My name is Tracy Norred and I am an Orange County Photographer. I specialize in capturing real moments between families. I absolutely love getting to know my families, and watching children grow over time. It is a joy to capture happy moments.

I'm a mom myself, and the best way to get information is to contact me by email. I'd love to give you more information & find out if I'm the right fit for your family!
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Saturday, June 28, 2008

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To kick off The Serendipity Club, the first person to comment on each of yesterday's posts gets a free Serendipity Images greeting card!

Simply add a comment to one of my June 27 posts, 'Dog Beach,' 'Lucy,' or 'Article from Real Simple.' Three unique commenters will win. (In other words, you only win once. If you comment first on multiple posts, you win for my earliest timestamped post. For my next timestamped post, the 2nd commenter will win, and soforth. Undertand?) Be sure to include your name and email on your comment. If you'll win, I'll contact you for your address, and ship the card directly to you!

7-2-2008: There's still room for 1 lucky winner! Just be the first person to post a comment on my "Dog Beach" post!

Good luck! =)
Tracy

P.S. Stick around ... you never know what you'll find at The Serendipity Club!

Friday, June 27, 2008

Dog Beach

Today I went to dog beach with my good friend Julia. I'd never been there before ... what a cool place! We got a couple miles of exercise walking on the sand, and Julia's dog Parker got to socialize with all the other dogs. I was amazed at how friendly most of the dogs were! Bob and I don't have any pets right now, but when we get a dog, we'll definitely spend a lot of time at dog beach!

We met a woman who had an 8 week old puppy named Poe. Isn't he adorable?
I wanted to take him home with me...
I don't think I've ever seen sand crabs before. Maybe as a kid, but I have no distinct memory of them at all. Julia dug one up for me. If you look closely you can see it in the picture. It wriggled off her hand pretty quickly, so I didn't get a closer shot of it. I expected the sand crab to be small, maybe the size of a fly, but it was closer to the size of a goldfish! It's weird to think that that sand crabs are just beneath the surface!

After a walk up the beach and back, we were all tired and headed home.

Lucy

My family came over for Mother's Day brunch, including my youngest (haha!) sister-in-law, Lucy. Lucy is a Yorkshire Terrior who is full grown at whopping 3 pounds. She's such a sweet and energetic dog who loves nothing more than seeing her "mom" come through the door.

I don't think she could quite figure out what the flowers were. Can you see the pollen on her nose?

Lucy is sniffing a little iron dog that my parents bought my husband a few years ago.

Article from Real Simple

I've always felt that professional photographs are important, and I feel even more so after seeing this article on the Real Simple website. I have the honor to create and preserve memories. What could be better than that? =)


Note To Self: Get Professional Photos of Your Children

I’ve never forgotten an invaluable piece of advice that I heard from an older friend right after my first child was born. She told me, “One of my greatest regrets about my children’s childhoods was that I didn’t have more professional pictures taken.”

“You didn’t take many pictures?” I asked.

“I took tons of pictures,” she said, “but the fact is, professional photographs are so much better than even the best snapshots.”

I absolutely agree—professional photos are better. And keeping her advice in mind, ever since my daughters were born, I’ve been zealous about getting their photos taken professionally at least once a year.

While it’s a lot of fun (and also a pain) to take pictures myself, it’s terrific to have some pictures that are truly excellent. These photos don’t take the place of the on-the-spot pictures that I take myself—I still take scads of photos at birthday parties, first days of school, on the slide, with a popsicle—but these pictures memorialize my children’s childhoods in a different way.

Plus they make great family gifts. I can never figure out a good present for the grandparents and great-grandparents, but they always love to get a really great photograph—especially the relatives who don’t often get a chance to see the girls in person.

Also, research shows that one way to boost your happiness is to reflect on happy times, and looking at photographs helps keep memories more vivid.

It’s a splurge, of course. Professional photos aren’t cheap.

However, I figure that the money I spend on these photographs will strengthen family bonds, enhance happy memories, and capture the fleeting moments of childhood. They give me more pleasure than practically any other purchases that I make. That strikes me as pretty good happiness bang for the buck.

A friend’s family had another great photography tradition. For her whole life, at every milestone, her parents took a picture of her and her brother sitting exactly the same way on their front stoop. It’s fascinating to see them change through the years. Along the same lines, the artist Nicholas Nixon took a photograph of his wife and her three sisters once a year for 33 years. The collection of these photographs, The Brown Sisters, is riveting.

Getting professional photos take is a great example of the tiresome fact that happiness takes thought and effort. These photographs are easy to arrange; in the scheme of things, not terribly expensive; contribute greatly to our family happiness—and yet it probably never would have occurred to me to do it if my friend hadn’t suggested it.

Posted on Mar 3, 2008 5:08:00 PM by gretchenrubin

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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Welcome!

I've decided that it's time to join the blogging community!

The Serendipity Club is a place where you can see previews of my latest photo sessions. I'll post images from my life, photography adventures, and anything else that strikes me!

Thanks for being part of The Serendipity Club!

Tracy

The images on this blog are the sole property of Tracy Norred and may not be printed without permission. However, you are welcome to include them on your own personal web sites (ie. MySpace, Facebook, or blogs) as long as you keep the Serendipity Images logo on the image. Please also provide a link back to SerendipityImages.net. Thank you for your cooperation!

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