A Big Announcement!

Your friendly portrait and lifestyle photographer here.

T'is the season, guys!  I am back from maternity leave and I am available for hire to satisfy all of your photography needs - family sessions and individual glam portraits, birthday parties and social events, weddings and engagement shoots, you name it.  Give me a call and book your gig now!

Friends and Family get a 10% discount.

Another great development - I have been selected to be one of the recommended Wedding Photographers at the Walden West environmental school!  This is such an exciting opportunity and I am looking forward to working with them to help create wonderful memories for many happy couples.

Enjoy the Fall and hope to see you all soon!

For A Good Cause

Bullfighting is a sadistic spectacle and must be made obsolete.

In 2009, I participated in a PETA anti-bullfighting protest in London, and although I wasn't comfortable with taking my clothes off for the cause, I contributed the best way I could - by being there and taking photos.

It was a great experience, and a rather striking one.  A group of well organized and  solemn young people undressed, covered themselves with faux blood, and silently proceeded to lie down on the pavement at the Spanish Embassy square in the middle of the rushing city, held protesting signs, and chanted "Bulls die bloody death in Pamplona".  Withing mere minutes, photographers and news TV crews mobbed the scene, and passers by slowed down to see what was happening.  It all took about an hour, and then the Police came to scatter the activists.  

More than 3 years later, a moviemaker from England contacted me and asked to use my footage of the protest for a documentary he's putting together.  Needless to say, I am very happy to oblige.

The running of the bulls continues to this very day and such protests can't stop them entirely.  However, they spread awareness, and this is exactly how things change - from within, sparkled by ideologies that makes us better.

The following photos don't pretend for artistic, only for reporting qualities.  Please take a minute to inform yourselves on the topic and do whatever is in your power to stop cruelty towards animals.

One must love a cat on its own terms.

~Paul Gray 

I was pleasantly surprised to find out that an old photo of mine has been featured in National Geographic's My Shot web page.  It was pleasant, because come on, who doesn't want to be in National Geographic, but also quite surprised that they used the shot without even notifying me.  In any case, it's a good news.  I found out through my cousin in Bulgaria, who is a big animal lover and browses regularly through different Facebook groups dedicated to the cause against animal cruelty.  She saw my image and informed me that almost 2 thousand people had "liked" it (I am not on Facebook so I had to create an account in order to leave a comment and explain that even though Bobby Pfeiffer sounds like a man's name, it actually isn't :)

The image of the strange-eyed kitten was taken in Lovech, Bulgaria in the summer of 2009.  Here's another outtake with more recent editing: