Beautiful Together’s Orphanage Bathroom Renovation: Officially Completed!! We are thrilled to announce that the orphanage bathroom renovation that has been in process for nearly two months is finally, totally, beautifully completed!! When we first announced this Beautiful Together project, we weren’t sure exactly how long it would take or what kind of complications we might run into, […]
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When we founded Beautiful Together, our 501(c)(3) all-volunteer, non-profit organization focused on supporting children without families, we knew that one of the benefits of doing this type of work would be meeting others who were doing similar work. We knew we would want to partner with a few key organizations and have found that it has […]
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Best Gallery Opening EVER. Last week I wrote about my concept for a portrait photography gallery for the Kidane Mehret orphanage in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. And I spent two full weeks photographing the approximately 65 children who live in this orphanage with the intention of creating this gallery, feeling a strong desire to create it for a few reasons. First, one […]
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Beautiful Together – New Portrait Project As you may know, I’ve been in Ethiopia for the past week and a half working on renovating a bathroom inside an orphanage for our Beautiful Together non-profit. It has been an amazing experience so far, with our days filled with hard work of all kinds. I’ve been trying to update […]
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Portrait Photography Workshops: San Francisco I am so excited to announce the location of my San Francisco 3-day Portrait Photographer’s Workshop on September 22-24, 2015! Big thanks to all those who were patiently awaiting the location – we looked at quite a number of spots all around the Bay Area, but ultimately we went with […]
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In the newest episode of the reDefine Show, I spoke with seriously talented photographer Mike Corrado on creating dynamic images. Mike has been a photographer for over 36 years, including 30 years working with Nikon. He has traveled around the world capturing stories in many countries, in addition to his explosive and fascinating sports and music photography. […]
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As many of you know, I recently had the opportunity to teach again on Creative Live with a class on Children and Family Photography. And, like all the previous times, it was an amazing experience – amidst the whirlwind of actually getting it all done! Over the length of the program, I photographed a variety of […]
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Giveaways: Nikon 50 f1.4 Lens, from Adorama I’m here at CreativeLive in Seattle and have spent the entire day in pre-production with the crew, and we just got word that Adorama is doing one of their bigger giveaways – a Nikon 50 f1.4 lens, in honor of my Children and Family Program that is kicking off […]
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creativeLIVE with Tamara Lackey, June 23rd-25th I’m SO excited to be returning to creativeLIVE June 23rd-25th to teach a brand new 3-day live program, Children and Family Photography! Over the last five years, I have taught a number of programs at creativeLIVE, ranging from Photography to Business to Work-Life Balance to Sales to Health & Energy to […]
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Lush Photo Albums: Webinar with Tamara Lackey and Fundy We launched Lush Albums rather recently (to plenty of in-studio cheers!) and have had a number of great conversations with photographers by phone, email, on facebook and in person since then. The good news is that we are hearing wonderful feedback – so grateful for that! The follow-up news is that […]
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Nikon School: Mom’s Night Out in San Francisco on May 14th, 2015 Nikon’s famed Nikon School is bringing their very cool Mom’s Night Out program to the west coast for the very first time, ever. Specifically, it will be Thursday, May 14, 2015, taking place at The Westin, not that far from the San Francisco airport. This is a pretty […]
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Mylio’s “Your Life” Photo Contest Winners! Major congratulations to all who entered the The “Your Life” Photo Contest, hosted by Mylio. It was truly an honor for me to judge the final photo contest winners. All in all, there were over 7,000 photographs entered and, given that the winner received an Advanced Plan to Mylio, normally valued at $250 – as well as […]
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Photo Albums: Lush Albums Have Arrived! I am thrilled to finally be able to announce that Lush Albums, the fine art photo albums line that we’ve been developing since December of 2013, is officially up and running – and we are ready to receive orders! Lush Albums have been in the making for quite some time because it took about a […]
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2015 WPPI / Rangefinder Humanitarian Award + $249 Animoto Giveaway I was incredibly shocked to receive the WPPI / Rangefinder Humanitarian Award, along with my wonderful husband Steve Lackey, last week at the 2015 WPPI Awards Ceremony. A huge thank you to Lauren Wendle, who introduced the award by saying something I believe in deeply, […]
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In a recent post, I laid out my WPPI 2015 Schedule with the caveat that things were still changing. This is my confirmed WPPI 2015 Schedule, complete with opportunities to not only learn and watch shooting and lighting demos by me, as well as a number of other top photographers in the field – but […]
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