Experimental photography

This is an edited shot of a reflection in a window with a mosquito net.
I think it's pretty cool, especially with these colours. The funny thing is, that the original was more than horrifying.

Sunrise in a concrete box

My Little Sister

The Light of the Night

I don't live in a fancy, old part of the town, but I'm okay with that. One can find beauty anywhere, it's not even necessary to look very hard. However, it is necessary to see. That's a skill, too.

I wonder what it might be like to live in a huge city, in a real concrete jungle... I'm used to having the colour green around me. Well... there are parks in big cities, too. And in the end there always is the green traffic light!

Black-and-White

Lately I've been very much into black-and-white photography.

Here's the list of the photographers I like:

• Sebastião Salgado
• Henri Cartier-Bresson
• Don McCullin
• Manuel Alvarez Bravo
• Berenice Abbot
• Araki
• Walker Evans
• Man Ray
• Edward Steichen

I especially like Salgado, particularly this photograph of his:

Bati refugee camp, Ethiopia, 1984. ©Sebastião Salgado

For some reason I simply cannot get enough of this photograph. The light is absolutely amazing!

Self-portrait

This self-portrait is designed to show my true nature. :)

Jerusalem

Today, exactly 60 years ago Jerusalem became the capital of Israel.

Tripoddddd

I wants something liek this, srsly :3

...a tripod for my Canon would be nice.

It just cannot be helped that my hands shake sometimes when I take photos.

Trippppoooooodddddd!!!! :3

I wants it. =^w^=

A bit on the future projects...

I think it'd be nice to work on some real photo projects as soon as I get through all the schoolwork that is currently keeping me and my camera apart, which explains why the majority of the photos I have published in my blog so far are from the archives.

During the Winter Holiday in February I'm thinking of 'recruiting' my kid sis as a model and trying something vintage. It the weather will be good, I'd like to have some countryside winter photos taken.

As for future-future projects, I'm planning on shooting a some sort of 'jewelry ad' series of photos just for fun during the summer holiday. Something like 'Pearls in the Woods'. :D

Well, and I think I could also use child labour and have a session with my kid sis (again) and my cousin together out in the nature. 'The Spirits of the Forests' sort of thing. I'm very fond of magical, fairy tale -like photos. And GIMPing them to look old is a huge part of all the fun.

Memories

Old memories, old photos...

Like the snowflakes that the spring warmth melts, but which come back every November in shapes and sizes different from before, but just as recognizable and precious. Almost unchanged, just adapted to who you have become during the past sunny months.

And so you miss the times when you could ride a giraffe whenever you want to. Maybe it's my approaching 18th birthday that makes me turn back for a moment and stare in amazement at things I thought I didn't have.

...and the present is slipping into the past too. Although the time is just like Tiziano Terzani wrote: a river, where the past, the present and the future coexist simultaneously.

Missing the spring delusion of London

It's been 9 months since I visited London. Such a long time, it's almost unbelievable.

Now it feels like it all was just a beautiful, beautiful, surreal dream. Me? In London? Makes a good joke.

I miss London. It stole my heart. The best thing about a city that big is that there you don't have to belong anywhere at all or you can belong everywhere if you want to. That's how I felt.

The memory is like a fragile spring flower in the middle of winter.

Night in Turku

White sky, pink sky

White sky in the winter looks particularly depressing. There in no contrast and everything looks like a black-and-white image without black in it. A thick, white blanket of cloud falls on the earth and brings the sky too close. It makes the sky loose its magic.

That's why at a time like this I prefer to look at it through colour filter and see it, let's say, this way:

Because there is almost no direct light, it becomes hard to make photos look 'alive', the light that comes through the clouds flattens them.

This looks much better. :)

Even though the blue colour is very pale, it's enough to create a contrast with the white snow on the twigs. This makes the image more complete and satisfying at least from the point of view of the colour balance.

(Someone's trying to act all professional.)

Autumn Sun

Soft morning colours are the most beautiful. I never get tired of photographing the sky. No one seems to get. And I know why. That's all because we see ourselves in the sky, it is very similar to humans in the way it changes moods, the way it looks different every single day.

Last Warm Days

I went hunting for some beautiful local sceneries one afternoon in mid-autumn. Unlike planned, I didn't reach the brightly coloured birch and hawthorne islands, but instead got stuck in a fine pine wood just a few paces away from our house.

I like autumn. The sky is wonderfully photogenic - very very thin, watery-blue like when the snow just starts melting.

Where I live

On one of the warm days of the late spring, those days when the sky is like a blue balloon blown to its fullest, I headed to the centre with my more than modest Canon digital camera. I tried to act all professional, but my self-importance was instantly blown up as I stepped off the bus right into a crowd of German tourists. No matter how I tried to work myself into the 'professional mood', feeling the locals' despising gazes on me I took the photos swiftly and half-secretly, as if it was illegal, and then hurried to hide inside the library nearby.

On the photo - Turku Cathedral