Inspiration. Where does it come from? Well, apparently it came from God. He is the only true creator. Often times we only recreate or repeat what he has already done, or placed in our minds. That was generally speaking. However, personally for us, in order to create good images, we need to get inspired to do so. To explain what I mean, lately, after not playing and not wanting to play soccer for more than a year, just by thinking about the World Cup in South Africa, and watching a few of the games, I started craving to go on the field and mess around with the ball.( if you hate soccer – don’t leave a comment:) So, there are certain things that we do that trigger in us this creative mood for taking good photos. For Yana that would be magazines, Anthropologie (not the science:), some of the great photographers’ work, and just holding a camera in her hands moves her to be creative. And as for me, often times I would listen to Mozart’s Requiem right before a photo shoot(what??? a death mass???) – but its an extremely powerful piece of music, great movies, calm, but powerful songs, simple piano melodies, and great acting are the things that move me, and make me want to create. I’m sure there are probably more things that I forgot to mention and things that we haven’t discovered yet.

And below is a wedding of Eugene and Lilya that took place a couple of weeks ago. Very bright and sunny day complemented this couple’s open and pleasant personalities. And we hope that these images will remind them of this day for the rest of their lives.

I’ve said many times before that we’ve been blessed with great clients! To this day we haven’t had a single person that would be difficult to work with. It definitely set positive feelings to it and every time sessions are  coming up we’re eagerly anticipating them. In case with Nick and Theresa we were more than just excited for several reasons. One of them is that the wedding ceremony and reception were held at one of the nicest venues in town -  the Grand . This place was recently fixed and restored to its 1920′s look and has this elegant,vintage feel to it. Another reason for our excitement was that we knew ahead of time Nick and Theresa put in a lot of attention into details and decorations. It was really cool to see all the effort and creativity in all little things. In overall, the whole day felt like it was well prepared and thought through and we definitely enjoyed being part of it. And probably the most important reasons of all was having this wonderful connection with bride and groom. Despite the fact that we knew them only for a couple of months we had a great level of understanding and felt like we were a part of their group of family and friends! Congratulations to you guys! You totally rock!!!!

Venue: the Grand 1401

Catering: Grand Occasions

Introducing to you – Salon Innovations. Really cool place. Very professional, clean, stylish and vintage looking place. I was impressed!

Our first wedding of 2010 happened to be on the 1st of January. We enjoyed shooting a wedding again – lots of stress, but very rewarding. We get a kick out of capturing different face expressions and emotions during ceremony and reception. There was a good mix of people with different backgrounds – a couple of families flew here all the way from Japan!!! Bassem and Misa are definitely a great couple and it was very nice to be a witness of their celebration, so here are some shots from that day: