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Rain showers (a.k.a. what happens with your session if it rains)
Always the big question, especially in Finland. What happens if it rains? Are we rescheduling the session? Moving it indoors? Or … Allow me first few facts. Helsinki scores as the no. 1 coldest city in Europe with average annual temperature of 5 degrees Celsius and that goes hand in hand with the gold medal in number of days with snow (101 white days on average, people, and you wonder why I occasionally long to move to Africa?). Helsinki is…
There is no shortage here for love | perhekuvaus
Thanx to my lovely client / friend / muse Marija I met Ullis from minityyli.fi – first in Lapsimessut, where I immediately got to like this lady with huge kind eyes and a radiant smile, and then for her family photoshoot, after an excited sparkling-with-ideas email conversation. And I genuinly like Ullis’ family as well – her children most reminded me of happy tiny pixies, being perfect and up for anything fun. And her husband … well, there is one…
About jumpballs and being considerate | lapsikuvaus
“Oh that is so nice of you,” I replied relieved when my client announced that they want to shoot the session on the beach next to my house in order to save me time I would have spent on traveling (and which I can instead spend with my kids reading and playing). How very considerate! When I hung up the phone I realized that, indeed, it’s been a while since I photographed anything on that beach. It’s right behind our…
Even the wisest of men started as laughing toddlers | lapsikuvaus
Words for today: Thank you L, J and K for being so awesome (and VIP). Big hugs and love …. and happy Tuesday to all of you!
Mixtape Monday: About the best time of the day | Perhekuvaus
Clients always ask what is the best time of the day for a photo session. In Finland it much depends on another time – the time of the year. I am an all-natural-light photographer, so in winter, I prefer to start shooting between 10am and 1pm. Right now with the wondrous summer white nights any time of the day is fine. But it’s not all up to me as a photographer, you see. The most important people on the set…
The testing story | Life Stories
Oooh I have been long out of the game we have with my equally camera-addicted sisters, but now I am back. Back in the game. And the rules are … Some amazing friends photographers from around the globe have taken the vows to photograph more often in normal daily situations. And we shall post these life stories on our blogs – last Friday of each month. (At the end of this post is a link to another photographer who participated…
Top mistakes of photographing in summer grass | Lapsikuvaus
Summer is here and everything around is fresh and beautiful. All that green beauty just lurks you outdoors: “Come, take some images, come…” And rightly so! On top of that in Finland (and other nordic countries) this weekend will be loads of picture taking – because it’s the Midsummer celebration (Juhannus) and every proper citizen of Finland is out there on a cottage, enjoying sauna, swimming and fishing in a nearby lake, an occasional beer and 3G connection on a…
5 quotes that helped me decide to live my dream
After 20 years in the industry of logistics, 15 years working for a global company, I have today delivered my last presentation and became, as of this very moment, a full time photographer. I loved my career, loved flying all around the globe, loved completing interesting and difficult projects, loved working with my colleagues, because they are passionate, dedicated, bright, funny and all-in-all wonderful people. Perhaps I will miss them the most. But now it’s time to live my dream….
Mixtape Monday: About my birthday
Now, how do I feel in this fine morning? Same same. No different than any other day. A little melancholic, yes, but that only lasted till S-sized monsters started their first morning fight. And I want to count my blessings. Health. Family. Living my dreams. Feeling scared, all the time, about the decision (because it makes you try more). Feeling free and happy (because it makes you smile more). Friends! Amazing clients (because they enable the living the dream part)….
Level of energy: high | Lapsikuvaus
I do love working with all children but I in particular enjoy working with high-level energy bunnies … because I was such a Duracell bunny myself as a child (and, though I think I have calmed down quite a bit, my mum still thinks that I am a high-level energy creature … go figure!). When me and the super-gifted make-up artist Anne walked into the home-turned-gallery of these little three energy-balls, it was clear this was not going to be…