Norrbotten County

slide film

Tree shots stitched with lightroom.

Stora Sjöfallet National park Sweden

I was driving south along the Innlandsvägen, all the kilometers from Karesuando to Östersund. Many miles of forests and open spaces, and at times quite boring, right until this Sunset moment, when a layer of mist started appearing on the fields and some beautiful colours in the sky and on the snow.

Slide film, scanned with Minolta Dimage Scan Elite

Laowa 15mm

A beautiful and intense Sunset as I was driving through the northern part of Sweden. The low evening mist appeared over the fields like an evening blanket.

Slide film, Kodak E100VS Ektachrome scanned with Konica Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400 II Horizon 202 panoramic film camera

slide film, fuji sensia 100

Stora Sjöfallet National Park, Sweden

The total area is about 9,400 square kilometres (3,600 sq mi), making it the world's largest unmodified nature area to be still cultured by natives—the natives in this case being the reindeer herding Sami people also known as Lapps (though this term is considered derogatory). Only parts of the area is actually used for pasture by them. With such a large space, the geography of the area varies greatly; it is dominated by mountains, rivers and lakes. Each nature reserve and national park has its distinctive features. The amount of snow in winter and rain in summer is considerable.

95% of the area is protected as national parks or nature reserves. It consists of the national parks Muddus, Sarek, Padjelanta and Stora Sjöfallet, and the nature reserves Sjaunja and Stubba. The remaining 5% are located in the areas of Sulitelma, Tjuoltadalen, and Rapadalen (part of which is in the Sarek park). The village of Porjus is a natural point of entry to the Laponian area and has recently opened an information center.

The Laponia area also contains three major hydropower stations with belonging basins and a big expansion of 100 wind power stations inside the world heritage area is planned.

The highest mountain of the area is Sarektjåhkkå, at 2,089 metres (6,854 ft).

Slide film, Kodak E100VS Ektachrome scanned with Konica Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400 II Horizon 202 panoramic film camera

3 shots stitched with lightroom

Horizon panoramic camera, Fuji Velvia slide film, scanned with Minolta Dimage scan Elite

Scanned with Minolta DiMAGE scan Elite 5400 dual 2, slide film

Slide film. Konica Minolta DiMAGE Scan Elite 5400 II