Sasha is holding his son Finn on their first day back from the hospital.

I took this a few minutes after my daughter Nyusha was born a week and a half ago.

My head was spinning and my hands were shaking.

Laecee is feeding Finn on their first day out of the hospital.

A quick portrait of chuviha I took during our visit to De Young.

Taken in the lobby of the De Young museum in the Golden Gate park, not far from my house. There was something very touching (to me) about this scene that I can’t quite put a finger on.

Another photo of our cat Hercules posing with Marina. I’m beginning to develop a whole series of these. Unposed and unlit.

This is probably the single most important photograph I’ve posted here so far.

My grandmother, Luba Goldin, is video-chatting with her grand-daughter (my niece) from her hospital-bed in Israel on the last good day of her life. The next morning she has taken a turn for the worse, and one day later she died.

She was one of my favorite people and I miss her incredibly.

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This is the last shot I’m going to post from this series. Again, I absolutely love the statuesque quality here. I used to read and re-read the myths and legends of the ancient greeks when I was a kid and this image could have easily walked out of one of my pre-adolescent dreams circa 1990 or so.

Here’s another shot from the same series as the previous one.

I took this photo of Marina last week, while sick with the flue, and I think my state of delirium comes across nicely. I’ve been working on the technique of using flare and distortions as mood-setting elements in studio portraiture for a while now, and this is the latest installment.

Marina has always had this statuesque quality, light her the right way, and she looks like she’s made of marble and came from ancient Greece.