Travel Photographer

July 7 2011

Peru Photo / Adventure Trip

If your passion is pho­tog­ra­phy and you like a little bit of adven­ture, you should con­sider Peru — Through the Lens. I’ve part­nered with The Adven­ture Travel Company to put together what I think is the perfect itin­er­ary for pho­tog­ra­phers going to Peru. Our trans­porta­tion and accom­mo­da­tions are arranged, but there is lots of free time on the trip to explore the people, land­scape and culture on your own, or in smaller groups.

From Feb­ru­ary 18 — March 1 we will visit Lima, Puno, Lake Tit­i­caca, Machu Picchu, Sacred Valley and Cuzco. We will have the oppor­tu­nity to vol­un­teer in a small com­mu­nity and have three home­s­tays through­out the trip, where we actu­ally stay with the local families.

Price is $2485 (tax included) for the ground tour in Peru
Flights are extra ($1000 — $1500) Or, book using points and fly for free!

One Page Overview
Full Itin­er­ary
Face­book Group

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Shari Tucker Photography sees Will & Kate in PEI

July 4 2011

Will and Kate (and Shari) visit PEI

I have to admit, I’m not really a fan of royalty in general. I don’t watch the news, I don’t follow pol­i­tics and I must be one of the few who did not see the broad­cast of the Royal Wedding. What’s a pho­tog­ra­pher to do when she’s in the same city as Royalty though? Of course, I had to go try to take a few pictures!

I rolled out of my hotel bed on my first day of vaca­tion at 7:15am. Drowsy, groggy and maybe even a little cranky as I was getting out of a super comfy bed to head to down­town Char­lot­te­town to stand with thou­sands of people in ques­tion­able weather. I knew that the offi­cial wel­com­ing cer­e­mony was at around 10am, so I figured if I was there by 8am I’d be able to get a decent vantage point. Little did I realize that cabs would be 1/2 an hour backed up and that hun­dreds of people were actu­ally really excited and lining up much earlier than I had even con­sid­ered reasonable.

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Halifax corporate photographer

July 2 2011

Eight Lessons Learned

I have been in busi­ness for eight great years. I have made many mis­takes, most of which I have learned from. I have taken some great advice from other busi­ness owners and I have ignored advice from others, some of which I prob­a­bly should have taken. I have learned a lot in the past eight years and here are eight lessons that I feel are worth learn­ing for anyone.

1. Work is not all there is to life.
2. Health is your most valu­able asset
3. Cheap­est isn’t best.
4. Back ups are worth the money.
5. Free doesn’t mean you have to take it.
6. Saying no is pow­er­ful.
7. Giving back is better than receiv­ing.
8. Love what you do so that you don’t hate half of your life.

The photo to the left is of me at a cor­po­rate pho­tog­ra­phy shoot for NSLC and the Adopt a Stream program. Don’t I look like I love what I do?

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PIFF_USC

June 24 2011

Pay it Forward Friday — Week 2

Please take a moment to check out my sug­ges­tions for Week 2 of Pay it Forward Friday.

Two if by Sea
The Adven­ture Travel Company — Megan or Rose
Hill Law — Dianna
David’s Tea
Homburg Insur­ance — Matthew Upton
USC Edu­ca­tion Savings Plans — Laura Fontaine

Photo to the left is Laura Fontaine of USC Edu­ca­tion Savings Plans.

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Wolfville Nova Scotia Wedding Photographer

June 20 2011

Fairytale Wedding

This past weekend I was over­whelmed with love, emotion and pure joy for Sarah and Stephen as they tied the knot. They are clearly head over heels for each other and it was appar­ent every second of their wedding day.

I’m really good friends with the groom’s sister, Stephanie. I met her back when I was in school and did mater­nity photos for her with her first child. We became fast friends and I have done photos of her kids reg­u­larly over the past several years. Beyond that, we’ve trav­eled to Costa Rica together! Pretty cool client-turned-friend story.

The Gaetz family has always wel­comed me and treated me just as if I were family and really, I feel like I am! Although I had met Stephen a few times, the first time I met Sarah was at one of the kid’s birth­day parties being held out at Hat­field Farms. I wasn’t pho­tograph­ing it … I was attend­ing, just like the rest of the family! I remem­ber how sweet Sarah was and how much I enjoyed sitting and talking to her about music. I’m pos­i­tive she also told me bits and pieces about how the two of them met as well.

A couple of years later, it was at Stephanie’s birth­day party that I found out Stephen and Sarah had gotten engaged. There was no ques­tion that they were perfect for each other and I was thrilled that they asked me to take their wedding photos.

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Halifax head shot photographer

June 17 2011

Pay it Forward Friday — Week 1

I’ve started a new Friday tra­di­tion in my social media. I hope you’ll follow along, and maybe even join in! I’ve decided to take every Friday to post quick tid bits about local com­pa­nies and orga­ni­za­tions on my social media groups that I think you should check out.

Some of my sug­ges­tions will be busi­nesses who have hired me, others will be about local busi­nesses that I think are really cool or are doing some­thing interesting.

I hope that maybe by tweet­ing, posting or talking about com­pa­nies that I like that I’m sending some good social media karma into the world!

If you haven’t already, please like my face­book group http://www.facebook.com/your.story.captured or follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/Sharitucker to check out who I will be talking about next!

I start my pay it forward mes­sages at 9am every Friday morning. Check it out to see if you’ve been men­tioned or if there might be a product or service you are in need of!

Week 1
Nadine’s Mobile Fitness
Twirp Com­mu­ni­ca­tions — Anita Hovey pic­tured to the left
The Money Finder
Eastern Light Images
Apeel­ing Orange
Fox Whole Plumbing

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Halifax Corporate Photographer

June 17 2011

Free isn’t always beneficial.

A few months ago I did some fun photos of my friend Dual N Jenn in her Roller Derby get up. She didn’t ask me to, I just offered, thought it would be fun. We had a great couple of hours laugh­ing as she tried to hold still poses on wheels and we got some fan­tas­tic shots. Some of the photos fea­tured a bright green mouth guard that Summit Den­tistry had designed for her.

Earlier today I received a phone call from Summit Den­tistry. The Doctor started by telling me the Jenn had given him per­mis­sion to use the photos in his adver­tis­ing and that he wanted per­mis­sion to change/crop it. He also wanted my logo to put on it.

I was a little taken back because 1. Jenn can’t actu­ally give him per­mis­sion to use my photos which I’m sure neither of them really under­stood at the time, but I have now explained and 2. although he was asking for per­mis­sion to make changes to it, he was assum­ing that he already had per­mis­sion to use the photo.

I very much appre­ci­ate that he was willing to put my logo on the image, but what I want to explain to every­one is this …

Free isn’t always beneficial.

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Young & Fearless - Inspiration of Cancer Survivors

June 1 2011

Tootin’ my own horn

I don’t really know the exact day that I offi­cially decided I was in busi­ness for myself, but it was some­time in early 2003. Since I don’t know for sure, I’ve always just based it on my very first wedding clients who were Kelly and Marc Quen­neville. They cel­e­brated their eight year anniver­sary on May 31st, 2011, and there­fore, so did I.

I sure have come a long way in eight years of busi­ness and I decided that today would be an alright day to toot my own horn. So, to cel­e­brate, I’m going to reflect on eight accom­plish­ments that I have had in the past eight years of my pho­tog­ra­phy business.

1. Suc­cess­fully moved my busi­ness from Truro to Halifax and have grown by leaps and bounds

2. Pho­tographed inter­est­ing celebri­ties such as: Paula Abdul, Kevin O’Leary, Scott Speed­man, David Foster, Matt Mays, Jimmy Rankin, Jully Black

3. Pre­pared three suc­cess­ful Young & Fear­less art shows — hosted at Queen Street Studios, Art & Jules and The Marigold Cul­tural Centre

4. June 2010 Young & Fear­less — Inspi­ra­tion of Cancer Sur­vivors book launch and offi­cially pub­lished. The book is a com­pi­la­tion of beau­ti­ful pho­tographs and poignant stories of 30 cancer sur­vivors who are all 30 years and younger. It is avail­able at Chapter’s in Atlantic Canada and Quebec, as well as online. It can also be found at many local book­stores. **Photo to the left shows all 30 sur­vivors — the table of con­tents for the book.

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Plane crash Fredericton New Brunswick

June 1 2011

Travel Epiphany

As a child I had my fair share of family vaca­tions and travel expe­ri­ences with my parents. We went to Disney four times — two by van and two by plane, the white moun­tains in New Hamp­shire, Niagra Falls, Toronto, Ottawa and Mon­treal, but never any­where out of North America. Coming from the small town of Flo­renceville, NB, the travels were still pretty inter­est­ing for a kid.

I grad­u­ated from high school in 1996 and didn’t stray far from home, choos­ing to study at St. Thomas Uni­ver­sity in Fred­er­ic­ton, NB. After one year, I had dis­cov­ered that Uni­ver­sity edu­ca­tion wasn’t for me and I promptly decided to follow ‘a boy’ out west where I attended Grande Prairie Regional College.

Several of my life’s defin­ing moments have been real­ized through travel related epipha­nies, start­ing with the adven­tures of Grande Prairie. There’s no better way to grow up fast than to live on your own thou­sands of miles away from your parents!

In Decem­ber 1997, I was return­ing home to New Brunswick to spend Christ­mas with family. Much to my dismay, I was a pas­sen­ger in a plane crash near the airport in Fred­er­ic­ton, NB on Decem­ber 16th. At 19 years old, having sur­vived a plane crash, life began to look a little dif­fer­ent for me.

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Halifax Boudoir Photography

May 29 2011

Donna’s Boudoir Experience

Name: Donna Konowalchuk
Age: 39 — Soon to be the dreaded 4–0
What do you do for a living? News Editor
Do you have kids? Two

How would you describe your­self? Kind of shy, but can be a b-tch when I need to be.
How would you describe your body type? Could stand to lose those last ten pounds that all women think they need to lose.
What is your favorite feature about your­self? Def­i­nitely my boobs (when they’re in a pretty bra, not nec­es­sar­ily “au natural”).

What color is your favorite under­wear? Don’t have a favorite pair, all my under­wear is sexy, and comes in many colors.
How high are your highest heels? My gold ones that I wore for my boudoir photos, not sure exactly how high they are. High enough to feel sexy in.
Have you ever worn heels to bed? Nope, hubby would say that I was poking him with them.

What made you decide to do a boudoir photo shoot? I was asked to attend for the break­fast tele­vi­sion feature, and would never turn down some­thing girlie like that. Plus, it was a day away from kids!
What was the most inter­est­ing thing you took to the shoot? My sky high gold heels that I have never had the chance to wear before.

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