title: Re: To our Finnish members
Post by: moot on January 19, 2009, 11:50:35 PM: There's a really nice curved highway bridge in one of the nordic countries.. I can't recall the name or which country it's in, but it's really picturesque. Maybe one of the vikings remembers it.
Title: Re: To our Finnish members
Post by: straffo on January 20, 2009, 01:23:02 AM: Isn't finland just plain white in winter and plain green in summer ?

:p
Title: Re: To our Finnish members
Post by: Latrobe on January 20, 2009, 01:41:15 AM: Finland, I love the Power Metal they produce! :rock :aok
Title: Re: To our Finnish members
Post by: Angus on January 20, 2009, 02:47:08 AM: Trees....many trees.
And the people: here. Includes power-metal :devil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdItwaLrv1U
Title: Re: To our Finnish members
Post by: LLv34_Snefens on January 20, 2009, 03:42:32 AM: As for pictures of the landscape of Finland I can suggest using Google Earth and look for pictures submitted at various locations.

The bridge Moot refers to is probably the "Great Belt Bridge" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Belt_Bridge between Zealand and Funen in Denmark.
Title: Re: To our Finnish members
Post by: Angus on January 20, 2009, 04:11:11 AM: Curved highway bridge? What is the scenery like around it?
Title: Re: To our Finnish members
Post by: LLv34_Snefens on January 20, 2009, 06:55:43 AM: Not curved like a corner on a race track. Just your typical suspension bridge look.
Title: Re: To our Finnish members
Post by: Angus on January 20, 2009, 07:20:19 AM: Moot should be able to describe it. Anyway, what is the english term for a bridge over water, be it a bay or a fjord or a river....?
Title: Re: To our Finnish members
Post by: BlauK on January 20, 2009, 08:33:28 AM: Google images "lakes finland"?

http://images.google.fi/images?q=lakes%20finland

or "countryside finland" or "finland aerial photos"?

Other words to use to search finnish pages:

ilmakuva = aerial picture
maaseutu = countryside
suomi = finland
Title: Re: To our Finnish members
Post by: ROX on January 20, 2009, 10:31:37 AM: Don't forget the sparkling lakes---thousands of sparking lakes!

Why do you think Finnish immigrants flocked to Minnesota and Northern Michigan?

ROX
Title: Re: To our Finnish members
Post by: Elfie on January 20, 2009, 10:44:43 AM: Quote from: ROX on January 20, 2009, 10:31:37 AM
Don't forget the sparkling lakes---thousands of sparking lakes!

Why do you think Finnish immigrants flocked to Minnesota and Northern Michigan?

ROX

They liked cold, forested areas? :D
Title: Re: To our Finnish members
Post by: ROX on January 20, 2009, 01:42:02 PM: Quote from: Elfie on January 20, 2009, 10:44:43 AM
They liked cold, forested areas? :D

Ya think?

ROX
Title: Re: To our Finnish members
Post by: mipoikel on January 20, 2009, 02:54:32 PM: A small lake near Oulu (town I live)

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_T03fPu8Q4q0/RxJ7s0yNNMI/AAAAAAAABjU/FYuRFJ9udgY/s800/_DSC2390.jpg)

Oulu-river last summer

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_T03fPu8Q4q0/SGzyqEogoqI/AAAAAAAACJ8/2YBUoyUzszY/s800/DSC_3092.JPG)

a pic from Posio.

(http://lh3.ggpht.com/_T03fPu8Q4q0/RTslRDBrABI/AAAAAAAAAHc/jSg81qcG7p8/s800/_DSC0156.JPG)

"artistic" view from our summer cottage in Posio.

(http://lh5.ggpht.com/_T03fPu8Q4q0/Rqd8ZW6Q6fI/AAAAAAAABNo/fxrnk-pZBkA/s800/posiolla_web.jpg)

Winter in Vuokatti

(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_T03fPu8Q4q0/R1E3A4TZPJI/AAAAAAAABo8/iHA5TTWqDRg/s800/vuokatti%20014.JPG)
Title: Re: To our Finnish members
Post by: moot on January 20, 2009, 03:55:22 PM: Quote from: LLv34_Snefens on January 20, 2009, 03:42:32 AM
As for pictures of the landscape of Finland I can suggest using Google Earth and look for pictures submitted at various locations.

The bridge Moot refers to is probably the "Great Belt Bridge" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Belt_Bridge between Zealand and Funen in Denmark.
No.. it doesn't have any suspenders that I remember, and it was much less straight. It's really very nice :) It sort of hops from islet to islet and then out into the sea.
Title: Re: To our Finnish members
Post by: mensa180 on January 20, 2009, 04:49:54 PM: Thanks, project complete :).
Title: Re: To our Finnish members
Post by: phatzo on January 20, 2009, 11:22:29 PM: just place the dudesons in the middle of one of those fantastic landscapes
Title: Re: To our Finnish members
Post by: CAVPFCDD on January 21, 2009, 12:15:32 AM: Quote from: LLv34_Snefens on January 20, 2009, 06:55:43 AM
Not curved like a corner on a race track. Just your typical suspension bridge look.

could be this one, used to be the longest floating bridge in the world, its just outside bergen norway, driven over it dozens of times, also saw it on discovery channel

(http://www.westcoastpeaks.com/pics/veten0105_01bridgeH.jpg)
Title: Re: To our Finnish members
Post by: ROX on January 21, 2009, 01:33:41 PM: Mipokel: Those pictures are AWESOME!!!!!!

You certainly live in a stunningly beautiful land! I hope you are proud!

:salute

ROX