Photograph by Tamara Lackey Urgent Air Care explores why rapid medical air care makes a critical difference in many life and death situations. For this reason, we depend more than ever before on aircraft to link remote areas and urban medical centers. Photograph by Tamara Lackey It was such a fantastic experience to spend the day with the UNC Carolina Air Care crew. We learned more about the brilliant work they do every day saving lives! In other words, urgent air care is tr

We founded Beautiful Together over four years ago. Since then we have been able to start and, gratefully, finish fourteen projects and establish four funds. The projects all focused on supporting children without families. Along the way we have done our best to advocate for these children. For instance, many of these children living in institutions do not have an opportunity to even be adopted. Mainly, this is due to a significant amount of red tape and doors closed by gover

Nikon D850 photograph by Tamara Lackey I LOVE PUPPIES. They are sweet, soft, loving, playful, vulnerable and incredibly snuggly. But 40 puppies in the course of 48 hours with Nikon Gear? Well, that was a whole new level of wonderful madness. This brand new campaign for Nikon has the most complex and wonderful combination of subjects I am lucky enough to photograph yet! FORTY tiny little, sweet, adorable puppies paired with a huge variety of brand new Nikon gear. And HERE are

La Selva Lodge Photo Shelter Blog names our Workshop as one of 40 most exciting for 2019/2020 - Don't miss out! Joe McNally, Ami Vitale and I are all thrilled to be named within this amazing group of the most exciting Photography Workshops! And, we still have spaces available, so make sure to check out our Amazon Workshop page. Come join us for the first few days in Quito, Ecuador and we will explore the City before heading out to La Selva Lodge in the Amazon Rainforest. You

Photographed with We are in the thick of filming 12 episodes of our new series Chasing Frames. This is our new television show airing this fall on PBS' regional affiliate Public Media NC. The show will reach into five states along with incredible Emmy-Award winning content & some amazing shows on UNC-TV! I am SO very grateful to have Nikon and ON1 Software underwriting this series!! One of our recent episodes was all about Search & Rescue Dogs. These rather furry guys do pr

La Selva Ecolodge & Spa Join THREE renowned photographers: Ami Vitale, Joe McNally and Tamara Lackey on the trip of a lifetime to Ecuador. You will experience the culture of its historic capital, Quito. As well as the abundant wildlife of the Ecuadorian Amazon Rainforest. This all-inclusive 10 day and 9 night adventure is a complete immersion into photography, storytelling and exploration. This unique workshop will focus on landscape, portrait and travel photography. The day

Spring is finally here! It's time to get your macro lens to photograph bees. This is the perfect time to re-visit an episode of The reDefine Show: Animal Edition! See it here:>>>Backyard Bees <<< It's all about photographing bees using a macro lens. I have always been nervous/terrified of bees while some people are all, like, One With The Bees. As for me, I am pretty much the exact opposite of that. I feel the hairs on the back of my neck rise up anytime I see a bee or hear a

Triangle Area Welcomes Its First 100% Vegan Market CHAPEL HILL — Nested inside a local, family-owned coffee shop, customers will find a rare resource for the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area — Coco Bean Vegan Market. This newly-opened 100% all-vegan market is the only one of its kind in Central North Carolina offering a wide variety of plant-based products, including foods, artisan chocolates, and gifts. Locally Made Goods The vegan market is a natural expansion of Coco Bean C

OUR NEWEST PROJECT -- Dinner for 40 at The Joy Home Orphanage in India We created our Dinner for 40 Project to provide nutritious dinners to 40 children between the ages of 6 and 15 years old for the next four months. Dinner will include lentils, chapatti flour, oil, semolina, rice, vegetables, and fruit. We hope to do more over time, but we want to have an impact as soon as possible! Your contributions to this effort will go a long way to help support this orphanage. And, wi

CES 2019 Welcomes Tamara Lackey and the Power of Personal Projects From Tamara: I am heading back to the GIANT Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2019) in Vegas on January 8th, and I am thrilled to be speaking for Nikon again! AND I will join a panel of incredibly talented photographers, Jen Rozenbaum and Stacy Pearsall, led by the amazing Mike Corrado, to discuss the power of personal projects. Personal projects are a powerful way for professional photographers to focus on topi

Announcing the Fall Photography Contest Winners with Nations Photo Lab - and Honorable Mentions! I teamed up with Nations Photo Lab, who I have partnered with on previous contests, and we launched this new one together. I am excited to now announce the photography contest winners! This brand new photography contest which was opened for submissions, and we were excited that so many of you shared your beautiful fall images. The winners had a chance to win $50 with them, and t

Photographing Alpacas with Personality: ReDefine Show - Animal Edition! with Tamara Lackey I believe some animals are just better at loving each other than we are. Join me on this episode of reDefine Show - Animal Edition! and learn about photographing alpacas on location at Perry Farm Alpacas in Hillsborough, North Carolina. When you walk into the large pen, curiosity brings the herd together. Soon, I am surrounded by furry bobble-heads with the most expressive eyes. For

Photographing Pigs as Pets With Tamara Lackey In this episode of reDefine Show - Animal Edition!, Tamara Lackey is photographing pigs as pets inside the home of a veterinarian who specializes in pot-bellied pigs. Tamara learns about how pigs are adopted as cute pets, but later, as they outgrow their space inside a home, the pigs are dropped off at shelters or simply let go. For some ridiculous reason I simply cannot fathom, my husband doesn't want us to have a couple of pet

It's an absolute honor to join this BRILLIANT lineup of photographers and filmmakers on the beautiful Nikon stage at The Photo Plus Expo in New York City this week! In addition to my presentation, I'll be photographing a couple of live shoots with the D850 and new Z7 at the newly-designed Nikon theater, as well. If you check out the lineup, you'll see a number of fantastic presentations and some very cool photography panels, as well. (I'm particularly interested in the Mas

Save, Give, Learn and Create with Contributing partner Tamara Lackey benefiting Beautiful Together5 Day Deal of Tons of Software, Education & More PLUS 100% Match to Beautiful Together For the next FIVE DAYS, I will be offering my Portrait Shoot Playbook, valued at $99, as part of an overall huge amount of products, software and more for a fraction of the value. I am thrilled to be a part of this because the partners of 5 Day Deal are also donating 100% of the purchase of th

Photographing Snakes, reDefine Show: Animal Edition! With Tamara Lackey On this episode of The reDefine Show (Animal Edition!), I photograph a boa constrictor on location at the Museum of Natural Sciences of North Carolina in Raleigh. We set up a full portable studio, including a seamless backdrop and most of my Westcott studio lights. Most important of all, I used my favorite gear like the Nikon D850 and a combination of Nikkor 24-70 f/2.8 lens, Nikkor 105mm f/1.4 lens and N

Tamara Lackey at Global Launch of Nikon Z7 Mirrorless System Six months ago, I was asked a VERY SURREAL series of questions by a rather distinguished ad agency in Tokyo, (which would eventually be about the new Z7 camera): Would I be interested in producing and shooting a global campaign for The Nikon Corporation, utilizing a beta camera and native lens that were to be the keystones of their completely new mirrorless system? Would I be interested in mapping out multiple locat

reDefine Show: Animal Edition, with Tamara Lackey! Almost seven years ago exactly, I launched a new series on AdoramaTV called The reDefine Show. I interviewed creatives who not only loved what they did but were at the top of their game. I met photographers, cinematographers, comedians, actors, sports anchors -- really anyone who figured out how to make a living doing work they loved. I was lucky enough to speak with extraordinarily talented individuals who shared a great dea

Adorama To Celebrate Creative Storytelling Community With INSPIRE Event Series By Joy Celine Asto Published in News Are you a visual storyteller or content creative looking for inspiration to improve your craft? In celebration of creative storytelling and the growing community of visual communicators, Adorama is set to bring the Adorama INSPIRE event series rolling from June 25 to July 1 in New York City. The brand new, week-long event will bring together some key personaliti

I love to read. I always have. For me, reading has been an adventure and an education, a bridge to what matters, and a steadily reliable escape from what doesn’t. I spent a lot of time in libraries growing up. As a military family, we moved again and again and again. So my first best friend in every new city was actually my library card. Eventually, I’d find a human friend, but I was never able to get one of those just by filling out an application and showing proof of reside