I am Marinella, a professional photographer and Sigma Lenses Ambassador, an outdoor writer and a passionate fisher woman originally from Hämeenlinna, but considering myself as a girl from Northern Savonia, where I’ve spent most of my childhood while fishing and exploring the forests near to our summer cottage. Traveled all over the world for the past 10 years with my award-winning travel blog Kaukokaipuu (‘Wanderlust’ in English), I finally realized that Finland and other Scandinavian countries truly offers the most beautiful nature to explore.

I’m currently living and documenting arctic self-sufficiency in Myre (Norway) while hiking and fishing the great outdoors of Scandinavia. I work as an Ambassador for Karttakeskus, the pioneer of spatial data in Finland already for decades.


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