I have not been photographing very actively recently. I have some ideas about "the great fall photograph" but practical deeds are missing totally. And like all Canon photographers, I'm also waiting for the new Canon 5D Mark II...

I'm still developing pictures that shot during the summer. This time I found a picture that I took at end of July:



We were at a cabin by lake Saimaa. During the evening we had the opportinity to go and observe some local fishermans at work. The atmosphere was just great. Lake was calm, it was a warm evening, sun was setting, The only problem was that I had made a grand mistake while selecting lenses. I had way too short lens with me, but luckily we could get rather close so I was able to take this shot.


I think I also found the reason for the link problem. I fixed all the previous posts and all pictures should now be visible.

I have recently used a new kind of image links and there seems to be a lot of problems with those. Only strange thing is that my new portfolio image links seem to work although they are from the same place...

I try to fix the links soon.

Anyway I added again one picture more to the "1950's Apartment House" portfolio.

I added a third image to my "1950's Apartment House" portfolio with some doubts.

I also took a glance to my "not processed summer archives" and had enough time to process few images more. Here is one:

I saw these nice patterns under a traffic circle in Mikkeli.

I have not been able to look closer hardly any of the pictures that I have taken during the summer. Today I found this yet another kind of gothic tree shot from Vuohensaari area from my summer archives.

I also added a second photo to the "1950's Apartment House" portfolio.

One of the first thoughts when we moved to our current flat, an apartment house build in the 1950's, was to create a portfolio of the house. Most common parts of the building are still pretty much like they were where originally, or at least I think so. There is just something mystic about the old attic and cellar of the house. Almost from the start I decided to take all the photographs with an old camera also, my Pentax ME. I only have one lens for it, 50mm f1.7 kit lens, so all photographs has been taken with it.

I have now taken three rolls of film mainly for this portfolio. This week I for the first time scanned the negatives and there is still some fine tuning to be done. I'll be adding images to this page as I get them ready.

Old Chair at the Attic:

I found this old chair laying around in the attic. Somehow the simplicity got to my eye and I took a few pictures of it. Taken with Kodak Professional BW400CN film.

Stairs:

There is no elevator in the house, so stairs have become familiar... Closeup from the stairs close to street door. 

This photo is from the basement. There are individual storage rooms for all the flats. All nicely locked with a padlock. I basically like the image very much but I have a problem. I already strongly desaturated the colors of this image, but still I'm not convinced that it fits to the same portfolio with the two other images. This is the first time that I'm trying to create some kind of portfolio and I think it is very important that all the images in the portfolio really fit together. Well, lets see how it continues.

Rocking Chair: 

This photo is also from the attic.  I found this old rocking chair abandoned in the corner. I made multiple exposures of the chair and this one is my favorite. I gave the chair a little swing just before taking this photo.