When a woman tells me that she is going to be late for our meeting because she has a beauty appointment, my stereotypical mind puts her in the city-girl department. I certainly would not expect someone who lives in the countryside, has two dogs, three cats and three horses. Own stables and all. Snappy and judgmental, but it happens to you too? Right? And that despite me being a firm believer that every woman deserves an occasional beauty treatment and…
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23rd
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The hairy family + 1 | raskausajan kuvaus
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May
20th
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Mixtape Monday: About a Mother’s Day long long time ago… | odotusajan kuvaus
Yep, I know that Mother’s Day 2013 came and went, but I am a firm believer that Every day is a Mother’s Day. (should be – should be – should be) After some brief discussions with my clients, we agreed that it’s nice to have flowers and breakfast in bed, but what makes a difference immediately is relieving us of the daily responsibilities (cooking, cleaning and other largely popular items on the housework list). And in long term a nice…
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May
12th
What’s a mother made of? | Äitienpäivä
You remember my favorite speech? “Love actually is all around.” If you just arrived to a low point of belief in love (& selflessness & humanity), sit at the play-park bench and watch the mothers. Yes, there might be occasional bitter remark about the hardship of motherhood, but all you will see if you really look is the love. Because 99% of a mother is an enormous heart (and the remaining 1% is Swedish steel). Huge, supernonplusultrahuge thanks to…
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May
6th
Mixtape Monday: About being present | 1v-kuvaus
The online world is really just a jungle of narrow twisting alleys, through which the information sometimes travels at speed of light and sometimes it takes years to reach you. I am sure you all have seen this clip, but I just found it on the interweb yesterday – and it had a profound effect on me. Watch it now and let’s talk about it! In 2010 at the MoMa, Marina Abramovic performed ‘The Artist Is Present’. As part of…
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Apr
27th
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About Barbie make up, sport portraits and other essential things
It’s been more than a year since getting my printed materials (pricelists and flyers and such) and I found myself being highly bored with it. Make no mistake, I love my materials, but while they are new for my clients, they quickly become very old news for me. And I like to keep things new and exciting. Except – I don’t want to throw things away, especially made of paper. Also with the busy spring, I didn’t quite find the…
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Apr
24th
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Water on the road (a teaser) | muotokuvaus
You might have seen me posting on Facebook couple of days ago that I am looking for a woman for an impromptu shoot. Requirements: rubber boots and no fear of water. Soon I had a perfect beautiful young lady ready for the challenge. I asked her again to wear rubber boots. When she got into the car, I exclaimed in a theatrically horrified voice: “These are not kummisaapat!” “But they are boots.” (Smart ass reply, serves me right.) In fact,…
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Apr
18th
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The forgotten god | perhekuvaus
Ever happened to you that you wanna show off? Nah, I bet it hasn’t if you have even an ounce of Finnish blood. I don’t have the smallest drop. And so when meeting this boy I liked, I wanted to show off and started telling him how I tended to our dog lady when she was giving birth to her lil ones. And how the last puppy was born dead. (Come to think of it, I am not very certain…
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Apr
15th
Apr 15th | Lapsikuvaus, perhekuvaus, Mixtape Monday, Vauvakuvaus, raskausajankuvaus | Leave a comment
Mixtape Monday: They’ve got it all | perhekuvaus
Past weekend we watched with my lil ones the Princess and the Frog once more – I love the jazz flavor – I enjoyed it tremendously. Oh, and it’s funny too. Spoiler alert… if you have yet to watch it, beware spoilers ahead. Half way through the movie there is a song where Tiana, prince Naveen and the alligator Louis all sing about what is going to happen when they become human again. It’s a song about dreams,…
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Apr
13th
A common toxic thought that prevents you from loving your photos
The one sentence I hear most often from my clients is: “Nobody can take a good photo of me.” That’s a lie. First of all, you can’t say nobody until you’ve made all of the over 7 billion people to push a shutter with you in front of the camera. All you can say is: “So far no one has taken a good photo of me.” And that’s likely not true either. Because surely there are good photos of you….
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Apr
12th
Apr 12th | Lapsikuvaus, perhekuvaus, Personal projects and travel, Photography, video and inspiration, Vauvakuvaus, raskausajankuvaus | Leave a comment
3 musts to mark in your calendar this spring | perhekuvaus
Lapsimessut 2013 26.-28.4.2013 Back and forth, I was swinging between the desire to participate and the desire to have a long warm sunny weekend (if Mother Nature grants us spring this year). Because long warm, sunny and lazy weekends filled with love are always in shortage, aren’t they? And then a quick decision (somewhat detached from my body and soul) was made and I am gonna be in Lapsimessut the stand no. 6e120. This year there are some exciting things…
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Tagged äitienpäivä, lapsimessut, mother's day, perhekuvaus, photography course, Pikku Aurora, valokuvauskurssi
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