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Birds from hell. 28 May 2008 Posted by Jussi Leinonen.

I was in Helsinki couple of days ago and couldn't believe the pigeons and seagulls out there. Those motherlovers clearly don't give a shit. They fly straight at people and hover above possible opportunities to catch some food. I heard people are getting robbed by birds, you really need to hold on to your ice cream.
And the people have themselves to blame, they have fed the birds around the market area and now they won't leave. I think it's a big issue when they start taking food from your hands. Something needs to be done.
Anybody got robbed yet, comments..

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For milacek. 24 May 2008 Posted by Petri Uutela.

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Jeff Mermelstein interview. 22 May 2008 Posted by Jussi Leinonen.

Just found a audio interview with Jeff Mermelstein, who is an amazing photographer. Known best of his work from the streets of New York. The interview lasts over an hour and goes a lot of interesting stuff, including how he started and techniques.

You need Real player, or something to play this. http://wfmu.org/listen.ram¿show=8564 (the blog is fucking up the questionmark, so you have to change the messed up questionmark in the URL just after .ram. I hope you get it right.)

If you don't know Jeff's work, buy one of his books or check some his work here.

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About confronting people you don't know. 22 May 2008 Posted by Petri Uutela.

I see myself as a man who doesn't have much of difficulties taking pictures of strangers in the streets without asking permissions...well yeah...of course you do quick decisions in that particular moment. I don't take pictures in-your-face style of people who I think that will definitely kick my ass and smash my cameras after realizing getting photographed. I think that in the streets it's a lot easier to take pictures of people when you do ask the permission, but that is not what I am interested about. I don't want to take pictures of people posing to the camera. What I do find difficult is just confronting people or groups who I would like to document somehow with my camera. You know, maybe some group of young rebels with their mopeds or local men with their booze bottles in the park. "Hey, can I spend time with you and document your life¿", I know, sounds stupid -- it does not work like that. I know that the key here is to talk. To just getting to know the people and gain trust. To listen to them and maybe even in some level to become friends with them. I need to start more talking to people and possibly keep my camera in my bag. And at some point later if they they ask me to take their picture...then we are maybe on the right track. I quess.

I saw this man yesterday. He was really loud - he was shouting to people passing by and moved his hands really wildly. You know, that kind of situation that all those people in the streets were not looking at him in the nice way. He saw my camera and shouted to me something in loud voice...I didn't hear what he said, but I decided to talk to him a little bit. It was nice to see that after few minutes he really calmed down and became normal. No more shouting and no more wild movement with hands. He even showed me stuf he had bought earlier that day from the store and in the end told me to "have a really nice day". Small, but nice experience. I think I have to do more of this...talking to people...because I feel that this is my biggest weakness right now in photography.

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RSS piece of *** should be working now.. 21 May 2008 Posted by Jussi Leinonen.

Hello to everyone! I hope you like the new site, it's not completely done.. So if you're running Microsoft IE, stop that immediately! Hah. How can people develop even worse stuff year by year, they just keep making it worse!

I've moved to a new city and been here for almost a week. Getting ready to start working at the paper. What I've been there, the job seems extremely promising when it comes to photographs. So tune in for the WORK blog as we get that running in a week or so.
And oh yeah, the RSS feed should be working now. I don't know why I have to fuck with every single thing that should work automatically. Hit me with comments if it doesn't work. It's that orange block on the top of this page.

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Lahti streets part XIV 20 May 2008 Posted by Petri Uutela.

My brain is empty...nothing to write about. I need a break from pictures before work starts...

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New story: The wheelchair racer. 18 May 2008 Posted by Petri Uutela.

Tonight I am pleased to finally put this story out. The story got published today in paper and now I can publish it here also. This is a documentation of Janne Seppälä's wheelchair training from one years period. Three times world champion, but because of the lack of competition in Finland in his class he is mainly competing against himself. One of the main goal - to compete in the Paralympics is also suffering from this: because of not enough competitors Janne's class, T34, is cancelled in Peking 2008. Check the story HERE.

In addition to this new story our old visitors maybe notice something new in our site. Thanks to Jussi's amazing coding skills srap-photos.com has now a new look. More simplier and brighter look and as a new feature we have the WORK blog (starting soon...). If you find some bugs, please post them in comments.

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Ahoj! 16 May 2008 Posted by Petri Uutela.

Here is a preview of upcoming story; stay tuned. The story will be launched soon. And the rest is in finnish: jos kiinnostaa nähdä juttu painettuna niin tsekkaa nyt tulevan sunnuntain (18.5) Pohjolan Sanomat sillä siellä on stoori esillä (lehti löytyy todennäköisesti kirjastostasi...). Pienen miehen hiljainen taistelu mustavalkodokkarin saamisesta lehteen nykyaikaisen salama-in-your-face-joka-kuvassa / supersaturaatio / super-yyber-laajakulmakuvan sijasta tuottaa pikkuhiljaa jotain tulosta...

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6x6 Helsinki. 14 May 2008 Posted by Petri Uutela.

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Sunflowers. 14 May 2008 Posted by Jussi Leinonen.

Inspired by Petri's earlier post I decided to post some light in the blog too. It's great to finally have some real light shining on us here in northern Finland.
I'm predicting that this time next week, you'll be looking at a whole new strap-photos.com. And you'll like it. Not only like it, but be amazed by the sheer amazingness of it. And yes we've got a few stories and some big stuff coming soon.
Damn.. Feels good to be doing this.

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