Brooke Tucker Photography Blog

Virginia Beach, VA Natural Light Family, Birth & Maternity Photographer

I'm Brooke! I'm a crazy salt lover, loud laughing goof and beach lover! I'm a wife, a mother to a spunky little man, and a camera artist! I'm a lover of light and muddy or sandy toes who always finds my family barefoot!
We JUST moved BACK to our hometown of VIRGINIA BEACH and I'm beyond excited to dip my toes back into the ocean right in our backyard!
Every day I am amazed at how the small moments in life; the ones in between the here and there take my breath away. I believe that REAL IS BETTER THAN PERFECT and that motherhood should be celebrated!
I believe that each second: tantrums and tears, belly laughs and smiles.. they all hold the power of our legacy! The lovely moments that are often left out of the family portrait are those that are cherished the most: the baking days, the family dinner, the nights we stay up with our sick babes! They all contain the truest beauty of unconditional love!

Take a moment, if you have a few, and step inside the moments and the stories of my life and the lives of my brave and amazing clients.
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Monthly Archives: July 2017

07.19.17

Celebrating 19 years!

Beautiful downtown celebration family portraits, orlando family photographer brooke tucker

It was the perfect morning for a family session! The weather was warm but not too steamy when Mama P and her family met me at the Starbuck downtown, bright and early at 7 am! Downtown is amazing at this time in the morning because so few people are out and about and the whole town is calm and quiet!

Have you ever just met someone and felt truly honored to spend time with them?! That sounds crazy right?! Mama P and her family have traveled all over the world with Disney. They have lived in Shanghai. They have been all over Australia and New Zealand. They have even traveled to places that I admit, somewhat embarrassingly, that I had to come home and google! They had stories after stories of the most amazing adventures. Adventures that sounded like they could be crafted and curated into novels and choose your own adventure books!

We walked and talked and I soaked up everything I could about their experiences and their travels. We talked about all their likes and “favorites” from all the different Disney’s from around the world. Mama P’s little ones (although not so little) have been on more trips and to more places than many adults have ever been or will ever go and to me that is just absolutely inspiring and incredible!

It’s something that I hope I can give to Linc one day, this gift of experiencing different cultures around the world and adventures beyond our own backyard.

That’s just it though… the P family… they are inspiring. From the very second you meet them, you can just feel it! They are so sweet and so humble. They have a soft nature about them that just draws you in! They are a family that you want to be around. You want to eat dinner with them and have drinks! You want to hear all their stories and make plans with them! They leave you changed… for the better! They leave you inspired to get up, to go and do with your family and those you love.

Life is an adventure and the P family… they are living it to the absolute fullest!

Beautiful downtown celebration family portraits, orlando family photographer brooke tucker

They have been living in Celebration for 19 years now but Disney is taking them on a brand new adventure! I know they will make the most of it and they will have the time of their lives, every single one of them! That’s just what they do… they live every moment in the moment!

Mama P… thank you so much for letting me spend the morning with you! Thank you for sharing your adventures with me and for inspiring me to come home and plan some of our own! I can’t wait to follow along with you in your next adventures and I hope that when you come back to visit, we can get together and grab a cup of coffee!

You have raised some truly fantastic little ones!! They are beautiful inside and out and I can’t wait to see what they do next!

Beautiful downtown celebration family portraits, orlando family photographer brooke tucker

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07.18.17

The Roller Skating Princess | A’s All About Me

If you’ve been following me since I moved here to the beautiful state of sunshine Florida and our incredible town of Celebration, then you will absolutely recognize miss A! You can’t help but notice her because she has a presence that sparkles and shines and is felt from across the room. You just know the second she enters any space. There is a warmth and a light that is so hard to capture in words because she just can’t be explained in words! She is just too much and too lovely for common words. A knows exactly who she is, exactly what she loves and exactly where she is going in life! I think she is more put together than most adults actually and I just adore her for that! I wish I had the confidence and the sass that she has already at the age of 6!

When A’s mom and I began to talk about capturing her right at this sweet and precious age, I knew it was the perfect time for an all about me session. This fantasy sessions are so dear to my heart because it’s where we work together to create a session that is completely and one hundred percent designed by the dreams and wishes of YOUR CHILD in this exact moment! We bring their world to life! We don’t just style a session and plop them down in it. No… that is not what magic is made of and that wouldn’t work at all! We ask them questions and we work together, all of us, to set the scene and bring THEM and their world that is inside their heart to a real place that lives and breathes and then we let them play in it, be in it and stay in it! We let them live out that fantasy and we all get to experience that magic that is believing and dreaming! We all get to be a kid again!

When A’s mama and I started to think of what we wanted to do, she could think of only one thing: roller skating! Who didn’t love roller skating when they were little?! It’s perfect right?! So we brainstormed together on how we could create this perfect world of girlie roller skating perfection! This session was so fun ya’ll! We took our time and we just watched and A had a blast skating all through our town early in the morning when no one was around and she had it all to herself. I love that we were able to capture her in this sweet moment just the way her mama sees her: this roller skating fearless Princess!

Of course… we HAD to have our morning breakfast before we starting anything and what is the breakfast of champions?!!! Chocolate donut with sprinkles of course!!! Gosh A… your stunning!

Beautiful and fun all about me roller skating session, orlando florida, brooke tucker photography

This to me just screams summer!!!

Beautiful and fun all about me roller skating session, orlando florida, brooke tucker photography

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07.13.17

Every day Life and a Life that’s imperfectly good

I always go back and forth between wanting to be a rock star boss/business babe and then feeling my heart so pulled towards being all in as a stay at home mom for my boy! There’s a gift that is so grand and so generous in being able to stay at home with your child and sometimes that overwhelms me in the most beautiful way. Does this ever happen to you? Everyday life as a mom can be a joy and overwhelming but it’s always soo good.

I love my job as a photographer and it’s because I am home as a mom that I realize what a gift it is to be able to shoot children and families the way that I do… but there is a hustle that isn’t quite in me at this day and time. Linc is so small and these years, though they may seem long are actually all too short and I want to make sure that I am present for every second of them.

It was about a month or so ago that I realized I needed to be more present in documenting our every day life. When Linc was little, I was so great at this! I was making beautiful albums and documenting all his stories and days in a way that really captured our family of three. Somehow, in the busy hustle and bustle of growing my business, I guess I lost my way in shooting my own family. I realized when I sat down to start his album this year, that I was missing a huge chunk of time and images to match.

Growth is great but being busy for busy sake can burn you out and trying to keep up with a pace that just isn’t meant for you can do more harm than good!

So this is where I realize I naturally step back every now and then and you know what… that’s OK!

I found my love for photography and my purpose when I was shooting my own family and so getting back to those roots is just what I needed! I promised myself that I would carry my camera with me again and keep it out around my house so I could document our days…. the good, the bad, the boring and the exciting! Whatever the day may hold, it was ours and it deserved to be recorded!

You know what I found friends?!

There is such a beauty in the ordinary! There is silly in the downtown and there is love in the stillness. I realized that you can truly learn about how beautiful your life is when you take the time to photograph it every day.

Our lives are imperfectly good and having physical evidence of the day teaches you about gratefulness and love and appreciation!

So whether you are a photographer or a mama bear who happens to find this blog, I encourage you to step out and capture a moment of your day every day if you can! It will show you so much and you will be so thankful that you have that moment!

A moment that lets you know… hey, what an imperfectly good life we are living!

An imperfectly good life | Orlando Children and Family Photographer