Slowly putting everything together

19.5 sunday
Day. 26  Final tasks

Man.. Time flies. Last time I wrote was ten day ago.. There´s this apartment building just next to my building and one side of it is aligned with my balcony. The neighbour building´s wall has thick stripes pained on in it, and the sunset can be measured with these stripes as the shadow rises higher at evening. Days go by faster and faster, the stripes fill in again.

The day before yesterday, the Peltosaariproject finally came to an end. That took a lot of hours because there were over hundred gigs of material which had to be edited together. The final piece of work, which was 1h 40mins long was premiered in Peltosaarifest at Riihimäki. On the past week there has been a regular photography job too. Fernando invited be to take photos of the school that he teaches in. On monday i documented the outside of the school and tomorrow, next monday I´m going to do the same from inside, also after that going to take photos of one elementary school. Photographing the highschool from outside was lot of fun, and super interesting. The weather combined to the strong and complex concrete structures was ideal conditions for high contrast black and white photos. Couple of B&W photos came out pretty alright and ended up to the final portfolio. My favourite thing about this shoot was that I didn´t have to hurry and really had the time to think about the compositions and lightning. Doing street photography there really is no time to think about those things that much, atleast for me. Things just happen and you have to be quick enough to capture them.

Place under the school where kids can spend their recess.

Between all the work, for me it has been very important to refresh the brain every now and then so the concentration is easier. To do this I´ve gone for runs every now and then. This also includes challenging those own limits and noticing the improvements that comes along the way. it´s been 29.84km this month. Running or just going for walks is something that I definitely recommend, because it has been a perfect way get to know the city better too.

The job learning period here in Portugal has almost come to an end, and due to very few days left here (6 days) this will be my second last blog post here! Not yet saying goodbye though...

My room at ten o'clock at night.