​​ A much loved friend only visits us for a few hours a day right now: LIGHT. Polar night is setting in and it's the darkest time of year here. I saw somewhere a newspaper clip where there is the hour at which the sun rises the next day in different places. For Utsjoki, at the top northernmost corner of Finland, said January 16 11.50 AM. Think about that for a second. The sun won't rise til 6 weeks from now . Well, I am not living that far north, I am merely at the southern b

I recently broke my camera in an unlucky snowboarding accident ( me fine, camera not so fine), so I am now resorting to using a borrowed point'n'shoot camera. I am a bit bummed out about not being able to play with shutter speed and f/stop, but having recently gotten acquainted with lomography, a form of instant photography, I am taking this as a chance to just point and shoot without over-thinking it. Besides, I've been inside the studio weaving for two days straight, so it'