All Work. Soon Play

I've been teaching for the past few weeks and boy am I exhausted! I've been taking the train to Kuopio too many times and at worst I left Tampere at 23:30 and arrived in Kuopio around 4:30. Thankfully my hotel was in the train station. Let me tell you it wasn't a bed of roses waking up at 8:00 on a saturday morning after a very stressful week. Otherwise things have been quite nice -the course is going okay so I have a sense of satisfaction.

I've been taking some photos -not as many is would like, though. I've decided to fork in the dough for the sigma 12-24 mm wideangle in early may so It'll only show in my June Visa bill. Hopefully it'll be worth it.

Here's a new photo of Näsijärvi. I found a sweet spot just a couple of hundred meters from my apartment.

Busy, busy

I've been teaching chemistry on a prep course for people applying for med school -on top of my studies. This means that I've had very little time to work on my photographs, although I've had some time to take some photos.
I've missed some great photo opportunities, but have managed to take some nice shots as well. Being on a tight schedule has forced me to look for alternative subjects to shoot: e.g when I'm in the town of Kuopio to teach, I have the opportunity to shoot it in the morning light. But as I don't know of all the 'sweet spots' there, I'm concentrating more on details.

Here's an example of the spring pictures I've taken here in Tampere:

A new and an improved site!

I finally finished the reconstruction process, and things are looking mighty fine. Just a few touches in the non-gallery pages and they'll last many months -or until I feel the urge to improve!

Major reconstruction

I haven't posted in a while, as I've been reconstructing my site. The front page is already up and running, but the hard part is working with the sub-pages. As the site comprises of almost 700 pictures, I've decided to sub-divide the galleries, so filing through them to find pictures you like is easier.

I've also included fancier thumbnails. Hopefully they're appreciated -I've had to combine two gallery creating softwares and personal html-editing to have the look that I like, and let me tell you it's a right nightmare to tweak ten galleries that have one to nine sub-galleries, some with several pages!