Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the past, particularly about the years we’ve lived together with Yana. I couldn’t help but joyfully smile each time I would realize how amazingly blessed we are to do what we adore and love in life. Of course, it is wonderful to own a business, build your own schedule, be your own boss kind of things. And sure, those are nice byproducts of owning a business, but not even near its the focus of it. Yet, one of the biggest blessings in life  is to know how you’re wired and to be able to apply it in your life. And that of itself makes me feel happy.

To be honest with you, its not really that we knew photography would be our calling. We sort of stumbled on it as life did its unpredictable turns with us. And at first it was unbelievable and scary to invest into something that you aren’t sure of at all. In fact, when we first picked up a DSLR in our hands, we knew absolutely zero about anything in regards to photography as an art, or the equipment. I remember picking up a lens not even knowing how to read all that its written on it. It was really hard getting into photography. Besides constantly having a million of new questions about every single thing, we didn’t have absolutely anybody who would be nice and kind enough to share some of that information with us. So little by little, every bit of a thing we now do, we had to learn it on our own. Try things out, see what works and what doesn’t and simply rely on God and each other for support and strength to go on.

So, looking back at our journey and counting our blessings, we wanted to give back and share some of the valuable information, starting from the first days we owned a DSLR up until today. Surely, some of you are in the same boat as we were back in the days and through a series of many personal posts, we’ll be sharing bits and pieces of most important steps we’ve taken along the way.

Annnddd…. recently we took some time off and took a trip to Santa Barbara…here is just a few out of gazillion photos we took!