Moonlit Vortex
Ice sheets swirl around in a side pool eddy of the river Kitkajoki in Oulanka National Park. Kuusamo, Finland 01/2010 Photo © copyright by Mika-Pekka Markkanen
End of the Day in the Land of the Snow
Last rays of the Sun among the snow covered trees. Lapland, Finland 02/2019 Photo © copyright by Mika-Pekka Markkanen
Vein of the WIlderness
Looking down from the Pähkänäkallio-cliff at the Kitkajoki-river meandering through the Taiga forests of Oulanka National Park on an early summer morning. Kuusamo, Finland 06/2010 Photo © copyright by Mika-Pekka Markkanen
Call of the Night
Self-portrait taken at the start of an epic Northern Light night. Lapland, Finland 03/2017 Photo © copyright by Mika-Pekka Markkanen
The Frozen Forest at Night
Freezing cold clear night under the dancing Northern Lights in the snow covered northern forest. Lapland, Finland 02/2019 Photo © copyright by Mika-Pekka Markkanen
Autumn Serenity
Family of Whooper Swans spending their last days in the north before flying south for the winter. Kuusamo, Finland 09/2010 Photo © copyright by Mika-Pekka Markkanen
Land of Blue and White
The snow covered fell top trees create long shadows in the early morning light. Lapland, Finland 02/2010 Photo © copyright by Mika-Pekka Markkanen
Northern Comfort
Self-portrait by the fire surrounded by the frozen northern wilderness. Lapland, Finland 02/2015 Photo © copyright by Mika-Pekka Markkanen
Northern Summer Night
Midnight light at Koli, the most iconic Finnish national scenery. The hard quartzite core is all that is left of a 2 billion year old mountain range that would have rivaled the great Himalayas. Koli, Finland 07/2017 Photo © copyright by Mika-Pekka Markkanen
Winter Night in Lapland
By the Icy Waters
Break of Dawn by the Kitkajoki-river in Oulanka National Park. Kuusamo, Finland 02/2019 Photo © copyright by Mika-Pekka Markkanen
Nightlife in Lapland
Camping out deep in the arctic wilderness with Northern Lights blazing above. Lapland, Finland 01/2017 Photo © copyright by Mika-Pekka Markkanen
Freezing Sunrise
Extremely cold winter morning on the top of the Riisitunturi fell. Lapland, Finland 02/2019 Photo © copyright by Mika-Pekka Markkanen
Pink Winter Wonderland
Moments before sunrise in the surreal snowy landscape of Riisitunturi National Park. Lapland Finland 01/2017 Photo © copyright by Mika-Pekka Markkanen
Snowman
Fell scenery and a shadow-selfie cast on a snow-covered Spruce by the first morning light. Lapland, Finland 01/2017 Photo © copyright by Mika-Pekka Markkanen
Green Snow
Surreal scene captured near the top of Riisitunturi fell. The snow got colored green by the Northern Lights blazing on the northern sky behind me. Lapland, Finland 02/2019 Photo © copyright by Mika-Pekka Markkanen
Empowering Solitude
Self-portrait at my camp site during a winter adventure in the northern wilderness. Lapland, Finland 04/2015 Photo © copyright by Mika-Pekka Markkanen
End of the Rainbow
Whooper Swan, the national bird of Finland, 'the land of thousands of lakes'. Saimaa, Finland 08/2009 Photo © copyright by Mika-Pekka Markkanen
Mistycal Morning
First rays of the rising Sun poke through the trees and the mist from the river on a freezing cold morning. Kuusamo, Finland 02/2010 Photo © copyright by Mika-Pekka Markkanen
Golden Autumn Morning
Watching the sunrise over a Finnish national scenery on a misty autumn morning. Koli, Finland 10/2016 Photo © copyright by Mika-Pekka Markkanen
Taiga Forest
Misty autumn morning in the northern woods. Finland 09/2014 Photo © copyright by Mika-Pekka Markkanen
Rain & Shine
Rainbow over Lake Pielinen. Finland 10/2016 Photo © copyright by Mika-Pekka Markkanen
Frozen Magic
Milky Way, Andromeda and thousands of stars shining through intense Northern Lights during an extremely cold night above the Arctic Circle. Lapland, Finland 01/2017 Photo © copyright by Mika-Pekka Markkanen
