The breath of summer!

I've submitted the last of my lab reports and finished all the paperwork for graduation. Now I'll just have to wait a couple of weeks and I'll officially become a MEng (or DI in Finland). It's been five short years and quite a lot of studying, but well worth it.

I can't wait until the summer break starts and I can invest more of my time into photography and possibly even traveling abroad to see friends. Time will tell.

Here's a glimpse of a nice spring sunset:

Updates -what are they?

Updates should be long due. I've taken a lot more photographs, some of them quite good, but I find it hard to find time to upload them onto my site, or even process them in Photoshop at all.

Well there's only two and a half weeks until the summer holidays start and I should have plenty of time then. Until then I'll just post this petite post of a bench on a pier by the lake Aulanko.



by the way you can view the picture bigger (and most others as well) by clicking them.

Now we're cooking with charcoal again!

I finally received the 12-24 mm F 4.5-5.6 Sigma, and I've even had time to test it.
Even though it weighs a ton and is quite dark (4.5-5.6) it doesn't matter that much, as it's not meant to be a sports zoom. Even when shooting inside you can easily handhold it, as the wide angle means that camera shake doesn't affect it as much. The colour reproduction is great and it's much sharper than my previous lenses. It might not be as sharp is it could, as I've heard their quality varies.

I've been shooting for a christian paper in my university, and the paper will be sent to every new student next autumn. It's a fun project and I hope I'll get proper enough pictures. It'll mostly be people photography, but I'll give it a feel of nature as well.

Work is going along fine -the kids seem to like me as much, if not more, as their real teacher. I won't apply for the post when it opens this autumn, as I wouldn't feel comfortable teaching computers all the time.

I've managed to do all of my lab work for my final module at the uni and I'm sure there's nothing delaying my graduation on the 8th of June.

Here's an example of what the new zoom can do with me handling it (it's a double exposure by the way).

Winding down

I'm really tired, even though I've spent this evening relaxing - a rare occurrence for me. Most of my days have consisted of dawn to dusk work, with very little sleep. I've been taking some photographs, some of them very good in my opinion at least, but find it very hard to find time to process them. Final studies, graduation, work (in two places) and volunteer work seem to be a bit too much for me.

I think the pace won't slow down completely until the 8th of June when I officially graduate, but things are winding down a bit.

I've also received a confirmation that the sigma wideangle zoom is on its way, which is good news. Here's a picture that was possible even without the zoom: