series (pt. i) .seasons in finland

I moved to Finland in 2002. Lived there for well over a decade and I absolutely adore nature there, in all it’s stages. I love its four seasons (as opposed to the 12 months drizzly autumn we seem to have in the Netherlands).

Colourful “eureka”

I passed here many times before the idea of this series took shape in my head. I think the fall colours triggered it. It’s my favourite of the four, and the first one I shot in this series. At first I was thinking of just a single image with the cabin on one side, but that took away the whole colour scheme of the forest line in the background. Then I pictured this as a super wide panorama, and everything fell in place.

X marks the spot

I marked the spot so I would know exactly where I would have to stand in for the next photos, to make sure they would all line up perfectly. It’s not 100% perfect, because I didn’t think of noting down the focal length I was shooting with, but I managed fairly ok, I think.

Photo stitching

I didn’t want to risk any kind of deformation or chromatic aberrations from the use of a wide angle lens, so I shot all images with a 28-200mm lens, around the 40-or so mm mark on an APS-C format. All four images are a series of five or six landscape photos stitched together with a final native file resolution of 11811×2480px. I had these printed on canvas for 3 exhibitions in Helsinki, Finland, on 200×42cms . If you’re interested in purchasing these as prints, individually or as a series, drop me a line.