Giving Back to Community | Tara Flannery Photography

Tara Flannery is a Certified Professional Photographer (CPP) based in The Woodlands and Conroe, TX.  Tara Flannery Photography specializes in family portraits and is grateful for the opportunity for giving back to community.  See more family photos in the gallery.  Contact me to book your family portrait today!

Giving Back to Community

Some days you feel it and some days you don’t but we are given much by our community.  Friends, acquaintances, and strangers provide for us in big and small ways throughout our lives.  Community is the airline pilot who gets us safely to our destination, the janitor who cleans the halls, the shift worker who made your lunch, and on and on.  These are the people in our community who support us.  Community is made of those who protect us as well and help in an emergency.  Police, fire, paramedics, and military are doing a job that is sometimes dangerous and all the time crucial to our survival and safety.  I am personally thankful for these first responders and their families who literally put their lives on the line to help protect our community.

9/11 First Responder Family Photo Shoot

Last year, a group of Woodlands/Spring area photographers decided to give back to community.  On September 11, 2018, we embarked on a journey to say “thank you” to first responders and their families for protecting our community.  This year, on September 11, 2019, we did it again and this year with no rain!  We photographed first responders and their families.  In some cases, this was their first family portrait.  One of my families had their first family portrait with Dad in uniform even though he had been in the army for 9 years!  Together, we honored the first responders and in our very own way were able to say “thank you” for what you do.  And it was a lot of fun.  I received so many words of appreciation and heartfelt thank yous.  I am honored to have been a small part of this endevour.

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Tara Flannery is a Certified Professional Photographer (CPP) based in The Woodlands and Conroe, TX.  Tara Flannery Photography specializes in family portraits.  See more family photos in the gallery.  Contact me to book your family portrait today!

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Tara is a member of the Professional Photographers of America PPA.
Tara is a Certified Professional Photographer.
Tara is a member of TPPA Texas Professional Photographer's Association.
Tara has earned her Master of Photography degree.
Tara has earned her Photographic Craftsman certification.
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