The Beginning of the Journey...

             

            Life can be, to say the least, unpredictable. If somebody told me a couple of years ago that I will one day be a photographer, let alone, set my goal on becoming a wedding photographer, I would never believe. I always like photography, loved photographing my family, friends, but it never even crossed my mind to try myself in it professionally. And having had an unfortunate experience with my wedding photographer, I was skeptical of people calling themselves professional photographers. 
            For seven years I was dreading making my own wedding album, complaining every now and then to my brother, a professional landscape photographer and an incredibly gifted person, that I didn't even have the album to look through. He finally told me one day, to take my little camera, put the little lens he gave me on, shoot some detail pictures of whatever I had left, add to wedding photos and finally print that album. Why didn't I think of that?. So I set out to gather my Big day leftovers and shoot them. But I had no idea how... How do you shoot the rings, where? what about the dress? Should necklace and earring be in one shot?.. I had more questions than I could answer, so I went to.. Facebook and started browsing numerous pages of wedding photographers for some inspiration. And as I was looking through photos, I became amazed, obsessed and touched by these incredible memories unfolding in front of me.. I started to realize, that wedding photography was more then just another branch of the huge wedding industry giant, it was much more.. I became addicted with reading touching wedding blogs of incredibly talented Jasmine Star, a California based international wedding photographer, watching wedding slideshows of David Mielcarek (CinematicbyDavidM), the Group of 10, GM Photographics, Emilio B Photography, Untitled Film Works and I could go on.. And I realized that what I was looking at was not just some beautiful photographs, those were memories that couples and their families would treasure forever, would look back at with joy and re-live those happiest days... What an honor and big responsibility that must be to document a wedding day!!! I was hooked. A little fire has started deep in my heart. I wanted to become a wedding photographer and to be able to bring that joy of beautiful memories to couples.. So, long story short, with the support of my amazing best friend/husband I set out on the journey called a wedding photographer.... 
          Thank you for reading my story and for embarking on this adventure together with me!

Warmly,
Olya