Weddings are magical. Sometimes, people don’t really notice or pay attention to all the beauty that’s going on throughout a wedding day. From the very morning to the very last minute of reception, a wedding day is overflowing with care, love, and authentic emotions. That’s why we are honored to do what we do. If you think about it, a couple entrusts us this privilege to be a part of the most important day in their lives. That means we’ll get to see mom cry as her daughter puts on a wedding dress, dad, with teary eyes give this wonderful speech on how much he treasures his kids… etc. It really means a lot to us – lives of ordinary people become very inspiring to capture art in its very raw form.

And this is the very special day of Jonathan and Stacey. Their day was filled with lots of love and laughter and it was wonderful to be a part of it. Take a sneak peek  of what happened …

Howdy everyone. This is a totally delayed post with images from our Portland/Seattle trip. And those of you who expected a post with our latest wedding from last Sat – we’re just teasing you. Keep being patient – its coming up next:))

This was the first ever time when we had a privilege to display our work at the local show called Art Hop. It was totally last minute thing. We were contacted by “The Loft Gallery” on Monday, and by Thursday we already had all our prints mounted and ready to be displayed. Btw, if you any photographers are looking for a great and awesome photo lab, we would definitely suggest White House Custom Colour (WHCC). They are really quick and have an amazing customer service – we were impressed.

We’ve never done anything like that before, so we didn’t really know how many people were going to show up, what they are going to say, and what we should talk about. But it turned out to be fantastic. We were so impressed with the amount of people that came to visit us there and all the great feedback we’ve received on our work. Of course, chocolate chip cookies, appetizers and wine added more comfort to the settings and let us enjoy great experience of showcasing our work.

So, we wanted to thank Luke Moritz for having us at his place and helping us display our prints. We really appreciate it and are looking forward to do things like that more often.

here is what was going on that evening…

Today I was feeling a little homesick. After all, I haven’t visited Russia since I came here and once in a while you get a strong urge to go back to the place where you grew up. Just to entertain you a bit, here is a few interesting differences between Russia and US, according to my past :

1st: you can go to college in Russia after completing 9th grade. However, if you finish 11yrs in school, then you will only need 2 yrs in college to get your BA.

2nd: some students in schools are very creative in ways to cheat in classrooms,  I would even consider it to be art

3rd: typical speeding ticket was nearly 90 rubles, which is 3 dollars

And these photos are from a very scenic engagement photo-shoot of Jonathan and Stacey. This place is somewhere near Morro Bay, Ca – and of course we had to drive a bit to get there, but it was totally worth it. In fact this was the very place where this couple got engaged – so, this session must have been very special to them. And to be honest with you, being there and seeing all the beauty around it, I wanted to propose to my wife again – it “sorta” moves you :)