Tatu Korhonen
About the Image(s)
This months IR photo is again a view from my childhood home village, the historical sea fortress Suomenlinna. It is the grave of an Imperial Russian colonel Alexandr Notara, who was murdered by the Russian soldiers during the Sveaborg Rebellion in 1906. My country, Finland was then an autonomous grand duchy (1810-1917) of the Russian empire after having been hundreds of years the eastern part of the Swedish kingdom. Suomenlinna (Sveaborg), nicknamed 'The Gibraltar of the North' was a strong Russian military garrison at that time before our War of Independency 1918.
The Sveaborg Rebellion was a rebellion which started June 30, 1906 on the sea fortress Sveaborg (renamed "Suomenlinna" in Finnish in 1918) as part of the Russian Revolution of 1905??“1907. The rebellion began when Sveaborg's Russian soldiers started a mutiny against the bad treatment of soldiers and against officers. The rebellion was also a protest against the loss at the Russo-Japanese War. The rebels believed that by rebelling, they would get support from other rebellions, but they didn't and the rebellion ended in 60 hours.
Sony Nex-5 converted to full spectrum + Micro-Nikkor 3.5/55mm+720nm IR filter.