This early June I concluded my big American adventure and returned to Italy. I stayed there for a couple of days to settle a few things and then I flew to Finland for a few weeks. Of course I had in mind to shoot something over my permanence, so I switched my EX1 to 25P and brought it with me along with the Letus and lenses.
The beauty of Finnish summers is due to the fact that in countries of such latitude, in this time of the year, the sun barely sets. The consequence of this phenomenon is a stretching of the famous golden hour to quite a few hours. Between 8pm and 11pm you can see this marvelous soft, yellow light and these long crisp shadows "crawling" on the ground and everything looks fantastic. This also pushed my to do many time lapses, which I believe are pretty effective for these kinds of setups.
Most of the stuff is shot in the countryside around the city of Tampere (the city that you see in all the second portion's shots), the fire ceremony is part of the celebration of mid-summer (called Juhannus). My main idea was to portray the stillness and peace of this country, that I am very fond of.
