Just finished editing the latest episode of Relate To It. It will be released in few days at TWSNOW website. Tamok episode was definitely toughest to edit so far, we had stuff from all over the mountains and it wasn`t easy job to make it work together. Had to leave some good stuff out to keep things short and entertaining. Tamok is the place to be if you want it all. It has great treeruns, high alpine stuff like couloirs and insanely steep runs, open fields of powder with over 1000m vertical, windlips, cornices and stuff to jump from and you can actually find couple of crazy rails if you don´t find enough to do in the mountains… On top of that, you can surf in the nearby freezing waters of Norwegian Sea.
I spent almost three weeks in Tamok and we had many different crews and riders stopping by. Here are some photos, if you want to see more check out facebook photos as well
Now thats a fine machine
Tamokfjellet from the air
On the top of Blåbärfjellet, clockwise from left: Rami, Miikka, Antti, Nicholas and Arto lurking behind
Shooting from the machine is never easy, me and Rami Hanafi doing our best to get things done. Monopod helps to keep my camera steady and makes it easier for your hands to hold for long periods, kinda like shoulder mount.
We had only couple of days with the heli, and then you just hike...
Antti slashing some Tamok powder
Weather changes fast in Tamok. It was raining and during the night "Huset" was drowning with 30cm of water in front of the house. Next day we had 15cm of new snow at the bottom and 50+ cm at the top!
Our cosy cabin under the northern lights
http://www.anttisworld.com/
Northwave/Drake used some of my photos from last season in their catalog. I also took some shots just for this back in november.
I was asked to shoot Antti setting up his new binding, not bindings because we had only one to work with!
Opening spread with Antti at Tamok, april 2011
Original shot
This photo was part of exhibition called Harhalaukaus. It was on display at Bar Kuka in Turku last year and at bar Cafe&Pint also in Turku this year. It contained photos from seven different photographers. Photos were eventually sold in auction for charity.
Harhalaukaus, “misfire” or actually “missed shot” in english was about accidentally taken or somehow ruined photographs that otherwise would have been considered useless.
My photo was taken at Scrapbook sessions 2008 in Rovaniemi. Shot was meant to be a backlit photo of snowboarder Miikka Hast. I snapped a photo with my old Yashica D, on the background I saw Teo Konttinen spitting water on the kicker and thought that I needed another, this time clean shot of Miikka. I forgot to advance film and took another photo double exposing them by accident. Result you can see above. I think it is much more interesting this way though.
Photo of the exhibition at Bar Kuka by Niko Vähäsarja, thank you very much Niko for making the exhibition happen!
It has been really strange weather for the past month. Raining when it is supposed to be snowing, + degrees celsius when normally around this time we have freezing cold. I found couple of shots that I took in 26.11.2009. It was cold, snowing almost constantly and Ruka had already built a nice kicker for snowboarders and skiers. I have been thinking of a photo like these for a long time. This time of year we have only few hours of daylight and the “Blue moment” looks really nice so I just wanted to focus on that.
This photo of Ville Paumola was published in photo issue (03/2011) of Slammer magazine.
Another, similar shot of Antti Autti I used in Kinos 748 movie poster.
We had photo sessions in the park and after that took some powder shots with Antti. Ruka had already something like 40cm of fresh snow and it was so fun to start the season in Finland with good conditions.
Just like the good old days. 26th of november 2009 it was totally different than what we have now.
Slammer magazine
Kinos 748 full movie
Kinos 666 full movie
After five years or so that I have been getting my photos published regularly I finally got couple of covers in Finnish magazines. Both of these shots were done very quickly but in totally different settings. Both use available light.
Skier Kalle Leinonen was shot in Ruka half-pipe during a recess in a moguls contest that I was capturing on video, we had maybe 30 minutes to shoot. No problem, Kalle climbed up the pipe, did one test run and after that couple of hits more and it was done in less time we had. I was happy with the results.
Snowboarder Antti Autti was shot in New Zealand. We saw this good looking transition couple of days before on the way up in a helicopter, hit it and I got good landscape photo of it. Came back to the same place and I wanted to shoot this time in portrait orientation. We wanted to do as many runs as possible to get more things done, so no time to waste with heli waiting and superb spots with great snow all around. I rode to the spot where I wanted to shoot, grabbed my camera from backpack, set videocamera on a tripod, made the shot, packed everything up and thats it. Maybe 5 minutes in total. This was our first run of the day and I can`t imagine a better way to start one when you are up there in the mountains.
