Lethbridge Portrait & Wedding Photography & Design by Tanya Plonka

The results for the Lethbridge Sun Times Best of the Best contest, where residents vote for their favorite businesses, are finally in, and I am proud to announce I received second place for photographers! Thank you so much to everyone who voted and for all the support everyone has given me over the past year. I love what I do, and it is worth all the late nights and lost weekends to be able to do this for a living. THANK YOU!

I wanted to put together a slideshow showcasing my work, and thought this song, which I have been in love with since I heard it a few months ago, was a perfect fit (Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zero, Home). Most of these photos are on my new website, but there are a few in there that hadn’t quite made the cut the first time around :)

Woo hoo, I’ve finally redesigned www.tanyaplonka.com!

Improvements:

• Bigger photos (especially here on the blog!)
• Easier to find information
• Not as much filler
• Photos more recent than 2008!

It was so hard narrowing down photos for the galleries, and was painful to make some of the cuts I did. However, I’m so happy with the final result. I hope you like it!

Melissa, Joe, and little Maddison brought along their brand new baby Sawyer, all the way from the Crowsnest Pass, for some family pictures today! They are such a sweet, easy going family, especially Maddison who is just exploding with energy! Sawyer cried through most of the shoot, as many many many babies do, so I was happy we could catch him in those brief moments when we pulled his pacifier out :) (more…)

Hey everyone, it’s the Lethbridge Sun Times Best of the Best contest time again! If you like what I do, head over to the following link and cast your vote:

–> Click here to vote <--

You’ll have to scroll down a bit to see “Best photography studio”.

I would appreciate it so much if you take a moment to do this! Thank you for all the love you all give :)

(And a special thank you to whomever put my name there in the first place.)

p.s. You don’t have to be in Lethbridge to vote!

This hoarfrost stuff may look pretty and very awesome, but don’t let it fool you! It is evil! Is summer soon? I miss the days of +30C weather!

Usually this frost is gone by 9am, and I used to grumble as I groggily drove by it in the past on my way to work or school in the mornings, knowing that by the time I had a camera in hand it would be gone. In the last month, however, we’ve had these strange “fog storms” move in and freeze everything in sight, and this frost takes an exceptionally long time to melt, so I was finally able to capture some of it. Now that I’ve accomplished this, bring on the sunshine! (more…)