MIA
I was MIA yesterday. It’s been a crazy week but I have lots of fun photos to share next week. Here is a cell phone of my cousin and I. She is in town for the week and we were able to enjoy some fondue last night.
Beautiful Boise Wedding – Boise Idaho Wedding Photographer
Boise in the summer is absolutely beautiful. Lately I’ve been able to really appreciate the amazing light we get in the evenings. Just a quick sneak peek from Saturday’s wedding.
Photo Package Giveaway: Calling All Cute Kids!
Alright, so I decided I wanted to give away another photo session. This time you’ll have to work for it.
Details
Dig through all your pictures and find your favorite picture of your child[ren] (or nieces, nephews, grandchildren.. they don’t have to be YOUR child but you should be related to them). Photo does not have to be taken by you, however, you must have permission to use it.
Email your photo to tamara@tk-foto.com. Only one photo per person.
On August 2nd, I will upload all photos to my Facebook Page. It will be up to YOU to get votes for your picture. A comment on the picture counts as a vote. Rally up all your Facebook friends and get them to vote! Only one vote per photo. You can vote for more than one photo. Any duplicate votes will not be counted.
Winner will be announced on August 16, 2010.
Prize
Winner will receive a basic family, solo, newborn, maternity, or engagement photo session with Tamara Kenyon Photography.
Voting closes on August 15th, 2010. Winner must schedule their photo session within 30 days. Photo session can be “gifted” to someone as well.
Just for Fun
All photo submissions to this contest will also be will be submitted to Too Cute for Words where it will be featured in the next couple months. By emailing me your photo for the contest you are giving permission for me to submit your photo.
Yoga as Medicine
When I first started college I met a person who introduced me to Yoga. I was always interested in it, but never had pursued it. She showed me a couple beginner dvds and I started doing it every night. Fell in love with it.
I think it was about 2 years after doing it every night my schedule completely changed and I stopped doing yoga because I didn’t have the time for it.
About 8 weeks ago my friend Heather talked me into joining a Friday am yoga class with her. I’m so glad that I did because it reminded me how much I miss yoga. It happens every time I do it, but with this being an 8 week class I was bound to really get back into it.
So this back story brings me to today. I went to go look in my little library of books (which is pretty much 90% about food and health) and a couple books caught my eye that I forgot I had. I grabbed both of them and opened them up.
The first one is called Yoga Anatomy.
Photo pulled off of Amazon.com
It basically breaks down a few different poses and shows you the muscles that are used. It goes into the science and physiology of your body and yoga. It’s only about 221 pages cover to cover, so it’s not a huge book. I found it helpful in understanding why we do certain poses and how to breath.
The other book I pulled out of my library was Yoga as Medicine.
Image from Amazon.com
This book is great because it targets different areas of the body for specific health benefits. This one is about 568 pages cover to cover. More resembles a college textbook but is broken down in different chapters for different areas of concentration. Part 1 is basic yoga philosophy, different areas yoga can help (ie stress and others). Part two explains safety, styles and how to get started. Part 3 is yoga in action. It breaks down into types of treatment (anxiety, arthritis, asthma, backpain, carpal tunnel, depression, headaches and the list goes on).
It obviously can’t cure diseases and certain medical conditions, but I truly believe that it can help reduce symptoms and make dealing with certain pain much easier. It’s a great alternative to dealing with these sorts of issues with before immediately turning medicine (if that is your thing, some people prefer the meds and that is fine).
One thing that particularly grabbed my attention was this chart that I pulled from the book.
40 Ways Yoga Heals – Yoga as Medicine
Do you do yoga? If so, what health benefits have you noticed from doing it?
Married! Vanhoo/Spearow – Boise Wedding Photographer
This wedding was in late June. I’m a little behind on blogging photo sessions, but I’m getting there. Here are some of my favorites from this country-style wedding. This post will be pretty picture heavy 
After discussing with the bride and groom, we had decided to do a “first-look” instead of doing it the traditional way. I love first looks because it is so intimate. After getting married last September, and now doing first looks, I wish that I had done it this way. The surprise down the isle is great but I wish that my husband and I had more photos of us together by ourselves.
I don’t normally share group formal photos because they’re pretty standard, however, I had a lot of fun with these guys so we changed it up.
Yes, I made those masks myself.
It’s a Senior Thing – Boise Idaho Senior Portrait Photographer
Don’t wait too long to schedule your senior portraits! This year will fly by before you know it.
Love: Kaptein – Boise Idaho Photographer
Remember the guest post from Monday? Here are their photos.
I had a great time photographing these two. There was a connection right away and we all were just comfortable. These two are absolutely adorable together. They’ve been married 3 years and you would think that they just got married. They also needed little direction which always makes my job super easy (even though it was in the 90′s that day).
Here are some of my favorites.
Boise has lots of awesome wall art in downtown. I have been wanting to shoot at this wall forever. That also seemed to be the theme for the whole session – murals.
These two are probably my favorite from the whole session.
Behind the Scenes – Boise Child Photographer
These next photos didn’t happen during a photo session, but it’s exactly what happens during a photo session. I was hanging out with little B and her dad while B’s mom and my husband were off finishing up some details from a race that they’d just finished (that was a long sentence, so hopefully you’re still following me).
ANYWAY. While hanging out, I decided to bust out the camera and take a few photos of B. Instead of immediately shoving the camera in her face, I decided to win her over. This is the most important part of photographing children. In my guest post at MCP Actions about photographing kids, this was the very first tip. I think it’s the most important one too.
While trying to win her over, B’s dad snapped a quick photo. I always like these because it’s fun to show you guys what happens behind the scenes. It’s also fun for me to see what I look like behind the scenes.
After winning her trust I was able to snap some photos of her.
Guest Post: My Wedding Photos Made Me Cry – by Allison Kaptein
I was doing photos for some clients and we came to the conversation of wedding photos. This poor couple had an awful wedding photography experience and were gracious enough to share it with you.
I mainly want to share this because I feel that it’s super important to really get to know your photographer and do your research. These guys were married ONLY 3 YEARS AGO. Which means this was totally recent. You hear lots of horror stories with people getting married 10+ years ago, but it still happens today.
Thanks again Allison for sharing your story.
PS. If you’re reading this in Google Reader you won’t notice the issue, but I apologize if my blog doesn’t look like there much formatting (spacing, paragraph breaks). Still working on fixing that. Bear with me.
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My wedding photos made me cry, and they weren’t tears of joy.
Hello Everyone! I am so excited to guest blog for Tamara! My first guest blogging experience.
A few weeks ago Tamara did a photo shoot for me and my husband. The reason? We didn’t get engagement photos taken and our wedding photos are terrible. No really, like the worst wedding photos you have ever seen.
Before we get to the photos, I’ll give you a little bit of a back story…
I was living in northern Idaho, and our wedding took place in Reno Nevada (no I didn’t get married in a drive through chapel, Reno is my hometown). Because I was far away my mom was doing lots of the leg work for the wedding. I would find vendors and locations online and then she and my aunts, cousins, and maid of honor would go check them out, I think they actually quite liked this part, and then report back to me, and we’d make a decision on each particular item. It wasn’t ideal, but it wasn’t that stressful for me either!
When it came time to look for photographers, my mom told me that she had been talking with some ladies at her gym, and that she had a couple of names for me to check out. Most of the photographers had websites, but one woman didn’t. We both checked out the websites, and my mom went to the office of the woman with out the website, but I didn’t. I took my mom’s word that her photos were good. My mom and I narrowed it down to two photographers, the woman who didn’t have a website, and a guy who did.
Through this process I discovered that one of my friends from high school who had recently been married had used the woman photographer. I sent a facebook message to my friend asking about her experience, she responded that she had had a great experience and pointed out to me which photos on her facebook page were taken by this photog.
The photos all looked nice. My mom told me that she preferred the woman’s style to the mans, and that the woman was a bit more reasonably priced. So we went with the female photographer.
Biggest.mistake.of.my.wedding. Seriously.
The worst part? She was great on the actual day! She was personable, yet directive enough to rope the bridal party and families to where they needed to be for
our “requested shots.” Almost. There were some key shots that we don’t have. We have zero pictures of: just me, the entire bridal party together (bridesmaids,
groomsman, the two of us), and only one or two of just the two of us. Even that could be forgivable to me, if the photos were good. But they aren’t. They are
terrible. Photos have weird shadows on them, all of the pictures of the ceremony are blurry, the pictures of our reception are all dark. I have better pictures taken by my aunt who has a basic DSLR camera that she uses as a hobby.
It was a huge disappointment to receive photos like this after our wedding.
Fast forward a few years to our photo shoot with Tamara. I was really hoping that the session would capture “us” in a way that our wedding photos didn’t. And it did. I LOVE the pictures. Even though we aren’t wearing our wedding attire, I already want to replace every wedding photo in our house with these photos.
So moral of the story? Seriously research your photographer, and if they don’t have a website? Forget about it.
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Stay tuned tomorrow for pictures from the Kaptein’s photo session with Tamara Kenyon Photography.