My Family Photoshoot

My wife always makes fun of the fact that I’m like the proverbial shoemaker without shoes – I am a professional photographer who doesn’t have any photos of my own family.  A few weeks ago we finally decided to fix this issue and asked my friend and amazing photographer Jenny Karlsson to photograph our family.  She was incredibly patient with us and the photos are absolutely amazing.  I have been looking at the slideshow at least 5 times a day!
 

Babichenko Family from Jenny Karlsson Photography on Vimeo.

My Little Sister Is Married

A few weeks ago Daniella and I drove to South Carolina for my baby sister`s wedding. It has been years since I`ve been to a wedding in a non-photographer capacity and I have never had the opportunity to walk the bride down the isle. The whole trip had been amazing – I got to hang out with my family, I watch my little sister get married to a man she really really loves and spend a lot of one-on-one time with my daughter. Daniella has been great throughout the entire trip – she uncomplainingly toughed out a 13-hour car trip, 3 nights in a hotel and a lot of strangers trying to pinch her cheeks. Unfortunately I did not have a chance to take a lot of photos – my hands were full with a 3-year-old and in any event I thought that it would be incredibly rude for me to get into Olga`s and Roger`s wedding photographer`s way. Olga and Roger had a beautiful outdoor ceremony at the Silver Coast Winery in North Carolina; during the ceremony Roger sang Justin Bieber`s “Baby, baby” for Olga – the video of his performance actually made it to justinbieberzone.com.

And here are a few of my photos: Olga and Roger Wedding | Dmitriy Babichenko Photography Olga and Roger Wedding | Dmitriy Babichenko Photography Olga and Roger Wedding | Dmitriy Babichenko Photography Olga and Roger Wedding | Dmitriy Babichenko Photography Olga and Roger Wedding | Dmitriy Babichenko Photography Olga and Roger Wedding | Dmitriy Babichenko Photography Olga and Roger Wedding | Dmitriy Babichenko Photography Olga and Roger Wedding | Dmitriy Babichenko Photography Olga and Roger Wedding | Dmitriy Babichenko Photography Olga and Roger Wedding | Dmitriy Babichenko Photography Olga and Roger Wedding | Dmitriy Babichenko Photography Here are some more photos from the entire roadtrip on Flickr. Another update (04/17/2012) – just found out that the video of Roger singing Justin Bieber`s song made it to Celebs website.

Daniella`s First Movie

My 3-year-old daughter Daniella loves going to the Carnegie Science Center. One of her favorite things to do there is play with a stop-motion animation machine. She would pull a few toys from a box, put them on the machine`s screen, press a big button, move the toy, press a big button, repeat… This weekend we decided to do a slightly longer animation at home. Daniella did pretty much everything by herself. I did set up the camera for her, but after that, she was pretty much on her own. I gave her a camera remote and complete creative control. This is what she came up with… My little movie maker | Dmitriy Babichenko, Pittsburgh Photographer