
Last week we got enough snow to start the winter for real. Today we were at a friends’ place for a play date. The kids were really enjoying the snow!
http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2012-01-22%20Snow%20fun/

Last week we got enough snow to start the winter for real. Today we were at a friends’ place for a play date. The kids were really enjoying the snow!
http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2012-01-22%20Snow%20fun/
Oona really loves her new gymnastics outfit. She would like to wear it everyday, everywhere. Yesterday we took some ballerina shots with Oona.
Oona decided to get a leaflet (she got from the ballet last year) to check out the latest moves. It was sometimes a little more difficult than it seems at first hand… 🙂
Rest of the ballerina shots: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2012-01-07%20Ballerina%20Oona/?action=slideshow
Yesterday we finally got some snow on the ground. So today it was time to have some downhill fun. Oona and Ode really enjoyed the snow. I tried to get some shots of their joy: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2012-01-03%20Playing%20outside%20in%20the%20snow/
If judged by the look of the first day, this year will be a magnificent year! Today we had -5C and sunshine! What else could you possible hope for at this time of the year? …well…the obvious is of course missing: SNOW
I had my camera along as we went to the local park.
The rest of the photographs: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2012-01-01%20Beautiful%20first%20day%20of%20the%20new%20year/?action=slideshow

12 kids, all 5 years or younger and 12 adults – the ingredients for a perfect new year’s celebration. It was time for our neighborhood traditional New Year party. This time theme was Mexico and the party started with Strawberry Margaritas as seen above.
Of course the evening ended with fireworks 🙂

Happy New Year!!
Some quick morning portraits of the kids. This time looking a little different. A couple of more at: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2011-12-31%20Ringflash%20portraits/?action=slideshow
For tech geeks:
These shots are taken with a Samyang 8mm and a Ray Ringflash adapter. The field of view for the fisheye Samyang is so wide that it shows the ringflash. I think that this creates an interesting frame. I picked this up on the web some years ago and now it just popped into mind, so I thought to give it a try.
Yesterday we had a really quick session with Iisa. She was almost happy for about 5 minutes. The above shot was my favorite from the few picked ones. Rest of the shots are at: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2011-12-27%20Iisa%20and%20Ode/?action=slideshow

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
Some more shots from our christmas card photo shoot: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2011-11-20%20Christmas%20card%20photos/

We had a traditional family Christmas party yesterday. Ode was dressed up and had some wax in his hair so I decided to take some quick portraits. This is the normal Ode expression 🙂
A couple of more shots: http://kansala.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Antti/2011-12-16%20Ode%20potretteja/