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Bat Mitzvah in Norfolk – Claire

Claire, Congratulations on your Bat Mitvah! May life’s next journey be bright and filled with happiness. Embrace the Torah and it will guide, bless, and encourage you everyday. What a wonderful service with great celebration to follow! Service: Ohef Sholom Temple Celebration: Wareham’s Pond Club House Photography: Dmitry Gotkis Photography Catering: The Route 58 Delicatessen Entertainment: Talk Of The...

Virginia Beach wedding photographer | Our Engagements

When people think about engagement photo session, they think of making portraits of two people in love. This fact of course remains true, but it also serves yet another purpose – it’s used to determine if couple and the photographer are compatible with each other. Sometimes, even though photographer takes wonderful pictures, photographer’s personality, the...

Jewish Wedding in Norfolk – Paula & Jonathan B.

Mazel Tov to our newly weds, Paula and Jonathan. It happened in a beautiful, heart-warming, traditional Jewish wedding ceremony under huppah, while surrounded by friends and family at Chabad Lubavitch of Tidewater. Ceremony (and everything else for that matter 🙂 ) was performed by Rabbi Levy. Catering: Cuisine and Company Photography: Dmitry Gotkis Photography    

Virginia Beach Senior Pictures – Rebekah W.

We’ve been planning this session for a while and had to reschedule couple of times because weather didn’t want to cooperate, but finally everything “clicked”! Rebekah loves her family, is very creative, plays oboe and loves to read. She wanted a fun, unique senior portrait session that’d give an impression of an open field and show...

Brickell Academy Opening Concert

Virginia Beach has been home for Old Donation School for a long time and for a while rumors were flying around, that city is building a new school to replace so loved, but old and outdated building off of Princess Rd. Kids and staff are now settled into the new building (with updated name a.k.a...

Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group Homecoming

Photographing homecomings of our military is one of my favorite things to do. I love to see raw emotions, bursting from everybody at the moment they see their loved ones after long, LONG time of deployment. Thank you for inviting me, Letizia.    

Wedding at The First Lady of Suffolk – Melissa & Adriano M.

Unbelievable? Astonishing, amazing coincident?! Maybe! But I definitely am NOT complaining! This venue is incredibly beautiful by itself, and immensely so this time of the year, so to have photograph two Christmas weddings here within a week from each other is more than just luck – Someone must like me up-there! 😉 Venue: The First Lady of...

Wedding in Outer Banks, NC – Charlotte & Tom H.

For those, who doesn’t know – the Outer Banks are barrier islands off of the North Carolina’s coast of the U.S. It is very popular East Cost vacation destination and as such attracts a lot of couples to have weddings on the beaches of this beautiful stretch on Atlantic outer banks. I used to work...

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