Love, Fear & A Chance Encounter at Duke Children’s Hospital I’d been holding my breath for the last five hours, struggling through what would end up being my daughter’s 9-hour surgery at Duke Children’s Hospital, when she sat down. Her name was Sue, and she asked if the seat next to me was taken. We were in the […]
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Photography Studio in Chapel Hill, NC for Tamara Lackey Photography Our new photography studio! I am VERY excited to share this update about our brand new studio space in Chapel Hill, which is finally coming together!! It took about seven months to design, draw, re-draw, and architect this new space out. A few months of […]
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New reDefine Show episodes with Luke and David Edmonson & Andrew Funderburg I have so many exciting new episodes of the reDefine show to share with you. While I was at WPPI this year, I was able to sit down and record with a lot of very talented photographers and innovators since we were all […]
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Our first Beautiful Together US-based Project – Safe Showers for Homeless Youth Our brand new Beautiful Together project, also our first full project based in the United States, is focused on working to improve the quality of life for impoverished youth in America – specifically, homeless youth who have recently cycled out of foster care […]
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Announcing the 2016 Tamara Lackey Three Day Portrait Photography Workshop in Chapel Hill, NC – October 4-6 I love teaching small group workshops for a whole bunch of good reasons, but honestly, the best one is the fact that I get to make friendships with the wonderful photographers who attend. We spend a very focused […]
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Adorama Sunday Family Funday 2016 – June 5th on 18th Street in NYC This Sunday, I’ll be returning to the Adorama Sunday Family Funday Street Fair! This is the sixth year for this festive celebration, as Adorama shuts down 18th Street and puts on quite the show. Like in previous years, I’ll […]
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Effective Immediately – 50% of Lush Albums proceeds now to go directly to Beautiful Together! A very exciting shift for Lush Albums and Beautiful Together! As many of you know, we started our Beautiful Together non-profit to work to improve the quality of life for children waiting for families and those living in extreme poverty. […]
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Seven Days, Around the World Photos A week ago, I was nominated on Facebook to post a photo of the natural world for the next 7 days, which struck me as taking a mini Around the World photos trip for a week. My gut response to this was twofold: 1. I love photos of the natural […]
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My Nikon D5 Review (or at least a first look!) I jokingly posted on facebook the other day that I needed to stop petting my Nikon D5 so that I could actually go out and shoot with it. But it really wasn’t all a joke because this is truly a beautiful-looking camera, and it feels, […]
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An update on Beautiful Together & the Build An Orphan Feeding Kitchen Project In February, my husband, Steve, and I flew from Dubai to Ethiopia. Almost immediately upon landing in Africa, we learned of the urgent need for a kitchen in the new feeding center in Korah that Beautiful Together helps to support through our partner organization, Life To Live for […]
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Live Photo Critique with Nations Photo Lab – Friday, April 22nd at 12PM EST I will be joining up with Nations Photo Lab next Friday, April 22nd at 12PM EST for a live print critique, and we’ll be inviting a few of you to join us on the live broadcast, and to get some of […]
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reDefine Episodes with Conceptual Artists Amanda Diaz & Sara Lando These next two reDefine Show episodes both feature different kinds of Conceptual Photography. The first with Amanda Diaz focuses on portrait photography, and the second with Sara Lando focuses on her more mixed-media approach. So what is Conceptual Art? I found this description helpful to explain the […]
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WPPI 2016 in Las Vegas & $500 Giveaway from Adorama This is my 12th WPPI. What?! Crazy. WPPI feels like a summer camp for photographers, coming back to the MGM in Las Vegas for this week of festivities. Even though I can technically only be there for five days, I definitely have more than a week’s worth of […]
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Winter 2016 reDefine Show Episodes with Jesse Kalisher, Heather Evans Smith, and Sara Harris This new year has brought us some great new reDefine Show episodes! You can watch them below or on the AdoramaTV page. First, I spoke with friend and fellow Portrait Photographer Sara Harris Photography about how she has built a thriving destination portrait business, […]
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Believe in fate. But lean forward, so fate can see you. ~ Quentin Crisp We left Ethiopia looking somewhat like these people, but we actually took this shot when we first arrived there. It was a sloppy, fun marker of just how excited we felt to be leaving customs as we headed straight to see our little […]
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