Gold / 2023 / Nature / Sky

• Prize
  Gold in Nature/Sky
• Photographer
  Dennis Lehtonen, Finland
• Website
  https://denniina.com
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/astrodenniina/

It was a beautiful day with clear skies and the trees ready to turn into their autumn colors here in the far north. I went to photograph the road leading here with my drone. Happy with the photos I was heading home. While walking, I read the big news headlines on my phone: "The London Bridge has fallen." With head full of thoughts I kept walking. When arriving home I saw the aurora activity was high, so I swapped my drone for the camera and headed to the nearby cahkal waterfall where I witnessed some of the most impressive northern lights I had ever seen.

Dennis Lehtonen is an adventurer of the polar regions, living the nomadic lifestyle by moving to unusual locations frequently and living with strangers. Dennis has spent three years in the northernmost parts of Finland and two years in Greenland with plans to take the adventures to the remote parts of arctic Canada, Siberia and Alaska in the future.

Dennis got into this type of lifestyle when he first found out about the world of astronomy by watching a video of a man capturing Saturn from his backyard. Amazed by this, Dennis got into astrophotography which evolved into aurora phot