Showcase April - Ski Jump + Cityscape

I posted this on February 15 2019. I think the photography was clearly more interesting and better in quality to most of what I produced around that time. This post has photos of the massive ski jumps and cityscapes that can be seen from close to the ski jumps. As bonus, there's a video of what it looks like to jump from the perspective of a ski jumper.

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I was racking my brain as to what to photograph on a sunny but warm day like this when all the hoarfrost is gone and the melting snow is making the roadsides and the streets look quite ugly. Then I thought of driving to the ski jumping towers, of which there are three. All the gates in the area had been left open and there weren't any signs to be seen that one was not allowed to go to the towers so I went. There were other people, too.

This is the largest hill, the K 116 metre hill. There is a lift inside and the tower is open to the public in the summer.

It's dizzyingly tall.

The second tallest hill, the K 90 metre hill.

The smallest of the three main hills, the K 64 metre hill.

The K 90 metre hill.

A view of the stadium and the city centre in the background.

You'd have to be a stark raving lunatic to come down here. And this is only the second largest one.

A view over the part of the city centre, which is quite small in geographical size because it is limited by a tall part of the ridge on top of which I was standing in the west, the railway in the south, that hill in the east you're looking at and Lake Vesijärvi in the north.

Those buildings were built in the 1950's. The architecture is typical of the era.

A bonus video: this is how it looks like to jump from the large hill from a jumper's point of view: