Vesna & Danijel - Grad Socerb

Danes bolj na hitro, saj je že pozno. Danijel je kirurg v Valdoltri, Vesna pa v Izoli sposoja barke. Oba nadvse simpatična in prijetna. Tole je nastalo na Gradu Soccerb enkrat sredi avgusta.
O njuni poroki, ki se je zgodila v moji "favorit" lokaciji Kendovem dvorcu, pa lahko pišem samo v presežnikih, a o temu enkrat prihodnjič.
Todaj I will be very short...its late already. Danijel is a surgeon in Valdoltra clinic, Vesna is renting a boats in Izola. Both very attractive and very nice. We capture this images on the Castle Soccerb sometime in the middle of august. I can talk about their wedding that happened in my favorite location "Kendov mansion" only in superlative, but more about that in my next posts.

Monika Mešič

Monika Mešič, profesionalni fotomodel...dekle, ki je leta 2005 osvojilo laskavi naslov Bernimodels (www.berniemodels.net) in se tako preiskusilo celo v sami svetovni modni prestolnici - Milanu. Dekle, ki je bilo letos maja pripravljeno iti z nami v Toskano in potrpežljivo in profesionalno pomagati pri drugem dejanju fotografskega projekta, ki ga ustvarjava skupaj z mojim dobrim prijateljem Davidom Beckstedom. Za tiste, ki ne veste David je bil letos v prestižni ameriški reviji "American photo magazine" izbran za enega izmed 10-ih najboljših svetovnih poročnih fotografov. O kakšne vrste projektu gre, bom opisal v naslednjih objavah, danes pa kot rečeno o Moniki.
Dobila sva se v stari Ljubljani, kamor sem ji odnesel nekaj printov, saj je imela pomemben "casting".
In ko sva nato ob pijači kramljala in debatirala, ter pregledovala fotke iz njenega "booka", mi je zaupala "...veš tvoje fotke so mi od vseh najboljše". Priznam, bil sem presenečen, saj je dekle poziralo že mnogim znanim slovenskim fotografom in delalo z nekaterimi top fotografi v Milanu.
Monika če tole bereš, hvala in upam, da boš kmalu spet stala pred mojim objektivom.
Za posladek pa fotografije Monike, ki so nastale v Toskani...
Monika Mešič, professional photo model...a girl, that back in the 2005 win the title "Bernimodels" (www.berniemodels.net) and try herself also in world fashion metropolis - Milano. A girl that this May was prepared to go with us in Tuscany and patiently and professionally helped with finishing the second part of the project that I am doing with my great friend David Beckstead.
For those who don't know, David was this year by American photo magazine, selected as one of the ten world best wedding photographers. I will talk about the project that we are doing in my next posts, but as I said today we are talking about Monika.
This afternoon we meet each other in old city, where I bring her few prints for important casting that she was having. And when we later talk and discuss about her model book she said to me " ...you know Milos, I like your photos the most of all I have". I admit, I was a little surprised...the girl posed for some of the best Slovenian photographers and has worked with some of the top photographers in Milano.
So Monika if you read this, thank you and hope you will stand in front of my lens soon again.
And here are three photos of Monika, which I capture in Tuscany...

Tanja & Borut Pahor

Tokratni naslov je nekoliko "tračevski" in večina je najbrž najprej pomislila, da se naš znani politik morda celo poroči.... a vas moram žal razočarati... ni tisti Borut Pahor za katerega ste mislite, da je. Je pa ravno tako s Primorske, uglajen in simpatičen. V soboto bo obljubil "večno zvestobo" Tanji. Da bo na svečani dan fotografiranje lažje, smo se včeraj dobili na probi, pri Gradu Habsberg ob vznožju Planinskega polja.
Kljub temu, da je bila obutev za tole zaraščeno ruševino, (katera me BTW vedno nadvse fascinira) neprimerna, smo s skupnimi močmi ustvarili nekaj zanimivih portretov.
Pa začnimo...
Yesterday we did a E-session with Tanja & Borut. We meet each other at the castle Habsberg.
Even the shoes were not the best for this grown over ruin castle (which BTW always fascinates me), we managed to capture some great portraits.
Lets start...



potem se je iza grmovja pojavil tale osliček in je postalo zabavno.
Tanja in Borut sta njegovo osamljenost potolažila z nekaj trave...
and then this donkey shown up and things started to get fun.
Tanja and Borut gave him some grass to eat...

kar mu je bilo nadvse všeč...
which he liked a lot...

potem smo nadaljevali z zastavljeno nalogo...
than we continue to accomplish our mission...

a nekomu to sploh ni bilo po godu in je to nazorno pokazal...
but somebody didn't like that at all, what he also clearly showned...

in ko mu je Borut dejal, da gre tukaj zares, je prav prisrčno zastrigel z ušesi..
and when Borut told him, that we are doing something important, he started to prick with his ears...

vljudno se je umaknil in nas pustil, da smo "fotosession" izpeljali do konca...
he gently moved back and left us to finish our fotosession....

tale zadnji dve sta pa Natašini...
this last two pictures are from Natasha...



Torej v soboto gremo na Primorsko. Pa lep pozdrav vsem.
So on Saturday we are in Primorsko (Slovenian see area). Best regards to all.

Tina & Luka

Je lahko poročno darilo tudi fotograf? V svetu sploh ne redkost je v Sloveniji bolj poredka praksa. Dokaz, da gredo tudi v Sloveniji na tem področju stvari na bolje, je simpatična gospa Klara, ki je storila ravno to in tako smo se v lotili ustvarjanja poročne zgodbice Tine in Luka. Prvo dejanje se je zgodilo v četrtek, ko nas je popoldanski dež, skoraj popolnoma onemogočil, a z nekaj dobre volje nam je v Križankah uspelo posneti tole fotografijo, ki jo je par včeraj simbolično že prejel v dar.
Can a wedding photographer be a wedding present? Pretty normal thing in the world, but more rare in Slovenia. To proof that things get better in this term also in Slovenia, get real when a attractive lady Klara, did exactly that. And so we started a wedding story of the Tina and Luka.
The first action started on Thursday with ES, but even strong rain didn't stop us to capture this beautifull photo, which couple yesterday symbolically received as gift.

In da bo Tina čudovita nevesta mi je bilo jasno že, ko smo se prvič srečali. Moja domneva se je potrdila že takoj zjutraj na poročni dan....
And that Tina will be a beautiful bride was clear to me, already on our first meeting. That came thrue already on the morning of the wedding day...

čeveljci so odlično pristajali še lepši oblekci...
the shoes perfectly suits even more beautifull dress...

zadnji detailčki, da bo nevesta popolna...
last details, so the bride is perfect...

par portretkov mladoporočencev...
few relaxed portraits...







zabava pa kot se spodobi za tako veselo družbo, "Luxi" u elementu....
the reception was crazy...groom in action...

MOJ INTERVJU V DNEVNIKU - MY NEWSPAPER INTERVIEW

Včeraj se je zgodila še ena pomembna reč v mojem življenju. Drugi največji slovenski časopis DNEVNIK je objavil celostranski intervju o moji fotografski karieri. 22 odgovorov na zastavljena vprašanja je v obliko intervjuja spravila Barbara Vrezovnik (hvala Barbara).
Kaj naj porečem ob tem dogodku....sem ponosen ? Vsekakor! Sem zato kaj boljši ali pomembnejši? Pravgotovo ne! Je pa taka reč vsekakor lepa spodbuda za naprej in potrdilo da je pot prava.
Intervju si lahko v spletni obliki preberete tudi na dnevnikovi strani oz. tule.
Yesterday another important thing happened in my life. Second largest Slovenian newspaper published my whole page interview about my photography carier. Barbara Vrezovnik (thank you Barbara), put together an interview from 22 questions that I need to answer.
What can I say about that....am I proud? Absolutely! Am I any better or more important because of that? Surrley not! But it gave me a large amount of stimulation for further and confirmation that the direction is right. The interview is also published on newspaper site, but there is no translation, sorry.

TRASH THE DRESS ZAGREB

Torej prva "zaresna" objava, bo nekoliko "odštekana", vsaj za Slovenske razmere. Vse skupaj se je začelo s tem, ko je moj ameriški kolega John Michael Cooper predstavil nekaj neverjetnih fotografskih mojstrovin in pravzaprav začel nov trend v poročni fotografiji. In kot je to v Ameriški navadi, se je cela zadeva skomercializirala in nastal je nov trend, ki so ga poimenovali Trash the dress. Več si lahko preberete tu, moja današnja zgodba pa se je začela točno pred enim mesecem, ko me je moj Zagrebški kolega Olaf Siebert povabil na prvi Hrvaški TTD session. Seveda sem se vabilu z veseljem odzval in tako sva se z Natašo popolnoma neobremenjena znašla v nadvse prijetni družbi. Olaf se je potrudil in celotno zadevo perfektno organiziral, ter mi v obliki petih luštnih deklet in enega para omogočil obilo nepozabnih fotografskih užitkov.

In ker so takšni "fotosešni" odlična priložnost, da si človek da duška in resnično poizkusi nekaj drugačnega sem si izmislil tole....

So my first "real" post, will be a little "freaking crazy", at least for Slovenia. Everything started, when my American friend John Michael Cooper started to present us some incredible photography masterpieces and so started a totally new trend in wedding photography. And as this is pretty common for Americans, the whole thing get commercialized and so we get Trash the dress. More about that you can read here, but todays my story started exactly a month ago, when my Croatian friend Olaf Siebert invited me to the first Croatian TTD session. Of course I didn't wait for a second and so me and Nataša find out totally unencumbered in the middle of great people company. Olaf really did his best and organized everything perfect, so I did get a chance to work with five pretty girls and one couple. The photography experience was great and unforgettable.

And because this kind of photo sessions are more than perfect for trying something really different and crazy I invent this...











no upam, da se niste ustrašili, saj je bilo z "nevesto" vse ok in lahko si predstavljate kako je tole izgledalo v živo... pravi show za publiko.
V bistvu je bila cela zadeva več kot zabavna in tule je nekaj ostalih fotografij...

well, hope you didn't get scared for the "bride", but I can guarantee you that everything was ok and you can imagine how this thing looked live.... real show for the public.
The point is that we had more than fun and here is a few more pictures...























Hvala za ogled...sedaj pa hitro spat...jutri me čaka pravi maraton.

And now I need to hurry up for sleep...tomorrow I have a real marathon wedding.

KONČNO POZDRAVLJENI - FINALLY WELCOME

No pa se je končno zgodilo bi lahko rekli....Miloš Horvat z današnjim dnem, začenja pisati prvi pravi Slovenski poročni in portretni fotografski blog. Pravzaprav bi lahko rekli, da je to obuditev, nečesa kar sem počel že v časih, ko so bili blogi še v povojih, a sem zaradi različnih razlogov odnehal. No kakorkoli že, danes sem ponovno tu in v prihodnje lahko pričakujete, da bom z vami delil, vse kar počnem, sem počel ali bom počel, predvsem pa vas bom zasipal s tistim, kar se trudim početi zadnja leta.... predstaviti poročno fotografijo na drugačen način kot ste jo bili vajeni.

In ker imam kar nekaj prijateljev tudi z drugih koncev zemeljske oble, vas bom občasno mučil tudi z mojo "not so good" angleščino.

Za začetek pa ....

Well it finally happened...Milos Horvat is today starting to write a first real Slovenian wedding and portrait photography blog. Actually we could say, that this is only the rebirth of something that I have done already on the times when blogging was relatively rare, but I quit writing it because of different reasons. However, today I am here again and you can expect that I will share here with you everything what I do, had done or will do. But the main purpose is to show you what I am trying to do for the last several years in Slovenia and worldwide....to show a wedding photography on my own artistic way.

And please forgive me if my English is not perfect...I am doing my best.

and for the start....