| Dropping off the face of the earth |
posted: 2/24/2012 7:26:00 PM |
All of you guys who emailed me over the last couple of weeks - thank you so much for your concern. To quote Mark Twain, "the reports of my death are greatly exaggerated". In all seriousness, I`m still somewhat alive and reasonably well. I had a really good reason for dropping off the face of the earth for two months without any blog or Facebook posts. Several good reasons, actually...
Reason 1: On December 28th, 2011, my Irina and I had another beautiful baby girl, Sophia. Now I`m a proud dad of two girls, which means that Irina and I are not getting too much sleep these days.
Reason 2: School, school and more freaking school! I am struggling through my last semester of grad school. In hindsight, taking two grad level classes when you have a new baby was a bad idea.
Reason 3: Between my 9-5 job at the University of Pittsburgh, school and family, I managed to photograph two Bar/Bat Mitzvahs and three commercial gigs. Which basically means that in the last two months if I weren`t at work, school, studying, playing with my kids or shooting, I was editing.
All that aside, I am probably the happiest man on earth right now. My kids are absolutely amazing, and my wife is the most supporting and wonderful woman in the world.
On another note, I`m like the proverbial shoemaker without shoes:) These are pretty much all the photos I had time to take.
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| Help-Portrait 2011 |
posted: 12/28/2011 7:22:00 AM |
This year`s Help Portrait turned out really great. We had two locations - one at the Women`s Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh and another one at the Community Human Services in Oakland. We had a wonderful turnout - between the two locations we photographed 89 people. We couldn`t have done it without everyone chipping in and volunteering their time and talent to make this event special:
Kevin Lorenzi - event director, photographer
Dmitriy Babichenko - event director, photographer
Leeann Marie Golish - photographer
Kelli Glew - photographer
Jane Alexander - editor
Chris Toth - editor
Luke Ling - photographer
Alyssa Kraus - hair/make-up artist
Dan Speicher - photographer, videographer
Laura Petrilla - photographer
Dina Ciabattoni - organizer, administrator
Lynn Ratkovich - organizer, administrator
All the photos from the Community Human Services location have been posted on Flickr.
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| Hard-Working Photographers |
posted: 12/28/2011 6:28:00 AM |
This has been an amazing year for my photography business. I worked with a lot of wonderful clients and photographed a lot of cool events and commercial projects. I am also very thankful to incredible photographers who helped me out this year - Jenny Karlsson, Anita Buzzy and Katia Forero.
Here are some photos of us in action...
Jenny
Anita
Katia
... and me ...
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| Noah`s Bar Mitzvah |
posted: 12/28/2011 6:18:00 AM |
Since Noah`s Bar Mitzvah was really close to Irina`s due date, I was worried about getting THE CALL in the middle of Noah`s Bar Mitzvah. My friend and amazing photographer Katia Forero graciously agreed to help me out and second-shoot this event with me in case if I had to take off at a moment`s notice.
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| A Wonderful Weekend With My Daughter |
posted: 12/22/2011 8:46:00 PM |
I`ve been working so much lately that I barely get to see my family. On December 10th was my last photography gig and I celebrated by hanging out with Daniella all day the following Sunday. Here are a few photos from Pittsburgh National Aviary...
More photos on Flickr
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