Nordic Summer
Nordic Summer: Eleven Days Under the Midnight Sun
18 October 2026 · Dinh Huy
In early July, four of us packed a car in Helsinki and drove north towards the Arctic. Eleven days, three countries and a little over 3,000 km later we were back where we started. The plan was simple: chase the midnight sun, play golf where you normally can't, and leave enough slow days to actually look around.
North through Finland. The first days were long drives through forests and lakes, up to Tornio on the Swedish border and across the Arctic Circle at Rovaniemi. Up here, night is more of a suggestion. We teed off in Levi at ten in the evening and walked off the last green at almost three in the morning, with the sun still up.
Senja. The high point was Senja in northern Norway, the quieter twin of Lofoten: granite peaks dropping straight into the sea, small fishing harbours, fog in the valleys and a sun that sinks towards the horizon and lifts again without ever touching it.
The long way home. We drove back through Swedish Lapland and down to Helsinki, stopping wherever the light looked good.
How it was shot. Shot on Fujifilm and graded warm and filmic, the way the far north feels in July: golden hour that simply refuses to end. The in-camera settings are on the Fujifilm Recipes page.
