Unity The Island was one to be remembered!

Although we were supposed to manage a photostand it was cancelled for two obvious reasons: One of our studio flashes broke down and the final killer reason - it started raining. We had the opportunity to take a "never before"-picture of at least 300 helsinki clubbers screaming at the beach.

At the end of the evening we encountered another rare problem, we coudn't fit inside the party palace with our gear because the place was packed, and I mean packed.. The feeling at the beach was Unity at it's best - athmosphere was astonishing.

All the best for Unity crew with big thanks from SESSIONS2 and from our photographers at UNITY The Island 2008 (Tuula, Jukka, Mikko & Joni)!

- Sessions2 Crew

The call came in and I'm glad as hell as I took it!

Dj Proteus Record release party was one hell of a night out. Industrial bands and kick ass tunes. Several times I had to keep myself working as I would have jsut wanted to dance instead of recording the event.

Some might say that this is a fan gallery. I rightly wont care. His party, his pictures. There will come times to take pictures of audience, but tonight was mostly about him.

The king is not dead, he released an album! Long live the king!

- Tuomas

Plop!

The Ultimate Sound part 2 delivered the second coming of energy as it promised. I entered the party at midnight after photographing 8 hours of wedding seremony. I decided to experiment little with the refreshments Spacehouse-crew had come up with. Photographing at this event was more of a documentary-type shooting than photo art. But either way, I had fun while shooting frames :)

There was quite many new comers at The Ultimate Sound, and in addition to that, there were many ravers from other cities, especially from Lahti. Nice to see "new people" raving in Kotka. Well enough with this chit-chat, enjoy the pics!

- Karo

Yup, Konemetsä 2008-gallery is the 250th SESSIONS2-gallery since 2001. We've now got well over 7000 photos online and the number of visitors has been constantly increasing since the new site was launched in 2004. It makes me proud in many ways and I guess a long list of thank you's would be in order but... nevermind. Just enjoy your stay!

Oh, about the event itself: I can't say I was overwhelmingly excited when I got booked to Konemetsä. After all the festival is in the middle of nowhere and full of dirty hippies. I didn't expect much and I certainly didn't expect to have loads of fun. In the end that's just what happened; the festival was visually very inspiring and stimulating, the music offered a nice "something for pretty much everyone and a lot for the open minded individuals"-buffee, the food was great (for festival food which I usually hate) and the company was quite excellent. Many many thanks for the organizers of Konemetsa, Esa, Lauri, Pinkki, Joha, Ninni and Pekka. Next year I'll be back and I'll bring my own soap bubble gun. Or two. Or a dozen.

- Jouni

Hot!

There really was a party going on from the very beginning of the night. Meke, Sergei Shkuroff and Amber D rocked the crowd, but Proteus himself was definitely the king of this event.

Hope u like the pictures!

- Juki

Show us the way!

"The oldest still going on"-club @ Kotka, Lighthouse, gathered once again a group of clubbers to dance in joy! This time we had several new comers at the event and luckily they seemed to enjoy dancing amongst 'techno hardened' clubbers. The lights and sound system were once again massive as hell and the deejays (Deca, Radiac, Holle and Miksta) really delivered some kick-ass material to dance to!

Fotographing was interesting while I was using EF-S 10-22mm obj. for a chance. Hope you like the pics!

- Karo

I'm pretty much done with event photography as a hobby but since I've got a few photos from helsinkiLIVE presents DRUM´N BASS LEGENDS that fit that description I thought I might as well publish them. I attended the event for a whole another purpose but hopefully you like these. Special thanks to helsinkiLIVE crew for letting me do my thing.

- Jouni

Getting to Gloria was kind of difficult due to the police storming the Mannerheimintie Euromayday was taking place and also the traditional wappumeininki was in its fullest. Having the high expectations at this point Säde didn't fail me.

Music banged hard and loud all night. I tried to stay focused with the camera, but some days it's just a bit harder than others ;) Sorry for the waiting, but here they are at last.

- Tuomas

WOW!

One thing I keep wondering is that when does the party actually reach it's peak. Every year they topped itself and did something bigger, and better and more awesome. It's like one of those motivational posters where someone says: "I cant hear you from the sound of how awesome I am" Just without the sarcasm in it.

I am truly sorry that it took so long for me to get these out but I hope you like them and also I'm sorry for almost crashing to that one guy with my camera while trying to reach the main stage before the flames went off, no hard feelings I hope.

- Tuomas

St. clubbers Hi'o'hoy!

Another club-event in a short period of time which introduced a foreign DJ to the clubbers in Kotka. This time it was John Candy from Pacha / St.Petersburg.

Theres not much to say from the view of a party photographer. Everything seemed to work just fine and people had smile on their face! Here are the pictures! Until next time :)

- Karo

Ho!

Comments will be added a bit later! Enjoy the pics!

- Tuula

Hello!

Description will be added later :)

- Joni

Phazer banks 1 to 11 fire at Will!

Wow..

Hope you like the pictures - they just might not do justice to the actual event.

- Karo

Hey!

Laserpoint-crew really did an amazing job organizing this party, thumbs up for them!

I can't complain from anything; the artists and the crowd really made this night to remember :)

I feel a bit irritated that I only got 23 photos published, but luckily there are plenty of pictures coming later :)

- Juki

Bou!

What a great night! I truly enjoyed the atmosphere of Rose Garden at this current event. L.A.O.S-boys were just what I expected - quality and dancefloor-friendly tracks with style. However, Makoto & Deeizm were the stars of the night, crowd really loved them <3

Rose Garden at it's full capasity isn't really the best place for photographing, but at least I got few proper shots. Hope u like it!

- Juki

...and here are the rest of the photos from the booth!

Some 20 photos are possibly missing due to a little software problem in the process. That will be checked first thing tomorrow though. Meanwhile, enjoy the photos. :)

Cheers,
Jouni Väänänen
SESSIONS2

Hello again,

Here's the first part of the photobooth-photos. Due to the extremely high amount of them (Around 600 will be published) and the fact that our gallery system only supports ~30 pages in one gallery (16 photos on each page) we'll publish these in two parts.

It should also serve your needs better. The second part of photos will be published later on today (you should expect them after 7pm or so).

Cheers,
Jouni Väänänen
SESSIONS2

Hello there!

We know that you already want to see the Laserpoint-photos pretty badly and since we do want to help to quench that thirst here's the ”Best of”-gallery from our photobooth. Funny, attractive, wacky, impressive and all that... It's impossible to give you any specific reason for picking these 16 shots except the fact that they stood out. The rest of the photos from the booth will be published tomorrow. Unfortunately we can't tell you the exact time yet but they will be here before midnight anyway and that's a promise.

Cheers,
Jouni Väänänen
SESSIONS2

Imagine if we would sing...

Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear Sasha! And Happy birthday to you!

- Tuomas Lairila & Tuula Ylikorpi

Hey!

It was my first visit to Studio 51 and I really liked the venue! Dj Flight got the party started with his trademark-sound; energetic, groovy and fresh house. After that Jay Mellin took over the decks with his stylish and more progressive beats. However, I felt that people were looking forward to our own trance-heroes with anticipation :) Dj Tab and Super8 were definitely what the crowd wanted to hear at the end of the night. I took most of the photos with ultrawide lense, and as usual I was satisfied with few shots ;)

- Juki