Wine Women and Shoes fashion show

I am so glad I was a part of this awesome party :) I was snapping away all night.. so many beautiful and interesting people!​ Glad I had an assistant! It was a lot to shoot lol ;)

This is absolutely amazing store-boutique located in Lumina Station ..towards Wrightsville Beach... so many cute and girly things!

Fashion show... Beautiful people :)​ and ... beautiful shades... below ;)

Another great boutique Fan Feet ​

Amazing Alan Perry ... not only is he awesome jeweler... he is also very talented auctioneer ... He was so inspiring! I would keep on bidding on anything just because of the excitement he was creating...

Fairy Muse

I really wanted to have a shoot with musical instruments :) and!! my beautiful model Rachel had one! I was so thrilled! We took a walk to one of my favorite locations and sure enough we found a lot of beautiful spots to shoot.

Rachel is definitely one of the best models I ever shot! She has it all... style, beauty and incredible talent to transform in front of the camera... She was amazing!​

You can almost hear the music through the picture...  Rachel made this photos speak...​

I was so happy when we found this "magic" tree.. it looked awesome and was great fit for the mood I was looking for to create. It does look like a beautiful farytail :) ​

She is simply amazing :) ​

And of course my favorite Jump shots :) ​

Reading on a forest swing ...  what can be more relaxing and beautiful :) ​

New Spring... New life... New dreams...

A few months ago when I met my dear friend for some coffee and girl chatting... she broke an amazing news... :) she was on her new path... new chapter ... of becoming a mom. I was so happy for her! She is on her mid second trimester now and ​we decided to get that little one to modeling industry already... You know.. it's always good to start with that early :) 

We both agreed that idea of swing in a spring woods will be perfect for that :)  ( and it was) Her husband participated and made this lovely swing...  ( I"ll post some images of us getting ready) we all had an awesome time! Here are the photos ... ​

Enjoy! :) ​

She looks angelic! ​

We had to scout woods to find a good branch for this idea :)  as we all know NC mainly has pines.. which means not much good branches ... but we did found a few trees!! ha! other then pines :) were so happy!!!

Dad to be did a great job too :)

Love love love!!! this woodsy look...  :) ​

BEHIND THE SCENE :) ​

These are I PHONE photos.. ha... so don't judge their quality to strict :) ​

Getting ready is one of the best and funnest part... seriously! ​And of course very important part :) That's where and where the magical shots are getting created and thought through :) that's when me and my beautiful and! handsome models are having really great time setting things up, being silly and goofy... just having a great time.  Dad to be put that swing up from the first try!! Just one throw and the robe landed exactly where it supposed to! WOW! we were so impressed! Great job Errol! 

Did I even told I am HORRIFIED of snakes! and... on the way to this location I almost passed out with all my photo gear :-/   This creature was right in front of me blocking my way... and you know what! I turned to be really brave! Nothing! Not even snake could stop me ... if I was on a photo mission! Yep.. that' s how serious I am about my photoshoots ... lol

And... that's how we ended up ... my cutey pie came over and... of course she had to finish the phooshoot with her pretty self on that swing :)  ​

Sweet little angel

Haven't gone to shoot in one of my favorite spots for a while. It's amazing! No matter when we are going there all the photos turning out just awesome! I love my magic woods. This little model knows every move ... She is so fluent with her moves in of the camera... lol.. Not surprising.. she's been model ever since she was day 1 :)​

Love shopping in Gap for her outfits.. one of my favorite stores for kids clothes :))​ @GAP #gap @babygap #kids #photography

That was one of the funnest part of the shoot :) She loved jumping on and off this tree trunk . Made we wish we had one of those in our yard lol

Thank you GAP for creating such a beautufl outfits for little ones! I love love love everything there! Have piles of amazingly awesome things from your store!!! :) @GAP

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Spring... Chocolate... Tea... Love...

I love tea... always did... Maybe it's an European thing but I can spent quite a few hours with my (quite a few) cups of tea chatting with friends :) And it's not necessarily a girl chatting. It's a good company chatting.. whoever they may be :) ​

And... there' no secret I LOVE chocolate lol... always did as well. Actually I loved it way more before. Thanks god my insane Chocolate Love faded a bit lol :)​

Isn't spring one of the best times of the year!? I feel like I am waking up along with everything around :) Love it! and really enjoy my morning cup of tea ... ​

This is one of my favourite tea blends from Teavana @Teavana ​That Tea boutique is simply great! 3tea #teavana

My Little One is sneaking to grab some chocolate while I'm shooting this images. Can't blame her. This chocolate is delusions! Had to change my "model" quite a few times :) lol   ​#chocolate

After all chocolate was gone and there were nothing else to shoot I had to go bake! Ha... :) So here they are ... my next "models" were cookies. Luckily,  I had more then enough of those, so ​my little one could enjoy eating them while I was shooting them :)

We loved both our models :) chocolate and cookies...​

WPPI 2013

WPPI 2013 this was absolutely great! I had an opportunity to meet and chat with all these ( and more!)  very talented photographers. But they are not just talented photographers... they are also awesome people! So enthusiastic, so full of energy and ideas! Just being next to people like that makes makes you more creative and energized!

I hanged out with Photographer I adore!!! Elizabeth Messina OMG I can stare at her images forever! She is so inspiring! So unbelievably talented! LOVE HER!

I also met and talked to Stunning Jasmine Star! I am not sure what I was more stunned by.. her photography or herself! She so gorgeous! from inside and out.​ I literally felt in love with her!

Professional Photographers of America - David Trust, CEO Mark Wallace Metropolitan Bride's Focus on Fabulous by Bambi Cantrell & Dawn Shields Jasmine Star Lindsay Adler Fashion Photography Jerry Ghionis Elizabeth Messina @Professional Photographers of America Scott Kelby​

Lost Princess Natasha

One more photoshoot from last fall that I am finely posting ... It was a busy time and  busy winter. Good thing though all models/clients did get their pictures in time :) So now it's time to share :)

Love the backdrop for this shoot. I've been driving by these massive logs for a while and when eventually I stopped and checked them out they look just perfect for shoots! We both we really happy with location. Love the images :)

Love the Dreamy look. She played it the best!

Awesome red wall

Bath time lol... we just wanted to have some fun ...

Cold February Cooking Day

I really don't like cold.. never liked and pretty sure never will :( Today is snowing here! Wow! Very very rare thing :) ( its good that it's rare) Plus my little one got sick :( So, we were staying home all day. And do I usually do when I am stock at home for the whole day? I BAKE and cook ha! So, ... I couldn't resist it this time as well. Even my husband got involved. We tried to  cook Russian " Pelemeni"!! for the first time. Well... it was the first time, so the result was not really the greatest. But it was just a begging lol.

Then we made Bread crusted Tilapia, Mushroom Julienne ( Steve's spacial), Roasted vegetables in cheese sauce,  and of course I am backing right now :) Cream cheese and cottage cheese Sochni :)

Fun in the "leaves" with Jenkins family

A "little later post"  but here they are :) beautiful Jenkins family from last fall. I truly enjoyed taking photos of these fun and lively family. Fall is one the best backdrops,... Now when I am going through some of my shoots from last fall I can say if for sure.

But spring is almost here! That's so exiting! Love spring! Can't wait for the new photo season :))

Aren't they cute?! This two beautiful sisters :)))

So bright, so colorful, so gorgeous family :)

Fun with leaves :)

LOVE....

Queen Kelly

We were planning to get together for some pictures for quite a while with this very beautiful Lady. Well.. she is not just a very beautiful girl, she is also amazing hair and make up artist! I was really amazed by what she can do. After we were done with the photoshoot we played painting faces a little bit and that was so much fun. Hope we'll get to hang out soon again for some more great photos and some make up experience.

This is one of my favorite images from that photoshoot. She looks like true Queen here :)

I love these woods... Lucky to have it so close to where I live :) Never ending possibilities for phtoshoots. This time I had an idea of making garlands and hanging them of the trees.. were working hard for about 3 days. Thank you to my friend Natasha who came and helped me tying nuts and making ribbons thought the weekend ha! The garlands turned out awesome! The only thing were... we didn't realize the time change  !!! So we met a bit too late :( and had about 30-40 min before the sun went down.

That is not that much time at all for hanging tons of garlands of the trees... So we hanged like 4 of those and rushed to taking phtoos :) Well... after all we do have some great shots!

This is another of my little creations :) I really wanted to make some misty fallish hair piece. Well... Didn't have much time to sew before this shoot, so I made something nest-like looking ... we pushed in some dry roses in it right when the "nest" was already on Kelly's head. Looks different... I like it :)

She rocked it ! :)

In The Mood For Magic (the begginig)

I love to get creative and set some interesting theme for my photoshoots . I want to start a project named " In the Mood for Magic" :) I will try to come up with all kind of ideas to set the "magic" feel :)))

 Here is my first shoot. I love it! The photos came out fantastic! Hope to stage and decorate the scene more next time!

Who wants to get involved please let me know! Looking for more models, hair and make up artists. Everyone will get images and credit! :)

Styled Photoshoot ARE TONS OF FUN!! Arsty people can get really artsy and show what they are capable of! LOVE IT!

Beautiful Williamson Family

  I was so exited when my friend told me about the dock for the photoshoot we were planning with Stephanie. I imidiatly ran to build some origami paper boats. Though it would be so cute if little boy would set the boats off the dock to the stream ;)

 Look how cute they are watching that little boat.

Absolutely Love Stephanie's red pants!!! they are so bright and awesome! ( I need a pair :))

The COOL people :)

The little boy is a picture of his daddy... (with his mom's sweetness though! :)

Here he is!!! Little Tripp :) As cute as it can only be!!!! I think I can take photos of him forever! He such a little model :)

The idea was to have a lot of little paper boats floating around as he was gazing over them ... But :) Little Tripp turned out to be way too fast :))) The second the boat would be in his little hands he would run to the water and drop it! Jumping with laughter and excitement.. We end up giving him one boat at the time... Overwise the "boat joy" could only last us a few seconds :(

With pretty mommy :)

This one is so cute!

And with Dad of course

This is so sweet :)

Such a happy family

A day with beautiful family

I was lucky to photograph this beautiful family. The day was perfect and kids were true little models :) We had so much fun :) Each of them has their own unique personality.

Cate is so beautiful and so naturally graceful! It was just like a gift to have her that day as my model! Her sister Cori is a true angel! She is so unbelievably cute and easy going! My little daughter talks about Cori up till today! She keep on asking to go see her and play with her :) Hope we can do that Miss Cori :)   ... And the little Mr. Handsome is a tough little man :) I was shocked how caring and thoughtful he was about his two sisters!

When I was shooting them on the tree... He was so concerned that his sisters can fall! It was so gentleman like... so sincere and caring...this three awesome kids would put smile on anyone's face!

Here they are... enjoy! :)

Here is farytail looking Cate :) she looks like some charming girl from some magic farytail... sitting on that tree with her book

Don't worry Diane :) there are more of them laying down like this.. I just like this one (with closed eyes) Looks different :) like he is thinking deeply of soemthing :)

Cute Funny and Lovable Cori in her different color socks :)))

Sisters :)

 

thank you for being so photogenic and easy going :) I loved shooting with you guys!!!

My Beautiful Mom

I can tell a lot about mom... how great and beautiful and loving she is... She is trully beautiful inside and out..

 

Ksenia the Gorgeous!

 One day I have received this inspiring text with a photo in it from my friend. It was photo of very beautiful woman ... 60's style...

 We got so inspired by that photo, we really started to think of putting things together for some 60's style shoot.

 Ksenia got really serious about the whole preparation. She went and got a bucket of make up and hair products to achieve that look we were going for. I she spent half of the day using her artistic skills to transfer herself into 60's beauty Diva. And she did an amazing job! When I saw her I got thrilled about the photoshoot even more then before! She looked like a true photographer inspiration!

 So, here it is... our fun project! Enjoy!

Little Cheff Emily

Today was rainy raaaiiiny day... I had so many ideas for photoshoot with this little cute girl. Lots of them were for outside though. Well, we had to get creative in studio. And I think it turn out pretty good.

Little Girl was so happy and cooperative! One of the best little ones I shot :) We were shooting for over an hour and she didn't even try to cry at all!

Awesome little cutie

And then... we felt like cooking :) well, backing actually!

And after all our pies and cookies turn our AWESOME we dressed up and ... were thinking of going to the ball :))

Or... to read some old books...

Little Princess Meredith :)

I am so glad I met this charming little girl at the GAP while shopping there! I had no doubt she will make an awesome pictures! Those curls!!!

We picked out some nice location for our photoshoot and it was perfect day too! After about 10 minutes Little cutie was so "in the mood" for modeling! Lol... it looked like she knew what she was doing and she LOVED to look at her pictures in my camera. I guess that was inspiring her for more!

   We found one cool looking old house.. would be great for Cinderella Photoshoot... Unfortunately we only had a few minutes before it got closed... It turn out to be a museum. Ha! :) But we still had some time to get a few shots...

 I definielty coming back there for more creative photoshoots :)

 We didnt' get too sad after the house got closed... The front porch of it was pretty artsy and inspiring as well.. Meredith enjoyed running around it playing sticks and jumping on the srairs :)

 Figuring out what to do next and where to jump... Mmmm that's a tough one :)

Morden Technology

An awesome and Fun Photoshoot with LiPi Raleigh Team

An awesome and Fun Photoshoot with LiPi Raleigh Team

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Beautiful Megan

This is one the fun type of shoots :) Models

You get to be creative and just have fun :) Megan is always so full of life! It fills up the whole shoot with laughter. I love taking photos of this beautiful girl