Kiira Korpi
Here we are at the Plan Gaala 2012, Barona Areena Espoo.
“Because I’m A Girl” is just one of the many Plan campaigns to provide funding and resources to support children living in the poorest and most deprived conditions worldwide.
This year we had a fantastic selection of Finland’s top figure skaters performing to live accompaniment from some of the most recognised musicians in the country.
Here we have Joe Davidow, an American composer/film director who has lived and worked in Europe since the 1970′s. Joe has been living in Finland since 1978.
Just a very quick selection from a shoot with my friend Ariana, a singer/songwriter currently living in New York City.
We had some real good fun with this shoot. Laughing all the way.
As it it should be.
What a great weekend we had over at the Barona Areena for the Finnish Synchronised Skating Nationals 2012. Despite having major issues with software/laptop and the death of the focus system on my D3, the atmosphere was wonderful. I haven’t seen a crowd that big and loud for a long while! Well done folks!
What a weekend! A long weekend starting from the 9.2.2012 and finishing just yesterday 12.2.2012. We were over at the Valtti Areena, Tikkurila in Vantaa for this event. This was my first Nordic Championships and I hope very much that it is not the only one.
Above: Henna Lindholm & Ossi Kanervo
Here we are again. Time has eluded me once more as it sincerely doesn’t feel like a whole year has passed since the previous nationals.
This year we are at Hakametsän ice hall in Tampere.
Here is Peter Lindholm, Director and movie maker from Sweden. If my memory serves me correctly, this is the most rapidly completed shoot I have ever experienced. The initial location was instantly stone walled due to a very rare enforcement of private property law, not something that one encounters very much in Finland at all, so we headed out into the street and shot some very basic portraits under daylight.
Satu & Henri
Here we have a wedding portrait session from well outside of the usual boxes. Our lovely couple, Satu and Henri wished to have something that resembled the very stern, ‘prim and proper portraits’ found in the early twentieth century.
The summer has faded away in the rear view and now it’s time to open the season of figure skating with Finlandia Trophy 2011 at the Valtti Areena, Tikkurila.
It was a little strange to have both Kiira Korpi and Laura Lepistö absent from the event, but we did have Alisa Mikonsaari, Juulia Turkkila, Minna Parviainen, Ari-Pekka Nurmenkari, Valtter Virtanen, Julian Lagus, Olesia and Max, Henna and Ossi all flying the flag for Finland.
It was a pleasure to see Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir skate too, they are simply excellent.
All in all, a fantastic weekend and so nice to see all the friends I don’t see too much of during the summer.
I’ve been living in Finland since November 2006 and never been to Lapland, this fact was seen as a oddity to my good friend, esteemed colleague and fellow photographer – Jouni Ranta. So, a little while back, Jouni kindly asked me to accompany him on a 10 day trip to his cabin in Kaukonen, way, way up north.
