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It started out like this:

Very sweet kids, very fun kids, still very dry kids.

And quickly moved to this:

The light was AMAZING on this evening, and I had pulled out my 50mm 1.2 lens. These were all shot at 1.2 at 6:30pm. It looks like buttery goodness doesn’t it? That light?

Then the kids just went for it, and the mixture of their freedom and careless joy, the light, the water, and that buttery lens…..?

Magic for this girl. When I was photographing them, I got goosebumps.

I’ll share the rest of the session tomorrow.

xo

Tara

I read this article on NPR and wanted to share. Here is an excerpt:

“Principle 2: Coolness to the pizza delivery dude is a practice in empathy. Let’s face it: We’ve all taken jobs just to have a job because some money is better than none. I’ve held an assortment of these jobs and was grateful for the paycheck that meant I didn’t have to share my Cheerios with my cats. In the big pizza wheel of life, sometimes you’re the hot bubbly cheese and sometimes you’re the burnt crust. It’s good to remember the fickle spinning of that wheel.”

The Black Cab Sessions from Black Cab Sessions on Vimeo.

I came across this while surfing the web today and I am still hyper about it after an hour. That means I probably really, really, really like it. A lot. Music, artists, an adorable black cab. ONE SONG, ONE TAKE, ONE CAB.

There are SO MANY AMAZING artists. REAL MUSIC. Inspiration overload.

Some of my favorites? Lyyke Li, Fleet Foxes, Brian Wilson, Ryan Adams, Martha Wainwright, and and and….?

I love the internet.

Black Cab Sessions.

(And I am left wondering, how would my dear Ben Folds fit his piano into a cab?)