The Copper Country

A collection of my photos from the Copper Country in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It is a special area. The photos are shown Ken Burns style with authentic Finnish polka music!

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• bgivens
• yooper
• houghton
• baraga
• keweenaw
• michigan
• coppercountry
• upperpeninsula
• polka
• polkas

[rayman5321]

Nice one, Toivo!

[BPG1973]

Tanks, Eino.

[samyooper]

Wonderful. It's interesting to see the Copper Country through someone elses eyes. I'm going to feature the video on my blog. Thank you.

[ThePolka]

Very enjoyable. Thank you.

[novgorodva]

Beautiful! It's been decades since I've seen the place.

[Joonavainio]

Nice pics, beautiful country. No wonder we decided to invade it. Suomi Perkele!

Nice accent, too. Would pass for native Finnish. We do have similar accent here, I can't just place it.

Let me correct you a bit. "Heili from Karjala" isn't polka. It is humppa. Very close to polka, tho.

[Hotonite]

Great scenes. Just as I remember them.

[Hotonite]

Exceptional video. I have been to most of the places in the

video and the scenes are beautifully captured. The timing

that makes the bike rider seem to be riding on the water is very good.

Unfortunately, I am new at this system and I mistakenly gave a 4 star rating when I certainly regard it as deserving of all 5 stars.

[rayman5321]

You betcha!

Ray from Dollar Bay (30 years ago). VBG!

[farlane]

These are cool! I can see how you can pronounce the Finnish words!