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Great time with Valencia and her extended family who come all the way from Singapore to explore stunning New Zealand and had a photo shoot on Muriwai Beach with popping into forest location first.
Mum, Dad, three sisters, their husbands and two little ones, so much fun and positive emotions, with closeness and connection!
Love is all around! By the way my next online workshop Love, Light & Laughter begin on 18 March. Secure your seat at Click Photo School!
Great time in Onepoto Domain with Masha and her family of four for a pre-Christmas morning photoshoot! So great to see this family growing {I remember doing Masha's maternity photos with a first baby and few other sessions as well, bring back memories!}. Beautiful moments with two little ones and a dog Simba!
So great to see friends coming back for more photos, such a honour to be kids and couples photographer and document all treasured moments and memories for years to come!
Enjoy highlights of this quick morning session at Onepoto Domain on North Shore! Contact me with any questions!
Amazing time with Cathryn & Steve at their family photo shoot in Central Auckland.
We met at their place at Kohimarama and did some indoor photos with their little one and then took an extended family to the park nearby for more natural photos, documenting their family time together.
Such a great photo session just before the New Year. Such a pleasure to be their photographer and capture so beautiful memories for years to come!
Enjoy highlights of this family photo gallery:
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Winter is a perfect time for recharge and bring in more creative vibe. One of the ways is Traveling Dress Project - a personal photography and way of collaboration with other photographers, from Auckland, around New Zealand and beyond, including Australia. Eight incredibly talented lifestyle and fine art photographers come together to choose one dress and send it to each other, taking pictures with their daughters in their personal photographer style. Its such a great way to try something new, get inspired and capture a few stunning photos , treasured memories with our family - little ones. My daughter been very excited to try this dress on, explore around the bushes at some rainy afternoon. You can see our photographs below and some more photos from all artists, shared these photographs when dress made a full travel around the globe.
Enjoy highlights and memories in The Traveling Dress Collective Blog publication and few our photos below
learn how to find your Voice in any genre {including personal projects} at my upcoming online workshop “ Love, Light & Laughter” at Click Photo School. It’s going to be amazing 4 weeks full of learning, inspiration, new friendships and personal feedback and growth. I would love to have you join!
Its such a big honour when another photographers asking you to take pictures in Auckland with their family at the beach and waterfall. This photo shoot was a part of this couple trip to New Zealand from Dubai where they based. So amazing our passes crossed at Clickin Moms forum - a great community for kids - newborn - wedding photographers from all over the world! You can find there friends for life!
Im so excited to meet with Chloe, successful family photographer in Dubai and her family with two little ones on Karekare Falls and Piha beach.
We had such amazing and relaxed time, kids been running around and exploring amazing New Zealand nature and landscapes. Such a dream come true. Its sounds unbelievable but this family decided to move to New Zealand and want me to take another photos for them in their new home, on the farm, with all their new animals, chickens, etc.
I can’t wait to see this family again and see their kids growing!
Enjoy these highlights! Contact me with any questions!
Im not often doing family or newborn photo shoots as more concentrate on wedding and couples photography, but Im happy to take it on board if I have time in my schedule and feel I need to refresh and get more creative inspiration for shooting other genre of photography apart from weddings :)
This time my friend Natalia asked to do a family session for her at Kariotahi beach {Auckland} and I been glad to spent beautiful time with this family of four with 2 active kids. Smaller one Rebeca is turning 3 years old, what a big gorgeous girl!
We had a lot of fun at the beach near the hills, black sand sea line, waterfall. Kids been running and playing around and we even get opportunity to capture some couple's special moments with mum and dad. What a happy family!
Enjoy this video and gallery!
I love to do a family storytelling and document everyday lifestyle moments, day by day. 365 Photography Project coming to the end, but I think I will keep going and capturing all these treasured moments in my family life: my daughter's first pony tales (her hair grows really slowly for the first two years :), my son meeting Santa just before Christmas (what great memories!), love all these emotions, my little ones love jumping on the bed every day...
Hope you enjoy this gallery!
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Capturing joy is the most important part of my photography. All these emotions, happiness, connection, what else could be more important? :)
This time in my 365 Project I choose to capture my little one jumping on the bed - its so much fun and positive emotions, look at her face!
These moments are so treasured!
Little tips: try to capture full frame with scene (to show what's happening), then concentrate on the details and face and emotions at the end. This makes for a complete set. Try to use different angles and perspective.
I show you just a fast sneak peek how my little one having fun on brothers bed while he in pre-school. ha-ha :) :
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Every moment with kids is a treasure. Do you want to remember how your kids sleeping, playing, making mess, having bath etc.
This time my little one grab a mermaid and while her brother was asleep at day time I decided to take her up to the bathroom so she not wake him up (yes, I even not think to move him upstairs to his bedroom for not disturb his sweet dreams, actually i tried once and it was not successful, ha-ha!)
So she had a fun time playing with mermaid in the water and I just used the opportunity to take a pictures with these everyday treasured moments. Kids will grow up at one day but I will keep these memories! :)
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What big fun we had this morning at Chipmunks play land and cafe
Kids been running around, climbing, playing and sliding. What a good time for little ones without big kids around (while they at school), all zone belongs to them :) Its so nice for parents just keep eye on kids and just relax and enjoy a cup of coffee or have a chat with other parents, or take a few shots with my camera like I did :) ha-ha!
Camera almost every day with me and my 365 Project motivate me to find new creativity sides and angles, se beauty in everyday moments and treasure them forever. Kids will grow up but pictures will stay :) I adore it!
Have a look at this few pics with my little ones having fun:
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I spent last weekend at Lake Taupo, where I have had a family photo session and many more. Lake Taupo is one of the best family destinations in New Zealand. I have been invited to capture precious moments of a baby turning 1 year old - a fabulous present of his parents. Birthday party at the mountains all covered with snow. First time to encounter snow – what can be more exciting for a child!
What a great experience!!!
I love to travel. I have been so happy that they have decided to share with me these special moments.
Mama Lena specially made a cake to celebrate one year old, and parents’ friends brought some cool presents. Gorgeous little boy has been so happy to have a ride on a toy-train with funny music and play with balloons. Later this day we drove up to the mountains passing by snowy trees and amazing landscapes everywhere you look. What a magic atmosphere it has been!
Not to mention it was just freezing up on the top of the mountains and it has been a little bit challenging to shoot with cold fingers, but it’s definitely worth it: beautiful nature around us and family walking on snow, laying and playing together. I have found that I'm not used to snow anymore, after few years away from Russia (there was really freezing temperatures - 20-30 at winter!!!), so now I’m more used to summer all year around. But it's great you can find so different landscapes in New Zealand, all in one spot! Love it!
Next day it was time to leave our location, beautiful house we spend the most amazing weekend. It was pity to leave this beautiful place. Lake Taupo was a short drive from where we have stayed, so we decided to continue with a photo session with a change of the background and of course more positive emotions, especially when so many interesting birds, swans and ducks around us. What a great experience for little one - watch all these new moments for him and feed those birds!
What a great weekend and amazing time! Enjoy our pictures and watch this space!
Childhood is a fun time. Let kids be kids and do what they really love to do. Lifestyle photography documenting these special alive moments.
I really enjoy sessions with little ones and having fun together. Its so easy and at the same moments. Not just trying to organise an environment for kids, let them be themselves, happy, show their characters and personalities.
Here are some shots what I done at family lifestyle session with Kylie and her two gorgeous daughters Taylor and Kourtney. I just can't help myself and took a lot of different pictures. We been colouring, doing play-dough, baking cupcakes, playing with bubbles, and having a Teddy Bear Picnic. See our stories in previous blog posts!
Here some of my favourite girls portraits:
I just love to take some lifestyle pictures for 365 Project and a lot of them includes my little one. You just can't help yourself when you see these emotions and alive moments:
She just loves to dress up and put something on her head :)
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Did you ever think about having session at your own house? It looks too usual for you, every day you see the same walls and your used to it.
But what about remembering these everyday moments, remember what your family and kids love to do, how you prefer spend time together, what about treasure every single moment of your life. Kids grow up really fast and they do colouring or enjoy play-dough, run after bubbles, trying to catch them, laughing and sitting on the ground...
All these moments will be gone, but we could remember them when looking at pictures.
I spent morning with beautiful family last weekend: Kylie, Taylor and Kourtney (5 and 7 years old gorgeous girls), they so different and looks so similar at the same moment. We capture everyday lifestyle moments like colouring, playing, laying on the floor and doing a lot of other different things, what all kids loves to do. We just went with the flow, follow girls wishes. It was big fun! Love every single moment of this session! We also did some baking, it was really special, so I decided put it in separate Blog post (watch this space for publication next week).
Look at these pictures!
How do you like to spend your family time with children? What do you love doing together?
We could capture these treasured lifestyle moments during your family photo shoot while you and your loved ones have fun outdoors!
That is what we did with Anya, Ben, Alice and Annie at their family session in the park: climbing trees, stone walls, picking up autumn leaves, running around, having a picnic, sitting in a princess tent, having a tea party with teddy bears and so much more.
It was an amazing time with this active and fun family. Girls were so gorgeous! And their parents love them so much! It was a real pleasure to capture these special family moments, their relationship, fun, freedom and spirit. We really enjoyed this time together and the little ones have been happy to play and explore everything around. Pictures turned out just amazing!
Thank you so much for these moments!
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I just love taking pictures of babies. They are so small and so gorgeous! They have their own personalities and cute smiles.
I had an honour to photograph a 5 month old Mariam and her mama Sofi and grandmother Khatuna. This session was full of amazing moments!
We started our photoshoot at their place where we set up a little studio with some props - blankets, soft toys, necklaces (all girls love jewellery, even little ones! :), and also a few different outfits (every girl needs it too).
Mariam was just a perfect model: sometimes serious, sometimes ready to give a lot of smiles! What a cutie pie! After a while Mariam needed a break and we all happily followed suit and had a cup of tea with the most delicious hachaputi I have ever tasted. Hachapuri is a traditional Georgian bread baked with cheese and Khatuna made it nothing short of perfect. I will never forget that melt-in-the-mouth taste and most friendly and delightful company!
Then we moved to the closest beach for some shots in the nature. I just love all these ocean views, waves and the wind, great sunny weather and healthy fresh air for our little princess! She became really tired at the end, almost ready to sleep at mummy's shoulder. What a sweet little girl!
Thank you Sofi, Mariam and Khatuna for this amazing time together!
Have a look at this gallery:
Let Kids been kids! They always doing unexpected things and ready to find something interesting in our usual life and have fun with it!
So much surprises, mess, cleaning work, fun moments!
My little one sneak outside and I found him playing with leaves, through them up in the air, having fun and doing leaves rain what drops in his hair, under the clothes and nappies as well.
Big fun - big bath afterwards!
I love to capture these real life moments what brings some magic in.
Who love to play outside, have fun and made a mess? Guess! :)
Here our lifestyle moments!
What is so special about mother-daughter relationships?
It’s the love and the sweetness of the two souls that are connected with each other. Each woman who became a mother understands it. When you gave birth to a baby (no matter – a boy or a girl) your life changes and sometimes you have no idea how huge this change is!
I love doing lifestyle photoshoots when you could capture real life, like a documentary, to tell a story, to capture everyday moments that we treasure forever - how kids are playing, eating, drawing, how they are reading a book with parents, sitting together, laughing, giving each other a hug, singing a song and having fun.
That’s why I’ve been really happy and excited to do a lifestyle family photo shoot for Inga with her gorgeous daughter Mia at their place. Really wonderful moments together! It was amazing time and experience, I totally loved how pictures turned out!
Enjoy it step by step.
My favourite picture from this set - Mother and Daughter in the wood:
Thank you Inga and Mia for wonderful time together!
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