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If you’re looking for a photo-related New Year’s resolution, try spending more time taking pictures in your local waters. Think there’s nothing there? Well, this Photographer of the Week, Pekka Tuuri, might just change your mind.

You see, Pekka is based out of Finland. For decades, he traveled the world to some of the most popular, most remote dive destinations. But according to Pekka, it is the waters of Finland that continue to provide inspiration: “There is no ocean water in Finland and the waters are cold, green and murky with a lot fewer species,” Pekka writes. “But they still provide enough opportunities for a lifetime.”

In 2013, Pekka published The Underwater World of Finland, documenting the local underwater fauna through photography for the first time. His passion for his local waters continues today, as he is currently working on a coffee-table book about fish in Finland, among other things.
 

Waterlilies turn into colors of yellow and red in the autumn (Nature Photograph of the Year 2010 in Finland)
 

Gray seal statue: A juvenile seal climbed on a rock and eventually let the port touch his whiskers! A very rare encounter indeed
 

Mirror with a birch frame: The fallen birch has been broken in the most photogenic way
 

Atlantic salmon going upstream prior to spawning
 

DPG Photo Editor Lia Barrett ventures under the ice
 

River lampreys go to rivers to spawn and then they die. This one has attached itself to the port. Visibility is about four inches
 

Vendace in the final basket of a trawl. Their scales fall like snow
 

For more of Pekka Tuuri’s work and to learn about The Underwater World of Finland, visit his official website.