Photographing the Northern Lights: Arctic Sky Workshop in Pyhä-Luosto

A hush falls over the pine forest as the bus doors close behind you. The air is clean and sharp—small clouds of your breath drift toward the low, rolling fells. Under a sky that seems too wide for the human eye, a guide checks a camera and points toward a thinning band of green. You move along a track rimmed by old Scots pines, snow soft underfoot or frost-crisp needles depending on the season, until an open bowl of tundra gives the sky room to move. This two-hour workshop at Pyhä-Luosto turns that raw Arctic ceiling into a classroom.