Figari, Ice Paintings, Sculptures of Silence - Arctic winter in Finnish Lapland

This book is dedicated to the forests of the Kuusamo and Posio region during the cold Arctic winter. Pictures have been taken along the secondary roads that cut like blades the taiga, along the rivers in the deep valleys and canyons and mostly above the hills of the Riisitunturi National Park where the Arctic Rime (in finnish “Tykky”) can be seen best in the winter months. The stratifications of ice and snow that deposits on the branches of the trees is an extraordinary phenomenon that occurs...