I visited the New Seinäjoki Railway Station area earlier this year. The station building was inaugurated and opened to the public in December 4, 2024. The new station area was designed by OOPEAA and constructed by YIT.
When I first arrived to the station area, it was a beautiful sunlit winter day. I don’t use much front lighting because it’s rarely a great option. I wanted to avoid shadows on the facade. The problem was that this time of the year, in February, the sun was so low that it was casting shadows to the facade most of the time of the day. So front lighting was the only option on that day. The other option would have been to photograph when it’s more cloudy or later in the year. I’ll revisit the place again in the summertime when the light is different and there are leaves on the trees.
When I walked around the new city block, I saw the parking building, with the facade made of rusted steel. In the last few years, I have photographed many buildings made of rusted steel, which seems to be very popular nowadays. I’ll make a post about that interesting subject later.
I noticed pictures of a child, a woman and a man on the facade. What a great idea and implementation! I didn’t have much time so it was a bit difficult to make it clearly visible in the photographs from certain angles but I’ll try it again when I’m visiting Seinäjoki the next time.
Next I concentrated on the new railway station hall. I admired the very nice use of wooden plank structures in the walls and ceiling. And the light!
This kind of light is possible only in certain time in the winter because the sun is low enough to illuminate the ceilings through the large windows about half an hour before the sunset. I was at the location in February 19.
I really like the classic spherical shape of a globe pendant lights in the station hall. The golden colour is nice as well and looks good against the blue sky.
I used my widest-angle rectilinear lens that I own for the photograph of the ceiling. 9mm lens gives a whopping 135° diagonal field of view. I placed the camera only a few centimetres from the floor to have a maximum field of view with one shot.
And that’s a wrap on this story for now. I’ll revisit the new station in the summer and I’m sure I’ll get more great pictures then!