I Love to travel…
I don’t remember, but my mother told me that I was only 8 month old when I started traveling with her.
My father served in military and we have moved from one place to another quite frequently. My mother started travel business when I was only 18 and I dedicated 5 years of my life helping her to build up and expand our company.
Such an amazing time it was! I visited so many countries and discovered for my self a whole new world. I love that special moment , that feeling, when you plane lands in airport and you are about to discover new culture, see amazing architecture, meet new people.
I think that traveling is the best hobby where you can spend your earnings.
We always do have a plan for our next destination. It is the best motivation for our business.

Here is Here is “my destinations” map. I promise I will keep updating with new places I am going to visit in a future

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I am so glad, this Amazing book lives on my bookshelf !!!!
I trulie reccomend to buy it if you are on proffecional way of wedding photography.

Here is some keys ingredients from book:
“You must relax enough to be yourself and exhibit your pleasure in creating art”
“Trust your intuition so that you can react”
“Good wedding photography is not about complicated posing, sumptuos backgraunds, or five lights used brilliontly. It is about exprassion, interaction and life. The rest is importent but secondary”
They give many useful information about equipment and wedding albums, discuss posing and lighting….This is realy Wedding Photographer’s HANDBOOK!

This January I love:
….green tea
……warm socks
…………looking through the window when snowing
…………..reading blogs of favorite photographers and learning from their experience
………………dreaming about vocation with my husband….

Lyosha and I watched “The Atonement” this weekend….

My huge advise for all photographers to watch this movie!
The light, composition, cropping, colors…everything just amazing!!!!

I love this song from Christina Aguilera …about her wedding

It really touched me..

look lirics here…

I love these T Shirts !!!

looke this link

When I was a bride i had no opportunities to wear this T Shirt …because I lived in Ukraine and they have no idea about this fun.

Yesterday I have got such a great news!!!
I checked my e-mails and…..one of them contained these:
We announced the winners of the Best of Weddings contest at the trade show, and the winning images were displayed throughout the show at our booth. We had tons of comments about them, all of them positive. Great job! The quality of the images submitted last year was wonderful, but I believe all of you took the competition up a notch this year. I’ve spoken with all the judges, and they unanimously say that the contest was a true delight to judge. Moreover, the scoring average on the finalist images was slightly higher than last year, again a testament to the work you all put into the images.This year’s Best of Images winners are:

Weddings: Yuliya Shevchenko with “Safari”
Portrait: Paul Tsang with “The Clocksmith”
Humor: Pam Hawkins with “Divas”
Landscape: Ben Frederick with “Nexus of the Seasons”
Fine Art: Paul Tsang with “The Chase”

And the Grand Prize winner is Yuliya Shevchenko with “Your Letters”

AAAAAAAAAA!!!! I can’t believe!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oooo! I’m sssoooo excited! Thank you, Sandie for such a good news! It is an honor to know that judges have chosen my work for the grand prize and the winner of wedding category.
My best wishes and congradulations to Pam, Paul and Ben!!!
Below you can find my two picture-winners: