Mr.K Photography

2013-03-20T05:47:00.000-07:00

Made a new poster for Helvijs. I used a tutorial oh how to get this kind of effect. In the process learned a bunch of new stuff. And this poster looks so live to me! I can even hear the sounds of overheating and exploding light bulbs and sparks. Grunge, dirty, but still very much alive!

2013-03-16T12:49:00.001-07:00

This is some of my design work.

Fall 2012

2012-10-18T23:13:00.001-07:00

A little something from today's trip to a local park in SLC (Liberty Park).
Had great time there taking pictures, listening to nature and some music, trying to pet a Canadian-a geese. I spent there about 2 hours. The weather was very nice, sun was shining and it wasn't cold at all. Over all, awesome time, good weather, nice pictures and a great day.

Continuing with SF

2012-07-23T19:21:00.001-07:00

Streets of SF are full of all kinds of things. This place with never leave anyone careless!

San Francisco - China Town

2012-07-14T23:43:00.001-07:00

After hours spent in the biggest China Town outside the actual china, I almost knew how to speak chinese! Oh I wish... The China Town is very large and super interesting. I didn't expect to see so many chinese shops, restaurants and other everyday ordinary things all in chinese. It's an amazing experience. I felt like I was somewhere in China. A great place to visit while in SF.

San Francisco - Alcatraz #3

2012-07-14T23:21:00.001-07:00

San Francisco - Alcatraz 2

2012-07-12T23:58:00.000-07:00

The thrill from walking on the ground, walking in and out of the prison cells of Alcatraz is something amazing. If you will even have a chance to go, you should do it!

San Francisco - Alcatraz

2012-07-11T09:12:00.002-07:00

A little big of Alcatraz for you my dears!
This was an amazing place to visit! I loved it! The tour was organized very well, it was fun walking around by ourselves as long as we wanted to, just great time. If you haven't been there yet, you should definitely go!

San Francisco #2

2012-06-21T17:12:00.001-07:00

Second part of my trip to the City of Love!
Love it!

San Francisco #1

2012-06-20T20:38:00.000-07:00

San Francisco a city of my dreams... I went there for my birthday weekend. It was amazing! I took sooo many pictures! It probably will take me a month to edit them all. But, slowly but surely I will finish it all! And for now enjoy :-)

Street Photography

2012-06-13T19:41:00.001-07:00

About two weeks ago I have been shooting out on the streets of SLC, and may I say, it can get little challenging at times. And this is the way I like it! I like to make the most out of it. Looking for an inspiration, trying to find the best shoot, and so on. However, just finding "the right" thing is not all, editing is a big part of it. It takes me about same amount of time as I was out shooting to sort and edit all the pictures I take. In the process of sorting a lot of pictures do not qualify for my personal scale of good. It takes time to edit every little detail of the picture. However, I enjoy doing all this. I enjoy spending hours walking around the city looking for the perfect object. I enjoy spending more hours in sorting and editing all the pictures I took. I enjoy posting my result here and on FB and G+ just to show you all what I like to do. And I surely hope you are enjoying reading this and looking through my pictures.

Have fun...

Street Photography

2012-05-27T12:08:00.001-07:00

After watching a YouTube video on photography tips I came across a suggestion to do a monthly challenge. This month is a street photography. I have done some so far and I personally was happy to do any challenge and this one in particular was an interesting one.
I think my main challenge in any challenge is to capture randome people as they are. No posing, no fake smiles, just as they are, awkward and natural. Some times it works, but most of the time when I try to take a picture, I have to be like a spy. People immediately turn around and look my way, they get scared and almost run away. I am trying to be as discrete as I can, pretending that I am taking pictures of something else but them. Hard and challenging, but this is how I like it! BRING IT ON!

Flowers

2012-05-24T17:13:00.000-07:00

I have been looking at some pictures of different flowers that people take and then post on their blogs, FaceBook, and other websites. And I thought that I want to do the same! I want to post some of my flowers there as well. Needless to say, I love what I do, and I want to share this with my friends, peers and other people who might be interested in this.

Soon there will be a new big bang that I will be posting here. It's a little surprise for those who follows my blog or at least looks at it!

Irina and Jordan

2012-05-21T21:18:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago I had a chance to take engagement pictures for my friend Irina and her fiance Jordan. This was completely new experience to me and I loved every minute of it. It was difficult at times but over all this was a great experience.
I want to congratulate Irina and Jordan with their decision to get married, I wish all the best.

Besides taking these pictures I had much to work on the editing. I was searching internet for some kind of interesting tutorials on how to edit pictures and make it a wedding/engagement style. It was a blast! I found so many different websites that offered free and pay-per-watch tutorials. I learned many different styles and interesting techniques that helped me along the way.

My personal favorite style that I learned and used here are colored pictures with using aging techniques. They look like there was too much light on them, or a sun beam got into a camera lens. Basically something that's not a very ordinary at our time. Enjoy!

Summer 2012

2012-05-15T13:38:00.001-07:00

Summer is here! Nature puts out it's most beautiful and interesting creations. Flowers, bugs and other this that we know so well, but don't always look at it in a different perspective. Here I present to you well known flowers and some other thins in a new light, position, composition and style. I hope you like it!

Goblin Valley - Part 5

2012-04-10T12:02:00.000-07:00

Natur's beauty, posh and even humor is being revealed at the Goblin Valley. If you are thinking to Visit Utah, make sure you go to the Goblin Valley. This place won't let you down. If you like to hike, or to wonder in a desert, or even explore cavities in mountains and walls, this place is for you!
Anyone will find something for themselves to do there.

Goblin Valley - Part 4

2012-04-01T15:06:00.003-07:00

I can tell you one thing, Goblin Valley is amazing! I love it! This place has so much to show you! On this trip I too over 700 pictures. For me it's soooo much! It means that I will have hours of editing to do. Well I technically already spent hours and hours editing all the 4 parts of this trip, but I will not stop until I will finish them all.
In this part most of the pictures are walls and walls and more walls. I want you to see how bit and beautiful this valley is. Red rock is so interesting. At home in the Ukraine we don't have such a thing. This what makes Utah very unique. And I know that Nevada got some red rock as well, but Utah is just a red dream for photographers.

Sun beam came through a whole in a wall.

Goblin Valley - Part 3

2012-03-31T16:20:00.000-07:00

In life there are many things that can and will remind us of time. Nature tells us about time in all her creations. Tall trees, withered grass, dried out stream; this all took time to grow, live, die, and dry... Our lives are similar to that. Some of us are still growing tall like trees, some of us are on the edge of becoming a withered grass or dried out stream.

My mother always told me that I need to live my life so I can be remembered by others, in a good way. I want to live my life in full and leave a "foot print" after myself, something that people will see and think of me.

Dont be just another shadow under the sun... Make a difference... Be the difference!

Goblin Valley - Part 2

2012-03-22T11:08:00.000-07:00

Goblin Valley even tho it's a desert, we had a chance to run into some cool folks in there. In this and next part there will be some pictures of a guy im a plaid shirt. From what his friend said this guy is an x-marine soldier; it was interesting to watch him jump around from one tall rock to another. He said that he almost died when he tried to jump and his foot slipped... But he was totally fine, running and jumping like nothing happened.
Goblin Valley it's a place to go! Fun, interesting, full of weirdoes...

Goblin Valley - Part 1

2012-03-20T10:16:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago my friends and I went to the Goblin Valley in Southern Utah. This place is absolutely amazing. I was lucky to see this natures creation. Time, wind, water and living creature, all these things modified these stalagmites. On this trip alone I shot about 800 pictures.We were there only for a few hours, but it was so much fun to climb these thing and jump off of them. This is a national park, and it's only part of this type where you can freely climb any rocks and go into any cave you want.

Salt Lake City

2012-03-07T14:14:00.001-08:00

I hope you like these pictures...

I finally finished editing my pictures that I took about 3 weeks ago. I took about 270 pictures one day just while walking around Salt Lake City. I took me about 3 weeks to edit them all. First of all I had to separate them all. After separating I had left only about 70 pictures. And in the process of editing I have left about 60 of them and while editing I also deleted some. Basically what I have been posting in last few weeks is all that's there to look at.
I wish I had more time on editing... But I also have school and work and friends! All these things demand attention like crazy! But I enjoy my school, like my job and I love my friends :-)

2012-03-03T15:12:00.000-08:00

Ever since I got photoshop I can't immagine going to something else! Same is with Apple products.

With photoshop and an iMac editing pictures is sooo much more fun! I can spend hours on editing and I hardly get tired or bored. I love love love taking pictures and I absolutely adore the process of editing. It's maybe weird but I enjoy it.

In this post I present to you some of my latest picture that I took while walking around at Temple Square, Salt Lake City, Utah. That place is so good for taking pictures. The day when I was picture hunting I saw lots of photographers who were doing the same.

There is something special in finding objects to capture on a camera. And I often get lost in all the things that I find interesting around me. The time that I spend on looking for things and taking pictures of them is very relaxing for me. It's like my own relaxation therapy, no one tells me what to do, where to go or what to shoot. I call it MY TIME. The time that I spend alone with my imagination. I often let it fly and look for beautiful, interesting or simply weird objects.

In other words I love photography...

2012-02-29T01:54:00.001-08:00

I haven't updated my blog for some time now, just because I was busy trying to figure out my new Photoshop CS5 Extended. And may I tell you, it's absolutely amazing. It took me a little time to take all the necessary steps to figure everything right and proceed to editing photos.

It was a good few weeks. I have learned a lot and took lots of pictures. Very soon I will give you more updates on what happened and where I was. For now, you can look at these ones and let me know if you like it. And also, please let me know if you can notice the changes in the picture editing quality. It helps me to progress!

Have fun and share :-)

2012-02-17T20:17:00.001-08:00

Let me tell you that taking pictures is not as easy as it might look at first. Looking for things to shoot, settings, angles, and other small details make it harder and harder. Photography is not for someone with little patience... Nevertheless, I love it! I enjoy looking for something that not everyone finds interesting or attractive at first; I like playing with settings and choosing the right angle, what can I say, I am a perfectionist. Photography brings me joy. And I hope my pictures bring you something good as well.

I think the hardest thing to shoot is random people. It's so hard to just come up to someone and take a picture of them. Not many people would agree to it. I think I understand them, because, who know's where their face is going to end up next? After all, it could be some weird place, strange website or a funky blog, like mine for example. Oh well, I just need more patience I guess.

I would like to know what you think about this. Would you like your picture taken by some random photographer on a street?

2012-02-14T23:05:00.000-08:00

While walking outside I always look for something interesting to capture. Not always it works the way I think it would, however for the most part I get self-satisfying result after taking these pictures.

In some near future I hope to get more into people photography, and I will not discontinue taking pictures of other things that interest me. I hope you will like these ones! Enjoy :-)