Blog Tig and I've been Tagged!

Thanks to mr Erwin Wijanto who just tagged me in his blog game for photographers i and 8 other lucky chosen photographers will have to share 8 interesting things about themselves, and then pass the challenge onto more photographers and hope theyll do the same.

8 things about Ross:

1. Im a mac freak, so bad that even my new golden retriever is called apple ... mac. lol.
2. i love lemon tea and mountain dew.
3. Favourite color scheme is blue and brown, but my photography logo is green and white! makes alot of sense!
4. I am pining to finally get my canon 5d from my nikon d70s and canon 20d.
5. my favourite site is www.opensourcephoto.net/forum - full of great people and lots of great info on photography.
6. I love pizza, especially italian thin based peperoni plus indian but i cant get it here.
7. I cant work on anything without listening to some music whether it be subtle chillout or heavy rock.
8. I love Moldova, the people, the culture but i hate the crazy heat in summer and the bitter cold in winter, plus i dont have air conditioning....YET.


Here are the 8 lucky photographers i am tagging:

1. Eddie Bojorquez - Studio 512
2. Tim Halberg
3. Scarlett Williams
4. Damion Hamilton
5. Dennis Pilapil
6. Chris+Tammie @ LargoPhotography
7. Oleksandr Havrylyuk
8. Joey Lawrence

Denis and Katya - Djs

This was an unexpected shoot, i met Denis while walking with some other friends and he asked me to take some photos of him and his partner Katya for their new promo release. Something i have never done before but have seen JoeyL take tonnes of awesome promo shoots. Anyway we met up the next day for an hour and took some photos inside a bright room and then went outside to find a new building in the making. :)

a 4 group photoshoot

Max, Costea, Alina and Veronica all came together for a short photo shoot near Moldova's American Embassy. Max left with Sasha my brother in law to Fresno Pacific so i wanted to get a few shots for him and also for his family to have of him before he left. here they are:


all the guys:



max:



Alina:



Costea:



Veronica:



the photos:

The Kurganova Family

It was only my second ever family shoot and i was kind of nervous as the dad owns an ice cream company in the Ukraine and i had eaten tonnes of the stuff and so i felt i had to make up for all that eaten ice cream! we went right down onto the beach and took some shots of the whole family, some of the mummy and daddy and then some of the children and of little Inna their relative.









Aya THE LITTLE ONE:




Alla, Yana and Inna:

My Lesya :)

It had been a long time since id taken lots of photos of Lesya but at the beach we had plenty of time. She grabbed the famous hat that seemed to have been argued and pulled between all the 5 girls there but i think she won for half an hour anyway.

The props:



The super dooper good looking model: :)



and the photos:

So many babies!

While at the beach i got pretty busy on doing photo sessions of all the people there including the numerous amount of small children that seemed to pop up each day there and well i got asked to take some photos of them. I have to admit i take my hat off to all the children and baby photographers out there as its really difficult to take their photos when they just wont look at the camera! lol. and at one stage i thought the baby was going to hit me, check out the photos below.







but then Sasha had it all under control:

inna and pasha

These guys are great. they both are so much fun even if they know NO english, they still manage to get the message across. they where heading out from the beach that night back to their hometown which was nearly 3 hours away and Inna asked for some photos quickly. it was getting dark very fast so we went and grabbed as many photos as we could.

The Beach

Its always good to get to the beach from Moldova as its landlocked. We went to the southern peninsula of the Ukraine right beside the Romanian border at the Black Sea and it was incredible. the sunsets and sunrises where both equally as beautiful with deep crimson reds and vibrant oranges right over the horizon. it was so good i even got up one morning at 5am to take some photos and here they are:




we even went to the effort to collect prawns in the morning. sadly it was kinda unsuccessful with only 2 prawns caught. so we just gave up!

safe trip sasha

My good brother in law sasha has just been blessed by getting a presidents scholarship to fresno pacific university in California. He left a few days back and is there right now but before he left all of his friends got together to wish him a big goodbye in Moldovan style by having a barbeque!



Lesya couldnt help buy sasha his favourite food from his favourite fast food restaurant. a happy meal from Mcdonalds!




Sergey preparing the food :)

Sport 4 Life

3 years ago we started a new sports project called "Sport 4 Life" which involved professionals, students and street children to partake in supervised sports competitions, trainings each week and every so often train with foreign international sports players. My brother in law Sasha had always been the main leader of the sports organisation and this was his last project before he left to fresno pacific university in California.

It was a great project for one area in Chisinau called Buicani. There where 3 sports involved volleyball, basketball and football/soccer. Each sport had different teams of different age groups playing together and against each other in a series of tournaments. in total we had up to 400 teenagers coming to play sports each day, it was brilliant.

the alina and evelina shoot

These 2 girls rocked for a photo shoot. they pretty much made my job easy by just snapping! definately 2 very photogenic girls. We had lots of fun going through this old building finding plenty of excellent photo spots with little bursts of light.

AlinA:







EvelinA:

8 years of Agape

Lesyas church Agape in the Moldovan Capital recently celebrated its 8 year anniversary. It was an amazing day and it was great to see so many people come together for a blessed occasion.

here are the photos: