Harvest Portrait Pop-Up! 2 slots available!

Harvest Portrait Pop-Up

October 14-15, 2017

Larriland Farm

Woodbine, Maryland

Pumpkin patches, apple trees, corn mazes, oh my! It's the harvest season and my Harvest Portrait Pop-Up is THIS WEEKEND at Larriland Farm in Woodbine, Maryland. The weather is looking nice and I have 2 slots available!

Dates: Saturday, October 14 at 11:00am and Sunday, October 15 at 3:00pm

Deets: $50, 30 minute session, 5-10 edited images, 30% of all proceeds will go to Habitat for Humanity for hurricane recovery efforts.

Email me at tiffani@tnicoleimages.com to book your session!

-Tiffani

Introducing: Portrait Pop-Ups

Starting this fall, T. Nicole Images will be popping up at a location near you! Fall offers an abundance of beautifully colored foliage, perfect for outdoor photography to commemorate a new season. So, grab your family, your friends, your pets or just yourself and join me in celebrating the fall season with a mini photoshoot at a portrait pop-up location. Pop-up locations and dates will be announced and updated here on the website, Instagram, and Facebook, so be on the lookout and book your appointment in advance by emailing me. 

The first portrait pop-up will take place in the beautiful acres of sunflowers at Clear Meadow Farm in White Hall, Maryland this month. 30% of the proceeds will go to Habitat for Humanity to support their hurricane recovery efforts. For just $50, you will receive a 30 minute photoshoot and 2 beautifully edited images to cherish. More information on September's sunflower portrait pop-up:

Sunflower Portrait Pop-Up ($50)🌻

Clear Meadow Farm (Sunflower Fields)

3769 Norrisville Rd. Jarrettsville, MD21084

Dates:

Sunday, September 17, 2017

12:00pm-3:00pm

Saturday, September 23, 2017

10:00am-2:00pm

Sunday, September 24, 2017

12:00pm-3:00pm

*You must book your appointment in advance by emailing me with the subject line "Sunflower Portrait."

I hope to see you soon! 🌻

- Tiffani

The Challenge: Mundane to Magnificent

Photo credit: Dayo @thearthype

Athletes are taught to "eat, sleep, and breathe" their sport. For a basketball player, this can mean carrying their basketball with them wherever they go. For the runner, this can mean studying their races. As a former competitive athlete, this is the same philosophy I bring to my photography. This means that I make it a point to carry my camera with me in my whereabouts, schedule weekly practice photography sessions, and participate in monthly group photowalks. Through this frequent practice, I've not only grown exponentially (check my Instagram), I've learned a lot about myself as a photographer. I've learned my favorite places to shoot, settings to shoot with, and a few personal editing styles. But, with practice also comes challenges and roadblocks.

My most recent challenge has been feeling limited in my photography in certain locations. I love shooting in the city. Any city! I find so much creative inspiration with the buildings, people, streets, and graffiti and mural covered alleyways. Outside of the city, I started feeling limited in my creativity. My home base is characterized by grass, trees, parks, sidewalks, townhouses and single family homes. When I started on my photography journey, I shot a lot of landscape images due to my environment. As I started to branch off into Baltimore City and Washington, DC, I became less interested in the landscape photography I was capturing in my suburban community and more interested in street photography in the city. On days when I could not get out to the city, but wanted to practice, I recognized my predicament as an opportunity to challenge myself to find creativity in my everyday and local community.

For a week, I challenged myself to shoot everyday objects in creative ways - from fire hydrants to trees to walking bridges in parks. What I found is that there are many opportunities to capture cool visuals everywhere by concentrating on some of the basic elements of photography that make all the difference - composition, color, lighting, etc. I had seen photographers make everyday objects look beautiful and intriguing before and through this personal challenge I was learning how. I was beginning to see my environment differently and stretch my creative muscle and eye.

Going forward, I will continue this challenge exercise. While there is nothing wrong with developing a niche, I found value in challenging myself as a new photographer and creating a habit that will help me to be able to continuously adapt throughout my career. My journey in photography has taught me wonderful lessons, including patience and presence. Patience in growing and learning different photography techniques and presence to see creative opportunities everywhere. I challenge you to be more patient and present in your life, so that you can see the magnificence in your everyday. Have a great day!

-Tiffani 

The Story...

Welcome to T. Nicole Images! I'm Tiffani, your photographer. I thought I would kick off the first blog post by sharing more about T. Nicole Images and how it came to be.

My journey to photography began in 2016, but I'd like to think this passion was rooted in me as a child. An introvert by nature, I was always observing and studying people and exploring new places. My love for the arts was fostered by my parents, who took me to plays and museums. My imagination was big and broad and I used it often. But, like most adults, somewhere along the way I strayed away from the fullness of my creative spirit. 

Throughout the years, I committed myself to sports, eventually earning a full scholarship to compete in track and field collegiately. My dream was to compete professionally, but when that didn't come to pass, I followed the old NCAA mantra of "going pro in something other than sports" and redirected my attention to other areas of interest and skill. This redirection took me to places I hadn't imagined, including working in the White House. 

Eventually, I reached a point of professional transition and had to redirect again. At the same time, I had recently experienced a devastating personal loss and transition. The sum of these experiences led me to focus on living more fully and with purpose. At my core, I knew I had more to give, so I decided to invest in my talents and feed my creative spirit again. In December 2016, I bought a camera and a few months later I created T. Nicole Images. 

Since then, I’ve had my camera in hand capturing people, places and things in my travels and everyday life. There is an art to observation that I express through T. Nicole Images, delivering refreshingly creative, bold, and authentic imagery. The magic is in the moment and I look forward to capturing your moments! 

- Tiffani