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LAPIN KANSA: Kolmas sijan premiääreissä. 10 May 2012 Posted by Jussi.

Sanomalehtien liitto palkitsi Lapin Kansan yli 1200 levikkisten lehtien kolmanneksi parhaana etusivujen sarjassa. Edellä oli Hesari ja Aamulehti. Tästä muihin palkittuihin sivuihin.

Harmittavasti meidän kannessamme oli mainos alareunassa, mutta se on osa todellisuutta jonka kanssa täytyy elää vaikka kuva, otsikot ja taitolliset ansiot osuisivatkin kohdalleen.
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LAPIN KANSA: RoPS home opener against AC Oulu 09 May 2012 Posted by Jussi.

Striker Aleksandr Kokko kept an eye on the ball.


New player Emenike Mbachu scored a goal.


Jose Manuel Rivera returned to RoPS after a great season last year.


Emenike high fivin' young fans.
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Designated driver 2012. 19 Apr 2012 Posted by Jussi.

Rovaniemi, 2012.
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Clouds. 18 Apr 2012 Posted by Jussi.

Rovaniemi, 2012.
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LAPIN KANSA: Happy easter! 09 Apr 2012 Posted by Jussi.

Happy easter from the kids at Vaaranlampi daycare.
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LAPIN KANSA: Biathlon finnish champs 02 Apr 2012 Posted by Jussi.

Kaisa Mäkäräinen dominated the female competition by a large margin. She shot 3 of her 4 shootings alone due to the large gap between her and other athletes.


Mika Kaljus won the mens pursuit competition. Awesome snowfall made this otherwise boring photograph a little more visually impressive.


Paavo Puurunen failed to finish on the medals.
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LAPIN KANSA: Cabins hard to own around Rovaniemi 21 Mar 2012 Posted by Jussi.

Pertti Lehtinen renovating his cabin in Sierijärvi, Rovaniemi.
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LAPIN KANSA: How tabloid format effects ones work? 21 Mar 2012 Posted by Jussi.

Before launching our tabloid format newspaper a year and a half ago photojournalism in Lapin Kansa was taking pictures to be put on a page. This is no longer the case and lehtikuvaus (photojournalism) is lehtikuvaus in the truest essence of the word. Photos no longer are just photos next to a written story, they sometimes interact with other elements in more ways.

Like this frontpage picture for example: While shooting, one has to be aware of the room the headline text needs and also leave some flat surface for the caption. Yeah mostly we just go about and shoot pictures and work them in the paper, but sometimes we have a whole frontpage planned ahead. This is a double headed sword in my opinion. When it works out it is good for the readers and looks great, but it does chain your creativity when you know what you're looking for. You can't just shoot pictures the best way you know how, there is no going with the flow with this approach. You constantly know what you need to get and therefore miss out on a lot of better pictures because you're stuck with the design made earlier. With very limited staff we can't always change our plans when a killer picture comes along. This is frustrating. But when it all works out, it's pretty cool.
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LAPIN KANSA: Volleyball emotions 14 Mar 2012 Posted by Jussi.
I've said before in this blog that volleyball is by far the most difficult sport to photograph. I still think so, but I've learned that a sport is never just hitting or kicking a ball. Hitting the ball or shooting a puck is a physical task which a human being is doing. What is really interesting and able to tell a story is how the person is doing the task. The aftermath of succeeding or failing is the pretty much the only interesting part in sports. Of course pure skill and beauty in performing is great, but it is far from the emotion of struggling to win or playing a phenomenal night.








Earlier my struggle with volleyball came from trying to take pictures of visually dead parts of the game. How many great images have you seen off a guy slamming a ball over the net? Not too many I presume. Even if you hang two cameras from the ceiling, it's just a guy slamming a ball. Slamming a ball in a picture tells a story of slamming a ball. A story about slamming a ball is a story nobody would read.

A story about winning or losing is a story of emotion. A professional game is never decided on which team has the better players, it is decided on who wants to win more and who hates losing more. Right now that is where I go with volleyball pictures.

After going to Team Lakkapää games to shoot during the winter, I've come to know some player charasteristics. I know who play with their hearts on their sleeves and when the game is being decided I know who to look for emotion. I know who individuals can carry the team to victory and who have been struggling with their game lately. All of this is more important than being able to focus and press a button continuously to take 10 frames per second. But with volleyball, 10 frames per second helps a lot!
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LAPIN KANSA: Snowy Owl spottings 12 Mar 2012 Posted by Jussi.
A Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus) has been hanging around in Niskanperä, Rovaniemi. We spotted this animal on top of a roof scoping around for dinner. Luckily it started snowing like hell, thus providing a visual background for otherwise boring scenery. What a beautiful animal, who wasn't scared of a photog walking around with a telephoto from hell.
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LAPIN KANSA: Horceracing season opener. 04 Mar 2012 Posted by Jussi.

Petteri Joki won three starts in a row during the season opening lunch races in Mäntyvaara.
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LAPIN KANSA: Ilari Sainio hanging up his skates? 04 Mar 2012 Posted by Jussi.


After saturdays game against Ahmat, the boys begging for players sticks might've actually gotten lucky with Ilari Sainio. 33 year old RoKi icon may hang up his skates for good after starting his career in 1995-1996.
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