Beautiful Together Feeding Fund is grateful to partner with Life To Live for Korah, working to feed the children in Korah, Ethiopia. One of the more impactful experiences we had on our last trip to Ethiopia was spending a couple of rather meaningful days in Korah. We not only visited but were able to see the whole village, all the way around and through, and spend time inside more than a couple of makeshift homes, greeted with extraordinarily warm hospitality. We met orphans

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 been a surprisingly natural process to determine who that would be. We are currently partnering with two organizations. One of our partners

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. In our discussion, he dives deep into the importance of looking for impact, energy, and emotion when trying to create

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 families and children in QUITE the variety of locations, lighting situations, and scenarios. I wanted to share some of the many images shot during the live sessions;

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 tomorrow morning / or June 23rd (based on when you read this)! All you have to do to enter to win one of the more fantastic giveaways I've seen in a while is right here on the

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 Relationships to Posing. So it's pretty cool to be returning to teach my eighth live program, with a strong focus on out-in-th

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 we've heard multiple requests for us to show exactly how fast and easy it is to design and order your Lush Photo Album. Altho

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 cool place for me to teach because this is realllllly close to my old home. My husband and I used to live in San Francisco (Russian Hill and then

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 an iPad Mini! - this was a pretty cool win. Runners up also received plans with Mylio, normally valued at $100 and $50

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 year and a half to - well, basically, make it. That included picking out all the custom fabrics, determining the paper type and printing options,

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, "When asked if one person can truly make a difference, Mother Teresa once said it is always one person who makes the difference." We often l

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 also to win a whole lot of prizes. Here you go: Friday - Sunday: Judging the WPPI International Print CompetitionMonday, March 2nd:10am - Starting with a WPPI Expo Kick-Off Gatheri

Free giveaways: Full WPPI 2015 Passes I have been a professional photographer for the past twelve years now. In that time, my career has covered a lot of ground. I've met some incredible people who have changed my life, I've done work that is beyond what I would have ever guessed I'd do, and my family has grown substantially not just in people count but in collective experience. In those twelve years, I've attended the WPPI Convention in Las Vegas eleven times. I'd missed m

Stuart Scott. Wow, just typing that name. I miss him. In his not-nearly-long-enough life, he's been a larger-than-life individual and father and brother and son and companion - and he's been an exceptionally dear friend to me and to many others. The fact that he's actually gone? That's really, really difficult to try to process. Much of the world knows who Stuart was: genuinely so inspirational, incredibly smart, talented, charismatic and, well, super cool. He worked hard, an

The Gratitude Photo Contest Winners! A huge congratulations to all who entered the The Gratitude Photo Contest, hosted by Nations Photo Lab and myself. We have named our photography contest winners!! We were pretty blown away by the scope and QUALITY of the entries. Within the short open dates of the contest, there were about 6,300 photographs entered and, maybe even more remarkable, 289,000 people voted on them. It certainly was not easy to narrow the photography contest

How To Wirelessly Transfer Photos from DSLR Every once in a while, a new technology breakthrough comes along that is just downright fun. For me, being able to wirelessly transfer photos from DSLR cameras, or even from my point & shoot camera, to my iphone has been exactly that. I take a lot of photographs - no surprise there. But I also love to share them, too. And, to be honest, I kinda like to share them right away. Whether it's to facebook, twitter, instagram, or just ema

The Gratitude Photo Contest I'm partnering up with the fantastic crew at Nations Photo Lab to host a perfectly seasonal photo contest, celebrating one of the most powerful things in the world: Gratitude. We'd love for you to share a photograph of what you are grateful for, without explaining why, to enter this photo contest -> you can submit up to two photographs to enter the contest here. This photo contest will run until midnight EST on November 24th, 2014. Simply post y

Mom's Night Out - Taking Better Photographs Nikon's famed Nikon School is bringing their very cool Mom's Night Out program to Orlando, Florida. Specifically, it will be Thursday, November 20th, 2014 - if you happen to be in the region and checking your calendar! This unique program is intended for moms on the go who are interested in taking better photographs, as well as family historians, scrapbookers - really anyone who loves photography and could use a night out to so

Photographing Meb Keflezighi I've had the good fortune of photographing Boston Marathon Winner Meb Keflezighi twice now - and both times I was struck by how kind, unassuming and down-to-earth he is. Also very fast for very many miles. If you're not familiar with Meb Keflezighi, he has not only won this prestigious race but also the New York Marathon in 2009 and took the silver medial in the Olympics Marathon (among a zillion other races). This October 2014 Endurance Magazin

Photography Workshops We had a truly fantastic final 3-day workshop of the year recently here in our Durham, North Carolina studio. A big thanks to all who attended, from all over the United States. One of the coolest aspects of everyone coming together for these photography workshops is how quickly everyone connects with each other in such a short amount of time - not to mention that we're talking about photography non-stop while shooting, working through business clinics,