A Love Note

I have been a professional photographer for more than 18 years, a business owner for almost 5 years.

I love creating, I love photographing people like the grass loves the sun, like fish loves water, like birds love the sky.

I admit the business part is not so much my jam. However, to be able to photograph people on my terms, I choose to run my own photography business. Sometimes it is hard, sometimes all I can think of is giving up.

In such moments I look through the messages and email I have received from my past clients, the love notes like this one:

“Hi Marina, Sorry it has taken so long to give you your well-deserved feedback, things have been pretty tough this last year just as they were before you transformed me in my own eyes only weeks after I gave birth to my miracle baby.

I wanted to thank you for being able to highlight everything good about me that I could no longer see.

After being there for everyone else for so long I had lost the ability to see me for any beauty, and like an old friend you reminded me about myself, who I was and what about me I could love and managed to capture that beauty to remind me when days are hard.

Thank you hardly seems enough when you gave me something money simply can’t buy.” A

Messages like this keep me going. I create for people like this beautiful soul.

My photography services are often seen as a luxury, for most of my clients, it is a part of the healing process.