Palju õnne!

… and extreme makeover months later. See > people among us

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna

Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

Hare Rama Hare Rama

Rama Rama Hare Hare

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art–
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors–
No–yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever–or else swoon to death.
–  John Keats –

“Svoi” was shot here.

Любовь, предательство, месть — все смешалось на деревенском хуторе под Псковом в августе 1941 года. Вокруг бушует война, а здесь, вдали от военных действий, разыгрываются свои страсти. Трое сбежавших от немцев советских военнопленных прячутся в сарае у деревенского старосты.

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Uudised > Päevauudised > Ilm > 24. august 2010 14:29

The Star of 1818

I had a plan that I take photos of b-boys while they are all together and
doing their thing. When I called Joonas to make some arrangements, it came
out that they are organizing a break battle TOMORROW and there will be dudes
from Estonia, Finland and Lithuania. Well – as usually all these things
you’ll know only at the very last minute. But not to let the chance roll by
I agreed on the shoot for the next day. The guys promised to be ready after
the battle around 7 PM and it gave me time to prepare about 24 hours.

The biggest problem was to find an suitable old-school Boombox. I called to
all the known rappers in town, but the outcome was still NONE. Everybody has
seen something like that somewhere, but where or who had it, nobody knows…

Then I got a good tip from Roman, who by the way is a gentleman well known
for his great tips and help. Thank you Pez for kindly lending your ghetto
blaster! But I have to remind you, that it’s still at my place!

I wanted to take the photos somewhere outside, under some bridge or
something similar. I picked the location already earlier, but on the day of
the shoot the weather decided to bail on me. In our climate you really cant
count on weather anyhow and the only possibility was to move the shoot to
the garage under my home. Otherwise we would all be Gone with the Wind
because of the heavy lightning and storm.
Thank you Roman for coming to help me on the shoot and spending your
precious time.
Thank you to Joonas, Maik, Jaen, Edvinas, Gabrielis and Viktoras – you were great!

For a couple of weeks I had a chance to dive into completely other world. Three days in a row I photographed three completely different interiors. First taking was in a single-family home and it took about one hour.

The next day I took pictures of a small studio apartment. Major difficulty here was that the apartment was tiny. Room for photographing was almost nonexistent. Additionally the flat was pretty much black and white which didn’t make my job easier.

On third day I had a little bit more space, because it was a acknowledged law office in Tallinn centre. The time limit was two hours and I made it!

In addition I have to say that all the photos were made with HDR technique and I made almost all of those as panorama shots.

onu Raivo and some strange anomalies. ( no photoshop)

Today when I was scrubbing off the sun tan I got on our last cycling tour, I decided that it’s the right time to outline our last great adventure.
Namely there were four of us on a bicycle trip to Russia. In 7 days we managed to pass through circa 400 km. That’s not such a long distance, but on the other hand with less cycling we got to observe and experience more thoroughly the local way of life. And that was definitely worthwhile.

I’ll try to post our daily travelogue pretty soon. Until that patience…