helsinki | extreme night

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Okei, so Helsinki Extreme Day may not have been that extreme, but I was just really cuing up for this post because it’s probably one of my favourites in some time. While Helsinki may not get the midnight sun, it really wasn’t far from it and I wasn’t even there during the longest days of the year. The sun sort of set, well it set, but the sky never darkened because the sun never sat too far below the horizon which made for some of the most phenomenal twilight skies I’ve witnessed, and compared greatly to my Winters in Norway – except on the opposite side of the scale, and instead of the sun never rising – it nearly never set here. So a lot of these photos vary from 22:30 into the wee hours of the morning!

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Here’s just a little sample of how easy it is to stay charged all through the night with unbounding energy because everytime I looked out the window, the sky just became more and more beautiful filling with every deep blue & purple imaginable all through til the morning sun! The image on the left was taken at 02:58, and the right image at 00:03 both on 21st July!

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5 comments

Ericha - Those light trails are perfect!! The architecture and yes, the mood of the photos…I love it! I also love the 4th one up from the bottom. Great angle! Can’t wait to see more!

Kim Kalyn - These are just delish !! I love the yummy light. The shot of the chairs is my fave. I am not sure why, but the image says so much :)

Rose - Wow! Amazing views! Great angles and the light is perfect! But, I am still deliberating whether I like Helsinki more by night or by day! You are making my decision sooooo damn hard, Mister!! :D

cindy - Wow Sean! seeing your images from this trip is like “eye candy” The lights, colors, and your perspective is awesome.

Anna - VME. Too many favourites to list! This is extreme! I love all the photos with movement – just takes me back there, shooting twilight with you. The moon & the two ferries – love the mood! The tram doing the curve, one of my favourite photos from you ever and love the one after that too. And of course I love the table close-up and the taksi line for the bokeh! More, plskthx!

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