I’m back from Turkey already. It was wonderful to see a best friend getting married. It was incredibly lot of emotions over there. But I will write about this in another post along with their photographs.:)

While I was  in Turkey, I got a sensational message, that another pictures that I’ve made some time ago for a fashion designer from Glasgow will be published in a fashion magazine! I could not believe in this dream! In the past three months I’ve  had three publications!
Not so long ago I was sitting on the sofa looking over fashion magazines and dreamed of that one day my photos will be in them. Dreams finally come true! It is all about believe in yourself, listen to your heart and  work hard. It all pays off !
I will say: it’s not easy sometimes. There are days when you have enough, when you think of what you’re doing does not make sense. Because others are better. The tears of fear  flowing down your cheeks.
But somewhere at the bottom of your heart, this desire, hope and passion of doing what you love in spite of all,  glows in you, and allows you to survive this time of the fall and soar higher.
I know that I’ll fall again and again, that the black dragon will swallow me in the darkness of fear and doubt for many times, but I also know that every time after fall I will rise higher, better and stronger.
This is a normal process. Now I know. So believe in yourself, love, and  fulfillment of the dreams.
I found the text below, on the Internet which perfectly embodies what I wanted to write to you.

And here is the link to the magazine where these photos was published “HERE “ page 78-86.

Below more photos from this shoot.

Thank you so much to amazing team that I was working with on that day. Fantastic job!

Fashion Designer- NLMdesign

MUA- Andrew James

Hair Stylist – Gavin Jamieson

Models- Laurie Gault, Mel Hamilton, Colette Dryburgh

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Today I present you a very close person to me, and her future husband.

With Demet I met eight years ago. We did not get along immediately. At some point, something snapped, and yet we are best friends. And so it is to this day! Today I can say that Demet is not just a friend to me. She is like a sister, like Guardian Angel who is with you in good and bad times. She just is – and for that I thank her very much!

Some time ago – three years ago to be exact, I witnesed a spark between two people. Without thinking a lot I arranged them to know each other a bit better. So yes, I can easily be named matchmaker.

Today, in two days this two will tie the knot. I am enormously happy and counting down the hours until my flight to Turkey. Their wedding will take place in Istanbul where from Demet is. Ladi’s family will arrive from the Czech Republic where he come from. Woow what a amazing mix of cultures! It will be wonderful !

I love you dears!! I know that you are reading this and I already can’t wait to see ya ! I’m thrilled!

I invite everyone to look at their engagement session. And a place where this whole story started!

Stay Fabulous!

KK

Demet makes the best Turkish coffee ever!

In this restaurant they saw each other for the first time!

Demet found her engagement ring in the champagne glass.

Ladi makes her laugh head off by making funny faces.

The most beautiful smile.

To see more of Demet and Ladi’s Save the Date photo session click on the animation below.

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I’m going back to editing because just two days left to my flight to Turkey where I’m going to photograph wedding of my amazing best friend ! And I really want to show you their Engagement session!

So enjoy these photos today and stay tuned for the next post !

KK

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Their engagement session we started with a visit to the venue where the wedding is going to take place (already tomorrow!)  in Kirknewton Stables. It is a wonderful place located about 10 miles away from Edinburgh. If you’re looking for the venue with the vintage country style – this one’s for you!

Then we moved to the forest where Gill and Craig feel best. They often go camping on the weekend, so it was perfect place to shoot.  As at this time of the year there was still  not so much green around so we made sure to add some romantic and fun things to our photos that will show Gill and Craig’s personalities. 

I think that words are superfluous in this post.  You have to see yourself how beautiful this couple is.

Enjoy the pictures and animations with more images at the end of the post.

Are you ready for their wedding?

I can’t wait!  All my equipment is  ready to document this wonderful magical moments tomorrow!

See you there!

KK

The owner’s dog, Beautiful Labrador was giving us company for the most of our session. Ricky have some fun with him while I was taking photos of Gill and Craig.

I’m looking forward to meet again some special  guest  at the wedding. Wonder if they come dress up nicely?

The dog was looking very sad when we ware leaving. Ricky almost change his mind of having the dog! (we have a cat already! ) 

Ohh guys ! You’re just trully beautiful together!

There was no sunshine on that day, but not in the forest where we ware shooting! Gill was there! You are the sunshine!

Ready steady? Go.. !!

To see more images from Gillian and Craig Save the date photo session click play below.

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Their wedding is this Sunday in a beautiful place The Merchant Hall in Edinburgh. Definitely will be a lot of smile, emotions, and of course beautiful pictures because the place has a lot of beautiful spots to photograph.
I can not wait already !

Hope these couple will also put the smile on your face.

KK

William has a perfect recipe to make Gill laugh.

To see more of Gillian and William photos from their Save the Date session play the slideshow below.

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I am very happy  to announce  that today was published another magazine (Flawless Magazine) with my pictures in it!! So over the moon!!

Make up by – Sharon Lumsden
Hair by – Jenn Matchieson
Female model – Magda Zalejska ( ModelTeam)
Male model- Jamie Hillen
Photographer Assistant- Ryszard Malarz
( I love you guys! )

To create “Fontange symphony” I was taking  inspirations from the few things – movies (Edward Scissorshands, Sweeny Todd), the hairstyle which have been very fashion at the time of XVII century (The orginal name for these styles is “Fontange“) but mainly I wanted to base on XVII century fashion style which I love so much!  

I’m so proud to have these photos published! Thats the way you start monday

Hope you gonna like it too!

I will just post sneak peak here but more photos you can check on the magazine website here (Page 53! ) …
And my print version is on my way! Can’t wait to hold it in my hands!  

Have a Fabulous day!

KK

And here is a photo from the backstage!

Thank you Peter for doing the backstage! Yes! Backstage is coming soon and it’s been created by Studio 5 Photography

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 ”Good morning I have a question: Do you do, portraits but not to models? I love your pictures and I always dreamed to have a professional photo session but unfortunately I am not a model.
 Dreamer”

Dear Dreamer, and everyone who want to have a beautiful photographs taken by me.
Of course I’m doing portrait for everybody !!! Many people thought that all people photographed by me are models! Absolutely not!
 When I’m doing my own projects  I do a search in model agencies but very often this happens that I choose the person from the group of friends or the random girl from the street that has inspired me.There is no rules! We are all beautiful!
It does not matter if you’re a girl working in the office, making sandwiches in the coffee shop, or a mother of two! We all want to be beautiful!
 Creating personal portraits I always try to look into the soul. It is the most beautiful in us. Your story always attracts me. More than that me and my team (makeup artist, hairstylist, stylist) we will help you feel even more beautiful! Sometimes you will discover new you !. You will see things in you that you might probably never seen before. You will meet yourself again. It’s a great adventure!

I like to show you how others see you. It happens  that some girls who come to me  did not feel fully conscious of yourself and in their beauty. We will change this feeling!
I love their faces when they look at the finished photos with happy tears in their eyes ! These moments touching me the most! Then I feel fully happy and I love my work even more!

Now I will explain how the preparation is running for this kind of session, and how to do it.

First: Contact me! This is the first step which  you have to do it! The rest  I’ll take care of!
After that we will arrange meeting for coffee and I want to get to know you better. Who you are.
This is a very important process for me because I want the image to reflects you. Your personality, beauty which you have in you. I’ll study your face, body, and  get to know your story. And then I propose you a small metamorphosis. Changes may be very small or very big. It all depends on you. We do nothing against you!.
At the session, we choose those clothes which highlights your figure, we will add glamor make-up, and we will style your hair so that they frame your personality.
Sessions will take place where you feel the most comfortable. This may be a studio, house, street or anywhere you feel good! It all depends on our idea for the session. Once we have done all of this the only thing left is to have a lot of fun!

After the session, I’ll take your pictures to my digital darkroom and make sure that they become for you, your own piece of art. So, the whole YOU!

So do not hesitate! Email me if you want to feel even more beautiful and experience adventure with me and my team!

Today’s pictures will show you sample how this session run and their results.

Claudia-working as a receptionist. She is beautiful young girl  (20-25yrs) who likes fashion and having a good time. I was enchanted by her mystery in her eyes and her modest.
Claudia has beautiful long hair bleached at the ends giving a nice caramel efect. So there was no question of putting them up. It turned them up in a nice waves which gave beautiful glamor effect as a hair shampoo advertising.
Eyes was mysteriously highlighted to double the effect. We have selected a dress code that was feminine and glamorous.
Some of the photos we did in the studio and some on the outside  where we used a romantic outfit and a chair which added a little magic to the pictures.

Thank you Claudia for trusting me and my team. We so much enjoyed that day! You are stunning!!

I invite you all who want to feel more beautiful and experience an unforgettable adventure

On that day my hair and makeup artist was – Kasia Paluch.

Enjoy and have a FAB weekend!

KK

x

This is before and after photo.

Ohh Claudia – these eyes! I could simply sink myself in them.

Small backstage from the studio. Justyna thank you for the help on that day

 To see more photos of Claudia and some behing the scenes please Click on the slideshow below.

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Spring certainly came for sure. And like every year, I think that many of us have revived and thought about dropping a winter belly which protect us from the cold.   Winter this year didn’t want to go away for a long time but fortunately it’s gone now. Today my post will be about a person who is not only the mother of two wonderful boys but also a woman of success, especially her personal success. Like most women after childbirth and in this case after two children, struggles with the problem of loosing pounds which where added during the pregnancy. Urszula – that’s her name, is a graduate of the Academy of Physical Education in Krakow, specializing in physical-corrective compensatory gymnastics and many other sports related experience, has decided to not only help herself but also other people who do not know how to do it. Her experience of the sport as well as the psychological experience will allow you to achieve success in the effort for a beautiful figure and a healthy life. For this reason she created a web page where she publish exercises, diet, and various interest in the field of living a healthy life. Everyone will find something for yourself. I think that is an excellent site to mobilize everybody!

How i know Ula.
I did not mentioned before that Ula lives in London. She has been in contact with me via e-mail  but because of the distance we couldn’t meet. Until I have been coming back from Poland where I was photographing two weddings last year. We ware driving down to Poland so on the way back I could stop in London and meet Ula.
It was a very spontaneous and quick session because after a long car trip we were very tired.
Ula is amazing, beautiful and confident woman! She knows what she wants in life. She is very determined and consistently in pursuit of her goals. I admire her very much. I have to say that  looking over at her web site  really motivates me every day to maintain a healthy lifestyle. She is also very welcoming and warm person. I did not have the opportunity to know her sons but I know from her photographs that the boys are so cute pies .  I hope to catch up this year because we plan to meet again for some sort of sessions and I hope that I can do some photographs with her family too
Here are a few natural photos of Ula and also Ula in action! I wouldn’t be myself if I did not ask for couple of stylized portrait of her. Ula have incredibly intense face that stops everyone for a moment. We did not have many options on the field where we were shooting along like almost no accessories.   We had to use a hair band  and pin the hair with a artistic messy touch also we put some red lipstick which we found in the car for more drama.
I hope you will like the effect So the last two pictures are a little different from the others.

Thank you Ula for being such a amazing person and share your passion and experience with others! Lots of love! xoxo 

Enjoy!  

Today i say be FHB !!

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What an exciting day yesterday! Some people already know because I shared this information on my Fan page on the Facebook but of course it would be a mistake to not to share it with you here officially. So, yesterday for the first time my work has been published in a fashion magazine! I am very happy because it is the culmination of my hard work which I put on so far on what I love the most – the photography. Of course, I would not be here if not true fans, family, friends and people with whom I worked so far and I hope to continue to work with Thank you for being for me.

I hope this is the beginning of the success  and that I will have more occasions to share my published work  with you.
Other then that yesterday I  photographed the first wedding in this wedding season. Beautiful couple, stunning venue, and already I can not wait to share these photos with you!

I’m still leaving the dream!

Here are the pictures that have been published in the series “Unrequited love”
You can buy this magazine  or browse online under  this link

MUA- Sharon Lumsden Makeup Artist
Hair – Jenn Mathieson
Model- Magdalena Zalejska Modelling
Styling – Sharon Lumsden
Stay Fabulous!
KK

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I met with Zoe and Ross last week for their engagement session and to discuss the last details of their wedding which will take place tomorrow at the Caledonian Hotel in Edinburgh. I’m very excited because this is the first wedding this year for me. I’m even more excited today because I want to share with you pictures that we made last week.
Zoe and Ross have chosen Colinton Dell as their fav location. This beautiful park is a special place for them, because they  often go out for walks.
You can tell the weather was awful. It was cold, snowing, wet but despite that we had a lot of fun.
Thank you for a great time in that morning and congratulations on the engagement. Already can not wait for tomorrow when I see Zoe in a beautiful dress. I am convinced that she will look phenomenal!

Enjoy !

To view more of Zoe and Ross’s photos, click below for a slideshow!

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