My father, brushing the snow off the yard in Jyväskylä (Christmas 2008). Photo by Aki Kärkkäinen.
Jyväskylä, Finland
This article is Part One of the series. See the bottom of this article for the other parts in this series.
Jyväskylä is my hometown where I started my journey. It's where my dear parents live. It's the Base Camp where I would return to over the years, only to leave again.
Some background to this series: inspired by Ben Tibbett's mind-blowing mountain photography & climbing book Alpenglow, I started going through my photographs from earlier trips in the Alps. While doing that, I remembered and rediscovered other places I'd been to, or lived in. From there on, the project kind of started to grow uncontrollably. I had to descope it :)
So, I thought it'd be fun to do a series of posts about the places I've lived during my life, and share some stories and reflections about them. I guess both my age and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic contributes to these reflections about this thing called life. This series may include occasional purely subjective and half-serious comparisons of countries :)