DareToBePhotographed Archives

April 29, 2023

Barelywed: Hilarious Cancun Wedding at Majestic Elegance

To rephrase and expand Cyndi Lauper’s 1983 hit title, guys just wanted to have fun during this hilarious Cancun wedding at the Majestic Elegance Costa Mujeres in Mexico. My wife and I did both photo and video (a peek at us is at the end). […]

March 22, 2022

Engayged: Fun LGBTQ Engagement Photo Session in NYC

Folks, please welcome my first published LGBTQ engagement photo session. Where did I take this same-sex engaged couple for that? A NYC laundromat—for a reason—and I added a splash of fun to it.

January 30, 2022

Ice and Fire: Catskills Elopement Wedding on Frozen Lake

A Taiwanese couple who’s never seen snow thought of getting married on a frozen lake in 10F. The plan was to take a bus from NYC, ride for a couple of hours, and have an adventurous Catskills elopement wedding. What is Elopement Wedding? The definition […]

January 27, 2022

Nyala: Maternity Digital Art by Zorz Studios

Nyala: Maternity Digital Art in Antelope Canyon

Fake it till you make it, they say. Although the motto does not fully pertain to this shoot, the story could serve as an inspiration to other adventurous creatives, I suppose. And to my other readers, it’s an opportunity to see what else a photographer […]

January 5, 2022

Free Couple Photography: RomancEd 2022 Contest

Calling ALL couples with the biggest news in Zorz Studios contests’ 13-year history! The contest opens to the married couples and anyone of legal age who’s in love! No more need to be engaged. Think you are offbeat and resourceful? Show your flair in our […]

December 20, 2021

Married Xmas: Married Couple’s Christmas NYC Romance Shoot

A photoshoot-craving couple flying in from Indiana, getting up at 2 AM, making the best out of rain, dropping pants at a Chase bank, lucking out with a burned down Christmas tree, a mad escape from NBC Studios, a hilarious pom-pom fight, crashing an upscale […]

August 18, 2021

Airborn: Drone and Underwater Maternity Photography

This story is loaded with crazy stuff: my first use of a drone for a mom-to-be, failed equipment leading to a major upgrade of underwater maternity photography, and—get this!—this beautiful lady is a Delta pilot who comes from an F-16 fighting squadron. Read on!

July 6, 2021

Battling B*: Military Pin Up Photography at World War II Weekend

Last month, I had a load of fun doing military pin up photography for my new Poconos client at the World War II Weekend event by the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum.

June 2, 2021

Purity: Creative Youth Portraits in Poconos

I intended to make my first youth portraits in Poconos studio quietly beautiful but the creative bug still bit me and I mastered two Renaissance oil paintings in a captivating way I’ve never done before.

May 12, 2021

Mama’s Love: Treating Clients and Friends to Free Portraits

The past Sunday was overwhelmed with mama’s love as we celebrated Mother’s Day by treating our new local clients, friends, and neighbors (over 70 people!) to the touching portraits in our Poconos photo studio.

April 21, 2021

Free Mother’s Day Portraits in Poconos

Mama’s Love annual event is back again, in its eighth iteration. This year, I am treating my clients and friends to free Mother’s Day portraits in Poconos. Plus, I also invite all my neighbors to enjoy an 80% discount! Neither client nor neighbor, but a […]

September 14, 2020

Aakash: Minnewaska State Park Maternity Session

This Minnewaska State Park maternity session will lift you up from the underwater domain into the sky. Woof, publishing a fourth maternity session in a row… Yet more are lined up, including a sculpturesque vision… I should probably mix it up and do a few […]

July 30, 2020

Rising: 18th Birthday Photoshoot in Gotham

This 18th birthday photoshoot in the deserted and boarded up NYC will be remembered on more than one level.

July 15, 2020

Bhaaloo: Maternity Session by Raymondskill Falls

Provided there is time to write, my blogs usually need something unique to be published. With this maternity session by Raymondskill Falls, I’m making an exception. Let me explain.

July 13, 2020

High: Lake Minnewaska Engagement

Lake Minnewaska engagement session offers everything a romantic couple can dream of: lakes, pine trees, rocks, waterfalls, but above all — cliffs hanging hundreds of feet over the lake and woods.

July 11, 2020

Virtue: Graduation 2020 Party in Poconos

This just in: booked yesterday, shot today, published tonight: a small but so meaningful graduation 2020 party in Poconos community where I live.

July 3, 2020

Tesori: Maternity Photoshoot in Poconos

For a city dweller, a maternity photoshoot in Poconos means fairytale, adventure, and enchanted forests. It is also an escape from the wearing place that NYC became in 2020.

April 8, 2020

Fable: Children Fantasy Art

Children fantasy art is part of the developing niche of Zorz Studios photography offered to a variety of clients. Here’s what I’ve modestly done so far but with my drawing background, I should strive for more.

March 10, 2020

Photoshop Tutorial: From Epic Fail to Epic Shot

For the first time, let me unveil a detailed “before and after” Photoshop tutorial from epic fail to epic shot using my favorite tools and voicing my creative thought process.

March 6, 2020

Womansion: Stylish Family Shoot at Vanderbilt Museum

You are bound to have a fun and beautiful session with this stylish woman and a visionary, this time for her family shoot at Vanderbilt Museum.

January 6, 2020

Wedding Giveaway: EngagEd 2020 Contest

Got engaged? Think you are offbeat and creative? Show your merit in our wedding giveaway which turns 11 years! Enter our EngagEd contest and hit us with the coolest concept of your engagement photo session. Zorz Studios will shoot it for you or even cover […]

November 20, 2019

Aslewwish: Modern Viking Wedding in Ohio

This modern viking wedding in Ohio had a horse, a sword, arrows, drinking horns, Tolkien, ballroom and burlesque dancers, Harley Davidson, and… Metallica!

October 31, 2019

Veyear: Our Baby Girl First Birthday Photoshoot in Poconos

Our baby girl Veya quietly turned one this week—a good reason to share her first birthday photoshoot in Poconos. 10 hours of trash-the-dress in a waterfall, sunrise in forest, home studio, green screen magic, fantasy art, before-and-after demo, behind-the-scenes video, and recent personal photos.

October 4, 2019

Catchup: Last-Minute Maternity Photoshoot

See how this last-minute maternity photoshoot, taking place all day, brought some epic results.