Viikki

This was taken in Viikki, a district in northern Helsinki, last week. The residential parts are very modern, I think among the newest in the Helsinki region; also many of the university departments are located there. But it also has a large area of woods and fields, and a nature reserve by the bay which has rich bird life. A perfect place to walk on a late summer's day, with the sun as warm and full and as only late summer's days can have; golden wheat in the fields swaying in the gently-caressing wind; cows grazing in a pasture with birch trees... Wait! This is beginning to sound like the films produced by the Suomi film company in the 1940's which typically were set in the countryside, had never-ending summer and usually involved beautiful, blond young women and muscular, handsome young men making hay in the fields - and then making out in the hay. But it WAS absolutely beautiful that day.

The picture is towards the city. Beyond the reefs there's the bay, and after that Sörnäinen, the chimneys of the Sörnäinen power plant center-right, and still further, to the left of the tall chimney, the city center (the dome of the city cathedral visible there).