It is a humbling experience to have suddenly thousands and thousands of readers daily taking a peek at your thoughts. Happened to me last week, when WP posted my “Deathwatch” on their front page. I mean, I’m used to having people viewing my images, but not my words so much. They had about a million postings to choose from …
It’s been quite an experience. My two principal clients Iltalehti and Aamulehti jumped on the opportunity of using the Livefeed from here and it has so far generated an audience of several thousand people. Commenting has been really scarce — but then again that’s Finland, it’s just not part of the culture to comment (unless …
Last night I came to the hotel and opened a good bottle of wine. Felt like I’d earned it; exhausted but flying: everything just came together in the end. I was so happy. Fast transmission, no hickups really, workflow getting better and better, faster and faster. For instance; before I shot the image above (the winner of 100m dash …
This is something I have been working on for a quite a long time and now it’s time to put it into a real field test. Not that the actual technique is so complicated, but it’s been interesting trying to build the workflow so that it is rock solid and easy to use in a hurry and under pressure. What …
The best benefit of teaching IMHO is the fact that you learn yourself so much. And when trying to pass this information further, one naturally tries to formulate one’s thoughts as clearly as one can. Doing linear storytelling thru images — and trying to teach it — I have come up with a half a dozen rules — or call …
I had planned to continue my post on the “suicide of the print”, but due to some change of circumstances I save that for a later day. I just have to add that thank God I made my presentation that day and not later: the photographers I was addressing just swept the table in our POY two days later. Seven …
I had thought of writing a funny piece about all the things one should NOT do in the olympics, but I decided to let it pass. Somehow it is drifting into the past already. I promise to do it some later date, in some other context. Instead I thought I take a quick look at our (Finnish) media and the coverage of …
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 …