“Capturing emotion of places through photographs.” That’s the tagline on Mikko Lagerstedt’s website, and it is delivered with power and beauty.
STILLNESS OF NIGHT
THE WHOLE UNIVERSE SURRENDERS
PATHWAY
Spending an entire evening under the stars in near pitch darkness, photographer Mikko Lagerstedt captures spectacular landscapes of frozen tundra and misty mornings of Iceland and his native Finland. With a camera mounted on a tripod he takes a multitude of exposures as the light gradually changes. Certain elements are then stitched together digitally and enhanced with Photoshop and Lightroom—a process he candidly shares in tutorials and presets he sells on his website and blog. The resulting images are a result of hours of photography, editing, and a keen sense of color and composition to create heavily modified images that are almost hyper-realistic.
Mikko Lagerstedt’s galleries are to be lost in, gazing with wonder, awe, and near heartache from the sheer beauty of this planet of ours. To say the emotion of the landscapes is well captured is a complete understatement.
Via Colossal Art.
The photos are awesome. Just looking at the galleries evokes a meditative effect.
I’d make a dark room with the walls hung in large-format prints of these, and it would be my quiet room, and it would be fantastic. (Perhaps with its own thunderstorm-cloud-floating-apparatus, as per a previous post.) The floor would be a mattress (or at least foam) with some sand- and pebble-beds and a shallow pool of water. I would never leave.
rq:
Neither would I.
My compatriot has done beautiful work. “Pathway” is one I like especially. The kind of wooden construction is called pitkospuut in Finnish (lengthwise lumbers would be an approximate direct translation).
Some of those photos, it’s as if they were taken on Discworld, where you can travel to the ocean’s edge, where the water falls into space.
We just say laipa in Latvian. :)
Boreal boardwalk beautiful.
rq:
That sounds wonderful. I could *really* use a room like that right now. Harrummph.
Regardless, those are great photos. Thanks as always, Caine, for bringing these artists you my (our) attention.
“…these artists *to* my (our) attention.”
I even previewed.