A quick, late night post for your guys. I don’t think I have enough energy to write lots of stuff. Kinda taking it easy tonight. We ARE doing good though. Lately, we’ve been meeting our new clients – and pretty much we’re amazed at what kind of people we get to hang out with and eventually becoming friends with. Truly blessed!

Below, we would like you to meet a brand new person – baby boy Roscoe! We have had a family shoot with Marshal, Laura and Hazel earlier this year and now we were pleased to see and photograph their second child – Roscoe. Check these out:

Earlier this year, I have blogged about one of the hobbies of my past – I used to be into collecting coins. If you missed it and interested to read it, you can try to find it on our blog here under “my coins” tag. Well, this time I wanted to tell you about another of the hobbies of my past, which was poetry. I pretty much was in love with (and still am, maybe not as much though) good quality, Russian poetry. To me, a good poem consists of a great idea, rhythm, and rhyme. Its kind of frustrating to me to look at modern poetry and see great topic/theme and rhythm and no rhyme. Most people won’t agree with me on that. And I think it comes from me being used to Russian language. Its a very rich language with nouns that can have seven different endings depending on the sentence structure. That makes it much easier to rhyme, and in fact poems that don’t rhyme are called “white”.

I guess, all of that wouldn’t matter much and most people wouldn’t care, if that wasn’t a big part of our love story. When I proposed to my wife, I wrote a two page poem with a proposal line being the very last one – which of course had the shock effect. Yana was speechless and I had to wait a little while for an answer :)) It was “yes” :))

And these images are from a beautiful engagement session here, in Fresno, CA. Chris and Shannon have an amazing love story and are both very romantic and loving. We’re honored to be witnesses of their wedding day as their photographer…

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And these are from our recent trip to OR/WA. We really enjoyed a break from scorching heat of Fresno and dry, yellow look of central California. Its beautiful up there – so green and refreshing! Check these out:

Recently, Yana and I took a trip up North to visit Portland, Vancouver, and Seattle. It was a great opportunity for us to take a break from everything (even from our kids:) and enjoy the time together, the freedom of doing whatever you want! Many times in the past we would take I5 all the way up to Seattle and back, never stopping by anywhere else. And this time we had a great chance to check out the great city of Portland. We really enjoyed it. We left it being amazed and with a lot of sweet memories to draw us back there again – we were simply stunned and impressed! Of course, without great guides (adorable couple that we met in Vancouver – Igor and Tanya), we probably would never see the places we enjoyed so much, so thanks to them.

And second best part of our trip was meeting this fantastic couple – Igor and Tanya! I don’t think I’ve ever seen such authenticity in a relationship as the one they have.  They’re not afraid to express their feelings and its beautiful to watch. It was our great pleasure to work with them – everything they did was so effortless and felt so natural, as if love belonged to them…

Its finally here! Well we’ve been wanting to share this beauty for a while, Let us introduce to you our studio sample wedding album. It is a 11×14 flush mount, custom designed and printed album by Renaissance. This thing is a pure joy! And with lifetime warranty guarantees a fantastic product for the rest of your life! Of course, to really appreciate it, you need to hold it in your hands…