Not too long ago I have posted on the fan page (facebook) a sentence saying that we absolutely love our clients. It truly is a blessing to do work for people who are so cool and fun. And last Monday was yet another proof for that. Daniel and Catherina are simply fantastic. Besides being a great looking couple, they came to our shoot well prepared with multiple outfits and a whole bunch of props. At some point it felt like they brought their living room set out in the open field. We were thrilled to photograph all that and spend a lot of time enjoying both the setting and shooting!  We ended up have tons of great images and decided to break them apart in two posts. So stay tuned for D and C engagements session part II that is coming up next…

and for now check these out….

For most part of my life I’ve been very lazy to pick up on reading. Even though I enjoy a fun written book, most of them are not aimed at being fun, and a big part of them is like torture. Sometimes I wonder if the smart guys that write them put in those long and complicated words just to prove how smart they are. I would argue that, even though there is about 160 000 new titles of books published every year!!!!, there aren’t very many talented writers. Some of the books are so dry and complicated, often times I can’t even finish one chapter. I think that books are exactly like photographs!!! Believe it or not, it is. Besides all the sugar coating and examples to flavor up your work, there is a subject and a certain “framework” of the book within every book – you can’t just write about anything and everything, right? and the simpler it is the more attention there is to the subject. Bingo! Same principles work, for the most part, with a great photograph. You need  to have a captivating subject, or a story, some sugar coating to make it pretty – and all of that you have to fit in a frame of a DSLR.

So, currently I’m reading a book by Mark Hughes “Buzzmarketing”. I think  he’s an interesting writer with a good sense  of humor. Not the funnest subject, but a fun read! One of the fascinating things that I learned so far from it is that in today’s world we, as consumers, are absolutely bombarded with more that 1000 advertisement messages per day. That makes most traditional and accepted tools of marketing less effective and a lot of money wasted!

Nevertheless, below are photos from a very fun engagement session of Nata and Paul that we had last weekend. It was almost spoiled by the bad weather, but in the last minute everything turned out to be great: the day, the couple and the shoot…

Sorry for a late post again. Its kind of hard to run a family and a business at the same time. So here is another late post. Zhenya and Lilya engagements session. Don’t you love the spring time?

Each time we would listen to last week’s weather forecast it would make us feel disappointed and sad. It was supposed to rain for ten days straight, starting from Monday of last week. Honestly, I enjoy rain. It brings back sweet memories from my childhood. Growing up in Moscow where it would rain on regular basis, I clearly remember all of us being at home, not going outside and me pulling out  my full “arsenal” of toys, playing in front of a couch where my dad would seat and read while it rains. For some reason, those memories always bring that sweet, comfortable feeling, and each time it rains I want to get a hot cup of coffee to sit down and enjoy how Nathan plays. Even through, as I said, I like rain, we weren’t too happy with it last week. We had an engagement session with Nick and Theresa scheduled for last Saturday and really didn’t want it to be spoiled. The thing is that both of them are really fun people. When we met them for the first time a few weeks ago, we thought that they would be a perfect couple for us, and we would be honored to be photographers for their wedding. And rain definitely would not fit their fun, open, and “always smiling” personalities. Luckily on Saturday we had a bright, sunny day with a few puffy clouds. In other words – it was perfect! The whole shoot went amazingly well. Most of the credit, of course, goes to Nick and Theresa for picking great outfits and bringing absolutely cool props. All I had to do was pressing the shutter button as much as I could :)

So, here are some images from that day… hope you will enjoy them…

Both of their last names begins with a letter “B”, and i thought it would be  awesome idea to use it as a prop :)