1.01.10

Out of all the years in my life that I want to remember, 2009 will be among the top five that I carry around with me until I die.

Kids: Created by us
Memories: Recorded by me between 1.01.09 – 12.31.09
Music: Ghostwriter RJD2

Love: Out there for the taking.

Jason Bustin played by himself.

xo

Tara

(edited 1.5.10 : Thank you very much to everyone. I have enjoyed this alone, and with members of my family, more times than I can count. Jeff has asked me to do slideshows for all the years I have digital photos. How great would that be if I could accomplish it?

For everyone who asked about how I put this together, it was a very simple process of going through a year of photos and copying favorites into a new folder. Then, I went through them again and whittled down to just about 150 (I think?). Then I resized them, and dragged them all into iMovie. Spent about thirty minutes getting the timing right and finding a song. Exported to Vimeo. That was that. Took me about two hours to complete.)

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  1. Oh my honey…you have such a beautiful family! You have created such an inspiring, welcoming, creative environment for your kids and family to grow in. I love it!

  2. You know how some photos just strike you and you can’t put your finger on why? One of my favorite pictures you have ever taken is the one of your daughter in her roller skates w/ the stripped socks -love it.
    Happy New Year, Tara!

  3. Thank you very much to everyone. I have enjoyed this alone, and with members of my family more times than I can count. Jeff has asked me to do slideshows for all the years I have digital photos. How great would that be if I could accomplish it? For everyone who asked, it was a very simple process of going through a year of photos and copying them all into a new folder. Then, I went through them again and whittled down to just about 150 (I think?). Then I resized them, and dragged them all into iMovie. Spent about thirty minutes getting the timing right and finding a song. That was that. Took me about two hours to complete.

  4. Every year of my children’s lives I have done this. Last year I had a horrific crash on my computer and lost one of the best slideshows ever right before I had a chance to save it and burn to DVD. It broke me and I never redid it or did another. Thank you because now I am reminded that I must do this for us. Its priceless. THank you for sharing your year with us. You just plain ROCK.

  5. Tara,
    I’m new to mac and imovie 09. I’ve made a few photo dvds, but I can’t get the changing of the photos to sync with the music. I noticed that yours do; can you PRETTY PLEASE tell me how to do that? Thanks so much!
    Beth

  6. So cool especially that 2009 was an awesome one for you. So many including myself hated 2009 and I just knew it was good for some people. Thanks for reminding good happens amongst the bad!

  7. That last image – of you and your man kissing – just took my breath away. Love it. Of course, every other image is also so beautiful. Happy Kids. Happy Life. A man you love to kiss. Gotta be happy with that. x

  8. tara, just found this & it is amazing! love how you added in those everyday moments & still lifes along with the portraits. looks like 09 was a good year for the whitneys–hope twentyten is even better! <3

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