I am so late with posting all the images I have been taking lately, so brace yourselves, the blog shall be flooded in the next few days with a lot of new cool stuff. Come back daily

About two weeks ago my friend photographer Derek Latham asked me if I would like to take portraits of him and his colleague, Anna Jarske. Sure, any time, I answered. As it turned out, any time was not good enough, it had to be soon and on a specific day as well. But I love demanding people and was happy to sail my whole family over to the island of Suomenlinna to take portraits of Anna and Derek, two great wedding photograhers. I left my hubby bewildered since I was selling it to him as a “family trip and quality time together” and suddenly I was leaving him with our two angels to do daddy magic and hopped and skipped away with a camera around my neck. Not a good sign for the family trip, as he knows all too well.

After we finished shooting, Derek and Anna were kind enough to return the favore and took awesome photos of me and my family. I have NO photos of me and my kids. So it made me all teary and sentimental. But of course, them shooting us went well, because kids and hubby were all thrilled to have me back so we looked like a fairly happy family. But as it is with photographers, neither Derek nor Anna felt really home in front of a camera and I didn’t feel myself either, because I think they are really good photographers. I have to admit, I was quite nervous. Judge the results yourselves…

Derek is supposed to have a mild arachnophobia… too bad I made him lay in the grass. For a long time too… I am a bad bad girl…