Jan 23 – Mar 6, 2011
On this photography trip I spent 42 days driving 4717 km in the east and north part of Finland (Lapland). I visited national parks, did several newspaper or magazine stories of winter activities in Lapland and photographed them. The winter was harsh, cold but amazingly beautiful. There were lots of days with temperatures of -20 and sometimes even -30 C.
I also spent time with reindeer herders in remote cabins (party), tried rally driving on ice, snow sledding downhill, reindeer safaris, ice fishing and snow machine safaris. Northern lights danced on the sky several times, ice climbing was cool but difficult, swimming in icy water was refreshing. I was almost killed by a heavy snowy tree one night in Koli national park :) and I photographed the ice & snow sailing world champs in Linnansaari national parks, to name some examples of my activities during this trip. I also tried to photograph wolverines for 3 days only seeing goshawk + other birds every day.