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Emilia Rees-Krauze

First thing that you notice when you meet Masha - her sparkling eyes! She is truly enjoying what she does and it is inspiring.

She knows how to work with a camera, but willing to follow the guide if needed, it makes it really easy to work with her.

She is an expert in theatre, cinema and music so you can always have an interesting conversation during the shoot.

Professional, fun, easy going, inspiring, vibrant, beautiful, stylish, friendly, polite …. endless list, and it is all about her.

Bella Grace

I met Maria at the renaissance tea party workshop with Enchanted Evermore.

Maria is a joy to work with! Kind, friendly, professional and obviously absolutely beautiful! Her modelling skills are incredible and she poses with such ease. In the images I have seen she looks picture perfect.

We both stayed together for a few nights which was lovely as we were able to chat and get to know each other. You’ll soon see she has a kind soul and is such a laugh to be around.

I hope our paths meet again and I’ll Certainly be staying in touch.

I highly recommend Maria!

facesphotography

Had the great pleasure of working with Maria on the enchanted evermore workshop at the weekend. Have to say she is a dream to work with and nothing was too much trouble even on one of the hottest days of the year. Maria continued to do various poses and ideas that we put forward as well as ones that we suggested. For those who have never worked with Maria before you don’t know what your missing out on. Will I work with her again, hell yeah.

Gray2

I had the pleasure to meet and shoot with Maria for the first time on an Enchanted Evermore 'Renaissance Tea Party' event. Maria is a very friendly model who is easy to talk to and takes direction well if needed or is capable of posing easily by herself.

Despite the day being very hot and sunny she was happy to just get on with it despite wearing quite heavy and full dresses. She is fun to chat to with a good sense of humour. She is very beautiful, professional, at ease with herself and this translates to great looking images.

I look forward to working with Maria again in the future.

Highly recommended.

Enchanted Evermore Styled Workshops

Maria modelled for our "Renaissance Tea Party" workshop and she was absolutely fantastic. Her pre-comms were great and she was fantastic on the day. She is a very elegant model with great poses and expression. She is very versatile and really showed off the gowns, sets and props on the workshop. It was a very hot day and difficult conditions to work in but Maria didn't let that affect her modelling at all. She was brilliant.

She was friendly, easy going and worked very well with the photographers, other model and the Enchanted team. It was a pleasure working with her. We really hope Maria will come back and model for future workshops. Definitely very highly recommended!

ChrisWoodman_Photography

I had the pleasure of meeting and working for the first time yesterday afternoon Maria . What a joy to work with, easy to talk to and get along with and an excellent model who can pose freely and with direction when needed. I seriously hope our paths cross again.

Ian Pattenden

I'm so grateful to Maria for a really enjoyable shoot, on a truly horrible rainy afternoon!

Her email pre-comms had been exceptional; prompt, polite, friendly, lots of attention to detail. She even asked to talk on the phone, to make sure everything would be spot-on for the day.

Maria wanted to meet in a particular Cotswold village, even though it was inconvenient for her (she had an hour bus journey, there and back) - and it was a great location. Unfortunately the weather was appalling; cold and very wet. But she absolutely gave everything to our shoot. She was full of energy, enthusiasm and clever, creative ideas.

Maria, I found out, is also an imaginative photographer. You really should see her film photography!

A true professional, a really lovely person. Highly recommended - of course!

@Tim

I had the most enjoyable and engaging photoshoot with Maria, who is a very accomplished model.

She arrived to the photoshoot well prepared. She had sourced new clothes based on the moodboard provided, but also added her own feelings and perceptions about the direction and overall feel, which I felt added to the day. Her attitude and energy throughout session was exemplary.

What raises Maria’s professionalism and accomplishments though is her inner confidence, passion and her imagination to explore not just her role as the model (or subject) but that she is also thinking about how the shot will look, where she is placed within and how she can enhance or add to the overall concept. She was also very receptive to the odd comment and ideas that I had during the session, such as how this or that movement or position could add, influence or be interpreted. Of course, we were both sensitive to each others roles within the situation but also open to the ideas and feelings from each other.

I found her very easy to work with, engaging in our conversations, thoughtful and present in front of the camera and very dedicated to bringing herself to the concepts within the moodboard.

I am going to enjoy working on the images over the next few weeks and can highly recommend that photographers and artists should work with her.

Thank you Maria for bringing yourself, your energy and commitment to the day and I look forward to working with you again in the future.

Dan Tidswell

Masha is the best model in the world ever! Beautiful, talented, smart, funny and driven. I literally cannot praise her enough. She arrived on time, extremely well prepared, did her own hair and makeup like a pro, worked incredibly hard, somehow produced a new pose for ever click of the shutter and inspired me as a photographer to produce the best images I can.

If you ever get the chance to work with this fabulous model then you owe it to yourself to book her, your future portfolio will thank you!

James Symons

I had a very exciting outside fashion shoot with Maria on Wednesday. I had to try natural light photography again as it has been many years since I last shot outside! Maria is definitely a very knowledgeable and dedicated fashion model! After a lot of good communication, Maria turned up as planned with an entire wardrobe of fantastic clothes, which of course she posed in effortlessly!

Maria is a genuine professional model who prepares well and who simply loves posing. She is an absolutely wonderful model who I would love to work with again at some point!

Of course, I would definitely recommend Maria to fellow photographers who are looking for a truly dedicated fashion model!

Somersetman

It was a great pleasure to shoot with Maria today! Whilst I have plenty of studio experience I don't often shoot "serious" fashion stuff, and it was eye-opening to see Maria work.

First of all, she has a genuine passion for everything she does. Second, she makes the details count - immaculate make-up crafted to suit each look, perfect hair, a beautifully curated selection of outfits, and posing full of emotion and character. Between today's sets I witnessed one amazing transformation after another - kind of like booking several models as well as an MUA and a stylist :-).

Maria has an infectious excitement for the possibilities of every idea and a truly collaborative way of working. Throughout the shoot we used back of camera previews to adjust looks, lighting and poses to make images we're both really proud of. I not only had an amazing afternoon, but I feel a learned a lot too :-).

A totally professional, highly organised and hard working model -- as well as a lovely person to spend time with! -- Maria is someone I have no hesitation in recommending.

mike rowley

Had a wonderful shoot today with Maria at The Loft Studio.

Pre shoot communications were perfect - quick, clear, concise. She travelled a long way to shoot with me, for which I am so grateful.

As a person Maria is lovely - friendly, easy to get on with, interesting, intelligent.

As a model, really amazing! Clearly experienced, beautiful, very well prepared and loads of super ideas. Great make up, a super collection of clothes, we worked through a brilliant selection of looks. Maria is a posing machine! She leaves me with a great problem - how to work through so many fantastic images:)

I cannot recommend Maria too highly - if you get a chance to work with her, do so immediately!!

Rich Imagery

I had a wonderful shoot with Maria last weekend at Warleigh Weir.

A lot of planning went into the style, outfits & look. Maria even went dress shopping to find a few nice outfits that worked really well in the shoot.

Maria is very professional, required little direction and came fully prepared with makeup.

We got through the outfits very quickly, and ended up with some great shots in & out of the water.

I would recommend Maria to anyone, and would love to work with her again in the future.

Ollie G

Absolutely very highly recommended, I love working with Maria, and feel so lucky to have had the chance to be creative with her!!

Maria is super talented as a creative, has so many ideas, and is very passionate about the process, of creating images, and art. Amazing person!!

Thank you so much Maria, look forward to the next time!! :)

Trudi1

We had our second shoot together excellent communication prior to the shoot excellent amount of clothing accessories planning for a second worked together beautiful model creative worked well with my horse at my location she has such enthusiasm creativity and ideas especially passion for achieving Excellent pictures very professional every step of the way also very helpful definite sure hundred percent recommendation to work with Maria as a model duo or photographer We had a giggle to really enjoyable hope to work with Maria again extremely pleased with the photographs results thank you Maria XXX Trudi

Al W

My first shoot with Maria was complicated to set up with long distance travel, two models and a very specific concept in mind - but the effort was very worthwhile as Maria was a delight on the shoot. Maria has a fantastic look as can be seen from her portfolio but she had also taken time to think about the brief and prepare properly with clothes, props and make-up. As a result we were able to nail exactly the sort of images we had in mind. Maria was professional both before the shoot and on the day we had a great time. Although none of us had worked together before the whole team gelled really quickly and well - we had lots of fun and Maria was very willing to be really flexible on our way of working but also to contribute lots to the styling of the shots, arrangement of props etc. The weather was good so we were able to shoot tethered and review the sets as we went along and Maria's experience and eye for detail really lifted the quality of the images as we discussed and made changes on the fly.

All in all it was a brilliant day, at a great location and with super models. I am delighted with the pictures and really enjoying the edits.

Thank you for all your hard work Maria - definitely highly recommended and I would love to shoot with you again :)

Trudi1

I absolutely loved working with Marie it was our first shoot together she is so creative a brilliant model told me a few tricks we both bought a huge selection of clothes for the shoot she was full of creative ideas fantastic poses and brilliant communication prior to the shoot all the way up to the shoot so professional had a giggle definitely recommend working with Maria Already she has an amazing amount of references we had an amazing time thank you so much Maria can’t wait to work with you again The photos we achieved as a team with Alan are amazing can’t wait to post them thank you Maria XXX

The Creative Eye Photographers

Literally, why are you reading this and not shooting with Maria? Why?

photofoyer

I would like to use the Craig Revel Horwood word: FABULOUS in order to describe how fantastic was to work with Maria in Cheltenham.

I enjoyed the whole preperation process with Maria that led us to very good, proactive and relaxing shooting day.

I think that Maria is very gorgeous young woman with interesting soul.

I am looking forward to our next photo colaboration, as per initial plan.

Thanks, Rafal

Ollie G

Always so creative, and someone who I really enjoy spending time with, Maria is an amazing person, and I'm very thankful, I've had the chance to work with her!! :)

We recently had a shoot around Cheltenham, we both enjoy photography, so thought we would try out, different camera's, some film, some digital.. Well from seeing the result's, Maria take's much better photo's than me haha, Oh and is an amazingly beautiful model as well, life's not fair, is it..

I love working with Maria, very highly recommended by me, hope you get the chance to work with her soon!!! :)

Thank you Maria!