TomAMcDonald Photography

Come experience the Kennedy Space Center with me...

"This isn’t your typical tourist-style photo collection of the Kennedy Space Center. It isn’t meant to look like the images you’d see in a promotional brochure for the complex or its museums. Instead, it’s a visual capture of the storytelling behind my childhood wonder. To me, this portfolio isn’t about documenting a thing or a place; it’s about capturing what it felt like to stand in its shadow."

Kennedy Space Center Images My recent relocation from the concrete jungle of Chicago to the tropics of Southeast Florida has opened up a whole new world for my lens. I am starting to find, appreciate, and photograph some of the beautiful, remarkable, and entirely new-to-me locations here in the Sunshine State. Recently, that e...

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Sometimes nature stops me in my tracks and demands I photograph it.

This was an incredibly successful portrait session with two amazing ladies running their own company. We clicked these at one of my new favorite portrait locations. Results releasing soon.

Sometimes you just have to let the venue speak to you...

We had shot this family's season around 11am, which meant that the sun was doing it's harshest work out there, especially here in South Florida. When it came for looking for a spot for mom to do her portraits, I had a place at the park already mind for that time of day, but on the way walking to it, I noticed the sunlight coming through these trees as it hit me in the eyes walking underneath them. Literally stopped me in my tracks. I set my gear bag down and got her under the trees, got a big fill light out and let the sun do its thing. After a few shots, I walk over to show mom the results in camera to let her know what she's working with. The rest of the shoot was effortless.

When you have to cumbersomely get a kid into a tree for portraits, you reward him by letting him riff off his best Zoolanders.

This kid was an absolute blast to photograph.

I recently had a family portrait session with a mother and her son.
Once I met these two and spent some time with them during their session, it was clear to me I had to try to convey the bond these two have with each other and bring it into their photos. The serious and the fun sides.

My office today...

Family portrait session at the beach.

My family portrait sessions are in full swing. Another beautiful one delivered this week.

Bookings are filling up fast. I'm fully booked this weekend, but still have a few openings available through mid December.

When the client hopes you can create the vibe she's looking for...
..challenge accepted.