WHO AM I?

Hello, I'm Tashanna!

I am a free spirited Photographer located in the U.S., who travels all over to capture the moment. For as long as I can remember, I was either in front of the camera or behind the camera. That passion blossomed into what you see here today.

Things I love in addition to photography: Cooking, eating, creating, traveling, road trips, the ocean, the forest, nature, snow, old and historic buildings, cats, cars, collecting books (that I'll probably never read), clothes, shoes, wine, writing, talking, motivational quotes, and white queso!

I also enjoy building new relationships, supporting my community, and being able to create something bigger than myself, and photography aids me in that.

Things I hate: Packing (cause I don't know how to pack light, but I can organize my ass off!), extreme cold, wet feet, and spiders!

MORE ABOUT ME

If driving is an option, I'd chose to drive over flying. I used to drive 18 wheelers, so I've been to 44 of 50 U.S. states (and D.C.) and I've taken thousands photos along the way. I'm a badass

multi-tasker. I'm also a realtor and tour guide.. Home is currently New Orleans a city which I absolutely adore, but I'm from the west suburbs outside of Chicago.

WHAT DO I DO?

I love the saying, 'Find something you are passionate about and figure out how to make a living doing it!'

Photography chose me and I embraced it. Self taught and armed with a passion for documenting life, photography gives me balance, perspective, and allows me to see things in a different light. Making a living doing something I'm passionate about is pretty much the best thing ever.

My truest joy comes from candid shots and movement photography.. Capturing nature, people caught in the moment, kids playing, family and friends interacting, or an exciting event or festival, all come across much better in pictures, than stiff poses any day!

Travel photography, and photographing big beautiful old homes around my city and abroad is the best. The world is a big beautiful place, full of adventures, and photography helps us to relive and revive those beautiful detailed memories, that we may otherwise forget.

WHERE IT ALL STARTED?

I remember it like it was yesterday. I was in my grandmother's room with her, looking through her drawers and things (as a kid I was quite nosey), and I came across this really cool old camera and asked if I could have it. Never checked to see if it worked nor did I ever get inspected cause it was older than the Polaroid, and I just liked how it looked. But I'll now keep it forever, cause it was my grandmothers.

This sparked my interest in photography and I was gifted my first disposable camera, then another, then another, and eventually I got a real, but simple, point to click camera in junior high and every other year I'd ask for an upgrade, collecting pictures of everything in site, never realizing that was where my passion lied, even as a teen.

Then came the age of cell phones, and then cell phones with cameras and social media, in my 20's, I kept maxing out the memory of my cell phones and having to upgrade often, and finally, I bought my first DSLR at 30 and then it was look out world, here I come!