When I was a little kid, my passion was drawing. Back then we were living in Russia and I recall drawing anything and anywhere - at class, at home, on vacation and during road trips. I went to multiple art classes, learned different styles of art, but nothing really impressed me, no "WOW" effect. And as I finished a drawing I immediately went to another one. The finished one didn`t interest me - it was already done, what can I do with it? So I gave it as a present to people, and they all went - but you worked so hard for it, and you give it away just like that? But I was already on a new "project", running forward. At 1997 we moved to Israel, and had to sell lots of our staff to make the transfer easier and cheaper. I had a bike that my grandfather gave me, but It was too big to fit in the container. So my parents sold it and bought me a little camera instead, so I could keep grandpa`s present in other way. That was the first time I had a camera and started taking photographs. I never liked those "stand near the tree and smile" shots, didn't understand the purpose of them. I wanted the shots to be alive, to capture a moment in life, to tell a story. To be a painting. Landscapes always amazed me, when I see a beautiful landscape my first thought is always - "I can make an awesome shot out of it!". For me every shot is a work of art, my work of art. I can add things to it or remove it, change colors, change perspective, enhance mood - everything needed to try and express the FEELING of the moment that shot was taken. I never throw a preset on bunch of shots and upload to IG or FB to make it faster, cause the real fun is in the process of creating - shooting and editing.