Thank God for Firewire (tm)

I thougt that pictures would have remained in the mac for ever due to broken USB-ports, but luckily the other system worked. Big thanks for lending me the firewire reader!

The Event was once again full of colour and young and energetic people. It was nice to see something different once again as the performers invited people to party up on the stage and caused mayhem walking aroung wearing thing that most sci-fi fans would wet their pants for.

Without further ado, I give you The Tokyo Dekadance!

-Tuomas

Tjänare!

It's time to deliver some tough love.

Some of the photographers of SESSIONS2 have had trouble delivering their photos to the site in a timely fashion. Even though as the father of this site I don't believe in whipping my own guys and completely understand the time consuming working process behind delivering a single set of photos to the site after doing years of it myself I've got to say it's just not acceptable that things don't get done. If I could choose a simple slogan for SESSIONS2 it would be "we deliver" - First and foremost I want this site to be known for the outstanding quality of work we do. When the quality isn't that and you have to ask for the photos over and over again during a painstakingly long period of time it's fair to say we've failed to be what we want to be.

Event photography isn't always easy. Actually it can be really damn though and in my opinion it's acceptable to fail every now and then. When that happens the thing to do is to admit the failure and move on. With this set of photos from Fury's event that isn't the case. I mean, look at the photos - many of them are nothing short of excellent. The not so excellent part is publishing them God knows how long after the event.

Even though I don't particurlarly like editing some elses photos that's just what I did with this set so you could finally have them. As our visitors, audience and clients don't accept this kind of delays in the process. If the photos aren't on the site within a week after the event exercise your right to bitch about that.

To the rest of the SESSIONS-team: the purpose of this message isn't to humiliate anyone but to make you understand that being the best (which we are in the narrow field of event photographing finnish raves, clubs and such) doesn't come for free. It requires pushing yourself and I expect that from every single one of you. Push yourself, find new angles and fucking be all you can be. You know I love you all, but sometimes a bit of tough love seems to be in order to wake you up. When I gave you this site and told you to do whatever you want with it I expected you to build something new and better out of it and not to run it to the ground. Let's get back on the right track, shall we?

I'd like to make apology to the Fury organization; sorry - failing your expectations sincerely wasn't our purpose.

Respectfully,
Jouni Väänänen
The retired Site Manager of SESSIONS2

The Sunday!

I'll just start with the easy part to understand: Beautiful lasers, massive lights, Nexo's sound system, "couple" of thousand clubbers (and not just from Finland)..And then the not so easy part: DJ Tiesto, Erick Morillo, Marcus Schulz.. do I need to continue? OK then: Sander Van Doorn, Stonebridge, Hoxton Whores, Alex Kunnari, Käpä, Heikki L (from Danceteria music), K-System, Jay Mellin, Joonas Hahmo, Anselmi Kuusisto, Johnny Wild, Toukka, Cosmo, Defa, Jace and George L.. phiif.. This just is the most massive dessert table what Finnish club scene has tastet!

As I told earlier we had wee bit o' trouble with Sigmas focus (Fish Eye) and I had to borrow a new 30D body from Joni Rolig for this sunday just to test if mine is broken - but all well, we managed to get some pics for you to see!

Massive Thanks from SESSIONS2 goes to Colors crew, especially to Alex Kunnari giving us the permission to photograph at Colors Festival 2008 - and to Anselmi Kuusisto making the proper arrangements to make things work so easily.

- Karo & Tuula

The Saturday!

I had actually no kind of thoughts about Colors Festival beforehand - nothing except it was obviously going to be the biggest dance festival in Helsinki so far.

Saturdays artists were nothing less than: John Digweed, James Zabiela, Cosmic Gate, Matt Darey, K-Klass, Ian Carey, Raul Rincon, Mark Doyle, Marcus Schössow, Miika Kuisma, Danny Monaco, Johnny Boy, Käpä, Jokke, Hert&Klaus and DJ Jean.. O M G.. I thought it woudn't get any better - but sundays line-up.. Really, and I mean really, Kicked Ass..

Tuula was struggling with sigmas fisheye and I On the other hand had some focusing problems with my well served EOS 30D but we got enough pictures in to be publish. This wasn't the best evening for the equipment to be freakish :( Anyways - hope you like the pics!

- Karo & Tuula