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Vintage Camera | Trying out the FED 5B

When Sasha was last in Ukraine, his dad gave him his old FED 5B camera.  His dad bought it in 1977 just before Sasha was born.  Sasha has memories of his dad taking pictures with it and then developing the film and making prints in a homemade darkroom.  When Sasha brought the camera back to...

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2010 in Review!

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2010 has been ZinchukFilms’ most exciting year yet! It has been a year filled with love, laughter, and a lot of travel! Here’s a quick recap of the couples we got to know over the year! We began the year with two gorgeous winter weddings. Both Vasiliy and Irina and Nick and Anna began their...

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Winter Wonderland

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Home. There’s something about the place you grow up that is both precious and nerve-wracking.  It is freeing to be in a place you feel so comfortable, but strange to fall back into old habits.  Helena, Montana is my hometown and I love it. We don’t get over there as often as we should–it’s only...

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Greg + Daniela: Trash the Dress | ZinchukFilms

Greg & Daniela’s beautiful Russian-Moldovan wedding was a full day of family, friends, tradition, and dancing. That didn’t leave much time for wedding portraits, so they scheduled a Trash the Dress session a few months later. Daniela is a designer by trade, so she put her talent to use with a ton of DIY props....

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The Rhetoric of the Image

These gorgeous images are by Julia & Yuriy Manchik, from the Mr and Mrs Globe Trot blog. Sometimes my two worlds collide in a beautiful way. A few days ago I was teaching visual rhetoric to my students.  I was asking them to take the tools of rhetorical analysis we had been working with all...

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