Time is of the essence, when working in a timezone which is ten hours behind your own. In practise this means that if I want to make tomorrows paper, all my images have to be in by 14.oo at the latest local time. When competitions end about that time over here, you are in a hurry — in a big …
For the first week it was pissing rain and you could not shoot anything with an extreme wideangle, as you would have only gotten fog and water on the lens. But it has gotten better. I have had couple of friends already asking for these so here we go. I had a free morning and I decided to shoot …
Yes, don’t tell my boss, but I actually took a day off. Went to Vancouver, walked around the city, did some shopping, went to the Aquarium… Yes, the aquarium. That is something I always do when travelling if I have a chance. I have a special relationship with anything connected to the sea (I dive, sail, go canoeing and kayaking when ever I have …
Today is the opening day of the games. I finally feel I am getting my bearings so to speak and I’m ready for the days ahead. I shot some ski jumping today, the qualifying round of the normal hill and not very much anything else. Pissing rain for the most part — but for a moment (a very brief …
I started to think yesterday about the previous Olympics I have done, especially about the technology aspect of this profession. And it is amazing how much it has changed. In Salt Lake City — which was very much like these games, as the time difference was against us (if I remember correctly, also ten hours as it …
(UPDATED 24th Jan 2010; see Read More) Two days behind me, this one and two more to go. I was desperate the first day: I mean nothing out of the ordinary. Zero. Nul. Nothing. The only thing maybe worth mentioning was that Gazetta dello Sport (Italy) used three of my images or Carolina Kostner and Valentina Marchei. As …
(UPDATED 19th Jan, 2010; see end) It is this time of the year. POY (Pressimages of the year / Vuoden Lehtikuvat) had a deadline last Friday. I looked at my images, selected some and submitted them. The best image of the year — in MHO — was not of sports: not Kira Korpi, not Tero Pitkämäki, not Saku …
This is something I have been planning for over a year — and it finally came the time to do something about it. What I am talking about is DocImages — multimedia production. Sounds kind of formal, somehow very official,doesn’t it? Well, it isn’t — and it’s actually a very simple concept. Very briefly: I got tired of waiting that there would …
(UPDATED) Almost two in the morning… Just uploaded the first version of the multimedia project I am doing here in the Levi Slalom World Cup. Presently it has three panoramas 360°x180° and each one has a dedicated narration by Tanja Poutiainen describing different sections of the course. It is displayed on MTV3 website and presently the captions are …