Asya Barskaya-LebedOver the past two week sI have been very busy photographing various events at the Henley Youth Festival. I love going to different places and discovering new things, especially when there is art, theater and music involved. This is an amazing event, run entirely by volunteers, and I felt very privileged to be part of …
Yesterday I had a mini photo session with the lovely baby Disha in her beautiful home in Sonning. There was a nice large cream wall, some fluffy cushions and a big window – a perfect light source for photographs. We wanted to match a photograph taken of Diksha’s brother 8 years ago, so we posed …
In February I had the privilege and pleasure to photograph an internationally renown actress and opera singer Maggie Preece. Maggie needed some new photographs for her agents and for publicity purposes, and the challenge was to capture her charming personality and amazing charisma that she radiates the very minute she walks into any room. It …
The first weekend of February I had a wonderful session with the 4 beautiful ladies representing 3 generations of ladies in their family. There were so many great shots, so it was not an easy choice, but I have finally decided on the image below – I love the energy, the connection and the fun …
This week I had a photo-shoot with my son, which was done at Tina Cleary’s lovely home studio. We had lots of fun doing lots of silly things and as result got a wonderful set of photographs that I will treasure forever. Here are a few of my favourites from that session. We all know …
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Saturday night I was back to the stunning Berkshire Ballroom to capture another LOLDance party. I adore this venue, it’s pure pleasure to take photographs there – such beautiful lighting and so much space. The classes run by Simon and Joanna were brilliant fun and …
This month, inspired by the new things that I’ve learnt at the SWPP convention, and with a range of new props I’ve been experimenting with some new techniques. As a result, I have created very different images with both family portrait and newborns, so I hesitated which one to choose for my photo of the month. …
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”] Yesterday I had a lovely afternoon photographing baby Alex, who is just under 3 weeks old. He was exceptionally well behaved, and very alert, so we have not quite managed to take those ‘ deeply asleep” photographs, so we took photographs of him napping …
Last Sunday I had 4 beautiful ladies in my studio representing 3 generations of one family.Our aim was to create some truly special portraits for them to treasure. We started with some traditional group portraits with my new black background, and towards the end took some fun contemporary high key photographs as well. As with any …
I have been taking lots of business portraits in the last two years. Many of my clients believe that professional make-up does not really make that much of a difference, and I used to think that too. But seeing the difference of the outcome with the professional make-up, I now always suggest to my female clients to consider …