As I've done the last two years before, I've collected my favourite photographs from this ending year of 2012. It includes more colour than before, but also some black and white photography as I've started to find my own style in fine art direction of photography. In this collection, I have photos from Australia, Indonesia, Italy, Paris and Finland. So, even though it feels like I had relatively little time for shooting this year compared to last year, I still managed to visit a few amazing locations and get some new material.  'Untitled' - Blue Mountains, Australia - February 2012 I also had my first two photography exhibitions here in Helsinki (' A Glimpse Of The World' and ' Shades'), so that was a big challenge as well as a place of learning for me. I'm happy I managed to do the exhibitions and we'll see what happens next year in that regard. Hopefully I still continue to learn and develop next year. There's some new shooting locations already in plans. One of my dream places is becoming true when I get to visit Iceland next July. Really, really looking forward to that! Happy new year everyone! Here's my chosen photos.  'A Turn' - Castelluccio, Italy - July 2012  'Tvelve Apostles Sunset' - Port Campbell, Australia - February 2012  'Indonesian Sunset' - Gili Islands, Indonesia - February 2012  'Beach' - Port Campbell, Australia - February 2012  'Winter Days in Paris' - Paris, France - December 2012  'Traces' - Kontiolahti, Finland - December 2012  'Untitled' - Gili Islands, Indonesia - February 2012  'Untitled' - Umbria, Italy - July 2012  'Misty' - Blue Mountains, Australia - February 2012  'Untitled' - Port Campbell, Australia - February 2012  'Untitled' - Umbria, Italy - July 2012  'Untitled' - Umbria, Italy - July 2012  'Sunset Over Assisi' - Assisi, Italy - July 2012  'Untitled' - Blue Mountains, Australia - February 2012
I was kindly asked by two friends (and café owners) to bring in some of my photography and hang them on their café's walls. I named the exhibition 'Shades' and it includes five colour landscapes and four black & white square prints. These landscapes are, yes, from New Zealand, but also one from Bavaria, Germany and one from Australia. So, from 16.11. onwards you can see some of my photos framed on Kahvila Sävy's walls in Helsinki. It's an awesome, cosy coffeehouse. You are guaranteed to get the best special coffees (double cappuccino being my favourite from them), tasty and fresh croissants and hear some nice tunes from vinyl records. I would definitely recommend visiting, even if not for my photos. Here's three of the nine photos that I got printed in Sävy.  'Below' - Milford Sound, New Zealand 2011  'Endless' - New Zealand 2011  'Sideways' - New Zealand 2011
I started this photoblog about a year ago and one of the first blog posts was a look back to the year 2010 with sort of a 'Best of' photo selection. So, I thought about doing the same this year as well, and although I feel very hesitant about making any kinds of 'Best of' lists, I think I could look at this as a flashback or a quick coverage for the past year of 2011. I love visiting new places and countries, so even just by those standards, the last year was amazing. I got to see a very very snowy winter and a hot summer (by our standards, that is) in my homeland, Finland, but I also had the chance to see The Alps in Engelberg, Switzerland, as well as the Bavarian region and German Alps in Garmich-Partenkirchen, Germany. I ended shooting some weddings, too, which added different kind of experience to my photography. On top of everything, I ended up moving to Sydney, Australia and also fulfilled one of my travelling dreams by touring a bit around New Zealand. So all in all, amazing places and amazing opportunities for improving my photography and I think I ended up getting couple of nice shots here and there. I don't want to view these images as the top selections for the year, but rather as a photography collection that I see covering my year of 2011 pretty well and the way I personally see it. All I can say is: The World Is Beautiful. Here we go, the chosen 11 photos from the year 2011. Let this be a great start for the photo-rich year of 2012.  White Wind - Swiss Alps  Sunset Surfers - Crowdy Head, Australia.  Green Glow - Bavaria, Germany.  Reflection - Lake Wakatipu, New Zealand.  Lake sunset - North Carelia, Finland.  Harbour Bridge - Sydney, Australia.  Empty Seats - Airport pub, somewhere.  Cathedral Cove, New Zealand.  Dark Forests - Bavaria, Germany.  The Catlins, New Zealand.  Abel Tasman National Park, New Zealand.
It's getting warmer in Helsinki and the days are getting longer. We went to do some landscape shooting with other amateur photographers this past weekend and here's a couple of photos I took. The location was the Suomenlinna Sea Fortress, situated on a group of islands off Helsinki. Established Finnish landscape photographer Mikael Rantalainen, who is specialized in winter landscapes, was instructing us so we got to see how an experienced photographer goes on with his outdoor shootings.
I got further in going through my Svalbard photos from last summer. I finally got going with my intentions of post processing and turning some of the photos into black & white, grayscale tone. More of these photos in my Behance projects Svalbard in Greyscale pt.1, pt.2 and pt.3. There's some samples on my Facebook page here.
So, I had a chance to go to Switzerland for the first time in my life and see The Alps. To be more precise, we stayed for four days in the lovely mountain village called Engelberg. I did skiing every day we stayed there and the highest slope started from the top of the Mountain Titlis (3,238m). I had my camera and some lenses in my bag all the time so did some shooting as well, naturally. I posted two projects, colour and black&white, to my Behance portfolio and to Facebook as well, if you're up to getting a closer look. Here's some views from The Alps.
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