As usual, the rest can be found on our blog at DEREKANDANNABLOG.COM! :)

Check out the rest of Päivi & Jukka’s engagement as well as wedding photos on our blog!

We’ve also opened a new blog with the new website but I’ll still be updating this one also. So, go check it out & let me know what you think! :)

I know I promised a wedding post next, but I just couldn’t wait to blog a few Norway photos now.. :) I met Marianne & Jørn last year during my visit to Iceland and just happened to find out they are getting married in Tromsø, Norway in June… and I happened to be in town at the same time, so we got together for a little pre-wedding shoot! There will be lots of travel photos from Tromsø later on my blog so I can write a few more pages about how amazing this town above the Arctic Circle is, but for now… what an amazing place for a couple shoot!

We started our shoot in the harbour after 9pm and ended on the mountain top just as the midnight sun appearead from behind the clouds.. Perfect! I had so much fun with Marianne & Jørn and took more photos than ever before… because I had both great models & amazing backgrounds! ;) Thanks again, you two!

I thought it was about time to introduce a certain someone here on my blog.. It’s taken a while, because it has proved to be quite difficult to acquire the visual material for this blog post, but anyway.

Since February this year I haven’t been shooting weddings solo anymore. Derek Latham is a Canadian, or Irish (or sometimes Finnish), photographer living in Finland, late last year he found me on Twitter and now we’re working together as a team of wedding photographers. Not only does this help a lot with my work, but it also gives our clients better results with another perspective in photos. Official things aside, it’s just been a blast working with another photographer again.. otherwise this job can get a bit lonely sometimes. :) And of course, those of you who have been following my blog for a longer time know how much I like working with Canadian photographers! ;)

P.S. I know a wedding post is long overdue, but I promise that will be on the blog next. SOON!

Last November while I was travelling in Latvia and Estonia someone told me about this community called Couchsurfing, and after I returned home I decided to give it a try. And it just happened to completely change my life! :) In the past few months I’ve met so many new, awesome people from different corners of the world, and made many, many friends… Such wonderful experiences and more to come! Perhaps you should give it a try as well? :)

About a month ago I asked a few of my friends to join for a photoshoot in Katajanokka, in Helsinki and here are the results! Thanks again for being great models Ainna, Flavia & Yovan (& Jari)! ;)

DISCLAIMER: We didn’t actually steal the boat! :)

Spring is finally making its way to Helsinki, and while I might still blog a couple of winter weddings (just a bit late!) I wanted to get this first engagement shoot of the spring on my blog as soon as possible. The weather is getting so beautiful & I’m SO excited to shoot again! :)

I want to get a few of these beautiful winter weddings on the blog before the winter is completely over. Well, in many parts of the world it already is, I guess. In Finland however we’ll probably have snow until July this year.. :) Anyway! I love winter weddings! And Jenni & Sampo’s wedding in downtown Helsinki was no exception. While we sat down to plan this wedding a few months ago we were worried February in Helsinki would be quite miserable and rainy but instead we got more snow than ever and this Saturday in early February was the perfect winter day!