As the winner of last Spring’s LIFE.com/iStock Photo Contest, Laur-Kalevi Tamm earned the right to shoot for LIFE.com. In the gallery that follows, highlights from his documentation of a place he knows well: his thousand-year-old hometown of Tallinn, Estonia.
The biggest challenge Tamm faced shooting in Tallinn? Focus. Not with the camera, but himself: “When photographing at home, all my concerns are with me; I can’t concentrate as easily as when I’m traveling.”
(see more — A Local’s View of Estonia)

