When I was a kid, Finnish lakes seemed to be mysterious windows to a mysterious world, which was only partially revealed from the surface. Now, when I have scouted those wonderlands for many years, I’m still fascinated how much unknown there is left. Many adventures are still ahead, in both murky and clear waters. While I keep my breath somewhere deep under water, I can be there for spearfishing, photographing or for both. Free-diving is also one of the things which inspires me in many aspects. When I hide in a bush of green water plants and I focus my sight close or far, I see life everywhere, from small water fleas to big pikes or tench. Not to mention everything that I can’t see. When the green light passes through a thin leaf close to my eyes, I can imagine how the chloroplasts convert the quanta of light into stable chemical bonds, and carbon dioxide is fixed into more complex organic compounds. On the other hand, it is funny to watch small and curious perch which come around and start to goggle this big and odd thing. From which part of the lake they came from, where they are going to and do I ever see them again? How they found their school and is that fat pike in the next bush going to eat them soon, making an end for their young lives. That’s the way life goes.