'The most talented people are always the nicest" - James Caan

Very creative, easy-going, all-time hilarious and loving couple of two actors Stas and Ivanka today in my blog. We've been waiting for this photoshoot for 3 months and at the end it went completly opposite to the way we planned, but still nice. Actually for me it never happen the way I plan and I'm always ok with this. That's how it works for me, at least. It was very special both for the couple - as Ivanka is pregnant, and for me - as I was just craving for depicting these amazing people.

What do you know about Estonia?

The only thing personally I knew before going to this country were some jokes about their slow way of talking and thinking, which is completely wrong, and that's actually it. Nevertheless, I was pretty excited to travel somewhere not too popular but still Europe :) I'll tell more about the country (with pictures, of course) in the next post.

If it doesn't challange you, it won't change you.

This year academic year went so weirdly quicky and hard yet very interesting and instructively. I've learned so much about myself and people around me, and experienced God's will and
guardianship through the whole freshman experience. Now I'm feeling much more confident about myself and ready to work productevly on photography and self-education (I'm kind of nerd, I've already got so many books and journals for self-educating, and found websites with online courses, e.g. coursera).
I've been thinking a lot about what should I do this summer and in autumn and what to prepare myself for  next summer (I'm very 'foreseeing' kind of person), and sometimes I am faced with a choice whether I am doing something for myself or should I do this for God. Have a courage to challenge yourself, your faith, your foundations and I think it'll pay back. God is faithfull, so how much we must be faithful to Him. I wish you to feel proud of yourself after this summer, to be productive and inspired. May god bless you wherever you are :)

In the woods

Finally, the summer season has started for me. I passed my last final (latina!) and in 2 days was driving back to my lovely home in train. It feels weird to get back to bloggin after such a long pause, it's like not knowing what to talk about with a friend you haven't seen for years. Anyway, I'm taknful to you for reading this and carring about what I do. In 6 days I leave abroad (going to tell you later, when I actually will have departured), but before that, I'll definitely will post here at least twice. That's why I'll tell about myself more later. Now just enjoy beautiful Julia and our shoot that we did in botanical garden, but mostly in the 'woods' part of it.She is such a joyful person and I think this is the first time backstage pictures are worth publishing in a separate post :)

Sasha Vesna

It's been awhile. That's how I've started my every blog post for the last 6 months. But it's time to stop it.
The photography spring finally started for me.
The break was to long, but it was necessery for me.
When you stop painting, you get out of practice. And I don't want to lose it.
As it's said, at first you artwork is full of boldness and energy,
but then it fades, and then hard work starts.
It would me much easier for me to keep my blog up to date
if some of you, who is reading this,
 would ever comment my posts or leave any feedback... 
 otherwise I feel like I'm writing to emptiness..  

Thank you so much Sasha for waking me up. I don't remember last
time there were so much beauty and air.

Sum-ups and cheers to a New Year

This year was extremely long, even if it sounds weird, but that’s true. I’ve been througt so many changes: at the beginning of the year I was still studying at school, then I graduated, then the summer started and I tried to apply to the universities and went to live for some time to Kyiv on my own, then I was preparing a summer camp which was great and amazing, then it was Fall and I moved to Kyiv to study there, and finally I’m back home.

I kind of don’t want to tell in details how hard or easy was my living in Kyiv because cognition comes through comparison and for some it may seem quite normal for others something unbearable. For me it was pretty tough but I’ve learned so much though this experience and I definitely became mature and stronger, that’s why I thank God for all kinds of experiences I had. Unfortunately my photography suffered because I wasn’t practicing it as much as I used to and it definitely upsets me, but I also understand that for this period of my life those spiritual and physical challenges are on a priority basis for me, without them I will not be able to take up work responsibilities or go abroad and deal with language and cultural barrier and stuff like that.

But when I looked through my pictures taken during 2012 I realised how great it was, how different and how interesting. I've met so many great people, we had an amazing time  together with my parents, friends and church. I've improved my photography through 365 project and my pictures were published as a book cover and music album cover. I think it was incredibly incredibly blessed year!!! That's the reason I love photography: you can always come back to some moments and they will uplift you or make you realise and revise something.

Thank you for reading this post and following my progress even if it is not really noticeable. Still, I feel I’m on the right way to my goal, quite thorny, but right. Have a great, challenging but SURELY successful 2013 year, may God bless and support you throughout the entire journey of your life!

p.s. here are some picture that were taken on my last days at Kyiv before going back home on the christmas fair. the holiday atmosphere was everywhere!