Northern Lights Destinations: Places, Conditions and Different Ways to Experience the Sky
There is a lovely moment on an aurora night when everyone stops checking their phone and simply looks up. Choosing where to travel can help...
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Finland: Snow & Northern Landscapes
Explore Finland through snowy landscapes, winter photography and stories from the north. Browse the country collection, then continue into related archives on northern lights, wildlife and Arctic scenery.
Tomi Rantanen’s Inari Aurora Time-Lapse: A Lake Beneath a Moving Sky
The boat stays still. The lake catches the colour. Above them, the northern lights seem to paint a new sky every few seconds. Tomi Rantanen...
Joni Niemelä’s Finnish Night Sky: Moonlight, Reflections and Star Trails
A moon above a pine forest can be every bit as absorbing as a sky full of northern lights. In Joni Niemelä’s Finnish night photographs, snow...
Light Pillars: How Ice Crystals Transform Ordinary Lights
A row of lights seems to have stretched straight up from a snowy neighbourhood. Blue, yellow and white columns hang above the roofs, as tho...
Nineteen Winter Landscapes: Forests, Towns and Mountain Views Around the World
A snowy landscape does not need to be empty or colourless. In this selection, a blue house takes centre stage, a red jacket marks a bridge ...
Joni Niemelä’s Aurora Photographs from Southern Ostrobothnia
Some of Joni Niemelä’s aurora photographs open like a curtain. Others curl above the trees or settle into a lake reflection. The pleasure o...
Christmas in Finnish Lapland: Rovaniemi and Time Around the Arctic Circle
Christmas in Finnish Lapland can be full of small pleasures: the crunch of snow outside a warm doorway, a postcard written with cold finger...
Tiina Törmänen’s Northern Landscapes: Light, Forest and Human Scale
Tiina Törmänen’s northern photographs give the sky plenty of room. Snow-covered trees become sculptural shapes, a lone figure stands beneat...
Mikko Lagerstedt’s Edge: Atmospheric Night Landscapes
A person stands beneath an enormous sky. A road disappears into blue mist. Dark rocks sit in water that looks almost weightless. Mikko Lage...
Midnight Sun and Bright Northern Nights: What the Photos Show
The clock says night, but the houses are still bright, the mountains remain visible and a tent hardly seems to need a lamp. Northern summer...
Oulanka National Park in Winter: Forests, Rivers and Snowy Trails
Oulanka’s winter photographs are full of contrasts. Snow rounds off branches and riverbanks, while dark green water continues moving betwee...
Winter Landscapes Around the World: Fifteen Snow-Covered Settings
Winter takes several different forms across this fifteen-setting collection. A bridge, a river, a colourful house and a mountain lake each ...
20 Small Houses in Winter Landscapes: Colour, Shelter and Scale
Small houses give these winter landscapes a human scale. A patch of red paint, a snow-covered roof or a warm window can hold the eye while ...
Helsinki in Winter: Festive Streets, Waterfronts and City Life
A tram passes beneath bright street decorations, and warm windows punctuate the winter evening. Helsinki’s appeal is the easy shift between...
Mikko Lagerstedt’s Night II: Winter Light and Finnish Landscapes
The snow beneath the trees is blue with shadow, while warm light glows farther into the forest. Mikko Lagerstedt’s Night II collection make...
Juha Salo’s Seal-Pup Encounter on Finland’s Coast
The seal pup is small, pale and unexpectedly close. Juha Salo’s recording captures the kind of wildlife encounter that makes viewers want t...
Lapland’s Northern Lights: Folklore, Foregrounds and Uncertain Skies
A road disappears into the snow, while colour spreads across the sky above it. Lapland’s aurora photographs are especially inviting when th...
Santra the Bear’s Stretches at Ähtäri Zoo
Santra, a brown bear photographed at Ähtäri Zoo in Finland, became an internet favourite for a very human-looking stretch. Seated on a rock...
Sulo Karjalainen and the Bears at Kuusamo: A Historical Film
Sulo Karjalainen became known in Finland as Bearman because of the unusually close relationships portrayed in films about his work with cap...
Sun Halos over Finland: Understanding Pauli Hänninen’s Photographs
Pauli Hänninen’s Finnish halo photographs show a sky busy with arcs and bright spots. A small group of people beneath the display gives its...