Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Ruokalistalla hyvät tavat, www.tapasankari.fi






























Ruokalistalla hyvät tavat - out today! A booklet and blog about good table manners. Together with Sami Garam! We already shot this last autumn and today is the press release. 

Read more on the blog www.tapasankari.fi!

Photographer: me, design & publishing: Kids Factory Oy, Jonna Nisu & Tanja Holmberg.

Forever active -blog


Picking shoes that fit your needs - read more here! Photos by me.

Springy Saturday




















It was a perfect springy Saturday when I arrived to this little one's house. After a good nap she was ready to go and so cute and so happy that before we noticed we had spent 1,5 hours :). I used my 50mm f1.4 for change, love the dreamy look it gives, just perfect when photographing babies.


Thursday, March 3, 2011

One - such a special age :)









He is cute, isn't he :).  One-year-olds are so special - not babies anymore but still so adorable.

Also - I'm making a few changes to my photography during spring. I will start using my own name as my company name ( I know -- sadly saying goodbye to my Elfina :) ), so it will be Elina Manninen and Elina M. I will keep everyone posted! In the meantime you can already join my facebook page for my new blog Blue Bellybutton here. So excited about this change even though it means hard work and defining what I am as a photographer. How can even finding 100 of your best images be so hard? But the end result will be worth it all. My designer is the talented Pedro Reis from Thinking Visual.

This blog will still be updated until I change to the new site and blog so don't go away :). I will have a very exciting 2 weeks coming up - firstly a big project about good table manners will come out next week. Then I have 3 shoots that I can't really share yet but I can tell you that they are cooool :). Coming out in a magazine (that I can't share yet) during spring. Also we shot a cookbook with Sami Garam the other week so that will be coming out in May. And still my images are used in the new Visit Helsinki summer brochure for the coming summer. I'm excited and learning a lot and really enjoying my work at the moment (like always of course :) ).

Tuesday, March 1, 2011