I sent today an order to Ifi, which is a Finnish photo service. But not just ordinary digital photos. I wanted to make life easier. I used the possibility to make a book of my photos (kuvakirja). The book has 36 pages and over 100 photos and some texts that I have written. And it was fairly easy to make with a program I could download from their site.
I got this idea from Kelli, who is Rick's wife in Salt Lake City. And Rick is my relative. Kelli and Rick had been in NYC and made this hardcovered book of their holiday photos. It was really nice and professional looking. Kelli told me a name of this American photo making service. But I'm in Finland now, so I checked which ones do offer the similar kind of service.
Ifi's photobook "kuvakirja" starts at pocket size 6,95 euros to hardcover deluxe models, which start at 29,95 euros. Until 60 pages and 360 photos.
Extrafilm.fi has somekind of "kuvakirja" but doesn't say how much
Colorkolmio advertises new possibility: "kuvakirja", but doesn't say how much
Colormailer says you can order "albumit" beginning from 9,50 euros. Hardcover deluxe versions start at 29,95. Until 50 pages.
Fujikuvat tells also that their novelty is "kuvakirja" but how much and where is bit unclear.
Kuvakirja.fi makes like the names tell you - books of photos. They start at 26,35 euros, but if you order more the price drops. 20-100 pages.
Anne-Riitta told me that she had tried Multikuva. She said that the hard covered book was fine and paper was of good quality.
And of course, there are many European photo services that have photobooks. The shipping charges can be a little bit more than in Finland, but if you are lucky you can find something with very nice quality and prices. Just write to Google "photobook" and see what happens.
I have to say, I really would like some more price competition in photobooks in Finland. The photo services could also put their prices in their internet pages.
If this photobook is going to be a success and doesn't fail me, for example in quality, I'm never going to buy a normal album in my life again. It is such a dull work of sticking or glueing your photos to the albums.
03/01/2007
01/01/2007
Who visits me?
Kiinni jäit!!!
Koska luet tätä tekstiä, se tarkoittaa että sinun täytyy kommentoida. Kommentoi ihan mitä haluat, kunhan teet sen. Laita tämä teksti omaan blogiisi ja nappaa kaikki blogiasi lukevat.
Itse jäin kiinni Hannan judanssit-blogissa.
You are caught!!!
Because you are reading this post, that means that you also have to comment. You can comment whatever you like, as long as you just comment. Put this text to your own blog and catch everybody reading your blog. I was caught reading "Hannan judanssit" blog.
Koska luet tätä tekstiä, se tarkoittaa että sinun täytyy kommentoida. Kommentoi ihan mitä haluat, kunhan teet sen. Laita tämä teksti omaan blogiisi ja nappaa kaikki blogiasi lukevat.
Itse jäin kiinni Hannan judanssit-blogissa.
You are caught!!!
Because you are reading this post, that means that you also have to comment. You can comment whatever you like, as long as you just comment. Put this text to your own blog and catch everybody reading your blog. I was caught reading "Hannan judanssit" blog.
24/12/2006
Merry Christmas
... and very happy New Year 2007!
Here's still one photo from Ithaca, NY. My husband took it a little before he left the upstate in December.
17/12/2006
Dog show
I went to dog show last weekend here in Helsinki. This video is from there. It was a nice show, I went to see the agility races. They are always much fun.
My husband got back from the USA today. Safe and sound.
The dog was very happy and so was I. There's a small Christmas tree in our living room. I thought it might be nice to have at least a small one. It brings you that Christmas feeling.
13/12/2006
Finding some photos
I went through my book shelf and found some older photos. These were the ones I had taken in 2003. They brought back some memories of that summer. 
Like this:
Here's my relative Kristine from USA in front of the so called "poor man". Wooden statue is in front of the church (this case Ilmajoki church) and in older times you were meant to put your coins inside for helping the poor.
Kristine and his father Waino were visiting us June 2003.
Panu's brother Mikko and Minttu got married in Hollola June 2003. Life really goes fast. It seems to me like yesterday.
Like this:
Here's my relative Kristine from USA in front of the so called "poor man". Wooden statue is in front of the church (this case Ilmajoki church) and in older times you were meant to put your coins inside for helping the poor.
Kristine and his father Waino were visiting us June 2003.
Panu's brother Mikko and Minttu got married in Hollola June 2003. Life really goes fast. It seems to me like yesterday.
10/12/2006
Bread crumbs revenge
I went to have lunch with my brother and father today. My father was visiting Helsinki, he had a meeting here yesterday. I can recommend the Empire Plaza in Kamppi Shopping Mall. Nice food. Not as good as I ate in Chinatown, NYC, but OK for Helsinki.
I hadn't seen my father for three or four months so we had a lot of catching up to do. I told about my trip to the USA.
After the lunch my father left for train and my brother and I, we went to do some Christmas shopping. It's always so hard to decide what to buy. I'm not a much of a shopper. It always amazes me that somebody can consider it to be a nice relaxing hobby. For me it's just a lot of stress.
Later I visited a friend of mine who has a small baby. It was nice, baby was a cutie and her other child, who is now almost 2 years old, had grown a lot.
When I got home, dog was nowhere to be seen. This is not unusual, oftentimes he sleeps downstairs and is too
lazy to get up. But what I did see, was some pieces of plastic and some bread crumbs on the kitchen floor. The naughty thing had somehow managed to drop my bread from the table. And of course, eaten it all.
"You surely have some stomach ache now", I said to him when he finally came to see me. I think this might have been a somekind of revenge for me not being around. You know, he sometimes does things just out of boredom or to annoy us. Usually he gets the trash bin from the toilet and spreads the papers and such around.
I hadn't seen my father for three or four months so we had a lot of catching up to do. I told about my trip to the USA.
After the lunch my father left for train and my brother and I, we went to do some Christmas shopping. It's always so hard to decide what to buy. I'm not a much of a shopper. It always amazes me that somebody can consider it to be a nice relaxing hobby. For me it's just a lot of stress.
Later I visited a friend of mine who has a small baby. It was nice, baby was a cutie and her other child, who is now almost 2 years old, had grown a lot.
When I got home, dog was nowhere to be seen. This is not unusual, oftentimes he sleeps downstairs and is too
lazy to get up. But what I did see, was some pieces of plastic and some bread crumbs on the kitchen floor. The naughty thing had somehow managed to drop my bread from the table. And of course, eaten it all."You surely have some stomach ache now", I said to him when he finally came to see me. I think this might have been a somekind of revenge for me not being around. You know, he sometimes does things just out of boredom or to annoy us. Usually he gets the trash bin from the toilet and spreads the papers and such around.
06/12/2006
Back home in Helsinki
I must admit that this blog has been severely neglected during the past three months. But now I'm back home from my trip to the US.
The dog was happy to see me and I was happy to see him. Now he is watching what I'm doing here.
The evenings are boring because my husband is still in Ithaca. It will take about 2 weeks until he is home as well. We talk together with this Skype program. It's quite marvelous and let's us talk for free with our computers.
The work seems to be pretty much the same, I have some new things to learn, but that's it. I though it might be more different because there have been some major changes in the organisation.
And what I have been doing since I came back to Finland. Well, I have been working, taking the dog out for walks, swimming, cleaning, reading some books (Nick Hornby), watching some TV (news, The Lord of the Ring and some episodes of Lost) and shopping. I went for example to IKEA. It was crowded.
It's the Independence Day of Finland today. 6.12. We have been independent for 89 years now. This day is also a national holiday.
Later I'm going to watch TV. They will show, as always, the annual Gala Reception at the President's Palace in Helsinki, hosted by President of Finland.
If you want to peek what it looks like, see it as direct show (or later as videos) in YLE pages. Kuvagalleria = picture gallery, Videot = videos.
Links:
The dog was happy to see me and I was happy to see him. Now he is watching what I'm doing here.
The evenings are boring because my husband is still in Ithaca. It will take about 2 weeks until he is home as well. We talk together with this Skype program. It's quite marvelous and let's us talk for free with our computers.
The work seems to be pretty much the same, I have some new things to learn, but that's it. I though it might be more different because there have been some major changes in the organisation.
And what I have been doing since I came back to Finland. Well, I have been working, taking the dog out for walks, swimming, cleaning, reading some books (Nick Hornby), watching some TV (news, The Lord of the Ring and some episodes of Lost) and shopping. I went for example to IKEA. It was crowded.
It's the Independence Day of Finland today. 6.12. We have been independent for 89 years now. This day is also a national holiday.
Later I'm going to watch TV. They will show, as always, the annual Gala Reception at the President's Palace in Helsinki, hosted by President of Finland.
If you want to peek what it looks like, see it as direct show (or later as videos) in YLE pages. Kuvagalleria = picture gallery, Videot = videos.
Links:
- The president's press release about the Reception
- Independence Day of Finland in Wikipedia.
03/10/2006
Visiting relatives in Utah, USA
The last week I have been visiting my relatives who live in Orem and Provo, Utah. I also visited a mining town called Scofield. During my visit we also went to see some of the beautiful canyons in Utah and northern Arizona.
This is from Red Canyon, Utah.
This is from Red Canyon, Utah.
08/09/2006
In Ithaca, NY, USA
I have spent the last week in Ithaca, NY. My husband is a visiting scholar in Cornell University this fall semester. I have had a really nice time. Next weekend we are going to travel to New York city.
17/08/2006
Holiday in Lithuania
We spent our summer holiday this year in Lithuania. The photo is from Nida beach in Curonian spit. Waves were nice and the weather just perfect.
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