Greetings earthlings!

After the main event I had a real intention to attend the after party sometimes between 06 and 07 am. Accidentially I over slept and when I finally got to the scene the time was 10 am. So I had only 1.5 hours time to take the pictures, and I had no idea how many people there were earlier :(

When I saw the place I was close to terrified. Some smoke in the air and definately not enough light to take pics without a flash. Luckily there was nice spot-lights and two powerfull strobes on the ceiling.

Anyway I felt more at home taking these after party pictures than I felt at the main event. Main event was filled with things to photograph, at the after party I could use more of my imagination to invent interesting angles. Hopefully the artistic look is good enough for you too. Enjoy!

- Karo

Here you go - the first photoset from Pacifique 2006.

The event was really interesting and I did had (and still have) very mixed emotions about the whole thing. It was a visual heaven - nice decorations, lights, environment and shows. Everything was just like it should be but I felt really stressed out through the evening. There were simply too many visual impulses for a photographer and being able to only capture a small fraction of it made me feel a huge pressure to succeed.

SESSIONS2 had 4 photographer at the event; myself, Tuomas, Karo and Tuula. I teamed up with Tuomas to take some underwater photos (coming up) and when I was shooting with the diving cam Tuomas shot with my 300D (...and the other way around). That's why some of the photos on this set are by Tuomas and some of the photos on his set will be by me. Alltogether it was a really interesting experience.

I've been editing photos ~8 hours today so you could see them as early as possible and am pretty exhausted because of that right now. Hope you enjoy them even if I didn't wait to edit them with fresh eyes.

- Jone

Your picture on the cover of DJ Mag? Battery Energy Drink organizes a fun photopoint at Dance Republic where you can have a photo of yourself behind the decks put on the cover of the famous "TOP-100 DJs" magazine. SESSIONS2 camera crew has been booked for this exciting task. The DJ Mag photos will be available at www.dancerepublic.fi right after the event!

It was about time to go deeper underground for a change, which was a refreshing thing to do after shooting mostly at bigger events & established clubnights. I met with Tuomas at the venue and he was kind enough to let me use one of his L-serie objectives - gotta love the damn thing and it's owner. After thinking about it a bit I ended up not taking many recognizable shots of the clubbers that attented the event to make my photoset go along with the mood of this underground bass-mayhem. Even though the music didn't really do it for me this time it was a real pleasure to be there.

- Jone

Ping? Pong!

Fiilis is a sunday club of soulful electronic dance music in Kouvola & Lappeenranta. The formula of Fiilis is a sum of different factors: Friends, music and relaxing. Sometimes people relax thru dancing, but this time Fiilis was all about chilling and having a jolly time with friends.

More about fiilis from their web site www.fiilis.org

- Karo

Laserpoint 2006 was the first major event ever for me as a event photographer and I felt a bit of pressure about that. The camera crew proved to be excellent and the whole party experience left a good taste in my mouth. Thanks!

- Mikko

Well hello everybody!

I am pleased to announce, that from this day forward I have been given a chance to be a part of the SESSIONS2 camera crew. That makes Pacifique the first project I am in as a part of the team. Looking forward to the main event btw <3

I thought that it would be nice to have some photos from the pre party. It turned out to be one of the most difficult scenes for me to photograph. I need quite a lot of light because I don't like to use the flash, but instead of the light the main side was filled with smoke. That's why all the pictures (except one) are taken from the chill-out zone.

Here are the few pictures for you, hope you like them :)

- Karo

Laserpoint was the biggest event I've been taking fotos in and the difference was as big as the whole thing. So many people and so many stages. I had to take a break from shooting at some point and dance a while to ease the tension. But all in all I had so much fun! Well organised big events also bring new challenges to taking fotos, mainly the thing that all the time I had the feeling that I cant possibly cover everything that went on. Well I tried and I managed to get a few good one also.

Enjoy!

- Tuomas

First of all thanks to Jone / Sessions2 for choosing me as the part of Laserpoint 2006 event photographers.

There were so many beautiful females out there that it was almost distracting me. ;) The lasers and the main-stage lights were outstanding...must say closing act (Genki & Dr. Bone) rocked the house big time at Club-stage. Mad props!

I shot around 600 frames and after 4 hours of editing etc. there were left only 90 frames and half of them are viewable here on Sessions2. See http://bile.luola.net for more pictures! Blablablaa... Enjoy photos! :)

- Martin

My Laserpoint was mostly about 1300 RAW-frames ( ~2,89 photos / every minute the event lasted). Now 00:27AM after some 12 hours of editing I'm done with them - the final count of photos is 65. Enjoy!

Laserpoint was a pretty big challenge for SESSIONS2. I gathered a team of 6 guys to capture the event for the audience to remember - Antti of Klubitus (photos already published), my wingman Tuomas (photos will be published here soon), Martin of bile.luola.net (photos also to be published here), Nomify-Mikko (even more photos!) and Typ0-Jari (video footage will be published here as soon as he's ready with it.). Massive thanks to every one of the guys! It was a pleasure to work with you.

So, many updates are on their way. I just need to sleep a bit before that. ;)

- Jone

Happy new year, everybody! I sure am hoping 2006 will be better than 2005 (which was a horrible year in so many ways).

I spent my new year's eve second time in a row with Rush and it was actually loads of fun. I had to improvise a bit since my trustworth speedlite transmitter had run out of batteries (which was my own fault) and didn't quite fancy that but in the end some of the photos came out quite alright.

- Jone

Thought I wouldn't publish these either? Well, I certainly did think so.

The combination of feeling sick, having a terrible weather outside and my camera being busted after a certain european tour didn't really encourage to stay at the island for long even though I really wanted to. After hanging around for a couple hours and getting frustrated with my camera's AF I decided to call it a night and went home.

- Jone

A year late, a couple of dozen photos short... I bet you thought I'd never publish these!

Due to some unfortunate things that happened just hours before I entered this event I wasn't really in a mood for photography. I only took a very few photos and consider most of them to be way below my standards - still quite a few people have requested me to publish them during the past year or so. Here they are.

- Jone

A cooperative event between Säde and [Reiv:] was certainly interesting. It's been quite a while since there has been a lounge at Gloria and I hadn't seen Eliot Ness behind the decks in a long time. Neon, Proteus and Eliot Ness were the definete kings of the evening even though Eliot's mixing style was a bit to the heavy side most of the time. It made absolutely no difference anyway - I had a blast!

- Jone

Fucking A!

All night of hard banging, mind bombing beats and furious anger comming from the speakers. Those of you who attended this were blessed by the sounds that make lesser men tremble. As the stoneface of the Finish scene has said: "Tää ei ole mitään maitopersemutsinnussijamusiikkia" Dont bother translating it wont do the word or the music any justice! Hardcore to the bone! Sorry for the slow delivery of the pictures, I know, I'm lazy.

- Tuomas

Uh-oh, it's been a while since I've updated the site, but 3 more updates (1 set of photos by me and 2 by Tuomas) are just around the corner. Be patient!

FINRG's Commination Arctica-tour had quite an spectacular ending at Diva, Lahti. Although there were some technical difficulties it really didn't matter that much as the crowd seemed to love what they heard and saw. Most of the night the dancefloor was on fire.

- Jone

The holidays were long gone and I had to blow dust of the lenscovers. The usually so familiar camera felt quite strange in my hands and I had to check and recheck the settings which have never been so well off. Thankfully the hard and banging music made me feel more than just okay in the set. Towards the end I found myself holding the camera with the same ease as ever. Still I must apologise for the small amount of presentable pictures, but hey, not every time is a success even if the surroundings rock!

Thanks again for the Rush organisation for great event even though people don't seem to appreciate foreign artists :(

- Tuomas

Unfortunately Rush pres. "Hardtimez" was a bit ironic name for this event. Usually I try to write very positive feedback, but it's about time to face the facts - there weren't nearly enough people at the event even though Rush had brought over Gaz West and Phil York. There was no apparent reason for the crowd not to show up. Gloria looked fine as hell. Parker Kane worked the lights and the lasers like never before. The VJ squad did their part. The DJs and Carbon Based delivered tune after tune after tune. The price for advance tickets was 12e, which should give no reason not to come.

To be quite frank I feel that the finnish audience can't always appreciate the amount of work that is getting done in order to guarantee a continuous stream of quality events for them to enjoy. Everything should be cheaper, yet at the same time people are demanding more and more. Then again it seems low prices are more important than quality. It just doesn't add up.

- Jone

After I had already spent one night photographing and it was time for the second one in a row I felt exhausted. Well, a couple of drinks and a bit of fooling around (Triton, sorry about that sitting down on the dancefloor-stunt;) with my mates later I was ready to go at it again.

Unfortunately my exhausting shows on the photos this time. It was still cool to shoot at the Säde Halloween event and I've got to say the highlight of the evening for me was when DJ Hellraiser played Marc la Cruz's "Future Prison." It's one my favourite tunes of all times and I hadn't heard it in a bit.

- Jone