Ed "Zorz" Hafizov

March 22, 2009

Wedding of Erica and Elkin, Palm Beach, FL

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.

March 17, 2009

“Cinemateur”: 1930s Retro Love Story (E-Session)

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 […]

March 9, 2009

Formal Recognition by PPA: Certification

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 […]

March 9, 2009

Stocking Up on Prime Lighting Equipment

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 […]

February 28, 2009

Committing to Giving Back: “Feel Bigger in Heart”

I want to leave a trace in this world… through photography which may turn into a historical record or a work of art, inhabiting someone’s heart — beating faster and feeling warmer, outliving mine… through my volunteering for Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep […]

February 27, 2009

Sponsoring BTV Bridal Show

In a new and exciting venture, I am participating in the Behind the Veil Bridal Show as platinum sponsor and exhibitor. Organized by Monica Tolbert-Jackson and April Chapman, event professionals with over 20 years of event planning and project management experience, the show will be […]

February 17, 2009

Little Sasha – Family Portraiture Session

Few days ago we visited our friends, Anya and Dima, who had a baby girl three months ago. Working in my niche market, I do not specialize in family portraiture nor advertise such service. With all the equipment and experience, however, it was impossible to […]

February 12, 2009

Announcing Couture Collection of Photo Books

Zorz Studios is excited to announce a new addition to the current studio’s album lineup, Couture Collection. By offering this collection, our mission is to offer luxury, one-of-a-kind, handmade coffee table books. The highest standards of integrity, creativity, quality, and innovation are applied to create […]

February 9, 2009

Anya Caliendo’s Collection Slideshow

After delivering the images of Je Ne Regrette Rien collection to Mrs. Anya Caliendo, couture millinery atelier, at the end of the last year, I continued working on them for my version of the slideshow. The original, featured on Mrs. Caliendo’s website, only had color […]

February 4, 2009

Building the High-Class Partner Network

Much of the time this week is devoted to intensification of my search for partners to match the quality of my studio’s service, products, expertise, and customer care. In an ongoing series of meetings, I find those vendors whom I could refer to my discerning […]

February 3, 2009

Receiving Bride’s Choice Award 2009

It is with great pleasure that I announce being chosen to receive a 2009 Bride’s Choice Award from WeddingWire, Martha Stewart Weddings franchise provider. The following is the press release. WeddingWire, the nation’s leading wedding technology company, just announced that Zorz Studios, Inc. has won […]

February 1, 2009

And the Winners Are…

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 […]

January 21, 2009

Truth About Ed: pDNA Revealed

There has been a buzz in the wedding professional photography community about the Photographer DNA (pDNA) assessment tool, developed by Dane Sanders, Southern California-based wedding photographer and one of the founding members of the world-famous Open Source Photo (OSP) Forum. Dane’s book, Fast Track Photographer, […]

January 17, 2009

PPA/DWF Conventions in Phoenix, AZ

Returned this morning, a fuller report is coming. In the meantime, a scene from one of the mini-outing into a desert.

January 6, 2009

Married and Sexy: Valentine’s Day Campaign

Don’t miss this year’s boudoir specials! As the romance of Valentine’s Day is starting to fill the air, I am excited to announce a special campaign primarily offered to the married ladies, “Married and Sexy”. It is built upon one of Zorz Studios’ specialties, boudoir […]

December 22, 2008

Ballet of Passion – Artistic Session for Russian Ballerina

One of my faithful clients, Tania, introduced me to her friend Lika. Lika is a ballet dancer and now teaches. She requested a full-day session so we approached it with great care and attention to details, especially of wardrobe and props. Since I wasn’t available […]

December 20, 2008

A Controversial Wednesday

Past Wednesday, December 17th, was supposed to be a party-oriented day. I was invited by Alex, beautiful editor of Resource Magazine (left), to the “Crash the Old Resource Office Christmas Party”. I was all anticipating the evening hour when a phone rang and a nurse […]

December 8, 2008

Engagement Session of Erica and Elkin, Miami, FL

…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. […]

December 7, 2008

Heirdom of Atlantis: First Underwater Photo Session by Zorz Studios (19)

Winning Fotki’s Blue Ribbon Contest

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 […]

November 15, 2008

EngagEd: Free Engagement Session Contest

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!

November 6, 2008

Winning Resource Magazine’s Contest

My entry won Resource Magazine’s “Classy Nudes” contest and is set to be published in the Winter issue of the magazine. This photo, entitled “In the Morning”, was taken in 2006 on a ridgetop which offers a spectacular scenic overlook of one of the Wildlife Management […]

November 2, 2008

Ed on the Channel 3 News: Running for Presidency 2008

With the days counted before the elections in the US, it is time to unveil more than most of you have known about me… With my recent activity in an unexpected area of politics, it didn’t take me long to make it to the televised […]

October 27, 2008

Zorz Studios Featured on WedPlan.net

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 […]

October 18, 2008

Second Part of the Commercial Shoot for Anya Caliendo’s Couture Millinery Atelier

Continuing my coverage of Anya Caliendo’s millinery collection, we gathered at a fine St. Regis Hotel in New York, NY. The session went past midnight and involved a beautiful model Irina. Due to the continued confidentiality till December, I can’t show any samples yet, other […]

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