After a week's break, esthet.org is back on a rock solid new host, Segment Publishing, based in Sydney. Big thumbs up to Jeremy Bogan, the host owner, for making the transition so easy, and thumbs down to Uplinkearth for their shoddy, robot-like approach to customer service and unacceptable amounts of downtime (email, Urchin stats, web hosting, etc). Hats off also (and a large pitcher of beer) to Mr Antipixel for his assistance with the move. As the new DNS has not propagated 100% yet, a few of you won't be finding your way here until the weekend.

Today, here is the final installment of my mini tour of Eastern Europe photography highlights begun a few weeks ago, concluding with an extended post focusing on Finland.

On the nature front, first up is a small collection of images of bold red sunsets in Finland (via Coudal). Another nature photographer, Juha Kinnunen, captured the other-worldly colours of the Aurora Borealis seen in central Finland.

This Finnish photojournalist that I have previously posted about is definitely worth a second look. Ilkka Uimonen has a most impressive portfolio site. His work can also be seen on foto8 (a story on surviving in the mountains of Afghanistan), Magnum Photos (a collection of black and white images of the turmoil in Israel), National Geographic (where he offers advice to aspiring photojournalists), and POY (he won First Place in the Spot News category of the Magazine division in 2003).

Pekka Nikrus has a great photography site with an extensive collection of the work he has shot and exhibited over the past ten years. The Cosmos Hotel series comprises a beautiful collection of palladium prints.

Veikko Kankkunen's site features a lovely collection of dance stills.

Mikko Säteri has an impressive flash site with fashion and advertising photography.

Dreamland by Jukka Korhonen is a collection of moody, sepia-toned stills of abandoned objects, such as a bus, a boat, and a kiosk.

The Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki houses a large collection of contemporary and early Finnish photography as well as foreign daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and ferrotypes. The Finnish version of the website is much more extensive than the English one. The Helsinki City Museum also has a vast historical photography collection.

Under the Helsinki Sky contains 8300 photographs of Helsinki shot between 1969 and 1987 by Eeva and Simo Rista. Follow the instructions on how to search...if you can't read Finnish, then consider it a wonderful lucky dip with all kinds of interesting visual treats! What is this woman doing?

Since 1971, Arno Rafael Minkkinen has been photographing himself as part of the landscape.

In closing, I just want to note my sadness in learning today of last week's passing of St Jude, long-time geekgrrl, cyberfeminist pioneer, author of the Cyberpunk Handbook and How to Mutate and Take Over the World, and ex-senior editor of Mondo2000, the first magazine to give me a taste of cyberculture back in 1990. She coined the expression "Girls Need Modems" (I even had that as a t-shirt in the mid-90s) and was to be the first of my cyberfeminist role models over the coming decade.