chasing the focus

This is Rööm (a.k.a. Riemu) again – now five weeks old, enjoying a beautiful spring evening outside with her mom.

I’ve been making a website for a friend and this image happened as a side product. The evening when this photography session took place in Helsinki-Vantaa airport was very gloomy and dark but I managed to get a couple of decent snaps anyway – and postprocessing helps, too.

This aeroplane was just about to leave from the VIP terminal, carrying Finnish figure skaters :)

Just a comfy sofa and this set – and isn’t life good?!

The animal theme continues…

The basic rule when photographing animals or kids or other subjects smaller than you is to get down on the same level as they are. But of course sometimes you can break that rule, too. Not because you’re too lazy to bend your knees but because you want to express something else with your photo.

This is Moriz in the doggy park. The photo says exactly what he is like, it sort of expresses the essence of this little sweet pooch :)

May I present to you – this is Rööm. She’s an Estonian horse, a beautiful small mare, 5 days old in these pictures. Her name is Estonian and means Joy (Riemu in Finnish).

The proud mom is a bit protective and with all the little people in the riding school there was no other option than trying to catch a couple of frames in bad conditions – but they came out allright anyway, considering. I’m hoping to get more pictures, better ones, some other day!

Clicking any picture takes you into my horse picture gallery.

I’ve been sort of hibernating and so has my camera. But today was a warm, beautiful sunny Saturday. For once the glorious weather came in the weekend! So I took my camera and went out. I didn’t go outside our own gate and still managed to find many delightful things! (Click an image to go into the original gallery)

Yes, the winter has been hard. Long, cold and hard. And it shows in the things that come out when the snow finally melts.

But the bikes have been deported from the greenhouse where they spend the winter. Hubby has started making room for potatoes and other growing stuff.

It’s finally warm enough for the pooches to be outside without their wooly sweaters. They love the sun and the warmth :)

And they shed……..

There’s still a lot of snow left so I had to do some shovelling to get where I wanted to…

…but it was worth the effort because I found these

and these

and these!

Gotta love it, don’t you think? :)

Pepe’s birthday was also my nameday. My sweet husband brought me these beautiful tulips. Is there another function to flowers except using them for photography? I took this photo handheld in the normal living room evening light using the full aperture of my 50 mm f1.8 lens. I really like how it turned out!

Today I actually pressed the shutter a couple of times. To be honest, I had to look for a while before I managed to locate my 50 mm lens… But the occasion was this handsome boy who turned four years old today :)