Anyways...Let's dance!

I was in Helsinki last night with my brother and his wife. We went to see Bon Jovi at the Olympic stadium and it was freaking awesome! My brother and I saw them there two years ago, but we had tickets for the floor (or whatever you call it) and I could barely even see the screens back then (yes, my confession: I'm short). Now we had seats up in the side and we saw the whole thing. 

The stadium was sold out so there was a few others too...

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It was pouring rain by the end of the show, hence all the plastic on people. Thankfully we had a roof over our heads, so we didn't get wet. 

I want to share some of my favorite songs by Bon Jovi (mostly oldies, of course) with you and I hope you'll dance with me. :)

Winter photowalk

VANESSA CARLTON - PARADISE

I went for a long photowalk today and I walked around the Peltolammi-lake that is nearby from where I live. My intentions were to go to this little river and take some long exposure water photos; I had my tripod and everything in my backbag, but then I ended up in totally different place and far away from the stream so I decided to postpone it. Instead I got some shots that I'm pretty excited about.

Note that I have also processed all of these photos to give them more of a vintage look that appeals my eye personally.

In this first photo I gave a long thought for the foreground again. It was pretty easy really, because it's kind of obvious that the shadows lead your eye deeper into the picture. I exposed it this dark on purpose to emphasize the shadows and give it more contrast. It really wasn't this dark yet.

Here I went pretty much down on my knees to get lower perspective and I searched for the peaking sun from behind the tree to get my shot. I think this one turned out really well.

Then I wanted to take some close-ups in the beautiful sunlight before it went away.

I smell squirrals!

Yesterday I read about different kinds of filters and someone wrote about DIY filters and suggested that one could breath onto the lens and get a nice blurry look. So I tried it out, and the rest of my walk from there to my car I kept breathing onto my lens. I fell in love with this look! Very mysterious and dreamy. I just wiped a little hole in the middle with my glove and started shooting.

A panorama photo of the path.

I think this looks pretty ominous. I feel like adding one of those robots from War Of The Worlds above those trees there.

Christmas photography

Home sweet home! I missed my own laptop sooooo much! I hope everyone's Christmas went well. I'm probably going to do a Christmas gift post sometime soon, but for now, here's some photos I took over the Christmas.

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On 26th it was my birthday and we had a horrible snow storm here. Thankfully I got my sister to go with me to the stable. I would have never made it there and back again with my car. She also took some photos of me and Pretti. :)

P.S. This is what is looks in the Tampere downtown at the moment. It's totally nuts out there with the huge piles of snow and the crazy people chasing bargains in the after-Christmas sales.

Winter beauty!

I went back to the beach today and I have a few pretty awesome shots for ya. :)

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I love this kind of a weather. Cold, snowy and the sun shines. I can't think of anything more beautiful.

My school is over for this year and now I get to concentrate on enjoying the holidays (wait, that made it sound like I would have actually concentrated on school before today....). 

Obviously I shouldn't start any kinds of projects because I can't finish them. Like the 24 Christmas Songs -theme. Turns out, it's not too natural for me to post something everyday and I don't like to force myself to post. I doubt this will bother anyone, but just acknowledging it.