Posio, in southern Lapland. October 2016
"People ask me why I go to the forest alone," Törmänen explained to the Huffington Post. “My family has lived here [Finnish Lapland] for hundreds of years, so it's like my garden at home. . The lights are so pretty. You just have to go to understand them”, assured the photographer, who decided to return to her homeland in 2011 after spending more than 10 years in Helsinki.
Reflection of a northern lights in Posio (southern Lapland). October 2016
Finnish Lapland is located within the Arctic Circle and lives practically without light during the winter, watering the hours of total darkness with sporadic surprises that arrive in the form of the northern lights.
Have you tried to see the northern lights from a sleeping bag, at the end of November, in Posio?
“The absence of light pollution, the landscape and nature in the North are simply amazing. When you are born and raised in a place, the environment is something normal for you and you don't even think about it, you just take it for granted. However, after spending 15 years in the cities of the South, I saw the North in a different light and was blown away by the beauty of what we have here.”
South of Lapland. November 2016
South of Lapland. September 2016
Posio, in southern Lapland. October 2016
The northern lights appear shy. position. December 2016
Northern lights in December 2015
Skies like this are not seen every day
Southern Lapland looks like this in November