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

“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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Ken Juks
Jarek Jõepera
Heiki Laan

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.

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…

I don’t remember when was the last time I actually saw Igor, but it was definitely more than 20 years ago…

picture on the right shot by my mother.

yes… world is changing.

when a few years before there would have been a heart, love or something similar after equal sign… then now it’s pure sex.

Hirundo rustica

winter. spring. summer. autumn

see the photos

the changes in the nature can stay easily unnoticed visiting the same
place day after day . nothing changes much in one day… but if you
compare summer to spring… there is a huge difference.

early in the spring when I was on the road with my bike I rediscovered
an old stone wall – eroded over the time. In the summer it’s
surrounded with dense green jungle.

the same wall and burgeoning green made me act quickly. in a matter of
days there was already a photoshoot.

many thanks to Simona, who was right away fascinated by my idea and
agreed to begin already at 7 AM in a relatively uncomfortable outfit
wearing a summerdress in this chilly weather; with only +1C degrees!

thanks to Mihkel who went so quickly through time machine and is
present on the photos.

many thanks also to Leela and Janek for helping me a lot behind the scene.

Ken. thank You.
Kaupo – thank you for the costumes!

often it’s like that, that I’m inspired by some frames or shots from some movies. after seeing this magnificent motion picture called “The Limits of Control” I got an urge to get some flamenco dancers in front of my camera.
I got a chance to organize a photoshoot in Kanuti Gildi Saal. There’s definitely the best atmosphere you could ever want for a shoot… dark hall, black background and dancers in the middle of the stage in a light circle! superb!
of course this photoshoot couldn’t have been made without professional dancers. Maria Rääk, the absolute leader in Estonian flamenco scene, and Eduard Korotin, one of the all time best male ballroom dancers in Estonia.

Many thanks to Annika, who helped organizing the shoot in Kanuti Gild and also helped to stage this photoshoot!

Maido, thank you very much!

And I can’t finish without mentioning the guitar player in the right corner. thanks to Erki who was really patient!

Thanks also to IS MUSIC TEAM shop for the classical guitar.

i had a wonderful chance to use my connections and take photos from a very talented young gymnast. to see such grace and flexibility live is unbelievable! many thanks to Inga, who was assisting this photoshoot and helped to coordinate the whole set.

for me it was beyond belief to hear Inga say to, what looked to me like a completely stretched out gymnast, that: “ok, everything looks great, but now you have to stretch a little bit more, mooooorreee and mooooooooorree!”

thank you very much to Liis and Inga

Finally the difficult days at Meresuu Spa & Hotel are over. In these few days our biggest friends were three elevators which lifted us and our entire photogear between all eleven floors.
Now the photos are ready and are waiting a little bit of retouching. I’ll add some of them in my blog pretty soon.