Willow visuals

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Goodbye Summer – Hello Autumn!

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We are well in the middle of Autumn and in Helsinki the mornings are often quite chilly. As much as I was craving for some cooler weather after the hot Summer days, now I wish I had just a little bit more of those warm evenings. 🙂 As a “Goodbye Summer 2015″, I thought I´d share with you one of my last outdoor photo-shoots from August.

I took these pics of Zsuzsi, who I´ve known since university years and we´ve been good friends ever since. We live in different countries now, but every time we meet, we can quickly pick up where we left off. So, when we set a meet-up before I left back to the North, I brought my camera with me to take some shots of her. And it was SO.MUCH.FUN!! 🙂 We were chatting about work and life and about late-Summer vacation. Time passed super-fast but at the end of the evening we got lots of great photos. 🙂

Zsuzsi, you are absolutely gorgeous!! (P.s., I adore your always so cool accessories. 😉 )

You can see the full gallery of the photo-shoot here.lifestyleshoot_fuzsu4lifestyleshoot_fuzsu10

Willow visuals is…

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People often ask me where did the name “Willow visuals” come from? It´s very simple actually, but it needs a little bit of explanation.

For a very long time, I had been contemplating taking a turn in my career. I studied business and I have been working for companies for some time, but in the past years I realised that I wanted to do something more creative. Art (especially photography and illustration) has always been my passion. Besides working, I took art and photo classes that I really-really enjoyed, so little by little the idea of changing my career path towards photography and design felt like the right thing to do.

The final decision about taking the big step was during Spring 2015. I remember I was sitting in front of my almost ready business plan, staring at the blank space on the paper, where my company´s name was supposed to be. And then the inspiration came from the Spring bouquet next to me with beautiful willow branches. I liked the idea that Spring and willow symbolize. It´s taking a deep breath and have a new start, with a fresh look to the future. 🙂 So at that moment half of the name was born. “Visuals” came later, when I decided that I wanted to combine photography, illustration and graphic design in my work.

I know, that a lot of photographers and visual artists use their own name for their business. I chose another way, because I feel that “Willow visuals” is simply the perfect fit for what I am doing and why I am doing it. So here I am now and I´m very happy and excited about this new beginning. 🙂

– Petra

Hello World! :)

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So the day has arrived, my blog is finally here, it´s online! 🙂 Such an exciting time for me!! For the last some months I have been in a deep creative mode trying to put together every little piece of this site. I´ve been editing, browsing through template options, choosing colors, changing stuffs…and it was worth all the effort!! I couldn´t be happier with the result, which is now here for You.

It´s here to share with you my work, my passion, my art, my vision and style.

All in all, I would like to welcome you to my new world, welcome to Willow visuals! 🙂

– Petra

p.s.: Little by little I edit the site to make it prettier and easier to navigate, so if you find any bug, please let me know. 😉

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