Journal

Field notes, editing thoughts, and stories from years of photographing northern light, night, and landscape.

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Distant Land
Behind the Photography

Distant Land

Last year I had the pleasure to visit Chile and the Torres Del Paine national park with Konsta Punkka and the crew. We stayed there for eight days and shot a mini-doc series Exploring Earth's first episodes. If you haven't seen the series, check it out here: Exploring Earth – Patagonia.

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Photography for the New Nokia SmartPhone
Behind The Scenes

Photography for the New Nokia SmartPhone

I'm proud to see one of my pictures selected as the new Nokia smartphone default background! You may have seen it in various places. There is an addition of another of my images in the catalog of the phones backgrounds. The mobilephone actually sold out in a minute in China! Here is a vie

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Milky Way & Aurora
Behind the Photography

Milky Way & Aurora

A couple of weeks ago I went on a six-day road trip with Sami ( @samiheiskanen ) from Helsinki to Utsjoki to all the way up to Varanger, Norway. Even with over 4500 km's of driving we had an excellent photo journey there. For the final day in Norway, we had a chance to watch the Northern

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Way Of Light
Behind the Photography

Way Of Light

Driving around Western Finland in pitch black night I found myself looking at train tracks to the horizon. Focusing on getting the settings perfect while the train sounds were breaking the silence of the night. It was a feeling to remember. While I was nowhere near the upcoming train, the moment cer

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Descent
Behind the Photography

Descent

After the bright summer nights, I'm excited that the astrophotography season has started in Finland. A couple of weeks ago I made a trip to Emäsalo, Finland. It's one of my favorite seascape places in Finland. I ended up going there four nights in a row to capture some time-lapse footage and still i

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The Show
Behind the Photography

The Show

Last week I was photographing with Konsta Punkka ( @kpunkka ) and Juuso Hämäläinen ( @juusohd ). We had an amazing experience after a long beautiful summer day in Kasnäs, Finland. The clouds drifted away from the mainland and were greeted with a grandiose display of stars and storm clouds. I used tw

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Invisible by Day
Features

Invisible by Day

Visible During the Night – Stars. I created a new set of images on Behance. This set includes photographs from Finland and Iceland. If you want to learn how my images are created visit the Learn section.

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Summer Morning Dream
Behind the Photography

Summer Morning Dream

Even though I love to capture the stars and the Milky Way, I love summer mornings. In Finland, summer is so bright that you can't see the Milky Way. I have been photographing mostly on summer mornings and nights recently, and I found that they are full of mystery and beauty. Mist crawling to a field

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