This week’s featured photographer is Rachel Aberle!

and her studio is runs arna photography. This is her facebook page and she operates in the Green Bay, Wisconsin area.

This is Donna’s featured image:

10 Questions
About the image…
1. Why do you love this image?
I absolutely love the romantic feel to it. They were such a connected couple, really in tune to each other.

2. What were your settings with this image?
Aperture 2.2, ISO 200, 1/5000

About Photography…
3.What do you love about Photography?
I love that photography can draw a viewer into the picture. Looking through a book of Annie Leibovitz, you can stare for hours at some of the images she captured. Sometimes its just that glance back from the subject that draws you in or shapes and lines within the picture that are captivating. With kids, I find this can be so much fun to capture as they tend to wear their feelings and emotions of the day on their sleeves. You are drawn right into their silliness, reflectiveness or whatever they may be feeling that day.

4. What type of Photography do you specialize in and why?
I specialize in families, children and seniors and will be adding newborns soon. Families purely to see that connection. What a enjoy to capture. Children for their personalities and fun. Seniors because they just rock!

About your life…
5.If you could live anywhere for a year, where would that be?
Somewhere in France or Italy. Having traveled there, they have some of the most beautiful spots to photograph.

6. What one food could you eat every day?
Chips n’ salsa

7. Do you have happy and depressed moments during your creative cycle?
Yes definitely. I think as photographers in general, we tend to be really critical of ourselves and our work. For myself, I love getting the shot I’ve visualized, but there are times when it doesn’t come off like I envisioned.

8.What is your favorite movie of all time?
Bridget Jone’s Diary!

9.What would your ideal day be like?
A day when I can sleep in a bit. Then spend the morning having a cup of coffee and hanging out with my kids. I would then go for a nice lunch with the family and sneak in a photoshoot in the late afternoon with some gorgeous early evening light. Then relax with a movie in front of the t.v. with the hubs.

10.If you weren’t a photographer, what other profession would you like to pursue?
I always wanted to be a writer.

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Next week I’ll be featuring the sweet and wonderful photographer Anelle Richardson!

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This week’s featured photographer is Nikki Strbian!

and she is the master behind Niki Strbian Valokuvaus. She is located in Finland. This is her facebook page and this is her blog.

This is Nikki’s featured image:

10 Questions
About the image…
1. Why do you love this image?
Because it was created in an instant, because it tells about my love for hats and accessories and because it shows how photography enriched my life in so many ways. Not only I get to meet so many great people, not only families share their love for each other in front of me (even in such reserved country as Finland). On top of that photography taught me that there is nothing like bad weather. I used to be a sunshine junkie, but now I know that every minute of every day, independent of the weather conditions, there is something worth capturing out there. So I better get my butt out and capture it.

2. What were your settings with this image?
ISO 800, f/2,2, 1/2500 shot with 50/1.4

About Photography…
3.What do you love about Photography?
Everything. Anything. Connection with my clients. The excitment of finding locations. Seeing the light everywhere. Meeting the coolest people. Being free. Rocking 7 days old newborn babies in my arms. Making people happy. Creating memories that will last generations. Having a job that makes sense even for 5 year olds.

4. What type of Photography do you specialize in and why?
I specialize in newborn and children photography and in boudoir photography. Photographing a newborn is every time such a special exprience. They are so tender and fragile and delicate, but at the same time strong. I love children, I love playing with them and children usually love me. I could not photograph landscape because I would be utterly bored. Children are everywhere, they don’t stop to pose, so you don’t have half hour to think about the perfect shot. It’s not like photographing Angelina Jolie where you tell her to sit down and be beautiful and she does. With children you have a split of a second if you are lucky. And I love the excitment of it. Maybe that’s why I enjoy boudoir as the total opposite kind of portrait photography. I enjoy making every woman feel beautiful and bringing out the lioness in her.

About your life…
5. What talent would you most like to have?
I would like to be able to draw and sing. And play piano…

6.If you could attend one class/workshop this year, who would it be with?
Kelley Ryden

7.If you could live anywhere for a year, where would that be?
Tuscany, Italy. We go there every summer, but I would love to see all seasons.

8.Tell me about your ideal client?
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.

9.What quote best represents you at this moment?
10 years ago my two very close friends brought a picture for me from their 21 day treck around Annapurna. It showed a small cafe, the highest one on the route. There was one 100 years old croissant behind the window and a large sign: Have a cake, life is short. It has been my motto ever since.

10.If you weren’t a photographer, what other profession would you like to pursue?
I would not want to be anything else than a photographer. This is my dream that I never knew I had.

Be sure to leave some comments telling Nikki how much you love her photography work and don’t forget to check her out here

Next week I’ll be featuring the stunning family photographer Rachel Aberle!

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