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Glancing Back

Starting out a new year is always very exciting. With the launch of Pictilio, this year is already expected to be an unforgettable one. Before we look too far ahead, we decided to take a glance back and remember.

As photographers, we like to look back and see how we’ve grown and then take note of what we want to work on for the coming year.

As we browsed through the images of the past year, the following collection really stood out to us. They represent the kind of images we love to create. And they are a reminder to us that we are beyond blessed to be able to document the sincere love and emotion that exists within each of the couples we photograph.

Cheers to an adventurous 2012! I’m expecting a wild and exciting ride.

P.S. We added a new feature to the blog. You can now click on the images to scroll through each one in a larger format. Enjoy!









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Final Category: Relationships

It’s Friday! Woo-hoo! I won’t keep you long. I just want to introduce you to our last category for the blog: Relationships.

In my first post, I wrote, “We are on a mission to not only stay committed to one another, but to stay in love. This blog is dedicated to that mission. We hope it will keep our relationship accountable and we hope it will inspire yours.”

There is a world filled with people saying that if your relationship is difficult, it probably wasn’t meant to be. We want to say something different. We’d like to tell people that commitment isn’t old school. And that love isn’t easy, but it’s worth the fight.

Vitaliy and I aren’t claiming to be relationship experts. We simply want to share our lives in hopes that someone out there will resonate with it and join in the mission.

I’ll end with this. Vitaliy and I have had a rough week as husband and wife. For whatever reason, we’ve been bickering more than usual. That whole pizza story I told you about yesterday, we barely made it to the table to enjoy it. I guess there were too many cooks in the kitchen! Last night, I almost went to bed angry with him, which will inevitably result in me waking up unhappy too. But then I walked into the bathroom and found this waiting for me.

It was a small gesture. An “I’m sorry” written with toothpaste. It wasn’t very evident but I got the message and readily accepted.

Is it possible you missed a secret message recently? Or, perhaps you’re the one needing to leave one behind.

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The Launch of Date Nights

Since the very beginning of our marriage, Vitaliy and I have kept date nights as a priority in our relationship. At certain times, we had a specific day set aside each week for a date night. But most importantly, it was a mental reminder to continue to invest in our relationship on a consistent basis. As we continue to strive towards this for ourselves, we thought it’d be fun to share our ideas with you. We need the inspiration too! I won’t lie, a simple dinner and a movie is still our go-to option for date night and this can sometimes leave us in a romance rut.

Basically, we’ve got all kinds of fun little ideas roaming around just waiting to be enjoyed ourselves and shared with you.

Our most recent date was actually a breakfast date. With the launch of our new site and a few other projects in the works, we’ve been pretty short on time. So we fit in some down time on Saturday morning and cooked a breakfast pizza together. It was the perfect way to get the weekend started. Together. Not to mention, I now have a new favorite breakfast recipe.

You can find the recipe here that I actually discovered via Cupcakes and Cashmere.

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