Fazer and Juoksija magazine

Some recent images of mine used in magazines - a photo of sea buckthorn in running magazine "Juoksija" and an image of a cute couple in Fazer's "F" magazine.

I've had a pretty busy weekend - first at 'Lapsimessut' child expo on Friday - I was photographing for Kids Factory but also got to talk to so many wonderful people and met lots of friends. And Enja had the time of her life - I thought that we'll probably be there for a couple of hours but spent the whole day there from 10am to 5.30pm. So to everyone we met - thank you and it was really nice to see you all :).

At Kids Factory

:). Our days at Kids Factory :).

Behance portfolio

I'm now on Behance! My gallery can be found here http://be.net/Elina_Manninen, you can have a look at my work there :).

Breakfast

It's Friday and I think I'm heading home soon, but here's a few photos I've been working with this week. All shot with natural light, with backlight (which I love). Two small reflectors on front and camera on tripod. I love to photograph people, but I also love photographing food (hih maybe because usually I get to eat it afterwards... ).

Pregnancy fitness

These are from a recent pregnancy fitness shoot that I did for all the different stock agencies that I photograph for (can be found for example from Shutterstock & Kuvapankki.org).

Yesterday I got my hubby home from the Sahara - and he was fine. I think he had 2 little blisters in his feet after the whole Marathon des Sables... but I think I will see his photos of other people's feet later and they don't look that cute :).

Big workday in Salo on Sunday with my sister - and I just realized it's already Thursday :). I think in my week i have a Monday. Then I have a Friday usually. And then Monday again. When did the weeks start to going that fast or am I just getting old (hih and quicker than before :) ). Will share more about that project when the time is right :).

Summer dress

Spring is coming! The cutest dress, made by my mum. Our Sunday fun with Enja (who I had to bribe to be my model for 5 minutes :) ).

Kansallinen etätyöpäivä

Kansallinen etätyöpäivä is again on the 21st of September, read more here. Photos by me.

Tomorrow we are off to Turku to check out the location for a shoot that we are doing next weekend. But more of that later :). Now I'm just enjoying the sunshine that I see (behind the window glass) and editing. And chatting with friends at the office :).

ilona & puutarha

One of my favourite images that I have in my stock collection is this :). This time it was published in ilona & puutarha (Iltalehti). Hmm I think I miss summer...please come soon. It's still been snowing in Helsinki can you believe...

Jyri my husband is still in the Sahara desert running the Marathon des Sables. They had the longest leg yesterday (about 81km) and in those conditions it took Jyri about 17 hours to complete (if I calculated correctly :) ). I woke up at about 3.30am to watch him come to the finish line - there's a webcam on so it's pretty cool to see them come - and this time time appear from complete darkness with their headlights on. He looked ok and happy so good! I think today he can rest (since some competitors are only arriving today...) and then the final day is only 15km to finish off the whole thing.

On Friday there's another Silo Brainstorm, this time in Tampere - this time without Jyri and without me. But here's a few photos of the boys doing hard thinking :) https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.280356302045478.67541.173515059396270&type=1

Pixta.jp

Happy Easter to everyone! I will have a massive 4 day break and will be back after then :). During that time I will be following Jyri's Sahara run here http://www.darbaroud.com/index.php?lang=en and eat lots of Easter food.

Starting from today my whole stock photo library will also be available in Japan! A long process this as well, first me organising my files and sending them to Pixta, and then they had a huge job keywording every photo again in Japanese! But now they are there and looking good :).

Spring sessions - families and children

Spring is coming (at least it should be, doesn't really look like it when I look outside though...). I've been working with my portfolio, new site and everything else all winter and now it feels like I've almost done the hard work :). Currently I have been doing also commercial shoots but I love to do child and family sessions and always want to offer them to my clients. My new price list is coming out in the beginning of June so during April and May you can still book all the child and family sessions with my current prices!

Send me an email or give me a ring :)

Confirmation portraits

Almost spring, but we still have lots of snow...which we are getting even more as I speak :). It's been a nice and relaxing day today - client meeting in the morning in Mäkelänrinne, so after that I just had to have a swim (with my sister). Then lunch and oops it's already 2pm.

Also, today my husband flew to Paris where he'll stay for two days and then he is off to the Sahara desert to do the Marathon des Sables for the next seven days. I would so love to be there too and photograph but not this time.

These images are from a recent confirmation portrait session I had - beautiful winter light and the wet slush on the ground we didn't care about :).