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A Watermelon Birthday

A Watermelon Birthday

A wonderful mama Christina had contacted me to create an alternative "cake smash" session. She had an idea of substituting cake with a watermelon. She also wanted to do some casual shots at a playground. We had to set up an early morning time and it paid off well. I couldn't get enough of the soft morning light and what a creative approach that mommy used. Baby Luca was all smiley. He just enjoyed the watermelon, his family around and didn't mind me taking his photographs. #b

Smash That Cake

Smash That Cake

This session was taken approximately eight months ago. I wish I could post every session I take right away but sometimes I shoot several days in a row followed by several days of processing and retouching. Still I think it's never too late to share it. That beautiful family contacted me through a friend of a friend, Arpine the mother wanted to do a cake smash photoshoot by adding some family photos for her soon to be one-year-old Elena. Elena as every baby of her age was very

Summer We Remember

Summer We Remember

Yana is my darling friend and a fellow photography enthusiast. Her son Timothy is a friend of my boys and we wish we could see each other more often. It took us a while to get together to do this photoshoot and it took me even longer to put it together and post it here. We shot at my favorite spot in Malibu. I should give a credit to Yana's husband for being patient with us. #malibuphotographer #malibucreeckpark #umbrellashotphotography #umbrellashot #goldenhour #goldenlightp

Fall It Is

Fall It Is

Christmas is over and we're officially in 2017. This is the first post in this year. I hope it it's going to be very productive and kind. This session was done back in September in 2016. Resheida was referred to my by a client of mine. She wanted to do a fall themed photoshoot because she had a connection with that time of the year and a lot of birthdays in her family happened to be during that time . The challenge was where to depict and convey fall in sunny California. We

The Holiday Season

The Holiday Season

I met Natalie when she was pregnant with Ethan. I shot her maternity session at the same location at Placerita Canyon as I shot these holiday season family pictures. This is an incredible feeling and joy to see families grow and capture these magical moments of their life. I'm forever grateful to my clients for letting me to take a glimpse of it. I captured Ethan when he was only a few days old and then I saw him again that time when he was 6 months old. He was very smiley an

Oh Boy

Oh Boy

A friend of that lovely family had hired me to do a photoshoot as a gift. I thought it was so nice of her to do that. I met that sweet family at a park. It turned out they came from Romania a year ago. We had some common topics to chat. The four-month-old baby boy Eric was vary calm. He looked at me with curiosity. We chased the sun as we walked. Right by the end of the session Eric passed out and I was able to capture mommy Christina with a sleeping baby. I hope that I'd be

Love. Downtown.

Love. Downtown.

As a photographer I constantly in a search of beautiful locations. Most of the time clients opt for a beach or park; just few pick urban surroundings. I was always curious to shoot in downtown Los Angeles. Finally I met someone who was willing to shoot to do that. Originally Maria and Zeek wanted to shoot their engagement at Bradbury building one of the architectural landmarks of Los Angeles. Unfortunately it didn't work out and we decided to go to Bottega Louie bakery first

Graduation

Graduation

I left the house at 5 am in the morning to avoid traffic while driving to Long Beach. It took me 45 minutes to get there. It was too early so I sat back in my car and witnessed a beautiful sunrise and fog above the grass. An hour later Dani pulled over on the parking lot and we walked to the campus to start shooting. Dani's plan was to take pictures in front of the California State University Long Beach sign and then do some portraits at the Japanese Garden. It was my first t

{Lisa+Ben} Wedding

{Lisa+Ben} Wedding

I have never checked weather so often before the wedding of Lisa and Ben. It showed rain until the last moment and luckily for us it never rained. Even though I was fully prepared to shoot under the "bad weather" conditions I was relieved to wake up in the morning and see sunshine at the day of the event. I found that couple absolutely beautiful. I wish I could upload more images from these beautiful wedding but the capacity of the blog doesn't allow me to do so. Here are som

She Rocks

She Rocks

I'm going to be really honest now. I often get asked if I'd like to have more children after having twins; I'm not ready to answer this question yet but if I ever decide to get pregnant again I would definitely like to have a maternity shoot in the dress like my client Bukky had. I think she was stunning. Bukky had the idea originally with the incredible dress and location Vasquez Rocks. In 1874 Tiburcio Vasquez, one of California’s most notorious bandits, used these rocks to

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