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I have this little miniature boat inside a bottle from long time ago when I was a small kid. Like the tag suggests, it was a trip to Åland in Finland archipelago. It wasn't with my parents, but with the crew of a children's home I was in during the time when life was unstable during my parent's divorce. It was actually a pretty good place even though some other kids there were slightly troubled, but the staff there were really good and professional.

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I remember we were lodging at some place near a coast on some cabins. We did some painting on small hand-sized rocks. I remember I painted an oyster, but I forgot to take it with me; it was left behind at the terrace of the cabin, I assume. It was a bummer when I realized this back at the home.

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Most of the memories from the trip have faded away, but for some reason I remember a dad of one of the kids who was along the trip and borrowed my Donald Duck comics I had with me. We also visited a glassblower in Mariehamn (the capital of autonomous Åland) and saw the live creation of a glass object. One more thing I remember we did, was a visit to the Taffel chip factory – we all got free bags from there.

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I don't actually remember where exactly I got this miniature. All I know is that it tagged along at some part of the journey, though I can't actually be completely certain about that, because I was there a second time on a football tournament when I still used to play, but I've always lived with the notion that it was from the first trip that I was talking about. In any case, without this tiny boat I wouldn't have remembered the glass blower and the free chips – how could have I forgotten free food?

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I wasn't actually supposed to go down the memory lane – my purpose was only to experiment with macro photography as this tiny boat was a perfect object for that purpose. Like with some other macro shots, again I used a regular magnifying glass (except in the first one). It's a bit trickier to use than an actual macro lens, but I think it still gives decent results if you know what you're doing (or try enough times).

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