in vienna with the lomography petzval IV.

here is the last selection of photographs from our short but lovely visit to the gardens of Schönbrunn in Vienna. I have said it before and some of you agreed that Schönbrunn Palace resembles The Grand Budapest Hotel when captured with the LomoChrome Purple and its pastel colours.

in Vienna with the Lomography Petzval:

Nikomat EL - LomoChrome Purple XR 100-400

lately it has been rainy and quite cold here and those summer days in Austria seem very far away. these are busy times but I got myself some new photographic equipment which I am really proud of: I cannot wait to try it out properly when I finally get the chance!

in vienna with the lomography petzval II.

it was extremely hot that day in Vienna and I did not handle the heat very well. I wish it was just a little cooler so that I could appreciate the beauty of Schönbrunn more and savour my first experience with the Petzval completely. still I cannot help but rejoice at the photographs we took!

in Vienna with the Lomography Petzval:

Nikomat EL - LomoChrome Purple XR 100-400

perhaps these are a little overexposed: the Petzval works best with a large aperture but the shortest shutter speed of my Nikomat is only 1/250 and the light was too bright for it. I am very pleased with the tones of the LomoChrome Purple though: the facade of Schönbrunn Palace looks so pink it reminds me of the one of The Grand Budapest Hotel by Wes Anderson.

parco dello stelvio part I.

selecting my favourite photographs among all those I took at Parco dello Stelvio was not easy: I am so happy to finally start sharing them! two weeks ago Jacopo and I spent four fabulous days at my family's mountain hut at Clevaccio in Val di Rezzalo (2127m): I had not been there in 18 years.

Parco dello Stelvio - part one:

Nikomat EL - Kodak 200

here you can see how Clevaccio looks like: I am so glad there are still places like it on our planet! nothing had changed since the last time I was there: the sky felt closer and the silence sounded beautifully just like when I was a little girl. after 18 years it had been a fantastic comeback!

chiavenna e val bregaglia.

I took my Hasselblad along only a couple of times while in Italy: when we visited Chiavenna and when we went to Val Bregaglia. Chiavenna is a beautiful old town not that far from my parents' village in Northern Italy. that day the weather was warm and sunny and we spent the afternoon strolling around the narrow streets. I especially like that photograph that Jacopo took of me!

photographs from Chiavenna:

photographs from Val Bregaglia:

Hasselblad 500 C/M - Lomography Redscale XR 50-200

the day we went to Val Bregaglia we were not that lucky: it started to rain on our way to Castelmur and most of my photographs did not turn out the way I was hoping they would. I still wanted to share a couple of them though: I really liked that vintage Toblerone billboard and the mill! once again the tones of the Redscale XR 50-200 turned out very differently: much redder in Chiavenna than in Val Bregaglia. anyhow I completely cherished both of those days! ♥

estate italiana.

I have been in Italy for almost two weeks and soon enough it will be time to go back to Helsinki. it has been a fantastic holiday: I could spend some days with my family and some more hiking with Jacopo at Stelvio National Park. as soon as I will get my rolls of film developed I will share more photographs and stories with you about my italian summer. here is a little preview with a selection of mobile shots: I hope you will enjoy them!

estate italiana - italian summer:

more photographs on Instagram!

these were taken in beautiful Varenna on Como Lake when my sister and I visited the magnificent gardens of Villa Monastero. I will always remember that day with pleasure. I especially love that photograph that my sister took of me!

kesäinen suomenlinna II.

here is the second batch and my personal favourite selection of the photographs Jacopo and I took in Suomenlinna over two weeks ago. I hope you will appreciate them as much as I do. the tones in these are a little less warm then in the previous ones but nonetheless charming. I am really becoming fond of the Lomography Redscale XR 50-200 rated at 25 iso!

kesäinen Suomenlinna:

Hasselblad 500 C/M - Lomography Redscale XR 50-200

I have always loved the colourful wooden houses of Suomenlinna and that yellow one in particular is one of my favourites. the sky was so luminous that day that the horizon looked misty in the distance: it was a really charming sight that I could never get tired of gazing at!

hyvää viikonloppua! ♥

views of liminka.

the second day of our holiday in Northern Finland we decided to go back to Liminganlahden Luontokeskus: the nature reserve that we had visited last summer. unfortunately the weather was rainy and unpleasant but the views of the vast and lonely countryside were still very fascinating.

views of Liminka:

Nikomat EL - Kodak 400

the countryside in the municipality of Liminka is full of abandoned farm houses and barns: I would love to stop by and photograph every single one of them and maybe one day I finally will. even though the cloudy weather was captivating to photograph I was very glad when the sun came out that evening: thankfully the rest of our holiday was sunny!

travelling north.

we spent the Easter holidays in Oulu: during those five days we ate a lot of delicious home-cooked food and we also went on a few photographic excursions. I took my Nikomat EL with me and a couple of film rolls: I will share some of my favourite photographs from those over the next couple of weeks. let me begin with the ones I took during our long drive to the north.

travelling north:

Nikomat EL - Kodak 400

the drive from Helsinki to Oulu takes approximately six hours but it always takes a bit longer if you are stopping every once in a while to take photographs. I must have taken these somewhere in Keski-Suomi: the northern we went the colder it became and some of the lakes were still partly frozen. thankfully there were going to be some lovely sunny days ahead - even though we did not know that yet. I find that old and rusty iron bridge extremely fascinating!

adox color implosion III.

I have just returned to Helsinki after a trip to Northern Finland and the weather is so beautiful that it already feels like summer: unbelievable! my Easter holidays in the north were a little colder but very nice: I will share some photographs of those days soon. meanwhile here are a few more shots from the ADOX Color Implosion film that I liked so much.

ADOX Color Implosion - part III:

Nikon FM - ADOX Color Implosion

I took the first two photographs in Seurasaari on an afternoon walk with a dear friend and the third one in Töölönlahti on an evening walk. most of the evening shots I took did not turn out the way I wanted: the grain and the red tones were totally unbearable. I have really loved my first experience with the ADOX Color Implosion - though next time I will use it only on very bright days!

adox color implosion II.

the more I look at the photographs I took with the ADOX Color Implosion the more I like them: I really need to get my hands on some more rolls of this special film! meanwhile here are a few more of those I took that Saturday in Kivinokka with Jacopo: I hope you will enjoy them as much as I do.

ADOX Color Implosion - part II:

Nikon FM - ADOX Color Implosion

Jacopo is the author of the second photograph: one of the rare cases when I actually like myself in a picture. the colours of these three are slightly darker than the ones of the previous photographs I have shared - though I am still very pleased with them.

P.S. tomorrow we are leaving on a little trip to Northern Finland for the Easter holidays. I wish you all a very happy Easter! I will be back on Passer Domesticus after the holidays.

adox color implosion I.

a couple of weeks ago while in London for work Jacopo got me a wonderful gift: an ADOX Color Implosion film which he bought at The Photographers' Gallery Bookshop. the film was advertised as a surreal color negative film which originally used to be a defective AGFA aerial 800 iso without a red filter in the emulsion: if shot as a 100 iso the ADOX would apparently produce imploding colors, bursting reds and toxic grain. needless to say I was very excited to try it out!

ADOX Color Implosion - part I:

Nikon FM - ADOX Color Implosion

this is a first selection of photographs I have taken with the ADOX last Saturday and I am very happy with these results: the colours and tones are really surreal and dreamy in my opinion! the grain is indeed quite toxic but somehow very appealing in these images. what do you think?

I will share more photographs from the ADOX Color Implosion film soon!

road trip to tampere II.

the night we spent at our friends' place in Tampere it snowed all over Finland and the day after everything was white and soft. that morning Annika took us to Pyynikin näkötorni: a panoramic tower from the 1830's that stands on a hill above the city. from the top of the tower the view was fantastic and the freshly fallen snow and a few rays of sunshine made everything even more special.

road trip to Tampere - part II:

Nikomat EL - Lomography Color Negative 400

at the bottom of Pyynikin näkötorni there is an old charming cafe famous for its doughnuts - the most delicious in Tampere according to someone. it was cold on top of the tower and a munkki with a cup of glögi were exactly what I needed: definitely the most delicious doughnut I have ever tried!

P.S. happy February! ♥

road trip to tampere I.

while I was in Italy a relative of mine presented me with a thoughtful and completely unexpected gift: his old Nikomat EL. the camera - which is in great conditions - has travelled with me back to Helsinki ready to start shooting again. the Nikomat has an aperture priority autoexposure and it works perfectly even with very short shutter speed settings - unlike my Nikon FM. I shot the first film roll with my new old Nikomat EL during a road trip to Tampere at the beginning of January.

road trip to Tampere - part I:

Nikomat EL - Lomography Color Negative 400

on the way to Tampere - to visit a couple of dear friends - we stopped to take photographs twice despite the gloomy day: first on the shore of a lake and then to see the impressive ruins of Pyhän Mikaelin Kirkko. that evening it started to snow all over Finland and it has been white ever since!

my italian holiday - conclusion.

this is the last post dedicated to my Italian Holiday: it is time to move forward as January is almost over! I do not have any more places to tell you about - as I have recounted all of the ones we visited in my previous posts - still I have some photographs to share: a selection of shots I took with my Hasselblad and a Lomography Redscale Negative 100 - a sort of recap of my holiday in red.

recap of my Italian Holiday:

Hasselblad 500 C/M - Lomography Redscale Negative 100

photograph 1: factory in Crespi D'Adda | photograph 2 and 3: Poira di Civo | photograph 4: my sister in Poira di Civo | photograph 5: Sasso Remenno | photograph 6: Palazzo Besta in Teglio

I do not know what to think about Lomography Redscale Negative 100 - but I still believe these photographs can be quite an interesting conclusion for my long series of posts dedicated to Italy!