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.

strong & fragile

I started a new project on Flickr - 52 weeks. This time it will be dedicated to portraits only. I like people photography a lot, that's how I started taking shots and that's when I feel all-of-a-piece. I said earlier, I sometimes I see light in people, even when they try to prove opposite. It happens so often. The thing is that Jesus loves each and every of us and He sees  light in us and despite hiding it we should reveal it and make a  little world around us as better as we could. through photography I want to show the light people have and let other people see light in each other.

Lena studio photoshot + behind the scenes

Lena is not only beautiful girl ,but also a beautiful soul. I was looking forward to this shot and was incredibly happy when we finally did. Huge thanx to my good friend Juriy Derkach for shooting the behind the scenes video. It was so fun :)

Kate studio photoshot

Hey everyone, especially to new ones. Thank you so much for started following here and on Flickr, despite the fact I post quite seldom this month. I'm having exams throughout May, but on the 1 of June I'll be free
 like a bird :) If you remember  I showed you a sneak peek from our photoshot with lovely Kate, and now it's finally ready and I'm excited to share.

Susan portrait shot

A few weeks ago I was shoting my friend Susan, who is overwhelmingly beautiful and talanted person.
It's been the first time in a long awhile since I made a portrait shot and  if to be frank, I missed it terribly.
I'm feeling the most comfortable when I'm taking portrait pictures, like that's what I've been doing for years, even though I'm just a beginner. Several people asked me , if I get bored shoting shooting the same people over and over again. Maybe they do, but I'm definitely not. For me the better you know someone, his or her gestures,emotions, habits, reactions on pacticular things, the better you can show it in picture, even unconsciously.

7 on 7 April Backstage

As I try to make each of my 7 pn 7 posts different, on April I'm going to show you few backstage pics which were take during portrait photoshot with Kate.

The results of our shooting (I was shooting with Andrew at the studio with beautiful natural light, he just joined our 7 on 7 project !) I'll share here very very soon. And there's one more portrait shooting which I've done while being on spring break. I have scheduled this post and now I hope I'm currently in Kiev :) Can't belive it's nearly 3 weeks till I graduate. That sound insane for me because I've been waiting for it for so long... Life is going to turn upside down for me soon :)

Don't forget to check Amy's 7 on 7and the full circle )
P.S What is 7 on 7 ? read here.

7 on 7 February

Recently I came across 7 on 7  project - kind of challenge where 7 photographers take 7 shots on every 7th day of each month and upload them to their blog. What I liked about this project is that you link your blog post to another participant and this way you can discover more photographes and collaborate.

These photos were taken actually in October or November (still lazy to check out the exif data) , but in one day though. It was little portrait session in a park with my classmate, which I was thinking about for pretty long, just waiting for the right moment. The thing you might do not know about me is that before I discovered still life photography and fell in love with it I was mostly shooting portraits  :) Now I'm trying to get back on track. I wanted to make one portrait session just black and white, what I've never done before, and I finally did it so...enjoy :) And don't forget to check out Rowan !

Through autumn's advancing / We'll stay young go dancing

After a long while I'm finally here with few autumn shots for you. I wish I could blog here not so rarely, but I have a catastrophic lack of time. A senior year complicate my life, and with school, hometasks, exam's preparing, I hardly have time for editing wedding and lovestory photoshots , and my running 365 project, that is now in a horrible state (well, just not perfect I'd say=) ).But I hope with me waking up one hour earlier everyday I'll sort it somehow out and will please you with more posts, that are yet to come. So if you want to hear from me more frequent - Twitter and Flikr are my firends =)
And here is my lovely friend Kate, that was glad to pose for me while I was testing my new flash (so happy with buying it , was a great help for me while wedding shooting, but later about it).

Find me photosession

Find me photosession
Originally uploaded by mandarina yeroshko

Hey guys!Here's my new photosession from the fall season
called "Find me". I was relly very impressed with the way Nadia is in front of the camera. I can say that it's the best model i've ever worked with.
Natural,emotional, confident and at the same time she listen to my every word and do everything what i say. She's only person that trust me in front of the camera. That's why it so pleasantly to work with such people.
Honestly i'm satisfied with results.
So, you can see more photos on my Flikr photostream
and on YouTube (the slideshow with more photos and music)
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