Recent shoots, news, and developments

Right upon returning from Jamaica and landing in the JFK airport, I rented a car and drove into the night, continuing my day that started with shooting my couple in sunrise on a sugar cane plantation. My destination was The Desmond Hotel in Albany, NY where I finally arrived at 3 AM, tired but stirred up (hmm… [...]

Two recent destination weddings offered an opportunity to do first quick edits right at the airport, unfairly stepping over a cool wedding that took place right before them, of Alina and Radion, a beautiful Russian couple. Here are my highlights of the day, happened to be on International Women’s Day, March 8. (Ironically, this global [...]

Writing while in Albany attending Professional Photographers Society of NY State convention. Here’s a glimpse of my 3-day trip to Jamaica to shoot the wedding of Maya and Stan. The length of stay and the environment offered a plethora of photo ops, from picturesque to risky… there went trash-the-dress and a local variation of their engagement [...]

Just returned from Florida where I shot a spectacular wedding of Erica and Elkin, whose engagement session in Miami last year caused some locomotion… Below are just a few quick picks, lightly processed. More details and properly done photographs will follow.

This is a sneak preview of an elaborate retro photo session shot past Saturday. I am so ecstatic to be able to organize and pull it off! The session, based on our own script, develops a dramatic love story in 1930s’ Brooklyn. A great amount of effort, passion, skill, equipment, and investment was put into [...]

Another public sample from one of my Married and Sexy campaign sessions, offering boudoir sessions primarily to married ladies. This is Julia, a wonderful person and mother of two. She was one of the most prepared clients, scoring an A for her homework. Her husband joined for several shots as well.
The only regret was [...]

 
It is now official… As the next milestone in my photography career, I earned my certification from Professional Photographers of America (PPA), becoming Certified Professional Photographer, CPP. What I thought would take a couple of years to achieve, happened sooner.
As the leading certifying agency for imaging professionals, the Professional Photographic Certification program is recognized throughout [...]

As if I didn’t have enough of Hensel… I already have a 4-head monolight studio set with Hensel’s lightboxes and softboxes, sized from medium to huge. This set has been serving me great in studio and on location indoors but here comes my first project requiring same studio quality outdoors. I’ve been eying their [...]

Olga and I did a Married and Sexy boudoir session for a lovely couple, Alena and Aleksandr. Part of the session reflected their love for Japanese culture. Noteworthy, Aleksandr is a master of martial arts and a businessman. His physique is quite contrasty of that of his petite wife Alena, who is a mother of [...]