Monthly Archives: October 2008

Fran+Jeff_10.11.08_wedding

Good evening everyone!   Here is images from yesterdays wedding.   Fran and Jeff are such a fun couple.  Usually I make Groom laugh, but this time it was reversed.  Jeff were making all of us laugh, so I concentrated on photography even more.  

Both Oksana and I had so much fun.  Everything went smooth.   Day before the wedding I checked out weather thru weather.com site and it said wind is going to be 18 mph, that’s stronger wind that was 3 days ago on “baby photoshoot”.  But it was very nice actually.  

This photo above was taken inside Jeff’s Mom house right before we were heading to ceremony.   I really LOVE this stairs a LOT.   Very classy. 

We had a nice convertible PORSCHE (on stick shift)…:) as a prop.   But we didn’t really have time to drive around.. 

Here is a night shoot that I grabbed right before Oksana and I we finishing photographing (late everying time).    It’s always much more challenging to shoot at night or low light situations because I have to adjust light correct.  For example shoot below without flash it was pitch Black.   All that light is comming mainly from Flash not Light stand.  :)    

1 month old Baby girl

 

Today I had fun photographing baby girl who is 1 month old.  Because it was so windy, I wanted to reschedule apt for another day.  However when I got there weather changed and we even took photos outside for about 3 minutes.  All thou most of the photos were inside. 

Fastest album yet

Hello everyone.   This week I have received many products that clients ordered. 
Post cards for 3 year old Ruslan
2 beautiful canvases for weddings 
family photos,
Leather wedding album for Lena etc.

But I have decided to post couple photos of album I have created this last Sunday.  The event took place last Saturday and I managed to put together and photo shop nice album and I ordered it right of way.  It’s here! 

Because it was a small album for 25 year aniversity I was alble to created with in 10 hrs working time and order it right  of way.  So here it is sitting in my office:)  Ready to be given away:) 

25Year_Sliver_Wedding celebration_10_04_2008

Good afternoon everyone!

If you read my Saturday post, you’ll notice that I said that it’s been the first Saturday where I didn’t have a wedding for a long time. 

However several month before I had my relatives (thou Oksana my wife side) who asked me to photograph event Silver wedding (25 years together).   I wasn’t really explained much, and was under impression that the even will take place at their home.  I thought it’ll be like a birthday or some other event. 

So Saturday where I thought I didn’t have a wedding Oksana and I were driving to this event (and we were 10 minutes late).  So I get a phone call from D.Vova (Groom) asking me “Andrey where are you guys, we’re all waiting for you”.

So my wife goes, “How come he said that?”  Why would anyone wait for us and than “all of us”?  Well when we got there, to my surpriced it was very different that what I explained.
The reason why they didn’t start without us is because they wanted some nice pictures of them D.Vova and T.Oksana  walking down the isle.  I was speeachless at that point.

*There were lots of guest invited.
**There was band
***There was cake
****There was wedding stand where they all sat (just like in real wedding)
*****There were decorations all over.  

I mean no one told me that it’ll be that official.   My wife explained to me it’ll probably be like reqular event where we come in restorant and eat.   

Turned out to be very very different and much more official.  So at that point I was like “Guys come on”  Why didn’t anyone explained to me?  I had to come at least 1 hr earlier and we would have cool photo session somewhere close to that place!  But it turned out very nice!  Lots of Fun!  

I did put together nice 20 page Album on very expansive paper and personalized cover.  I had to finish within Sunday because I have to do so much Post production for my other weddings on weekdays.  And guess what I did it!  IN fact I ordered Album Sunday as well! 

My son’s saturday soccer play off

Good Saturday afternoon everyone!

Wow weather is perfect!  I had so many people who said “I can’t wait until it’ll cool down“.  This is it guys!  Yesterday it was raining.   When I was driving in the car I pulled down my window and air was so cool and fresh!  Nice.  Reminds me of Minnesota and Washington states weather. 

OK here it is!   I’m happy I don’t have a wedding today!  Why?  Because for the last 3 month I had to photographed weddings every Saturday and some Sundays!   So it feels so good and have one vacant (no wedding) Saturday it’s unbelievable! 

This morning I came back from Soccer practice.  Mike team won again 6:1.  His team name is “Fast and the Furious”   It was so muddy. 

Actually I didn’t have my camera with me but as you can see it was pretty mudy.   One kid fell down into mud and there was splashes all over, when I saw that I said “Oh if I only had my camera with me” what an amsome shoot.  So I drove home (4 minutes away)  can came back with camera.  Here is fiew photos. 

Enjoy.

Ruslan turning 3

Good evening everyone.   Couple different people asked me how come I don’t post many things on the Blog?

Here is few answers. 
*Mostly we only post weddings and E-sessions.  
**Practualy we never Bloged any special events that we photographed.  And I don’t have a reason why we didn’t do it.  We just didn’t. 
*** Portrait studio, we didn’t blog because we don’t post studio work on Blog.  But one’s a while we should do it.

Said that, here is last week Bithday card that we created.  Oksana was the photographer, and I had to put together this design.   Enjoy.