Category Archives: Travel

December 17 2011

Stocking Stuffer Ideas for the Traveller

Thurs­day evening as I was stand­ing at home depot, looking for options to orga­nize my winter coats behind my main door, I got the phone call that I’ve been waiting for … Our last required person for Peru Through the Lens had booked! Yes, I did a little happy dance.

The Adven­ture Travel Company and I have been pro­mot­ing this trip since summer and it was down to the final dead­line to see if the trip was going to happen as we had to have a minimum of eight people to run it. 9 people, includ­ing myself, will be off to see the beau­ti­ful land of Peru from Feb 18 — Mar 1, 2012 and I can’t believe that’s only two months from now!

Now that it is con­firmed, my heart is pound­ing, my head is racing! So much to do, to orga­nize, to research before I go!

I’m going to make an effort to blog about my prepa­ra­tions and my trip … start­ing now.

First up, since Christ­mas is only a week away, I’ve asked my family to fill my stock­ing with the fol­low­ing travel ‘stuff’. If you, or someone you know is trav­el­ing soon, maybe you should con­sider some of these as well!

pepto bismal tablets (not liquid)
tylenol or aleve
band aids
sun screen — spf 45–60
gravol
money belt
one of those water­proof things you put around your neck to keep your stuff safe while swim­ming
a nice hard cover journal (lots of nice ones at Chap­ters)
blister pro­tec­tor things that are like band aids
travel pack­ages of kleenex
travel packs of wet wipes
col­lapseable water bottle — at Chap­ters — When full it is a water bottle, but after you drink it, it col­lapses and is MUCH easier/lighter to carry.
water puri­fy­ing tablets

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Young & Fearless: Journeys for a Lifetime

October 12 2011

Press Release — Young & Fearless Journeys for a Lifetime

Halifax—Local pho­tog­ra­pher Shari Tucker will be opening a new art exhibit as part of this year’s Pho­topo­lis fes­ti­val on Sat­ur­day October 15. Young & Fear­less: Jour­neys for a Life­time cel­e­brates the work of Coali­tion for Kids Inter­na­tional through pho­tog­ra­phy. The opening event fea­tures remarks by Shari Tucker as well as travel talks on Poland and Germany, and a upcom­ing group photo-adventure travel trip called Peru: Through the Lens.

In March 2011 Shari Tucker cap­tured the journey of five Cana­dian teens trav­el­ling to Poland on a 12-day journey to grant wishes to ter­mi­nally ill chil­dren with The Coali­tion for Kids Inter­na­tional. Immersed in the culture and history of Germany and Poland, these teenagers gained a new respect for life, a new outlook on their own sit­u­a­tions and learned to care, share and transform.

“The teens I trav­elled to Poland with came back dif­fer­ent people,” says Tucker. “When you travel half way around the world to visit a dying child whose only wish is to have a laptop, camera or video games, you can’t help but come back changed. The Cana­dian teenagers realize pretty quickly how lucky they are when some­thing that is con­sid­ered a birth­day present here is a dying wish in Poland.”

Shari Tucker is widely known as the pho­tog­ra­pher behind Young & Fear­less: Inspi­ra­tions of Cancer Sur­vivors, which included three art exhibits in Nova Scotia and the pub­li­ca­tion of her first book. Her work has also been included in several national exhi­bi­tions with Pho­to­sen­si­tive, includ­ing 10 pieces in Cancer Con­nec­tions, one in TIEd Together and one in The Energy Project. All vol­un­tary projects working to ‘harness the power of the camera to achieve social justice’.

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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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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 Nova Scotia Photographer

May 26 2011

Peru — Through your Lens

Are you an Amateur Pho­tog­ra­pher or Photo Enthu­si­ast?
Woud you like to explore Peru?
Are you inter­ested in people and giving back?
If you are looking for an adven­ture and have a passion for pho­tog­ra­phy, this is the trip of a life­time for you!

Shari Tucker Pho­tog­ra­phy — Your Story. Cap­tured has part­nered with The Adven­ture Travel Company right here in Halifax, NS to bring you an amazing oppor­tu­nity to explore Peru’s people and land­scape — through your lens.

This trip is for anyone with a passion for pho­tog­ra­phy and adven­ture! The trip will be in a small group (10–15) with pre-arranged trans­porta­tion, but with pho­tog­ra­phers in mind. Itin­er­aries will be arranged, but yet flex­i­ble with very few spe­cific ‘reser­va­tions’ that have to be met. Yes, that’s right, a trip that caters to you! If that means having a char­tered bus for our group at 5am so that we can be set up for sunrise, that’s what we will do.

All of this, AND the exper­tise of a well estab­lished pro­fes­sional pho­tog­ra­pher at your dis­posal for the whole trip. Tips, tricks, shop talk and lots of oppor­tu­ni­ties to be fully immersed in your passion. Although at this time, no spe­cific work­shops or formal train­ing are planned, Shari is open to answer­ing ques­tions and talking about pho­tog­ra­phy openly with anyone on the trip.

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