My Favourite Photos from My Portfolio 2009

These images are in random order. If i would have to pick one favourite i would pick the image with robot and love heart.
All these images are important for me for some reason. Some of the images mean new start in photography for me. I know that many of them are not perfect, i know that some of them dont have focus in correct place and some of them have few distractions on the background. But i havent been into perfect spotless photography anyway.

GinGer BrEAd HouSe

I made it! First time in my life! Thats why it looks like... hmmm... lets say it looks like bombing survivor house.

Old Skis

I was thinking to upload picture of my seiling today because i am in bad form. Seilings mean no emotions for me. It means if you are sad the you will lie down and look at the seiling. But actually i didnt do that. I was working today. I was helping my mum with stuff.
Now i have to make the fire to get warm, then i have to do some washing and then i will start making ginger cookies!!!!!

Anyway too much talking. Heres the picture. And story below the picture!

I couldnt ski with them because i broke the ski boots!

SnoW CraZy

My Robot

(i promise, tomorrow i will upload something else, not robots)

Christmas Cards!

I have decided to upload a picture every day! Im still wondering if i should do a new blog for project365?
This is the card on the left i made for my family and friends. They were all different- the one on the picture is for my grandmother. I took my robots to Estonia with me, they are enjoying holidays too =)

Still cold here. Last night it was -24. Mental. But i think it is getting bit warmer now, -10 tomorrow.

Flights these days. And cold in Estonia

Good Day!
From Dublin to Copenhagen. From Copenhagen to Stockholm and from Stockholm to Tallinn!
Longest day ever!

Yesterday i woke up 4.40 am, got to bus station to get my bus by 5.30 am. I was sure i will be at home in Estonia by 9 pm in evening!
But No. My flight from Dublin to Tallin was via Copenhagen. It was delayed due to bad weather.
Then in Copenhagen we missed connecting flight to Tallinn and next flight to Estonia was full. "What a nightmare," i was thinking. We got a free food voucher from SAS- at least.
After lot of waiting they said we can get a flight to Stockholm and then from there to Tallinn.
Flight to Stockholm was delayed.
Eventually we made it to Stockholm and it went pretty smoothly there so i started feeling better.
Flight from Stockholm to Tallinn was about 11 pm. Operated by Estonian Air. It was very funny. We had to take an airport bus to get to the plane and the plane was SMALLEST PLANE EVER. It was not Boeing as usual. It was something funny, cant remember. While entring into the aircraft i had a feeling that this is going to be the worst flight in my life.
When we took off everyone seemed to be in a really good form in plane as it was so small and everyone were making jokes with eachoter about it. I really felt like all the people are in Christmas spirit. Service was the best ever! We got free food, sweets and lots of smiles!
It really made me feel really good after all this waiting in airports and not eating properly as i couldnt leave from the que!
Anyway i made it home about 3 am.
This morning when i woke up i saw beautiful sunshine outside and i was thinking wow what a lovely weather. Actually its not so lovely as there is -18 outside!!!
Spending about 15 minutes out with camera made my camrera have a blackout! IHe stopped working and didnt want to be outside!
I will not take it out with -20 anymore! I knew cold is bad but i didnt know that i cant spend out with this even 15 minutes! Mental. Anyway it is working fine now.

Project 365 will start from 1st January 2010. That means i will have to take a picture every day and post it here. I will do this EVERY DAY! Sometimes when i have a photoshoot i will post more. Or maybe i will create a new blog only for this project!!!
Yeah- the picture below is basically just a button click as i didnt have time and warmness to think about composition and camera settings really. Anyone has tips for shooting toys out in -20?

Thank you very much for Knocklofty Hotel!!!

I had a photoshoot today with Anna who is by the way pregnant 5th month and totally shining =)
I would like to thank Knocklofty Hotel who kindly let us to use their rooms and have a photosession!
Here are few shots from this. I will upload more as soon as i get a chance!

POSTCARDS

I have another hobbie which many people probably dont know about. I am crazy about postcards!!! I counted them today and i have 571 POSTCARDS from 85 COUNTRIES!

I hope i have more time soon so i can upload my favourites =)

I would love to receive surprise postcards to the following address (its my work address so its ok to publish this)

Berit Alits
41-44 Irishtown
Clonmel
Co Tipperary
Ireland

=)

For postcard-crazy people i would recommend the following website: www.postcrossing.com

My Photography Wishlist

I was just thinking what i would like to photograph and decided to write down my wishlist (for next year, heheh):

Skateboarders
Nude Photography
Photoshoot with proper models who know how to work with photographers and how to pose
20s, 30s, 40s and 50s style photosoot
Rock Concert or Jazz Concert
Painting with light in dark
MORE WEDDINGS!
Big Machines (like tractors, combains, planes)
Festivals
Movie Scenes
Old People in their natural environment or in old peoples care houses
MORE DOLLS AND TOYS!
Food Photography
Industrial shots (like big factories!)
IR Photography
Fireworks and other fire related photography
Slow Shutter Speed Photography
Kids in School
Continue with my faces of world project...

Must have to my gear:
proper macro lens
10-20 mm lens
good quality ND fliter
mini studio kit i saw in ebay

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..jesus next year is going to be busy!

Clarisse from France! ~Faces of World Project~

My Faces of World Project had died out for couple of months- now im back on track with this again. Check-out my website, i have opened new clomumn called PROJECTS. I will be adding all the faces from different places into that folder. All the project photos will be very simple- just plain background, no flash, natural light (im using only reflector to bring the face more "alive"). And during the photo session there is lot of chatting with models about their culture, manners and country!


Clarisse from France below.

This one below is just an experiment with different background i added in Photoshop

James from Portugal will follow soon.

Another flood documented!

Today i have been making Xmas cards. I was taking photos of my robots and other toys who are in Cristmas spirit now! =)

Another Hobbie!

Hehe now i took a pen and paper and started drawing! This is the first time for me after a long long time. Scribble. I never been into drawing really. Now its just popped into my head so i thought i´d share. I want to develop this picture.

21st November

No matter what happens or no matter where you are there is always something beautiful around you.

I love Won Ton Soup!

I woke up this morning. I had a good thoughts. I checked the weather. I got confused. Raining or not? should i wear wellies or not? (yeah, i have wellies). However my confusion about the weather grew to bigger confusion. and not only about the weather. About people actually. Probably it doesnt surprise anyone. Because people are difficult.
What happens if two people cant suddenly talk to each other anymore?

Won Ton Soup, please. Only one bowl today.

World Peace. Soul Peace.

The bright tunnel has been put together piece by piece. It been taking for one year to build it up- each piece put in place with kindness and joy. Its fragile, its sensitive. Still.

It takes only one day to make it wobble again, takes one day to mix up the bright stones...
This tunnel is like a trust- its hard to built it up but easy to mix up and almost impossible to put it together same way like it used be. It can be fixed-yes. But it cannot be the same.
There are 6 (or even more) billion people in the world. Yet its impossible to find someone like you.

Each one of us has our tunnel, our own way to built it up, our own way to fix it and our own way to match it with someone else.

If i could draw the tunnel of my life to paper then there could be probably all the colors and shapes you can think of. Sometimes it would be wobbly, sometimes it would be straight, sometimes it would have bright colors, sometimes darker. Like we all would have. All of us. No exceptions.

My romantic soul is crying today. My tunnel is shaking.

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Who REALLY wants to fight for World Peace? Who really HAS the Soul Peace?

Fearless

I had a dream. I was walking down the street with my camera, stopped and started taking photos of the pond full of ducks. Suddenly my camera built-in flash went off without a reason and it fired out quite lot of light towards the lake. All the ducks got a fright and were trying to fly away. They couldnt really fly away so they were just making really fast moves to get as far as possible from me. But one of the ducks was different. He started coming towards me. I still didnt try to take photos of him... i never tried to take photos of ducks anyway... This duck was nearly in front of my lens... Suddenly he jumped on me, and really agressively! He was trying to attack me! Small little duck attacking me who is like i dont how much more bigger than he is. He was so agressive that i had to run... and run really fast! I couldnt scare him off. He was as fast as i was! It was very difficult to fight with a little but agressive and fearless creature.

I dont remeber how did this dream ended, but it was very intense the whole time when i had the duck biting my neck, my legs etc. What does that dream mean when the smaller creature tries to fight with the bigger one?

Hope

Hungry and cold, wet and alone. He is trying to drag on the life... day by day, same old, same old... Strong and fast wind is stopping him to hear the night birds singing beautiful notes, heavy rain is blocking his eyes to see the trees offering a shelter, crumbling stomach is not letting him to focus... focus on good things. Anger, frustration taking over his body.... a wonded wolf is looking towards the moon trying to find something.... He doesnt realise that he is looking towards the Hope. Towards the Moon- only source of light in a dark and rainy place....

Jazz

what have i been up to last couple of weeks?

Here it comes! In date order- earliest first and latest last.

Hanging around Clonmel late evening with tripod and messing around with my star filter!

My after-wedding project!

Mitchelstown Caves! I have been there about 4 times and never get bored of this.

Then i wanted to do art with balloons.

Project Summary: try again. Unsuccessful.

Out with dogs.

Kids portraits. I think they came out ok. My favourite is the picture below.

Up in the mountains with dogs. Some fantastic weater last few weeks in Ireland!

Cobh. I tried to get a street scene for camera club but most of the pictures i got was that cat below. And then i got that picture above too. I like it.

Brian Cowen visited our office and i was the second photographer for this. He he i am on the picture below.

And out with dogs again....

Road trip.