Zawadzki Family Film from Michel Sandy on Vimeo.
film/editing: Michel Sandy
photography/concept: Tara Whitney
music: Something Good This Way Comes by Jakob Dylan
HD version here.
The home was, quite literally, amazing. The children were stunning and lovely to work with. And the parents were super chill and ready for anything. Michel and I were beyond thrilled that someone had finally let us shoot in their home. Earlier in the day, Leah had shared with me the song that she wanted to use for this. The moment it started playing, the goosebumps started. I had never heard it, and I connected, big time. This was the moment that I updated my Twitter feed with this. I spent the next two hours listening to the song on repeat – and while we shot, the lyrics were running through my mind constantly.
I raced off an email to Michel with the song attached, hoping he would be as inspired by it. Yea, I guess he was.
I just stopped writing this to watch it again, so I end with tears in my eyes and a very full heart.
I love love.
xo
Tara
amazing song!! Fantastic video! wow. I wish I live in Cali so I could do this….
I instantly recognized those kids! I’m a bit fan of hers too;-)
So wonderful! This is just amazing! Wonderful work-both of you!
Love, love, love!!!
AMAZING!!!!!! Oh. my. gosh. I am in LOVE with song too!! gotta go download it now….
My favorite thus far! AMAZING. And that house….holy cow, jealous!
Wow…sigh. Everytime I see one of these I just get warm fuzzies. I feel like, yes, family life still exists in all of its imperfection, and in all of the worlds complications. Stunning. Beautiful. Moving. Life-filled.
oh man. wow.
oh wow. just wow. I love it – amazing. Did I say wow?
love the “rain” scene – AWESOME!!
beautiful.
I have been saving in a little jar since last year for my tara / michael session. They are always heart stopping!
this is just incredible. so beautiful, Tara.
just amazing tara and michel (and leah and family). just amazing. xox.
Beautiful!
Perfect song, these movies always make me cry!!
love it!
NEVER wanted it to end!!!!!!!!
tears..and more tears. (it may have something to do with being pregnant with my first baby…) :)
lovely lovely video/photos! and so fun to see leah in FRONT of the camera!
This is an amazing video! Fabulous photos!! This family will cherish these memories forever.
So wonderful! I just adore everything about it! The PERFECT song for the video too! Fantastic!
loved the movie and the song!!! S*W*E*E*T…
Truly wonderful- I love to think of them viewing this film when the grandchildren come along! Tara your images complement Michel’s work so beautifully. The whole is even greater than the sum of the parts:) Can’t wait for the next one!
oh my, this is wonderful! Please please please share this photo session with us? ;-)
love it.
Ooooh…I so so love Jakob Dylan (his song Three Marlenas was one of my favorites in high school) so I couldn’t love this video more.
Fabulous concept and now I have to wipe up all the drool that’s left on my keyboard at the sight of all that mid-century furniture in their home. SWOON!
Sooo beautiful..I love it :)
What a beautiful family. beautiful movie and amazingly beautiful photos to match..thankyou x
I am just grinning from ear to ear with goosebumps running all over my body and happy tears in my eyes. They are indeed SUCH a great family and you guys captured them beautifully!!!! Much love to them all!!
Congrats on such a wonderful shoot!!
xo
tara! it turned out awesome. thank you guys so so much! it will be a treasure to us always!! love the umbrella moments…that was such a fun idea!! thank you thank you! off to watch it again! xxoo
are you kidding me? you got some tears out of me for sure. The video is fantastic and your photos just make it sing.
Leah you all are adorable and fabulous.
Everytime you post one of these I cry….I am saving, saving, saving to come down and see you both so I can capture my family this way!
Beautiful job…both of you ;)
you both did such a beautiful job! I feel like I am right there. love those guys. I just wrote leah and said “next time I miss you all, I will just have to turn that video on!”
LOVE LOVE LOVE!!! What an amazing gift!!
that was SO beautiful!
LOVE that song! LOVE the video too :)
I’m a big fan of Leah and her adorable kids. So much fun to see them not only in stills. They’re the cutest!
Gulp. Love.
beautiful. just beautiful.
Tara girl.. once again you WOW me you and Michel and your amazing combo’s..
totally leaving with a huge grin on my face, love in my heart and inspiration etched in my head. thank you tara for the amazing post and gorgeous pictures. thank you michael for the videos that tugged on this moms heart and thank you to jakob dylan for a song that i now have ringing in my ears. you all rock.
divine!!! reminds me why I love to take photos of families… and how important all the tiny moments are…. makes me want to video and capture my children’s everydays….. thank you
hoW BEAUtifuL!!!!!!
loved IT!
tara
SO amazing – love the song…
oh that song has been in my cue for the last few months! I am glad you discovered it! Such a beautiful family…love the umbrella scene. (And I loved their kitchen table set.)
AMAZING! Always a beautiful collaboration between you too and your clients! Well Done!
Having watched these precious kids grow up in pictures (mostly their Mommy’s), it is so cool to see you and Michael’s version of them. I love seeing Leah – what a beautiful family, home and life. You both are so good at what you do – thank you for sharing your gift with the rest of us!
As I watched it, my four year old son came and sat on my lap and watched with me. :) When it ended, he asked me to show it again.
It’s timeless, lovely and just perfect!
Fantastic – thank you to the beautiful family for sharing with us:)
I hope I can create something 1/100th as beautiful as for a family someday. This is so real and so beautiful. And two of my favorite photographers teamed up together. Goosebumps is right.