About Tami J Photography

Plan for retirement....was the best piece of advice I have ever received.  Thank you Aunt Peggy.  Because I listened, I was able to retire while I was still young enough and active enough to follow my passions of travel and photography.   

It's not an adventure without desert dust and dog hair.  

Hey Mom I found the wild horses! Get back here now!

When I was a junior in high school I told my advisor I wanted to be a photographer and travel the country in a '55 Packard.  The result was he put me on the yearbook staff.  I loved it.  Photographing teachers in the classroom, high school sports, students at play, all on a Brownie box camera.  We developed black and white film, and brought photographs to life with what are now archaic methods.  After two years it was off to college and a different yearbook staff with an honest to goodness Pentax 35mm.  Oh what a glorious camera that was!

But then life got in the way.  Relationships lead to family.  Photography disappeared under the burden of work and career.  All the '55 Packards were either in the junkyard or someone's pet restoration project.  There was rent to pay and groceries to buy. 

Eventually the burdens of life became lighter.  Dreams started to resurface.  Travel became an option, and you simply cannot travel without a camera. I reclaimed my passion and headed out on a new journey.  There was no '55 Packard, instead jet planes winged me to country after country. 

It wasn't long before I knew my passion was for flora and fauna, the wilder the better.  Although I might digress into other genres once in a while, most of what you will find here has a heartbeat or roots.  It is my journal written through the eyes of lions, the flowing manes of wild mustangs, and the beauty of flowers.  

Please enjoy my travels as brought to life through my lens.  It has been and continues to be a wonderous journey.

Boise, ID 2024