Archive for the “Personal” Category

 

As promised, here is another update on what we’ve been up to. This series of images is from a couple of weeks ago when we decided that it would be a great idea to go up the mountains in the middle of a storm. And… the landscapes were truly breathtaking (we saw a glimpse of them when we dared to take our eyes off an icy road and look around :) The trip was super fun, but a bit too stressful. Next time we’ll wait until it’s sunny to go up to 8,000′ elevation.

 

We stopped on the shoulder just for a second to take some pictures, but immediately got yelled at by a snowplow driver. I can imagine how sick they are of these photographers stopping to snap a photo :)

 

 

 

When we finally got to our hotel we decided that it’s easier to walk to find some food than to drive on ice.

 

Love fresh snow!

 

 

 

 

 

Five feet of fresh snow sounded too tempting to not push Mike into it :)

 

The revenge:

 

 

 

Mike had his hands full in the morning. I kept myself busy by taking pictures :) Can you believe how much it snowed overnight?

 

Oh, I could have spent half the night walking the night streets of snowy South Lake taking pictures! If only it weren’t so cold…

 

In the day time we had a great time snowboarding at Kirkwood. Do you guys go up to Tahoe to ski or snowboard? It’s become one of our favorite wintertime activities since I learned how to ride a few years ago.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

We like to travel light and religiously follow the expression “Take half as much stuff as you think you’ll need”. Our discussions about needing to take certain items with us usually result with leaving said item at home. There’s only one exception to that rule: we absolutely do not travel without a camera. Or two. (Otherwise we’ll fight :) Some kind of a camera is always with us: if we are too lazy to carry the big guns with us, we just take our handy point-and-shoot.

Our stream of personal pictures is constant and never dies down. Well, what do you want? We love love love taking pictures! Unfortunately, because we place priority on our clients images, we rarely ever have time to cull and edit our personal work. We have tons of fun shooting and would really enjoy looking through the photos (often in-camera), but then we put them into the bottomless “Personal Images” folder on the computer at home and that is it. Many of them never see the light of day again.

Last week I found thousands of pictures that have never been shared with anybody: hikes and camping trips, BBQs and Birthday parties, vacations and work trips. I’m making it my goal to put a dent in those pictures and share as many as I can.

I’ll start with pictures from this October. As many of you know, we weren’t able to go on our honeymoon right after our wedding and to compensate ourselves, we decided to have two honeymoons: a warm and a cold one :) The warm part took place on the island of Kauai where we spent seven days being busy doing nothing. We drove around in search of beautiful views and yummy food, we hiked, slept and just relaxed. Here are some of the highlights from the trip:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Any guesses where we went to for the cold part of our honeymoon? :)

The pictures are finally here! We literary can’t stop looking at them and just couldn’t wait to share them with you! Huge THANK YOU to all of our wonderful vendors who made the wedding day just perfect:

Photography: Greg Gibson Photography
Florals: Edgar @ Flowers by Edgar
Jewerly: Yael
Catering: Elaine Bell Catering
DJ/Band: Mark Haggerty @ Denon & Doyle
Hair & Makeup: Gayle Parker
Video: HD Video Memories

Also, I want to say a very special thank you to my friend Rimma, who always was there for me through the year of planning and did an amazing job coordinating everything on the day of!

Greg, I can’t put into words how thankful I am for you being there and capturing every single moment. After more then a year of preparation and all the detail planning your art is all that we have left after our wedding day. The images are absolutely amazing, I love them all! We are facing a humongous problem of choosing what to print for the walls now :) THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

Both my mom and I got super emotional during the preparations, I’m so glad Greg was there to catch it all!!

My a-a-a-m-a-z-i-n-g wedding dress (if I can say so myself :)

The most handsome groom ever!

I spent nearly a year in search of a florist who would understand my crazy ideas. When I met Edgar, it was love at the first sight, he was finishing my sentences and knew what I wanted better that I did myself. H e spent HOURS working on my bouquet and created the most beautiful and unusual one I’ve ever seen. I’ll tell you more about it later, for now I’ll just mention that not all the flowers in the bouquet were real :)

Our first look. I’m so happy we did it, it was a very special moment for both of us and it took some pressure off the ceremony.

We fell in love with this site right away, I could just see us getting married there!

The ceremony, officiated by our dear friend Michael.

You don’t even want to know the amount of hiking it took to get this picture! We came back to the house right at the ceremony start time and my mom was absolutely terrified when she saw that my dress and feet are red from all the vineyard dust :)

Going alone with our vintage travel theme, the placement cards:

The dinner table covered in clouds of Baby Breath:

A beautiful toast by Mike’s brother Alex who witnessed Mike and I meeting almost six years ago:

Poolside dancing was fun! (and apparently looked really good through the lens :)

This outdoor fireplace was one of the reasons we fell in love with the venue:

It was a truly amazing weekend, thank you to everyone who was there for us!