Hi, I’m Tamara Like Camera. I’m a Social Media Influencer, Family Lifestyle, Blogger, Professional Portrait Photographer, Co-Author, Mama, Adventurer, and lover of random acts of kindness, sundresses, superheroes, cookies and moose. I’m also enamored with rainbow sprinkles.
About Me:
If you’re curious about this blog, it’s a Family Lifestyle Blog about adventure, family, and inspiration. That is my niche all on its own. I write about parenting, recipe and food, pets, health wellness, DIY, travel, home design and organization, marriage and intimacy, friendship, connections, photography, and more. I’m a professional photographer, and I have my degree in Journalism, so this blog is heavy with storytelling. Sometimes we do cosplay. Sometimes we book trips to Alaska. Sometimes we surprise each other with pets, flowers, cookies, and more. This is also a space of vulnerability and connecting through the joys and pains of life.
I started this blog after two cross country moves (Jersey to California, then California to Massachusetts) and the birth of my daughter. We settled down in Northampton, MA. After being captivated (captured, really) by both writing and photography as a kid, I decided to formally study them both in college and beyond. I am always a student, and I always will be.
People tell me it’s rare to be so avid in both writing and photography, but I feel that they go hand-in-hand. My blog began as a series of essays on the intensities of my childhood, (early death of father, integration into a blended, Brady Bunch family) as well as thoughts on parenting, aging, anxiety, grief and loss, ecstatic joy, and more. Much, much more. Somewhere along the way, my blog picked up a photojournalism theme, and that is where it shall stay.
Photographic Credits and Professional Publications:
Huffington Post:
Once I Had a Meltdown a One of the Most Peaceful Places on Earth
SoFabFood:
BACON WRAPPED ASPARAGUS ON THE GRILL!
LOW-FAT SLOW COOKER STICKY CHICKEN
AVOCADO EGG SALAD FINGER SANDWICHES
VEGETARIAN CRISPY BAKED WONTONS
Target Made Me Do It:
How to Make a Cupcake Wrapper Crown
5 Essential Newborn Photography Props From Target
BlogHer/SheKnows Media:
How To Take Great Photographs Of Your Baby
Every Picture Tells A Story, Don’t It
How It Feels When Someone Compliments My Writing
A Professional Photographer’s Advice On How To Take Memorable Holiday Photos
Eight Ways to Get LEGAL Images For Your Blog Posts
SITS Girls:
How to Take a Food Article From Good to Great
How To Stick to a Consistent Blogging and Commenting Schedule
How To Grow Your Instagram Followers and Likes
How To Feel More Connected In The Blogging World
Tips For Photographing Toddlers
Writing Your Way Out of a Blogging Slump
Photographing The People You Love
Self Portraits: How To Take A Picture Of Yourself
The Benefits of Blogging About…Everything
When Are You Most Productive? Tips For Finding That Time, and Making The Most Of It
The Power Of Positive Posting Online
How To Take Great Pictures In Bad Lighting
How To Connect With Your Readers Outside Of Your Comment Section
How to Capture Amazing Fall Photos
Bon Bon Break:
Stigma Fighters:
And I co-authored three books! Click the first picture to find us on Amazon. Click the second picture to find us on Barnes & Noble!
Here are my guests posts on other blogs, starting with taking better portraits with your DSLR:
Ten Ways To Take Better Portraits With Your DSLR
As well as talking about the deepest, achiest parts of my heart:
Growing Together: Don’t Ever Change
How to Photograph Moose and Children, But Not Together!
Guest Post from Tamara: How to Photograph Moose and Children, But Not Together!
The blog may ever-evolve as they all do, but stick around and stay awhile, if you’ll have me. I always stay true to myself. That’s my ultimate blogging goal. That, and finding connections through writing and photography, and a fun combination of them both.
And email: tamara@tamaracamera.com
And last but not least, links to all 20 parts of the story of how I met my husband. Trust me, it’s a doozy:
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