My daughter once characterised me as “Dad loves sailing, our dogs and photography… And maybe three people…”
I wouldn’t go so extreme, but there is a grain of truth in that. So it is no big surprise that this site is about sailing (with dogs…) – and photography. The writing is in English as I feel most comfortable writing with it. However, the section on teaching is mainly in Finnish, as it is aimed to my photography and video students — past and present — and they are for the most part Finnish speaking.
Teaching
My present work gives me ample time to spend out at sea and in the nature. But I do teach remotely and during winter I lead intensive hands on courses in both photography and video. Please see the top navigation bar. The courses are in Finnish – or bilingual if necessary.
Please see the menu on the top for details ( in Finnish).
Panoramic Images
Interactive 360°x180° imagery is something I’ve been doing for over a decade now. Initially it was coded by hand in Flash, nowadays it is clean HTML5 and JavaScript. There is a page dedicated to to these images from our sailing trips in the navigation bar.
Below you can see three examples. Two are private harbours belonging to our sailing club and the third one is the cottage of late Tove Jansson in the Pellinge Archipelago.
Please access all the panoramas on the top menu.
Ånsören, a private club harbour west of Hanko.
Skrubbö/Linlandet – a private club harbour near Helsinki.
Tove Janssons summercottage, near the archipelago of Pellinki, east of Helsinki.
You can use the controls under images and move them with the mouse or your finger. I strongly advise you to see them in full screen. Use ESC to return.
Princess Sophie and her crew
Princess Sophie is sailed by her present owners with the shelties Lumi and Saana on the Baltic. Typically we spend up to 100 nights on the boat every year.
There will be a section featuring photographs and stories from these voyages later on. I also keep a real time visual logbook during our sailing days in facebook.
As a professional photographer I am not great fan of social media platforms as they limit the form and format of what you can and cannot do and publish. As well as limiting the people who can see your work. Instagram is the worst in this respect. This is one of the main reasons I design and run this site.
”The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Remembrance of Things PastMarcel Proust
“This is the true joy in life, to be used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, to be a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and that as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live, I rejoice in life for its own sake.
Life is no brief candle to me, it is a sort of splendid torch which I’ve got a hold of for a moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
– George Bernard Shaw –