Julius Koivistoinen is a young Finnish student passioned about photography. He's mostly self taught but has already been working as a photographer for a couple of magazines published not only in Finland but worldwide, and his photos have reached to become the cover shots of those magazines for plenty of times. In addition to commercial work, he loves to work on personal projects and with smaller clients. Currently he's available for assignments near Helsinki and Lahti.
Be sure to visit his portfolio and Flickr page!
The title says it all.
Today I participated in Tour de Helsinki which was a 140,1 kilometres long bike race. First time riding such a long distance at once, and especially with a fixie, so I’m quite happy of my result.
That’s me in the left hand side. Photo by Mikko Rantahakala. More of his TDH2010 photos here.
140,1 kilometres in 4 hours, 42 minutes and 42 secons. With one gear and no brakes. I positioned 816th out of 1683 riders completing the race.
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In addition to airsoft guns I’ve been handling real deals for quite a while at work already but just now I got the chance to test out shooting with one.
During this week we were at a shooting range in Helsinki with Jarkko Koskinen from Rekyyli. The firearm I was practicing with was a 9mm pistol CZ-999. The model is used by the Serbian army.
Besides shooting from a standing position from the distances of 5, 10 and 15 meters, my accuracy was put on a test from a distance as great as 25 meters (27 yards) too. Those shots I fired the gun supported as seen in the video below. I shot five to six bullets at a time and I’m prertty proud of my best result: the pattern of six shots could be fitted in my fist.
Here’s some images from the shooting range photographed by Jarkko. The lights were set by me though.
Luckily Jarkko was carrying a video camera with him too. Here’s a short clip from the shooting range. The title is: “Julius uses his head”… 
I figured out that the photos of me and my bike I uploaded two weeks ago were so very lousy for not showing the beautiful bicycle in its full potential. So here’s an another try!
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Now go and enjoy it, man!
Oh, and the bike in the background is Kona’s Paddy Wagon. I just love the single gear system for it’s simplicity and low need for maintentance. It’s a no-brainer for me!
It has a fixed rear hub too, but to me that may be a bit too hardcore for now… I will definitely give it a go later though.
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