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I belong to an online community of professional photographers called the Digital Wedding Forum (DWF for short). DWF members are photogs all over the world and the professional spectrum — some are big time, famous photographers and others are bringing home the bacon on a more local scale like me. I get a lot out of the forum: friendship, camaraderie, opinions (lots of them!), technical advice, and most of all, inspiration.

Last year someone on the DWF came up with the brilliant idea of doing a “Day In the Life” photo project; on a specific day, members were to take snapshots of their life and surroundings and submit them to the forum. The photos were then integrated into a fantastic slide show. Of course on the proscribed day I completely forgot to participate, so I missed the boat. Thank goodness the project was repeated on Monday, November 3rd!

A lot of really cool photos were submitted! The only rule was that the photos were not to be “professional” — they had to be personal images documenting your day on November 3rd. Many thanks to Chris Mann of Tropical Imaging on Turks and Caicos for putting this together! Here’s the link to the slideshow — (look for my three images!): http://www.islandmann.com/shows/dwfnov08/ Enjoy!

Tamera

You know I love my job. I take such great joy in documenting happy events and capturing singular moments in my clients’ lives, and I’m lucky to be paid for that. But I don’t just photograph brides, bellies and babies. I found this quote today by the late Bill Brandt: “It is part of the photographer’s job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or the traveler who enters a strange country.” How very true! I too suffer from the curse of the photographer — everywhere around me I see great photographs waiting to be captured. So occasionally I actually take pictures of just… stuff. Not brides, not high school seniors, not cute babies, but the world around me. I do actually have an art degree believe it or not, and every now and then I have to prove to my mother that my college education wasn’t totally in vain!

If you happen to be on the north end of Colorado Springs, drop into the Barnes & Noble/Starbucks on Briargate and Academy. I’ve got nine prints on display there through July 31st. I’ll post them here, but honestly they’re much better looking in person. So go and check them out! And FYI, archivally printed, matted and signed versions of these (and other) images are available for purchase in two sizes. Contact me for more info on that.

Thanks for looking — enjoy! Tamera

[The photo at the top of this post was taken at sunset in San Clemente, California, March 2008]

Nelson’s Column as seen from the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, London, 2006