Look what we found!

While gathering our thoughts around a night flight we were about to embark upon from Solberg airport the other week we noticed a very lonely and completely forgotten airplane...

And gave it a new life in photographs :)

Hope you enjoy it ....

I wonder what will happen to it over time... For some reason I feel like visiting it from time to time...

Aren't people like that as well? If you ignore them, they become old and dingy... We thrive on attention and use, aren't we? I want to make someone a little happier every day... I don't know what would have happened to me if I couldn't do that.

Have a fanta-graphic day!

a little sneak peek...

Two days ago had what's likely to be the longest shooting day in my history...

Probably sounds normal to more mature fashion photographers, but I left the house that morning around 8am and came back only at 10pm.

All that day I spent shooting beautiful jewelry on beautiful ladies. And then some without the ladies...

Had so much fun that even when my feet got tired and swollen /and even when I was already in bed after a steamy shower/ - I couldn't sleep! So much good energy... ahh

This one I composed while going over the images that are going to be used for designer's editorials... I'll tell you more about her when I post the real work we were after, this is just something I quickly put together while going over all the shots... yes, all 16GB of them.... *yaaaaawn*

I just hope I'll sleep much better tonight :).

And I'm wishing you the same!

Past week has been.... full!

Sometimes I become overwhelmed with all the opportunities and everything that's coming my way...
When I can finally sit down and evaluate what just happened, it's much easier to see that it's all just temporary. That eventually when things are more stable and less unpredictable, I'll have this hired help and that nailed down... and the nerves calm down :)

But until then... I'm left with the fascination at the ideas, projects, time it takes to organize and manage it all.

This past week I had fun time participating in a TV episode for a show I cannot mention. They are based in Toronto, and came over to New Jersey to shoot this episode, where I am participating in a scene as a photographer. Cool, right? :)

Was fun too.
The team showed up in my studio, checked everything out, their DP gave me The Beatles guitar pick as a souvenir (which I'm now taking with me everywhere I go... Don't ask... I am a geek after all), the set was already done, so, I had the sound guy hide a mic on me (probably the funnest part of that night - never had that experience before...) and we started shooting. I was shooting the baby, they were shooting their footage...
Baby was a tough audience, but so cute that it didn't even matter at the end. I got the shots I wanted, apparently the crew got the shots they were after and we all went our own separate ways.

Being out of country and all, they needed help getting poster sized prints on a foam board - SAME WEEK, and the first thing that came into my mind was Costco. Just because they mailed me a coupon with discounts on canvas prints and claimed I can pick it all up the same day.

I went to LinkedIn to ask folks if anybody used Costco for their pro prints, but nobody was too sure whether the quality would be adequate. But the price seemed very adequate for the production crew, and the pics would be seen only on camera anyway, so I decided to give Costco a try. They ended up producing much better results than I anticipated, so I'm giving you a blessing if you want to try their lab near Willowbrook mall.

This morning I dropped the prints off at the "party" location and got on camera one more time. I think I didn't do a very good job, just because it was all so quick and I was NOT prepared in any way, but I just tried to look as natural as I could, and also "hasty" (per director).. hahah.

Yup. That was the first on camera thing for me for somebody else's project and, of course, I feel a little proud, hahah.

Oh, and yes - check out the cute baby, Tyler:

With Mommy...

This weekend I'm spending with my son - yay to that! Saturday didn't go off as I planned, but we also have a Sunday and I'm very much looking forward to what we've planned.
And how was YOUR week?

what have I learned today!

A friend sent me a link to wikipage, which I wanted to tell my mom about because we love musing over these kinds of mysteries, and she goes and tells me that she knows all about him and wrote his scientific work and that there's also a documentary about him, which I found on youtube - check this out!

A man from Latvia built one of the most mysterious things on the planet. Aside from being a very original man...



It's obvious that these days his work is being used as a tourist attraction and some information might have been "pulled out of the finger", but one truth remains - how could one man build such a structure?

*Mesmerized*

PS: here's the wiki page if you're interested http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Castle

I guess we ARE all same

Laughed while wincing at... babies eating lemons..

On FILMS.... also - Happy Labor Day!

I hope you're having a wonderful time - wherever you are...
We've been blessed with wonderful sunny weather and I've done a lot of work, even though it's a weekend and there's a lot going on around me that attempts at breaking my focus and stealing my scattered attention.

I just had this thought that I can't remember the time when I used the term "movies" in place for any motion picture. And this past year I've clearly defined the difference between a "movie" and a "film".

When I hear my husband watch something where there's a lot of shouting, shooting, engine revving and other noises - it definitely falls into a category of a movie to me, no matter how good the rating is :).

What's FILM to you? What sense defines a good FILM worth watching? What was the last FILM you watched that you'd recommend?