Category: Personal
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Today I met with Kevin Lorenzi to plan the details of this year`s Pittsburgh`s Help-Portrait Event. We have 21 volunteers so far – thank you guys for volunteering to help. We are all set to go for December 10th. The only thing that we are having some logistical difficulties with is printing. We are trying…
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This September we finally managed to go on vacation. Between my family, work at Pitt Medical School, photography business and grad school I haven`t been able to take a real vacation in a few years. Since Irina and I are expecting an addition to our family in December (another girl!), we figured that this might…
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Dear fellow photographers and friends. Kevin Lorenzi and I are working on organizing this year`s Help-Portrait event in Pittsburgh. We`re partnering with Community Human Services at 374 Lawn Street in Oakland for this year`s event. We`ll have a good space to work in, two rooms and a spacious hallway. We need photographers, make up artists,…
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Yesterday I met with a client whose last name is Jablowski. For some reason, on the drive home after the meeting, I could not get that name out of my head; something about seemed important, but I could not quite grasp what it was. As I was pulling into my driveway I finally got it.…
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I cannot believe that Daniella is 2 already. It’s both amazing and scary how it seems like just yesterday I brought her home from the hospital and she’s already running around and telling me what to do. I am a sentimental person. I get attached to things and memories and I have keepsakes from my…
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I’ve been obsessed with photography since I was 8 years old. My mom gave me a Smena 8 – an old Soviet-made rangefinder and I was hooked right away. While my friends played outside I spent hours (and sometimes days) in my darkroom. There is something magical and relaxing about developing film and printing your…
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I originally wrote this post almost a year ago, after a friend of mine gave me a copy of Randy Pausch`s book “The Last Lecture”. I never met Dr. Pausch, although I heard a lot about him from Jesse Schell, the current co-director of the CMU Entertainment Technology Center. In the summer of 2007, while…
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My wife and I found an awsome 80s-style prom dress at a local Salvation Army store and decided to get it for my sister Olga. I called Olga and told her that we have a present for her. She stopped by with her boyfriend Roger and thought that the dress was hilarious. Olga tried it…
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I could not get a good angle trying to photograph Ken`s and Jess` wedding party on a bridge at the North Side Park, so I waded into the pond under the bridge. On the upside, I got some really great shots. On the downside, I had to photograph the entire reception wearing wet pants. Video…
