The Value of the Earth
I came to Juorkuna before the day was hot. Veikko arrived at the same time and sat in his Lada smoking a cigarette. There was a store at Juorkuna. A square, yellow building with a sloping roof and newspapers in…
My Shot of the Day – Summers Eve at the Russian-Finnish Border.
This shot was taken in June deep in the taiga along the Russian-Finnish border northeast of Lappeenranta, Finland. It is a land of lakes. Or...its a place of water with lots of islands, a very wet world. ## Russian Finnish Border…
My Shot of the Day – The Old Stone Bridge – Skopje, Macedonia
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An Ode to Wilderness
Wilderness and falling down, theoretically, have nothing to do with each other. In my case, however, they are intimately intertwined. I slipped and fell straight out of the door of the Kalamakaltion wilderness hut north of Nunnanen, Finland. I hit…
Ghost Ship. Roskilde Denmark
To be quite honest, I'm not sure why this shot turned out the way it did. I was strolling the shores around Roskilde, Denmark with some friends from Germany. We were walking through the thickest fog I'd ever encountered. Suddenly,…
Fifteen Hundred Miles on Foot Looking at the Nature of Finland
"Notes for the Aurora Society" is the story of a 1500-mile walk through Finland. In the spring of 2003, I left from the southernmost point of Finland and criss-crossed the Finnish countryside interviewing Finns about their relationship to nature and exploring the land and the history that made modern Finland. Five months later I found myself on the on the shores of the Arctic Ocean. This work of travel literature is an attempt to blending a naturalist’s ecosystem knowledge with an anthropologist’s ability to elicit unique insight into the process of culture, this work of travel literature is the first book to look at the Finnish people through their connection to the natural world.
Photo: “Cold Hands in St Petersburg”
The first time I went to this city it was called Leningrad. By the time this image was shot it was again called St Petersburg and there was gold walking up and down the streets, sashaying elegantly past the…