Northern Lights Destinations: 10 Places to See the Aurora Borealis
The northern lights shine brightest in a ring around the Arctic, the auroral zone centred near 67° north. Put yourself under that ring betwe...
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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.
Inari Northern Lights Time-Lapse by Tomi Rantanen, Finnish Lapland
A small boat sits on a dark lake while green and violet curtains of light ripple overhead. Finnish photographer Tomi Rantanen spent the aut...
Finnish Night Sky Photography: Joni Niemelä’s Moonlight and Star Trails
Finnish photographer Joni Niemelä photographed the night sky over rural Finland between 2011 and 2016, most of it in the region of Southern...
Light Pillars: How Ice Crystals Turn Streetlights into Columns of Light
On a bitterly cold night, the lights of a town can suddenly send tall columns of colour straight up into the sky. Blue, yellow and white sh...
19 Winter Landscapes Around the World: Peyto Lake to Shirakawa-go
Snow turns familiar places into new ones. These nineteen winter landscapes run from a snowy street in Liverpool and frosted riverbanks in B...
Joni Niemelä’s Northern Lights Photos from Southern Ostrobothnia, Finland
Most northern-lights photographs from Finland come from Lapland, but Joni Niemelä made these far to the south, on the plains and lakeshores...
Christmas in Lapland, Finland: Rovaniemi and Santa Claus Village Guide
Few places do Christmas quite like Rovaniemi. The capital of Finnish Lapland sits about 6 km south of the Arctic Circle, where the Kemijoki...
Tiina Törmänen’s Arctic Photos: Northern Lights and Snowy Forests
Finnish photographer Tiina Törmänen has spent more than 25 years photographing the far north: snow-loaded trees, northern lights over froze...
Mikko Lagerstedt’s Edge: Night Photography of the Finnish Landscape
A lone figure on a ridge, a forest road under the Milky Way, smooth water around dark rocks: Mikko Lagerstedt’s night photographs turn ordi...
Midnight Sun in the Arctic: Where and When the Sun Never Sets
It is a minute past midnight in Longyearbyen, and the painted wooden houses of Svalbard glow in full sunshine. North of the Arctic Circle, ...
Oulanka National Park in Winter: Skiing, Snowshoe Trails and Rapids
In winter, Oulanka National Park turns into a world of snow-laden spruce, frozen canyon walls and dark green rapids that never quite stop mo...
Winter Landscapes Around the World: 15 Snowy Places from Banff to Japan
Snow changes a place more than any other weather. A footbridge in New York, a thatched village in Japan, a turquoise lake in the Canadian R...
20 Little Houses in Winter Scenery: Tromsø, Lapland, Iceland and the Alps
A single red cabin under snow-covered peaks near Tromsø, a yellow house among frosted trees, a hunting lodge buried to its roof in the Dolo...
Helsinki at Christmas: Senate Square Market, Saunas and Winter Sights
A green tram glides past trees strung with lights, snow settles on the steps of the white cathedral and the smell of glögi drifts across Se...
Mikko Lagerstedt's Night II: Finnish Night Photography of Snow and Stars
Blue snow under dark pines, a warm glow deep in the forest, the Milky Way arching over a rocky shore: Mikko Lagerstedt's Night II seri...
Seal Pup Follows Skier Juha Salo on Finland's Frozen Coast
On 18 March 2012, skier Juha Salo was out on the snowy ice of Finland's western coast when a small, pale seal pup shuffled up and start...
Northern Lights in Finnish Lapland: Fox Fires, Aurora Science and Tips
Finnish Lapland sits right under the auroral oval, and on a clear winter night the sky above its forests, fells and frozen lakes can fill w...
Santra the Bear’s Yoga Stretches at Ähtäri Zoo, Finland
Santra, a female brown bear at Ähtäri Zoo in Finland, became famous in 2010 as “the bear who practises yoga”. Slovenian visitor Meta Penca ...
Sulo Karjalainen, Finland's Bear Man of the Kuusamo Carnivore Centre
Sulo Karjalainen is known across Finland as the Bear Man of Kuusamo. In a 2014 Barcroft TV film, the then 73-year-old hugs and plays with f...
Sun Halos over Finland: Pauli Hänninen’s Ice-Halo Display in Lapland
On a frozen, foggy morning in October 2013, Pauli Hänninen stepped outside in Sirkka, the village at the foot of Levi in Finnish Lapland, an...