Tara Swain Photography

I’ve had the honor of being asked to be one of the 3 chosen photographers to speak at Seniorologie Texas Tour!! The official dates and details were announced a couple of nights ago so now I can spill the beans! I was very excited when I received the email from Leslie (the girl behind Seniorologie) ..and humbled to have this opportunity and really looking forward to meeting tons of new friends and photographers. :)

A little more info about the workshop tour.. (taken directly from the Seniorologie website):

The Seniorologie Tour is a workshop dedicated to the study of senior portrait photography. If you have ever wanted to learn the ins and outs of senior portrait photography from some of the top senior portrait photographers, this is the workshop for you!! This workshop is two days full of information from senior portrait photographers Amii Wroblewski, Tara Swain, Courtney DeLaura and Leslie Kerrigan. They will each share their specific strengths and share with you things such as how to interact with seniors, posing tips, social media techniques, marketing and much more!

The Texas Seniorologie Tour will be held at the beautiful Nylo Hotel in Plano, Texas. The Resort has plenty of beautiful places for our scheduled photo shoots, spacious meeting spaces for the learning portion and stunning accommodations for each attendee.

There are only a limited number of seats available so make sure you grab a spot before they fill up! All you have to do to reserve a seat is put down a non-refundable retainer of $200 by June 1st!! AFTER June 1st, the retainer amount is a larger amount. Read more about the workshop and find out how to register and grab your seat HERE.

Address:
8201 Preston Road
Plano, TX
75024
Map and Directions

Start Date: October 21, 2012
End Date: October 23, 2012

Start Time: 9:00 am
End Time: 5:00 pm

There is ALSO an opportunity to win a seat at this workshop tour for FREE!! You heard me right. To enter the video tour seat giveaway, all you need to do is create a 1 minute or less video of yourself expressing why YOU want to attend The Seniorologie Tour Texas. Upload the video to vimeo or youtube and send us the link via email to info@seniorologie.com, post the link on the Seniorologie Facebook page or Tweet the link to @seniorologie using the hash tag #seniorologietourtexas. All video links must be sent in by Friday, May 25 at 11:59 p.m. The top three finalists will be chosen and announced Monday, May 28 and the fans will then be allowed to vote on their favorite video. Voting ends at 11:59 p.m. Thursday, May 31 and winner will be announced Friday, June 1. To read more about this GO HERE.

AND to celebrate the announcement of the SENIOR workshop, here are a few sneak peeks from a Senior session I’m working on right now. :)

I’ve been SO excited to get these on the blog. 1 week after the workshop I had a one on one with Megan, a photographer from San Angelo. She was interested in doing a styled wedding shoot, so I brought in Jessica of The Cotton Exchange, to help pull this together. When we first started talking about ideas, nothing really stood out.. then I told her that I had really been wanting to pull together a vintage circus styled shoot. Of course it would take a LOT of preparation.. so I didn’t know if we would be able to pull it together in time, especially with all the work that went into the workshop just the week before. Jessica loved the idea.. but was afraid of the same thing.. she said she would sleep on it and get back to me in the morning.. that next morning I had an email waiting for me in my inbox. I’m fairly certain she stayed up ALL night working on it too. :) She had pulled her style boards together and BLEW me away. She transformed it into a Water for Elephants/Vintage Circus concept that I absolutely FELL IN LOVE with. Jess knocked this one out of the park. We were able to incorporate a lot of my own items into this shoot.. along with a couple of Jessica’s vintage rentals.

A huge thank you to again to Gypsy Tails.. for making the trip to Paris again just a week later and the AMAZING job they did on “Boomer,” our prop/model. :) ..and another phenomenal job on Crystals hair and makeup by Tiffany P of Smokin Hot Makeup!! LOVE our ring leader tub painted by Dayna Ballard Signs!! ..AND of course a big thank you to our models.. who were perfect for this concept. I love this little family and they are always a pleasure to work with. :) A few favorites from the shoot…

Popcorn machine from The Huckleberry (it is still available for purchase AT the shop!)

The same week as the workshop I had a 1 on 1 mentoring session with Rachelle, a very sweet photographer from Nebraska! I’m so looking forward to the Spring. Things are greening up and I am LOVING it. Miss Elly May was our model for the one on one and she did an awesome job. This little girl just might be the next Shirley Temple.. and she’ll tell you so too! ;)