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December 9, 2007
What a busy time for Polka Photos! We've completed several wedding photography shoots in the Los Angeles area and around Southern California in Altadena, Santa Clara, and Redlands. And of course, we just returned from shooting a destination wedding in Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic! It was an exellent trip that allowed us to test out our great newe underwater housing for our digital camera. We have some great photos in the surf and on the water's edge. As the Holidays approach, we're getting ready to see family and friends. We hope you have a safe holiday season (take lots of pictures!) and we look forward to next year for even more great times as a Los Angeles Wedding Photographer.
October 14, 2007
Photo albums
are a big part of any wedding photography package. We just toured the facilities at Leather Craftsmen, a custom wedding photo album maker. Read all about them in our Los Angeles Wedding Photographer Blog! We're gearing up for more weddings in the next couple of weeks, and next month: we'll be destination wedding photographers in Punta Cana!
October 1, 2007
Polka Photos is now listed as a Los Angeles Wedding Photographer
on the Hot List on MyFoxLA.com! You can find the link on our Los Angeles Wedding Photographer blog. They're holding a contest right now to find the hottest businesses in Los Angeles, and we're in the running for the Wedding Photographers. Be sure to vote for us! We'll be heading to the Bay area this weekend for a wedding near San Francisco - check the blog for more details soon!
September 17, 2007
Polka Photos went to the Hollywood Hills just north of Los Angeles to shoot a Jewish wedding ceremony. It was a lovely outdoor setting, with the ceremony and reception taking place poolside near the couples' home. It was a hot day, but your intrepid wedding photographers pulled through, and you'll see great photos on the blog soon!
August 27, 2007
We stayed in California on this latest photo shoot. Someone needed a wedding photographer in San Francisco, and Polka Photos fit the bill! We did an engagement shoot, and will be returning soon for the big day! For a Los Angeles wedding photographer, we sure move around a lot!
August 13, 2007
Polka Photos took Los Angeles Wedding Photography
to Vegas Baby! We had a great time shooting at Maggiano's Italian restaurant before continuing down the strip to shoot at Caesar's Palace, The Bellagio, and more!
July 23, 2007
Polka Photos returns to Chicago for another wedding. We've also secured recent bookings in Orange County, Las Vegas, and more! You can keep up with the action on our Los Angeles Wedding Photographer blog - the Polka Blog!
July 9, 2007
Los Angeles Wedding Photographer Polka Photos has traveled to Chicago and Laguna Beach recently to shoot weddings. We'll be travelling more to provide wedding photojournalism for clients nationwide.
Aleks, a Los Angeles wedding photographer, is the primary photographer and founder of Polka Photos. A nationally and internationally published photojournalist, her style has been called wedding photojournalism, documentary photography, or contemporary photography, depending on who you ask. Aleks captures the whirlwind of the day with her wedding photography.
Aleks moved to Los Angeles, California from Chicago a few years ago to join her then-fiancé, now husband. As they planned their wedding, they visited many wedding locales all over Southern California, such as the Malibu Nature Preserve in Malibu, the Mission Inn located in Riverside, and Franciscan Gardens in San Juan Capistrano. They also looked at many beach locations such as the Surf & Sand Hotel and the Montage Resort in Laguna Beach, as well as Santa Monica hotels Shutters on the Beach and Casa del Mar. While they found many wonderful wedding locations in Southern California, they decided to get married in her hometown of Chicago at the beautiful Redfield Estate in Glenview. Since settling in southern California and becoming a Los Angeles wedding photographer, Aleks has shot weddings in San Dimas, San Bernardino County, San Clemente, Orange County, Cerritos, and Long Beach, Los Angeles County. This year, she will be shooting weddings all over Southern California, including Laguna Beach in Orange County, La Jolla in San Diego County, Oxnard in Ventura County, and a few weddings in Chicago.
Aleks, founder of Los Angeles wedding photography studio Polka Photos, got her start in newspaper photojournalism. She received her Bachelor of Arts (BA) in photojournalism from Boston University. During her four years in Boston, she worked on the independent student newspaper under various capacities, including photographer / photojournalist, darkroom technician, assignment editor, and assistant photo editor. She also loved photographing the city of Boston, from the swans swimming in Boston Common, the oldest park in the US, to Faneuil Hall, the North End, and Boston Harbor. One of her favorite photos was shot during a blizzard on the Boston wharf, with the wind almost blowing her into the water! She explored cities outside of Boston, visiting and photographing Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, and even a few Halloween trips to Salem. She also received a second degree from Boston University, a Bachelor of Science (BS) in archaeology, where she studied abroad in Nikopolis Field School , a Boston University program in Greece. She traveled extensively to many archaeological remains in Greece and even picked up a few Greek phrases. While at Boston University, Aleks also worked at International Programs. During her junior year, she studied for a semester in Krakow, Poland, where she interned for the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.
After graduating from Boston University, she interned for the Ann Arbor News in Ann Arbor, Michigan where she photographed assignments ranging from a photo story on spelt, a locally grown grain, to Eastern Michigan University basketball in Ypsilanti. Her photos at the local VA hospital about to be impacted by budget cutbacks made the front page of the Ann Arbor News. Her favorite subjects to photograph were the people of Ann Arbor and the surrounding towns.
After moving back to her hometown of Chicago, Aleks freelanced as a photojournalist for several newspapers in the area while working as a portrait photographer at a local photography chain. Her first freelance assignment was for the Joliet Herald News in Joliet, Illinois, when she photographed the first day of school in Manhattan, Illinois. She then photographed for several other newspapers, including the Aurora Beacon News in Aurora, Illinois. Here, Aleks photographed area events such as the Soul Fest in Aurora, River Fest in Naperville, and a Guinness World Record attempt in Montgomery. Aleks was also published in the Gurnee Sun in Gurnee, Illinois, a north suburb of Chicago. Aleks attained a position in pre-production for Copley Newspapers, where her responsibilities included toning images for publication in four daily newspapers using Photoshop and editing photos from the Associated Press Wire and newspaper archives. After working full time behind the scenes in newspaper production, Aleks decided she wanted to return to taking photographs of her own. She followed the Fox Valley Phantoms, a female hockey team comprised of women from Chicago’s north and west suburbs. She started photographing their practices at Fox Valley ice arena in Geneva and followed them to the State Championships in Darien and Rockford, Illinois. Aleks then began freelancing for the Elgin Courier News. She loved working in Elgin, a west suburb of Chicago, photographing assignments ranging from a practice drill for the Algonquin Fire Department with Micah, an Illinois search and rescue dog, a daddy/daughter date night at Spring Hill Mall in Dundee, opening day at Carpentersville Little League, a historical bus tour sponsored by the Dundee township historical museum, and the swearing in of the new mayor of Elgin.
Aleks likes to dedicate her time to various volunteer activities. She participated in the Breast Cancer Walk for two years, the first year as a volunteer and the next as a walker. Aleks photographed this journey, starting with practice walks from Batavia through Geneva to St Charles and back, and culminating with the actual event, three-day walk from Waukegan, a far north suburb of Chicago, through Evanston, and finishing at Chicago’s lakefront.
As the founder of Polka Photos, Aleks currently works as a Los Angeles wedding photographer, traveling around the country as a wedding photojournalist.
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