Midsummer in Finland is rather magical time, to say the least. The days are long and the night is really just a few hours of gloom instead of proper darkness. And then the sun comes up again.
As most people, I imagine, I have always been attracted by the special light of the time of sunrises and sunsets. The distant glow after sundown and the magic hour just before the sun appears from the horizon have a special warmth and softness to them.
During the past few weeks I've been getting up early, or rather staying up late, to shoot sunrises and the light just before and after it. My initial focus was to make a Joris Ivens type of piece about the morning dew, but I found that catching a common natural phenomena like this is sometimes more challenging than one would presume. Actually for the dew to happen properly, I have learned, it takes certaing kinds of conditions, namely cool nights and no or little wind (and preferrably clear skies to catch the amazing light). With the summer in Finland being extremely cloudy and rainy, many mornings I've found my mission obstructed or handicapped by adverse contitions.
Anyway, I do have plenty of interesting material and soon I'l be uloading a new piece.
And perhaps I will keep shooting more sunrises, the romantic fool I am, and upload another film with more focus on the actual dew.
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