This is what I want to give to my clients.
More life.
I am tired of setting people up against colorful walls and back alleys. I have deep appreciation and love for what I have done in the past, but I want more.
I want you to want more, too.
I want to dig deeper, I want to try harder, I want to gain more trust so people let down their walls and leave their house the way it was before I arrive. So they allow me in. Really, really in.
Our lives pass so quickly, and moments like this make up the most of it.
I have a burning desire and passion coming out of my eyeballs, to give this to you.
This is how your life looks.
Let me help you see it.
xo
Tara
Oh my I totally agree. Isn’t this the way we all want to remember our lives. A gorgeous happy mess. Fully lived.
I love this. I want it, too. Beautiful picture. Makes me happy to see other co-sleeping families!
Oh my gosh…me too! I want my life captured as it really is.
Tara, what so inspires me about you is your willingness to be seen as you are. I’m sure it sounds a bit “stalkerish” (ha!) but gosh, I’d love to just sit and have coffee sometime. I need more honest people in my life.
How extraordinarily simple yet stunning. Beautiful work.
Brilliant! Love. xx
So great!! This editorial/lifestyle type of photography reminds me of old Time magazine pictures! Really cool, timeless feel with the black & white:-) fun.
beautiful. i am just barely getting in to photography and i think the idea behind this is magic.
Tara,
You speak from my heart…
I think we might be kindred spirits you and I. We just haven’t met yet.
xoxoxo
Beth
Simply Beautiful.
You are on my dream list. As soon as I can fly you to mid-west, you can take pictures of us at home all you want. In fact I would love to have someone follow us all day and take pictures. Do you give yourself away as a Christmas present? :)
Beautiful! I wish I could afford to have you capture my life like this. You are so talented.
This!!! I so want this for my family and to do this for others. I wish we lived in CA so we could do family photos with you.
This makes my heart beat faster. To have the real, beautiful moments captured like this. Absolutely amazing. I hope I will be so lucky to be on the other side of the camera, along with my family, in a real moment, one day. If only I lived in your part of the world. Love your work, and sending you lots of love from Norway.
I see it Tara – the house as it really is daily, the family as they really are – that’s what they will remember, not them up against a wall all prettied up! LOVE it!
this is what I try to create for my own family…i love the look of life. beautiful tara.
I love the intimacy of this. And the co-sleeping. Our room was set up like that for a long time.
I’m right there with you, Tara! I’ve been trying to move in this direction and I don’t know why it’s so difficult for people to allow this kind of photography to happen. I set up my own session with Bonnie Berry in Jan in the hopes of doing this very thing because I want my family to be captured AS IS…the way I want to remember our life.
i love it. i’d love it anyway cause i love your work and your passion but i also love it because i’ve been doing this for a little bit now and it’s my favorite. my most favorite shots are like this one, just real. “normal”. “every day”. and OH SO MAGICAL.
You just posted a photo straight out of my mind! I literally have this vision for me and my family to have that photo! My boys are getting so big and I want to capture us as a family doing the simple things, the real things we do, the things I will miss as they get bigger. The bed scene is something I think of daily! As lifestyle photographer to does a lot of outdoor nature shots, I want to save that shoot for me. I hope one day I can hire you, or hope to trade with you. You are amazing and speak my language. Keep being you.
YES PLEASE! I love it!
These are the kinds of photos that people would take of their own lives and look back on and remember the moment. The kinds of photos that make you say “Oh yeah, remember when…”
what I would give to find clients that want this .. not so many .. but I will find them! this is so beautiful! I wish I could fly you to the East coast so you can capture my family as is. LOVE.
This is wonderful! One thing that inspired me to become a photographer, or something of that sort, were the candid shots on walls and dressers in movies. They have always(from very a very young age) caught my attention and kept it for some time, often making me miss important parts of the movie while I thought about the characters real life…who took that shot, why were they there at that particular intimate moment and would people actually want images like that of their lives? You captured my thoughts perfectly with this shot. Lovely :)
And it’s amazing to see how clients looove when their sessions take place in their homes rather than a park or the beach…they tell me how wonderful it will be to remember every tiny bit of their homes, their toys, their bed…and no matter how much I love doing photo sessions outdoors, I always end up loving the indoors more than anything ;-) Will love to see what you’re gonna come up with!
You are speaking my language! I love being able to capture my family as we are…in our own personal space, just being us. There is no need for dressing up and looking posed. Who we are is good enough and those are the memories that I always want to treasure…the good, the bad and the goofy! I love your work and can’t wait to see what you come up with on this front. If I could afford it or if I lived in near you I would have you come and capture my little family like this!
Thank you for giving people this. Because THIS is amazing. And in the end, they’ll want to look at this photo more often than the white background ones.
Beautiful! Care for a trip to Canada to capture my little family like this. I’m sure you will find people who want this…lots of them!
Well, if you ever plan a work trip to San Antonio, Texas – I’ll let you sleep in our bed, follow me into the bathroom, etc. I don’t care as long as it is real.
I love that this is what you see, what your vision is. So many photographers spend such a lot of time making something that isn’t there, you want to show what IS there. Inspiring stuff!
Real life photo’s!
Please comte to The Netherlands, take pictures of us!
beautiful!
Yay Tata! :) I totally agree. That said, I too love all of your work (including colourful walls and back alleys) but there is something so special about catching life as it really happens. About catching the quirkiness of each person and remembering in the years to come what happened everyday- not just that day we smiled for a camera in a pretty spot. Thank you.
Now, to start my family and send you across to Australia! :)
oh my gosh.
yes.
You mean before even decluttering the kitchen counters?
Help set me free, Miss T.
I love this. This kind of style is why I even have a camera. love love.
So incredibly gorgeous Tara.
me too, me too. that is the type of photography i want to put out there – somewhere along the way i’ve gotten off of the path of my heart and what drives me.
best wishes. if you are in mn i’ll TOTALLY have you come to my home to see us for US.
:)
love!
sigh….this is simply amazing….love it!!
Can you travel to Oregon? I would be MORE then happy to capture my family this way. Not many photographers can do that.
I love this shot, especially because of the co-sleeping. So many people are afraid to tell others how they (we!) sleep with their toddler and preschoolers at night. This is so sweet, so intimate, and the happiness is raw…much more than you would have captured with this family against a wall, as you say. It’s beautiful.
Fuck yes.
oh sooo i ache for photos of my family just like this…
please come to Australia and do this!!! pleaseeeee!
Yes!!! I agree with everyone! Are you coming up to the Bay Area anytime soon :)? I would love this of my family!
This is pretty sweet – it reminds me of old memories, a relaxed sort of love, lazy Sunday mornings, the inside jokes. It’s such a calm and real image. Love this – hope more people let you in their homes b/c this is magik.
I love, love, love capturing real life. I wish I could do it more, and for more people. This is one of the things I’m working on. Love your photo, Tara, and love your writing. You hit on exactly the thing I’ve been thinking about lately. Thanks for showing me that I’m not the only one who has a desire to capture real life.
I adore this.
I have to agree, please come to Australia, this is just so beautiful.
this is beautiful. was the whole session this relaxed and real? love to see more :)
What a GREAT idea, why the posing, where’s reality then?
Capture LIFE instead.
and on the way to Australia can you please stop in New zealand? I Just keep coming back to look at this stunning image. I agree with everyone…. love co-sleeping and the whole capturing life as it really is, that is what i would want to have captured. looking forward to seeing more …you’re amazing.
i love this – these are the type of photos i have been taking forever – and i showed yours to my friends and daughter – don’t know if i’m moving in the wrong circles – but none of them like it – they want to know what they’re going to do with it – where would they hang it – don’t want other people to see it – dang i try (but it doesn’t stop me taking these type of photos) you can’t please everyone…
oh i SOOOOOO agree with you.