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More than two months of anxiety are over. I am excited to announce the winners of Zorz Studios’ EngagEd contest, opened on November 15, 2008. Dozens of entrants with their vision of an engagement session, four finalists, more than 600 of voters, and now, the Grand Prix winner and two runner-ups!

The owner of Molto Carino hair salon referred one of her patrons, Iwona, to me. Iwona is a sweet young Polish lady whom, I have a strong feeling, I had met somehere before. We could never figure that out but she and her fiance Lukasz still booked me. The wedding was very small and easy-going,  [...]

While at the Digital Wedding Forum (DWF) convention in Phoenix, AZ past week, I chatted with Jerry Ghionis, a renowned Australian wedding photographer. He leads the i.c.e. Society, an educational and creative group of professional wedding photographers. While there could be many such groups, his whole credo fits perfectly into my own vision of a [...]

…I am writing this as I’m sitting in a Florida resort… Just cannot hold the result of today’s engagement session to myself. Meet Erica and Elkin, a beautiful couple whose wedding I will shoot next March in West Palm Beach, FL. Fashionable, hip, and sexy. That’s them. That’s the theme of their session, shot in [...]

This image from the series “Heirdom of Atlantis” won the first place in Fotki’s Blue Ribbon contest. Fotki is a digital photo sharing, video sharing and media social network website and web service suite; it is one of the world’s largest social networking sites. Founded in 1998, Fotki helped me introduce myself to the world [...]

The time has come! I am excited to announce Zorz Studios’ first contest, EngagEd, in which I give away a complimentary engagement session (and more!) to three lucky winners!

Here it happened again… I was honored to receive a feedback, very similar to Allison’s a week ago. A wonderful bride from yesterday is Ellen, a NYC detective. Her brother is a police officer, and so is their father. In all regards, a serious lady who has been through a lot… Within the first hour [...]

Today I was pleasantly surprised to see my wedding photo gallery being featured on the homepage of WedPlan, one of the popular wedding planning online resources. It attracts about 65,000 visitors across the US per day. Not surprisingly, traffic to my website soared today. Of note, one of my recent contracts was signed by a [...]

Covered two weddings this week-end. Allison’s wedding proved how important it is for a wedding photographer to instill confidence into a bride, and most importantly, that the genuine, passionate excitement is contagious. It is easy to get excited about a bride. Quite possibly, she looks her best, easily to be fallen in love with, even [...]

One of the two weddings this week-end… one of the last warm and sunny week-ends this year, perhaps. What immediately stroke me upon entering the room and seeing the dress and shoes was a charming feel of classical beauty. Melissa does play the piano but she was also a trooper… To see the dress in [...]

Ah, what a fabulous wedding! A beautiful bride, a nice groom, a fun and cooperative wedding party (wait to see…), stopped morning rain, cool urban backdrops, a splendid reception hall, a ton of ideas, and my trusted pineapple juice… Half of the work is done! The album is promising to be extraordinary.

My friends at Grey Line had an emergency and called me on Friday for shooting on Sunday. Although I planned to spend a quiet Sunday (after a crazy party on Friday and my wedding on Saturday) and have a birthday lunch with my extended family, David is a great guy so I turned my lunch [...]

. (click in the box above for hi-res video, also available in full screen) Just returned from a wedding of Dorothy and Robby, a young couple in Brooklyn. Here’s just one of the fun moments… Unseen to you is the photographer (yours truly), standing tall in the back of a Cooper Mini. We are driving [...]

    . .     The New York Wedding Salon hosted a cocktail party at the Slate restaurant on Tuesday, where I was kindly invited. During this private social event, fueled by plenty of drinks and hors d’ouevres, I had a wonderful opportunity to meet new peers and vendors, establishing a potential for new [...]

Here are some fun Mexican ladies enjoying themselves and shaking some Stars of David. I’ve just covered a wedding of a Jewish bride marrying el compañero from Mexico. What a loving couple! Ceremony held at a Catholic church, under a chuppah.

I’ve persuaded Zena, whose wedding I am shooting in October, to have a pre-wedding bridal session, solely dedicated to her beauty and being a bride. As a main advantage, I had about 2.5 hours of unrushed and relaxed studio-quality photography, filled with my normal posing “adventure” and lighting manipulation. We started by the window with [...]

(Shown above is a rough draft of a video clip, minimal post-processing) I’ve had a pleasure of another scenic destination wedding (I went to Alaska last year) in Avon, CO. Another beautiful bride and handsome groom! Mary Clare moved to New York from Colorado while Dan is from New Zealand. The mix of guests was rather broad, [...]

After more than three months of preparation, my first underwater session culminated in a series of marvelous unique images. The image above is just the first edit… There is so much more to come. Curiosity is too high to keep the results for weeks while in processing. We faced a whole set of unique challenges, [...]

I’ve had a wonderful opportunity to shoot a wedding of Elina and Oleg. A wonderful couple, who proved to be very enduring as well, putting up with a long photo session before the ceremony. Noteworthy is the fact that Elina Shvets is a talented model and Miss Russian NY of 2003, while Oleg is a [...]

While in Smithtown, NY, today, attending 4-day Long Island Photo Workshop (see above), I ran a quick process of the images shot last Sunday of Diana and Vadim’s wedding. Started in Brooklyn, rode to Manhattan, then back to Brooklyn. An unusual request was not to cover bride’s preparation. The rest was fabulous, as one can [...]

. An evening e-session for my October wedding clients in Central Park, Manhattan. We only had one hour before the sun set behind the clouds, stealing another hour or so of the sunset from us…

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