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| Family Portraits | 11.17.2008 |
If you are looking for a family portrait this holiday season, we offer portrait sessions at location of your choice or at your house. You can order them online from our product store. Images from the portrait session can be used for custom holiday cards or prints.
FAMILY PORTRAIT SESSION - ORDER NOW!
or call for details: 360-281-9575
Have a nice day!
| Gift Cards | 11.16.2008 |
We have some gift cards available for purchase online at our product store. If you are looking for a gift this holiday season, why don’t you give them a gift cards and we take care of them by creating beautiful portraits.
| Irina + Oleg: One Year Latter | 10.27.2008 |
It was, actually, one year and five month since Irina and Oleg got married. We had an anniversary photo session last weekend. I was good too see them again and know that they are doing great and very happy together. Check out a few images from their portrait session. It is a great weather these days, full of fall’s color which I was trying to capture. Happy Anniversary!
great portraits. beautiful location.
Oleksandr these photos are breathtaking! I absolutely love the way you captured the autumn color. I feel as if I am standing in the picture. The exposure of the photo is just perfect 
| Mariyana | 10.17.2008 |
I just finished processing images from Mariana and Sergey wedding. I really love this one. Enjoy!
beautiful shot Oleksandr. look forward to seeing the others.
| Baby’s First Year: Kathryn’s Baptism | 10.04.2008 |
Little Kathryn was baptized in St. Irene Church in Portland. Check out a few images from that day below.
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| Mariyana + Sergey: Wedding | 09.29.2008 |
It was really nice and warm day for Mariyana and Sergey to get married. Everybody was happy and looked amazing. Just look at Mariyana’s pictures. She was just a gorgeous bride! Olga Voronov (Madame de Fluers) provided beautiful flowers once again. I don’t have any hesitation to recommend her to my clients becuase I am shure she will do a great job.
It was also a busy day. We had very tight schedule and didn’t have time to go and shoot some bride and groom portraits. So, when the reception was over it was already dark. They let limo go and stayed with me to shoot some portraits. It was all dark around, no city lights and only place which had some lighting was the place by the reception hall with some columns connecting two buildings. We were shooting for two hours until bride almost felt asleep and my camera stopped locking focus and could focus anymore. Check out some of my favorite images below and, please, leave some comments in the comment section below. They are always welcome. If you don’t know what to say, just congratulate the couple, or tell me what is your favorite image is.
Flowers: Olga Voronov (Madame de Fluers), 503.760.1000
Ceremony: Church of Grace
Reception: St. George Orthodox Church
The lighting in the getting ready room was just amazing. I could shoot all day there. This shot is straight from the camera with some little cropping. BTW, all shots here are straight from the camera with some added warmth.
This is my favorite shot. I like how light is striking the door, picking a couple from the dark night and produces long shadows behind them:
Hey Mariyana. I’m not much on pretty words,but you look truly stunning in the wedding gown. Quite a contrast to the grubby Mine coveralls I usually see you in.
I especially like the first one of you beside the vase of roses. You look like you should be on the cover of a DVD or magazine. Beautiful !
And the 4th image of you and Sergey(Beside the pillar). You have a kinda distant “misterious” look… Like the Mona Lisa.
Your photoghrapher composed that very well.
Congratulations, and good luck with the married life.
Steve
I really miss you Mariyana, my wonderful and beatiful daughter. You can’t amagine how much I miss you you. You and Serge look really good together. I bless you, my children, to have a beatiful life just how beatiful you are. I wish you a life filled with joy and happiness. May God bless you for every moment of your life.
-Your mom and Dad
From the young teen who first came to Alaska and stole my heart as she read novels placed in-between the pages of the textbooks to a young woman who traveled on a mission to India and witnessed first hand the depths of dispair. How do I describe how proud of you I am? Sergey has witt and charm and I’m sure the patience and strength to allow you to be the person you are and will become as you march through marital years together.
To have missed this wedding will leave a void in my heart and soul forever, I am so gratified to see these wonderful photos to allow me to “share” in your memories.
All my love and forever in my heart, you two will always have a place in our home in interior Alaska.
Ruby
| Simone + Adam: Wedding | 09.23.2008 |
I have been to all weddings of this family of three sons, Ben, Josh and Adam. Ben was the first who got married with Ella - daughter of our friends. I was invited as a guest and was not an official photographer at all. I was not even in photography business at that time. They had a hired a pro for formal pictures and ceremony. But I had my camera with me and was taking candid pictures of the event. It was my first exposure to wedding photography. I have never photographed a wedding before. After the wedding, I took images and over one night designed about 16 pages of wedding album and printed them 8×10 on photographic paper. I was so excited about the design process that could go to sleep until I was done. It was a great experience and I learned a lot from it.
When time came for Josh and Jecie to get married I was officially in business and was hired as a pro.
Now Adam and Simone hired me for their big day. Simone is from Germany and Adam met her there when he was serving in US Army.
Check out some of my favorite images of that day. Your comments are always welcome and very much appreciated.
Congratulations to Simone and Adam! It was my pleasure to photograph you.
Have a nice day!
| Baby First Year Photos | 09.14.2008 |
I am documenting a baby’s first year of little Kathryn. Here is some picture from first sessions. More pictures are coming. Stay tuned…
the 4th picture is really creepy.. sorry, otherwise the pictures are awsome and the baby is really sweet..
What a sweet baby!! Congrats Ola & Roman!
| Julie | 09.02.2008 |
Julie was my client back in March (check out her wedding pictures here on blog) and she asked me if I could come to her graduation and take some pictures. Sure thing! After we took some family pictures right after she got her diploma from Portland State University, it turned out into a mini portrait session right in front of her alma mater building. Check them out! Isn’t it she a natural model?
| Ellen + Taras: Wedding | 08.25.2008 |
I have shot another beautiful wedding. Ellen and Taras tied the knot at David Hill Winery near Forest Groove, Oregon. Congratulations, guys! It was a really great party and we had a lot of fun! Check out some of my favorite images and my comments below.
The view at David Hill Vineyard and Winery:
I took Taras around the vineyard to shoot some portraits:
The lighting in the getting ready room couldn’t have been better for portraits:
We setup their first look meeting right at the field:
Then we went to have some portraits taken:
Ellen and Taras met when they were biking, in Vancouver, BC, when Ellen was visiting there.
Some fun on a bike:
The photography is incredible!! Ellen is so beautiful! They look so much in love, May that feeling last forever and continue to spread happiness totheir families.
Best wishes to the lovely couple. As for the photography, wow!! I do not believe I have seen wedding photos so beautiful.
Congratulations to you, Ellen and Tara! The little girl from West Union Days has grown up in to a beautiful young woman. Did you make your wedding dress, Ellen? I thought the pictures were all beautiful.
Best wishes for a long and happy marriage.
WOW!…a beautiful setting, a beautiful couple, and a photographer that captured the love and beauty of the day!
These beautiful photos have captured the love and closeness shared by Ellen and Taras. I wish them a long and happy life together.
Those wonderful photos evoke the feeling of Ellen and Taras’s happiness and of the gorgeous vineyard location on a beautiful day. I love seeing their trike included in the selections!
Your photographs of the lovely couple are amazing! I’m so happy to see Ellen married, we’ve been in touch for some time. I was told I have permission to use your photos for my website, since I made Ellen’s feather hairpiece, so I thought I’d send a comment to you with my website so that you know that credit is being given where credit is due. Again, wonderful photos!
I think this website should play “Raindrops Keep Fallin On My Head - B.J. Thomas” when you scroll over the
bike picture…..Congratulations and good luck to a very handsome couple.
Seeing the photos was just like being at the wedding again. We enjoyed watching the photographer shoot photos as much as enjoying the pary. What a wonderful keepsake the Ellen and Taras.
You captured our precious children on their most important day. Beautiful.
wow alex, these are some great shots! great stuff and once again beautiful photos, glad your doing well!
Hello my favorite two shoots are the first panorama in vineyards (horizontal one) with bride and groom. Second favorite is when you shoot bride and groom thru the leaves. The first one two. There Bride is huging groom and closed your eyes.
