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My name is Leeka! I am Cincinnati based Wedding and Portrait Photographer and here you will find mix of my professional and personal pictures. I am a natural light photographer. My style is artistic, fresh, modern and playful! Just to say the least- I LOVE taking pictures! I get a {little} carried away with my camera! :-)
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Meet my goofy friends : Lana and Bret! It was their 10 years anniversary and we did a little shoot for just two of them to celebrate their marriage and love for each other.
For the entire time of their photo shoot I kept trying to make them act serious, but they just could not stop smiling and laughing! I love you guys!
Happy Anniversary! :)))
LOVE. When two people are in love and look at each other, everything around stops, has a lesser meaning to them, and when I, as a photographer get to see that through my lens - I transfer in a completely different world myself. We ( photographers) jokingly call this feeling - being in a tunnel. When all you see is a beautiful story unwrapping before your eyes and your camera and fingers become one, you are alert and aware of everything going on around you, every little piece that plays a huge role in this very story you are photographing, but everything about you becomes so insignificant and unimportant and the only emotion you have is happiness… That is how I felt when we took a walk around Northside with these two. Nothing else mattered. Just these two, holding hands and smiling, laughing,kissing…
Click to continue reading “Cincinnati Wedding Photography | Love Story : Rike + Paul”
When Katie and Nate first met they both were seeing someone else. They were at a party and spent majority of the evening talking to each other. Katie recalls that Nate was so funny and cute. About a month after Katie received a very surprising phone call at work. It was Nate asking if she remembered him and asking her out. He explained that he was no longer in a relationship and to his huge surprise she was no longer either. And so two of them begun their 7 year old journey together. That day Katie hang up the phone and I was jumping with excitement that the most cutest guy she have ever seen just asked her to ride on his motorcycle!!!! Her mom and sister both witnessed that as they happened to be at the office that day with Katie. Only few years later Nate was able to confess that he was parked just a few blocks away from her office. He was riding his bike with a friend and finally got the courage to pick up a phone and call her. Their 7 years together have been ONE big LOVE STORY with interesting twists. I can confess that in a short time that I know these two, they had to move the date of their wedding due to the double booking of the venue on the same day. I mean, seriously? Doesn’t it only happens in a movies like Bride Wars???? If not for some thief getting into Nate’s truck one nigh and stealing Katie’s engagement ring few years ago, they both would be already married, but then I would never get a chance to photograph their wedding! 
I am so looking forward to their wedding day! I know it is going to be so adorable and beautiful!
When Katie told me she is bringing lots of props, I knew it is going to be a PERFECT love story photoshoot! We went to this amazing little town not far from where they live and where they would like to move eventually- it is SO cute and filled with little antique stores!!! I am dying to go back there for some shopping! At the end of their Love Story photoshoot we went to the park where Nate proposed to Katie. It was one of the most gorgeous settings I’ve ever seen. It is a good hour drive for me, but it was well worth it!!!! Enjoy some of my favorites images!
Click to continue reading “Cincinnati Wedding Photographer : Katie + Nate LOVE STORY”
“We were given: Two hands to hold. To legs to walk. Two eyes to see. Two ears to listen. But why only one heart? Because the other was given to someone else. For us to find.”
” Anyone can be passionate, but it takes true lovers to be silly. “
When we spontaneously decided to photograph my friend’s Love Story during long 4th of July weekend, I had no idea what I signed up for!!!! These two are SO much fun and were running around making silly faces and playing with each other like a bunch of kids!
Click to continue reading “Cincinnati Wedding Photographer | Love Story : Yuliya and Alik”
Every love story has a beginning… It was what seems forever ago….Cool December breeze from Pacific ocean was dancing around us as we sat outside on a porch of a beach house. Winters in Outer Banks is what I miss the most about it. Empty streets, how quiet it gets at 6 pm and how early darkness covers everything around. It had to be after six, as I remember how dark it was when two girls, me and Krystina, were sharing misfortunes of a love life with each other. Another heart broke, another tear shed. We were talking the night away, learning as much as we could about each other and suddenly out of nowhere I told her: you know what? I know a perfect guy for you. As a matter of fact- YOU know him too! 
We looked at each other and after a second of silence laughed nervously. It could not be THAT easy! “No, it can’t be HIM, he is always quiet and keeps it to himself”,- Krystina said aloud what we both were thinking. Of course how much easier it is to like a Bad Guy, the wild one, who is talking, flirting left and right and how much harder it is to notice someone who is quietly just living a life as a good person?!! I start convincing her by telling her all the reasons why HE is the one. After few more hours of a girl talk it has been decided that Krystina has to make an appearance at our New Year’s Party next evening and really meet Vitaliy. She knew him before but never really took the time to see him. I knew Vitaliy since school. Well, long story short, I just knew how good of a guy he is inside and that it takes a special girl to break down his shyness and make him talk.
What I kept dearly in my heart is a memory of two people walking on the beach next evening till the sunrise: Krystina and Vitaliy. And so their love story begun. Few months later I received a phone call from Krystina, she was asking my help to pick a wedding dress and also asking to be her Maid Of Honor- of course I agreed with excitement and disbelief. I remember driving through Virginia Beach, getting lost on our way back home and just thinking how crazy was the entire idea that THAT night, on our porch led to this beautiful start of a new life they are about to enter.
Fast forward to June. I am nervous. It has been at least 4 years since I’ve seen them both. I am driving through streets of unknown me town and can’t help but wonder if I should have called more often, should kept in touch better, so I knew these people better. We used to spend almost every day side by side, doing things, experiencing our new life in a foreign country, but it has been way before I became mother and my life took completely opposite turn from theirs. Are we going to like each other the same way? Are we going to have something to talk about?
Needless to say- we had TONS of topics for our conversations. They made me feel so welcome at their house! One evening I offered to take their pictures and then I knew, I saw it - they are still the same, that couple, holding hands on a beach and walking along the sideline of the ocean till the sunrise…
