Northlight Photo

Landscape and street photography from Northern Europe.

Shooting film again

Two rolls of Portra 400 through an old rangefinder. What changed in how I frame a scene.…

Along the Rhine

Cranes, barges and the old coal docks between Mainz and Bingen. Long exposures from the ri…

Lakeland fog

Saimaa in late September: the fog lifts around nine, so the useful light lasts barely an h…

Helsinki at 4 am

The city in June never gets fully dark. A walk from Kallio to the market square with one l…

Winter harbours

Three mornings in Hamburg and Kiel at minus eight degrees. Notes on keeping batteries warm…