Blog | Virve Kulmala

Happy World Book Day!

World Book Day is a celebration of authors, books and copyrights – but most importantly, it’s a celebration of reading. Reading is definitely a very important skill and World Book Day is marked in over 100 countries all around the world! In fact, it’s the biggest celebration of its kind, designated by UNESCO as an [...]

books, rose, roses, still life, still life photography, world book day

Solitude in White won bronze

I am sooooo happy to announce that Solitude in White was awarded in the Finnish winter -photo competition with a bronze medal 🙂 Finnish news channel Yle reported on this topic (in finnish): Valokuvakilpailu parhaimmat julkaistiin Keiteleellä This image has been one of the most popular of my images of all times and it has [...]

black and white photography, high key, hirsiaitta, Karttula, lumi, maaseutu, maisema, monochrome, snow, Solitude in white, Suomen talvi, talvi

Happy New Year 2016!

I hope everyone had a pleasant and relaxing X-mas – and can now start the year 2016 with fully charged batteries! 🙂 I´m definitely a Christmas person and I enjoy all the things related to the season: baking and cooking, getting and wrapping the presents, light of the candles, decorating the house and the smell [...]

Estonia, fireworks, New Year, Tallinn, Travel

Super Blood Moon

It´s always very exciting when a rare astronomical phenomenon takes place. We all are children of the stars, after all. I didn’t manage to capture the rare Super Blood Moon -phenomenon (unfortunately it was way too cloudy here in Turku at the time of the lunar eclipse), but a fascinating Supermoon halo effect and my [...]

Fullmoon, Lunar, Lunar eclipse, Moon, Super Blood Moon, Supermoon