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About Viktoria & Husband Co:
I'm really happy woman, let me tell you why.
I'm not alone on this thorny path of my artistic creative life, career and business. My husband Richard Mullin supports my success, creativity, and work. He is the first audience I demonstrate my new artwork to, my sincere critic, reliable partner and loving friend. Richard has been a very good amateur photographer for many years, so he understands my passion very well. I think he’s had so much photography experience and knowledge, that now he can relay the direct photography process at me. On the other hand, I can always “Google” my husband about anything I need to understand or esquire. He is my technical guide in this fast pasting photography world. Moreover, his amazing ability to find the right things by the best prices helps me a lot! Rich is always ready to improve and develop my tools. Besides, many smart things at my workshop have been made by his hands. I like to joke that my husband is captured by Four "W": Work, Wife, Woodworking, and Welding. Being a very skillful man, he spends a lot of time in his own workshop. He has the same passion to create as his wife. Love is sharing, so we do share our life, interests and creativity. Wherever we are, whatever we do or go, we are together. As two sweet cherries in our logo, we are united by love and passion to create. So, when the time had come to call our company, we called it as it is: Viktoria & Husband.
What i use:
I use Canon photo and printing equipment. After my Canon 20D and 40D, I recieved from Richard my new Canon EOS 5D Mark II camera for Christmas and I'm absolutely happy with it. I admire to work with this camera. It delivers excellent image quality.
Although I use several other Canon lenses, these three are my favorite and most used.
I’m very satisfied with Fletcher equipment, which gives professional looking neat result and makes my work process more pleasant, easy, and faster.
How I create my images:
“My wife makes pictures of anything and anywhere," likes to say my husband, and that is true. Indeed, everything I see, meet, get or buy may have a photographic interest: from exotic water lilies in Longwood Gardens to a simple beauty of wildlife flowers; giant plants and small colorful fruits; wildlife animals and domestic pets; neighborhood kids and marvelous characters of Old Sturbridge Village. I see pictures everywhere with my camera. It may be an old car I captured on a highway while driving home; an osprey hunting for fish; an antique hand painted decanter or a whimsical frost pattern which covers last fall puddles. I’m always with my camera and ready to travel. Fascinated with the bird world, I do long trips to get photographs of wildlife ones and delight attracting backyard birds to bird feeders at home. I raise roses in my garden with a great passion, and on my pictures the roses reveal in love with me in replay.
The beautiful shapes and colors of fruits and magnify me so much, that I’d prefer to photograph them rather than eat :)). First what I do before creating a composition, I discern exam them looking for that subtle something that makes them so different and alike at the same time. I hold them in my hands to sense their live warmth and feel stories they may tell me. I don’t merely juxtapose my objects for the composition. First, I choose and select objects by repetition of shapes, lines, and textures. Then I mix and match them by colors and moods. Yes, they do have their own mood, believe me. Their shapes and colors may look bright and merry or dark and mysterious. They can be looking soft and innocent, or harsh and insidious. The set up of a still life composition should be like a good orchestra: many different musical instruments with different voices, but singing one beautiful melody. I try arrange the objects by the way they look interacting, so the whole composition seems like a still story.
When I'm happy just with the original shots of my photographs, I may add just a little touch of enhancing for a polish printing look. But also I like very much manipulate and combine the photographs in my digital dark room, working in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and In Design programs. I create new pictures, new stories from my photographs, altering them by the way I see, touch and sense the world. I touch the world with my pictures and the world gets closer to me.
My dear visitor, we're united by this world. Let’s try to see it, look at it...It is beautiful!
Life is beautiful. I know, I touch it, I sense...
Viktoria A. Mullin
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