Monthly Archives: March 2008

E_session

Good afternoon everyone!   Here is this weeks e-session.    There is always something special about every couple.   For example Vlad is a civil engineer so when choosing location we had to make sure it’s around buildings, leading lines etc.  Very nice couple, I really enjoyed working with them.:)  From tomorrow I’ll go back and add slide shows to all this E-sessions so you guys can see more photos.  So stop back soon.

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Andrey & Alina E-session

Good evening, here it today’s e-session of Andrey and Alina.    E-sessions are awsome.   They help us (Oksana and I) a lot on the wedding day because we got to know couple much more.   It’s very interesting to listen to story how couple meet and how guy proposed. 

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Nik and Ira E-session

Good evening everyone.   Here is E-session from Nik and Irina.   Here is little background how Nik knew us (Oksana and I) as photographers.  

First time I photographed group Intersection where  Nik is playing about 3 month ago.   Two month after that we  photographed huge project on Christmas night were we had to photograph near 170 people in studio that we set up in the building and Nik was there.   So when he called us we set up time where I showed both Nik and his fiance Irina albums and they asked me to photographed their wedding:). 

http://www.andreyp.com/e/Nik_Ira_web/

Link has more photos of E-session. 

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http://www.andreyp.com/e/Nik_Ira_web/

Election time

Ok now I know this doesn’t rime with weddings and e-sessions that I keep posting.  But it’s a good one.  I received email from my Mom couple days ago with this photo.   I just love it.  So much going on.   First at all it’s election time and this woman is voting in the middle of her house, right side of her goat is eating food, all this plates sitting at left side and voting rep is waiting at the back side.    This image worth 1000 words:).  Enjoy

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Today’s 2nd e_session

Here is photo of “baby” Tania.. 

The reason why I say this is because I know Tania since she was 6 years old.  Tania is my wife youngest sister.   When I use to date Oksana (my wife) back in 1994 I was 16 and  Tania  was 6 years old.  

Anyway time went by, and about 8 month ago she got engaged!  Tania and David met in North Carolina when I was photographing my cousin Lina’s wedding.  Sad part of the story is, when they (Tania and David) picked wedding day, it turned out to be the day where I’m booked for another wedding.   So I said: ”Tania from all the days, did you have to pick this one?”  And Tania told me: “Andrey don’t worry I’ll move it”.  But moving the day turned out to be impossible, and I will not even be on Tania’s wedding:(

So this was a privilege for me to take photos for their invitations.  There are so many fun pictures where they are running around having fun.   Oksana and I took aprox  600 images with in  2 1/2 hrs of e-session today.     I’ll try to put up a link to slide-show sometime later.  Promises, promises:)…  

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Weekend

Our weekend. 

Saturday we got up pretty early.   My wife Oksana went to photograph one wedding and I went to photograph another wedding.  And yes, it’s true that I feel nervous pretty much before every wedding, in the same time, I enjoy it so much because of worm atmosphere.   Atmosphere was so relaxed.   On the way back Artem, Ben’s brother, asked me if this was a hard wedding to photograph and I told him “no it wasn’t” because him and other guys were helping me out so much, either carrying equipment and just being there when I needed them to be.    

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Lots of photographs, I haven’t looked through them yet, because photo-shoots are back to back.   Here is 

a surprise that parents did for this couple.  “Releasing of doves” right after reception.  

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I took several thousand images in last 2 days so I’ll try to post more in a week.

My son Mike and camera’s

About a year ago, my Dad gave my son Mike who is 7 now, $60 digital camera and Mike (my son) was going around snapping pictures of everyone.    I thought it was nice so I actually made a folder in my computer for Mike and saved all his photos there.  Some time after that, Christina (3 years old)  when Mike was away got a hold of him camera and broke it.  

Shortly after that, Mike said “Dad Christina broke my camera, give me another one”.  First I told him that I don’t have another camera for him, but than realized that there was  8 million pixels Olympus C 8080 that I don’t use any more.  I paid about $800 in Costco couple years ago.   Anyway, I gave Mike that camera but he took way too many blurry photos because there is not enough light inside.   

Anyway, somehow I gave Mike my Canon camera and instantly he said “Daddy now this is a camera !!!”.  

“Oh boy” OK fine, so yesterday, when my third Canon camera with new lens came in (that I purchased for my wife) I was reading manual and Mike started to take pictures.

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This is the photo that Mike took of me.  I never told Mike how to take photos.  
When he picked up new camera I just told him how to focus zoom in and zoom out.

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So today Mike asked me to play with him and when my wife Oksana was working on albums,
we went to the field with him.

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We were sitting on the sidewalk taking pictures of each other. 

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This week E-sessions

Good afternoon everyone.   

The weather in Sacramento is finally awesome!   Especially last 2 weeks!   We were keep postponing e-sessions until now because weather is so much warmer.    Here is couple different sessions we photographed this week. 

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Here is a link to view more photos http://www.andreyp.com/e/Luda_Sergey/

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link to see more photos  http://www.andreyp.com/e/Diana_Peter/

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link to see more photos http://www.andreyp.com/e/Diana_Cosmin/