I have to confess that I often wonder about my friends at dA. You know, what kind of people they are in real life? While there are quite a few of you that I have gotten to know pretty well, there is one friend that I admire a great deal, but he has remained such a mystery to me. He is a man of very few words with these incredible images that I adore. I find his techniques exciting and colorful and his photo manipulations nearly perfect by any standards. So, how does he do it? To me he appears to have mastered Photoshop in a way that only those who developed Photoshop possibly could. I have wondered about this so many times.

So, I set out to find out more about my very talented friend Andrey and now I do not feel that he is quite so much of a mystery anymore. Yet, I still feel that there is so much more to know. While he was apologizing for his English and asking me to correct his translations I could only marvel at how little I really needed to do either. At the same time I also wondered if understanding that it might have taken a great deal of his time to provide all of the information that he did in such an easily understandable way, I might also understand more about why he is a man of so few words. Perhaps if I knew his native tongue, I could know all that I wanted. Only Andrey can confirm any of this, but I do still feel that I know him a little better as a result of my little "interview". I hope you will feel that way too.

Thank you Andrey for indulging me and allowing me to do this in depth feature.

He came to deviantART on May 20th 2007 after finding this site by chance. He decided he liked it here and took up the invitation to display the results of his own creative forces. Quite successfully too, as he has become very well known here with over 120,000 page views and close to 2000 watchers. I sure can't give him any more exposure than he already has access to on his own, but I can wish him a very happy second anniversary at dA.

According to Andrey, photography is just a hobby and he does not consider himself to be a photographer at all. He says he just likes to do photomanipulations with Photoshop CS3 and since he is unable to draw, his favorite tool is the camera. Besides Photoshop, his tool kit contains several cameras; Nikon 8800, Canon PowerShot 640, Canon EOS 350, Canon EOS 40D and lenses; Canon EF 50mm, 70-300mm, 17-85mm and Sigma EXDG Fisheye. He already offers a baker's dozen of his photomanipulations in his dA printshop [link] including some of my favorite images from his gallery (shown above left).