YOU’RE INVITED to my FREE admission play date slash valentine’s day mini-session. Why do I call it Valentine’s Day Play Date and not Valentine’s Day Mini-Session? I don’t want to call it ...

It’s Monday. And Monday means sharing my adventures with the 52-week challenge. This time I took the photo in front of my two friends with whom I did San Jose ...

Join us this Thursday, January 26th for a photo walk with local, and not only, portrait photographers. We’ll be talking about portrait photography & street photography & and any photography ...

  “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.”   – Jordan Belfort Sooooo, before I start ...

I went pretty easy on myself this past week. Well, it didn’t feel like it was any easier than the past week, anyway. My first stranger, Rockie, was literally a ...

Many, many years ago, I have done a 365 project (one photograph a day for a year), with self portraits. It was an awesome journey. Since that project, each year, ...

Exploring Morgan Hill with Ewa Samples Photography. Since we moved out from San Jose I have not had the chance, or actually put any serious effort into exploring Morgan Hill, our ...

Doing Maternity Portraits Session might not seem like the best idea when you don’t feel like doing anything else but munch on pickles and chocolate… However… I’ve spoke and worked with so ...

The last play date we had – The Halloween Portrait Play Date in Saratoga – was a great success. I’m so happy I’d decided to do it. I’ve connected with ...

Before we started this session, I was able to spent a wonderful time watching deer. Deer everywhere. And as the sun was setting down, lower and lower, I was getting ...

This San Jose Portrait Mini-Session had the most gorgeous light! but that’s not enough. That is never enough. The light is quite a big part of a successful session. However, if the ...

You are invited to join Portrait Playdate with San Jose Family Portrait | Maternity | Breastfeeding | Headshot photographer, Ewa Samples. The even is happening in Saratoga, California in a very quiet ...

Location scouting in Gilroy. Today, I’d like to chat a little about one very important part of photographer’s life. And that’s locations scouting. I think most people know what that is, but ...

SMASH CAKE PHOTOGRAPHER, SARATOGA || SAN JOSE Prior to this magical smash cake (well, it was magical for me) session we met twice. And I think, because of that experience I’m ...

FAMILY PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHER SAN JOSE As a family portrait photographer, maybe not a strictly documentary one, but someone who wants to “catch” the real personality of the person in front of ...

Today, we went to “Earth Day on the Bay” at the Marine Science Institute. There were many activities and things to see, but we anchored our butts at a lovely small beach ...

Yesterday I was able to get some fun kids pictures in the rain. It looks like we are going to do the same today. Kids are already poking me and asking ...

Today my 4 year old and I drove to San Francisco to see Annie’s Leibovitz free exhibition, “Women: New Portraits”. After that we sat on the beach and had lunch. ...

Before I go into any further details of our Midpines Family Camping Trip (second camping trip this year), I have to admit, the further away from tourists, the better. Period. ...

Spring Mini-Session in San Jose and Cupertino area sounds very intriquing. I’m already making a list of places I want to go to, and shoot like RIGHT NOW! Well, maybe not ...

In the recent workshop I’m taking with Donald Giannatti, up to this point, I have been inspired by (and we have studied) work of David Bailey, Gregory Heisler, Mary Ellen ...

This is my second jump into the journey of “Our quest for the best cinnamon rolls”. As some of you might already know, sometime ago I committed myself to make, and ...

I left for the camping trip not really in a mood for much more then to throw my own computer into a wall, and then do the same thing with ...

I’m so excited for February. Starting tomorrow, my website as well as Facebook page will be filled up with YELLOW. Well, I’ll try to  mix it up with new recipes ...

Whatever circles you’re in, I bet you see all kinds of new year resolutions, or new year challenges that people are taking on. In photographers circles 365 Projects or 52 ...

Last week I blogged about my first assignment for the portrait workshop I’m taking. Last week I’ve created some portraits that were inspired by David Bailey. My second assignment was to ...

I’ve been Natural Light Family Photographer for over 3 years now. For two years I’ve own a tiny set up for portable studio, and used it mostly for Smash Cake sessions ...

I call this project “Celebrate Yourself”, and it’s a part of my creative portrait photography journey, which I plan to evolve into something fun, and a little different then ordinary ...

This is definitely NOT about me complaining. Although, I have to admit, it feels really good to have delivered last photographs to clients. There are still some albums in progress, as ...

While I sit and edit last Saturday’s beautiful and colorful Fall session done at Stanford, and while getting reminders about my disc being full, I remembered I’ve never blogged about a ...

For Saturday’s family session my client requested FALL in the background, and when I heard it I knew exactly where to go to look for it. Stanford!!! No brainer. And ...

Great day today. I participated in Holiday Bazaar at John Sinnott Elementary in Milpitas, showcasing local vendors and artists. Thank you for having me and looking forward to expand the new connections ...

Maybe it was the Half Moon Bay beach, because I always get overexcited for beach sessions. Or maybe it was the smash cake on the beach idea. Or maybe the ...

It’s a love-hate relationship between my job and my kids. Sometimes they have to struggle through all kinds of posing, “weird light in their face”, particular kind of playing, or playing ...

When I first got an email from this family I was extremely happy. Not only they are dog lovers, but they are literally dog parents. Oscar and George are their ...

In my 10 years of living in America I carved pumpkin only once. Until today. Each year, I had struggle to really enjoy this time of the year. As they say, you ...

Last Saturday I took my girls to the park for lunch. I didn’t plan anything, just packed my book and some food. We were gone for 4 hours. During that time ...

In today’s post for 15 Day Blog Challenge I’m connecting two days into one: Day 12 and day 13. After I listened to both videos from Natalie Sisson (the creator of this challenge) ...

Today’s topic in my 15 Day Blog Challenge in “What ONE thing will you do each day to get more you time this year?” I have already started working on that ...

This was one of the most laid back lifestyle newborn sessions I’ve ever had. Everything was flowing so naturally. I’m glad we could incorporate family dog into many of the ...

Today’s post is about how you should approach finding a family photographer to whom you will be coming back year after year instead of trying new one every single time you decide to ...

Ha! Its’s been almost 3 weeks since I wrote the Day 9 of 15 Day Blog Challenge, but life got quite busy as well as I had to think about ...

This past weekend I had a family session in a gorgeous location in Redwood City and we all agreed, THE FALL IS HERE. With this beautiful throw I consider the Fall ...

I met my husband thorough an online community. They met online, as well. Both Andrew and I share a common passion for capturing moments on film. Watch this awesome movie he made to ...

Few weeks ago I was invited to participate in an amazing event organized by La Leche League South Bay – Annual Potluck “Live, Love, Latch”. I had such a wonderful ...

Since I started my business I have used different mix of softwares and systems for scheduling, invoicing, keeping track of “to-dos”, etc. About a year ago I came across 17hats ...

Yesterday I wrote about the ONE thing I want to focus on in the nearest future. And the one thing is to run my business while not allowing the business ...

Well, it took me 3 days to write this post. Not because I was lazy, but because I was thinking about the topic, and it happened to be pretty tough ...

This is Day 6 of 15 Day Blog Challege and we are to talk in it about our Ideal Business Model. Natalie Sisson fro “The Suitcase Entrepreneur” says that we should ...

Today I will be talking about a habit I’m replacing and about the new one that will serve me better. Natalie Sisson in her explanatory video about today’s topic of ...