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About Tracey Kallas

What makes a photo really exceptional is the emotion it captures. During your photo session a really exceptional photographer will try to capture some of that emotion by asking you a bit about yourself. Without knowing about you, your family, your expectations and your “tastes,” you may come away from a photography session with decent portraits, but they won’t be ones you love. With that in mind, it is only fair that you get to know a little bit about your photographer as well. Turnabout is fair play after all!

Tracey has always been interested in the arts. From munchkinhood, she had an interest in any activity that required displaying the exceptional in ordinary things. At two years of age she drew a picture of an elephant on the back of the bathroom door with a purple crayon. Her mother cried when she saw it, not because the house was rented, but because it couldn’t be saved. At four, Tracey borrowed her grandfather’s typewriter to write and then illustrate a children’s story about Woodstock making a birthday cake for Snoopy, which received rave reviews from all her relatives. Her relationship with photography didn’t start until she was six and her grandfather, who had been contacted to take some pictures for the local paper, wanted her to dress as a little boy. Even after he explained the pretend process and displayed his incredible photos, she was highly offended as any respectable six-year-old girl would be. However, looking at those pictures she really understood for the first time what could be done with a camera.

Grade school was all about learning structure and more “Why?s” than one human being should be allowed to ask. During high school she explored different mediums but tended to gravitate toward representations of light and how it affects interpretation of a subject. She won several art contests in pencil, painting and one in poetry. It was no shock to anyone when she decided to pursue an Associate of Arts degree. Higher education was the building block that expanded her knowledge and “eye,” but the strict adherence to a set curriculum was tedious and boring. She felt she was still missing “why” of things.

After attaining her Associates degree she decided to pursue a Bachelors in Psychology with a minor in Philosophy. Her varied interests made her formal education as eclectic as her the rest of her life, but she’d finally come full circle. When her grandfather needed to photograph a boy and showed her his brilliant photos, she couldn’t tell him why she objected. Those photos captured his subjects in ways she’d never imagined they could be seen. It was artistry frozen for all time. It was magic. In pursuing photography, Tracey doesn’t want to just take good pictures. She wants to capture that magic for you. It’s the ambition she’s pursued from that first bathroom door purple elephant, and given the opportunity, what she can do for you.