Category: Personal

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • I want to warn you from the start – this is a rant. I don’t rant to often, so please bear with me. As it is the case with any business, photography has its good moments and bad moments. If I meet with a client who wants me to slash my prices in half because…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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

  • Over the last few years I must have received at least 20 emails from clients and aspiring photographers asking me about my equipment. So far I avoided posting my response to my blog. My equipment changes constantly, things break down, get replaced, get updated, get sold on Ebay. Yesterday I received 3 emails in one…