Time for me to open the big wordhole again. Yes. So no?

Today was a big day for my education and for my running to become America’s next top model. No wait. Yes hold on. It was a fun day for me. I got up before the sun on Finland’s independence day to go and take  some promotional pics of the very awesome group called So Long Sisters.

We had hired a place in Vaskiluoto Vaasa, in an old shutdown sugar factory. I’ve been there before a few times with the Sturm und Drang boys, so I knew what I was getting myself into. In this shit hole we were going to take this years best promos, and maybe we did, I don’t know since I haven’t started working on the pics yet, but at least they will be cool sugary lookin’. Hopefully they will please the band, then I’m satisfied.

This fine morning I had two assistants there to help me with the shoot, that sounds nice yes? Actually it was the bands’ both drivers, a couple of fathers, not gay fathers, but fathers to different members of the band from different families, do I need to explain myself more? Yes. Oh c’mon.

One of the guys is called Görtzi Dahlgren, he is the faazha of two of the girls in the band, the other one is called Jouni, and he is also the father of two of the other girls, of which there are five. So one of the girls left her father at home, or was it the father of the last girl who left out his daughter for my photography? Did you get it this time? No – still not going through. I won’t say it again. Jesus.

So both Göran Dahlgren and Jouni Alavilamo helped me out with the shoot, the brought all kinds of real worker-dude lights, those 5€ lamps from Claes Ohlsson, and if you posses a gigantic amount of those, you can’t fail in life, and that’s just the truth. We only had 3 hours to get everything fixed so I’m really thankful for the dadz assisting me in the shoot! Thanks Karijoki!

( The Goran of Karijoki )

Hopefully I’ll be ready with the editing in a few days and I’ll be able to post the shots in another one of these blog inserts in a couple of days. That’ll be something to look forward to, but who am I kiddin’, ah shit. At least I look forward to see the result of today, ok!

Well then, what did the master of disaster do the rest of this spectacular Sunday of a bitch. I traveled to Vanha Vaasa to take some quickies of a puppy dog (some 9 months old) called Ellen. Not gonna speak much about this shoot, but I’ll höja mitt varningens finger to all you dog photographers in the amateur class such as myself. The dogs aren’t as easy as cats to take shots of, at least not Ellen. She couldn’t keep still for 2 seconds. I tried talking to her, but nooo, she just wanted to goof around even more. Here is an example..

( Ellen having a laugh in the yard )

So, why do I take so much pics of cats, dogs and dvd-covers? I don’t know – you’ll have to ask someone else ok. I think this was it for me this Sunday night. I’ll head back to Helsinki tomorrow, and hopefully there is a lot of dudes and gals wanting pics over there, during the coming weeks. One can always hope. Otherwise you 7 people who read this crap will have to look at pics of my yard, pics of some snow or pics of hairy asses. Pray for clients.

( The traditional chase sequence )

The last thing – dyed my hair just now, and the weird thing is that I now have a serious tooth ache. Peace out fuckers.

//Lé Tage – the sophisticated letter-enderer?

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Tags: Claes Ohlsson, Ellen, Göran Dahlgren, Jouni Alavillamo, So Long Sisters, Vanha Vaasa, Vaskiluoto