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Casting call for YO-LAKKI kuvaus! – Niki Strbian Valokuvaus

January 28, 2010

You would not believe it, but May is knocking on our door. Ok, maybe not just yet, but we will hardly breath-in, breath-out (twice) and it will be time to take this year’s high school graduates’ photos.

Become part of my yo-lakki kuvaus campaign.

I am looking for 3 girls and 3 guys who will graduate from high school this spring and want to participate on my campaign. You can get involved on several levels. Everything is free and at some stages you can actually make money. :) For start, however, I would take your portraits. There is only one condition, you and your parents must sign a model release allowing me to use your photos during the campaign. Oh, and English is an advantage, but not a must. Kyllä puhumme suomeakin. :)

You will receive your free portraits, min. 5 photos, in digital format on CD (value of 500€).

This offer expires as soon as I have my 6 models, so don’t wait up. Hora ruit. (Time runs.) Call or email me latest on Feb, the 14th.

0400-358990 or niki@nikistrbian.com


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How is your handwriting? – Niki Strbian Valokuvaus

January 28, 2010

Pour me a drop of truth. It doesn’t have to be a whole glass. How is your handwriting? Getting worse with every email and Word document you write? With every letter you don’t write? I just finished reading a thick, thick book of correspondence between two Czech actors and humanists, Jan Werich and Jiri Voskovec, also known as V+W. And the great amount of letters that crossed Atlantic (since one of them lived in communistic Czechoslovakia and the other in the US) made me wonder… Would it be different for them if Internet was existing? Would they use the actual paper and pen so much? How many letters to my friends have I written lately… gosh, none, I don’t even have time to write emails. I don’t fancy that my friends store and back up my emails, but I think, I hope, they do keep the occasional letter I write – while my hand is in a great pain from such weird thing I want it to do. My handwriting got really bad over the years and it was not good to start with either…. I had a flash of geniality yesterday and found this www.fontgarden.com. Lifesaver! Before your handwriting gets real illegible, get it recorded in 010010111000. Or just download any of the cool free fonts they already have and pretend it’s yours. You can choose among big names’ handwriting – fancy a Franz Kafka? Marilyn Monroe? :) And while you are at it, enjoy the quotes. Some of them are real gems. Here my choice for the day:

And that’s why we don’t have any TV :D

Oh and while my lil ones cannot write yet, they can do this. Show me that with your mouse, ha!

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What we do on a boring day – Niki Strbian Lapsikuvaus

January 26, 2010

My lil son has a running nose, a symptom of the very first flu we might be getting during the fall ’09/winter ’10 period. Isn’t that cool that the viruses are only catching up with us now. Anyways, since he is really sensitive to cold temperatures + the running nose, I was not going to drag him out in today’s -18 Celsius. Our lil miss also stayed at home from daycare. What do we do on a boring day like that, when there is sunshine outside, kids sledging behind our house, but we must stay in?

However strange it sounds, we change bed sheets. Kids absolutely love it! They always have a blast with all the hiding, dragging sheets around the house, building tunnels, jumping, you name it! I bet tomorrow they will want to do it again :) I don’t mind, because our bedroom has wonderful light (and kids know that changing beds also means a little photofun for mommy).

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Smile, smile, smile – Niki Strbian Valokuvaus

January 18, 2010

For real! Is your day a little low despite the upturn of weather? Grab a cup of whatever you prefer and watch this, a smile guaranteed!

(It’s all about love, humanity, sadness, happiness, life…)

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Proved again – the blue eyes gene is stronger than the brown eyes gene :) – Niki Strbian Perhekuvaus

January 17, 2010

Yep, science has it that statistically (I know!) if one parent has blue eyes and the other has dark eyes, more of their kids will have dark than blue eyes. We all know that. But today I met yet another proof that this is not always true in Finland. And my proof is a one year old boy who smiled the moment I entered the door.

To the immediate sympathies I felt for the whole family added the fact that the parents went couple of years ago skiing to a ski resort located just few kilometers from my husband’s hometown in Slovakia. The world really is a small place… Despite the weather forecast promising sun, we got windy and cold weather with clouds hanging so low, they didn’t allow for much light. But the parents were sports about it and the little guy was a trooper, so we managed to take pics outside as well. I hope you will enjoy your sneak peek, more is coming very very very very very very very soon. :)

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Zuzka and her horse – Niki Strbian Valokuvaus

January 15, 2010

After family Xmas in Slovakia that we enjoyed despite the weird and mountains unlike weather (mud, + temperatures and really cold and humid wind – whilst in Finland the winter wonderland has not only continued but got better all the time) we were to travel back home. My husband’s family lives 5 hours by train + 1 hour by car from the nearest airport which hosts flights from Helsinki. You can imagine the fun of traveling such distance with 2 kids under 5. This time we got lucky, our friends were going by car, so we didn’t have to endure the train, just 4 hours in car. And we got to play with cats in their house and I even had a moment to photograph the lady of the house with her new horse.

What a pleasure to see how a human and a horse seek mutual connection. After knowing each other for just a week or so, they were still very conscious around each other and yet Zuzka managed to earn his trust even for me (and the weird black big thing – my camera). They were after training and already in this spot when I arrived. More than ankle deep mud and fingers-crippling wind made me fear I was going to trip and destroy my Nikon toys, but luckily that didn’t happen :) I hope you will enjoy your photos, Zuzka. Thank you for everything!

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Meet me in my gallery hall :) – Niki Strbian Valokuvaus

January 9, 2010

As you read in my post before Xmas, I am very proud to have my photos exhibited at the Wayne’s Coffee on Aleksanterinkatu. Aleksanterinkatu is a street in the very center of Helsinki, known not only for high-end shopping but also for the very comfortable fact of being heated, incl. the pavements. And in winters like we have now – oikein kunnon talvi – it’s a blessing to have a heated pavement, pretty much the only place to wear your high heel boots in Finnish winter (your sexy, lined with fur and swore upon being waterproof, yet totally impractical, wet toes freezing in 5 minutes high heel boots).

Ok, enough of the blabbing editorial today, let’s cut it short. The essence of what I am trying to say is: meet me (on high heels or not) in Wayne’s Coffee on Monday 11th of Jan after 19:00 for a coffee and a chat. Beware the crowds! :)

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