After a windy Saturday, the dawn on Sunday was beautiful. This photo is from our summer place. Without our kids waking up so early, I would never get to see these moments. So after all there are positive things from them waking up so early 🙂
Summer creatures in September
Yesterday we received a beautiful, warm and sunny afternoon. It seemed like the nature had woken up to a summer day. The whole yard was littered with flies, bees, grasshoppers, butterflies and other creatures of summer.
The air was filled with grasshopper sound. And by being patient (not one of my strong points), I was able to spot a few of them: Continue reading
Water drop macros
We had a proper autumn storm on Friday night with rain and wind. After rain, on Saturday morning, it was a perfect time to shoot some macros.
The water drops can act like windows to a new world: Continue reading
Autumn is coming…
Now there is no way to ignore it, autumn is coming. The weather is getting colder and rainier, days are getting shorter and the trees are starting to drop their leaves. I really love some parts of autumn, like this morning. It was just beautiful: sunshine after heavy rain. I think the above shot resembles the first sign of autumn on a summery green lawn. Continue reading
Surly Karate Monkey bicycle for sale
I am putting my Surly Karate Monkey singlespeed 29er for sale. Long story short: I need a bike that I can ride 180km after a 3,9km swim and still run after that for about 40km…
This is a perfect bike for commuting in the Finnish weather and it can be used for mountain biking as well. A true all-rounder!
Some more pics of the ride: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2012-09-09+Surly+Karate+Monkey+for+sale/
If you are interested in the bike, please check out: http://www.fillaritori.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=11431 for full specs, price and contact details.
After rain macros
To celebrate 1st of September, nature greeted us with an autumn storm last night. Today there was nothing but wet nature to remind us from the storm. I really like to go out after rain to shoot macros. I packed Iisa in to the Deuter backpack, gave Oona and Ode boxes to collect some blueberries into and headed into the woods nearby. It was a nice morning in nature with the kids. We even spotted a snail saying the it will be sunshine tomorrow: Continue reading
The girls
We have had some fairly warm days and we have been enjoying outside. Above Iisa is taking her first sessions on a skateboard.
Oona doing gymnastics on our “carpet beating place”: Continue reading
Wedding of Jenni and Heikki
Jenni and Heikki got married 25.8.2010 in a beautiful summer weather. The whole day was just like the newly married couple: happy, warm and joyful!
Oona had the honor of being a bridesmaid: Continue reading
Sibling portraits of the kids
Today was the first rainy day for a while, so we decided to stay in and take some sibling portraits. I think that the above photo shows our kids at their best: laughing and enjoying life!
Below a few of my favorites: Continue reading
Iisa peeking
This photo is from today at the park. Iisa was inside this train and I was sitting on top of it. She looked out of the window and I could imagine her thinking: “Is there somebody under the train?”
For tech geeks:
This is shot with Nikkor 50/1.4. In lightroom it has received a little more after work compared to my normal shots: added some clarity, reduced saturation and added some vignetting.