One year ago I started a weekly portrait project with 13 other photographers called You Are My Wild. This is my collection of images, one from each week of 2013.
This project was like a much loved annoying little brother for me.
One whom I will cherish FOREVER – because I was forced out of laziness and into thinking more creatively about my children.
I have these weekly images of life passing by that thrill me and scare me and make me want more. More time like this, more paying attention, more light, more messy hair, more time together, more looking into their eyes.
The participating mothers and fathers that I became close to in the process were a total bonus.
I want more.
Totally not sure yet what idea in my head is going to form into a project, but I know I am ready for a new one for 2014.
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Also, hi there strangers.
Hi there!
This is really enjoyable to see the color and textures and sweet loves that made up your year! XOXO
WOW. What a fantastic collection of memories. I can image (as a mother) browsing through this in 20 years and clinging to the moments in each image. amazing, fleeting moments.
These are just wonderful!!!
So lovely Tara! This has been one of my favorite photography projects to follow ever! Love how your life last year is weaved together here for all to see and be inspired by!
Loved following these photos each week!!
And you’re back! With a bang, I might add. Beautiful children, as always.
LOVE. Every week when you all posted to You are My Wild was a happy day for me. I loved looking at the collected images every week – I found myself calm, contented and grateful looking at them. More please.
What a beautiful job you did capturing your family.
love love love. I swear your kids grew like six inches, one day they looked little then they look so grown up. Love your work.
Such a great project…kinda think I should do this rather than 365
And I’m not sure why it didn’t post my whole comment, but I think you’re neat and I love every image. Xox
just crazy good, as usual. i would buy that image of McKenna smelling a flower in the pool. also, anna reading in bed is so nostalgic.
Tara, these brought me to tears and I love every single one of them. I want a book of them all. Stat.
Cheers to your next project, my love, my creative and inspiring sister.
I have LOVED watching this project unfold. So many beautiful and touching photos from everyone involved.
these photos are gorgeous. what strikes me most is not just how wonderfully you captured your family, but how beautifully wonderful your brood is! Captures the heart of family.
Inspiring.
Amazing.
(&I really need to save up so I can have you come take our photos (I am very camera shy) and we are not that far from you.) xo
gorgeous, gorgeous photos. your little family is growing up!! you can see the changes so clearly over this year’s pictures.
almost makes me feel old! LOL!
cheers to 2014!
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Beautiful real images of your lovely kids !!!
I have started a 52 personal project myself
inspired by You are my Wild.
Wishing you the best 2014 !!!
Isabel
i am so happy to see your post. you are such an inspiration-happy 2014!
Well HELLO stranger!!! So good to hear from you – kids are getting so big! Might I suggest that your project include pictures of YOURSELF missy – we want to see you too pretty lady!
You have the most gorgeous raw honesty in your family photos, I’ve loved following the you are my wild project this year and its inspired me to do my own. i’m also in love with your instagram feed, please don’t stop sharing whatever project strikes you next! beautiful family and memories to cherish :)
Tara,
You were such an inspiration to me this last year! I looked forward to your weekly photo and tried to keep up with you! Thanks for sharing your family with us! You have such an amazing eye and encouraged me to take lots of shots that I never would have thought of! Thanks!
What a lovely fresh start to see and read and hear from you on your blog! Plus: this project??? WOW. So happy for you that you managed to keep that annoying yet loving sweet little brother by your side ;) haha. Anna looks so much like you in many of these pictures, crazy how the genes just show up like that! Looking forward to your next projects. Since you ROCK!
Tara, thank you for sharing your family’s images with us throughout 2013 via You Are My Wild. I so enjoyed seeing the weekly photos. It’s inspiring me to do more with the images I capture of my daughter in 2014. Creativity gets a little stifled in zero degree weather sometimes, but I see through the images that it’s all about thinking outside the box. Hoping 2014 is a wonderful year for you.
Beautiful people. In some pictures though, I can’t tell who’s who?! You all look so much alike. Your youngest daughter and you especially. I love all these pictures, thanks for sharing.
Babes, we’ve missed you!
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing!
Seeing your post in my reader made me so happy! You have been missed!
Happy New Year!
Amazing. I used to follow you as a scrapbooker, but I haven’t visited your blog in quite some time. You’ve got a beautiful family!
LOVED your photos from the year but mostly I’m just so glad to see you posting here again. I always come back to see if you have. Today made me happy cuz you did. Hope you & your family have a GREAT 2014.
WHOOOOA! those young adults are NOT your children ;) they sure have grown & changed this year! What a fantastic project & WELCOME back to blogging (I hope!)
you’re back. phew.
loved seeing this evolve and love equally to hear your voice through your post. I have missed it.
Love love loved every moment of this. And I’m all sorts of lusty over your couch pillows, but what’s new.
The whole collection is fantastic. Love the randomness yet so surpringly cohesive:)
We missssssed yoooooooouuuuu.
Great shots of the family! How about an update on yuor other daughter. I didn’t see her in the pics!
Wonderful! I can see why you love the project. I’m never organized enough or consistent enough to pull something off like that, but I can totally see the reward in it.
I came here from Elise’s blog. Your stunning collection makes me want to run to my camera immediately! Teens aren’t always the most obliging subjects… I’m sure even they will appreciate these gorgeous photos in years to come.
This collection is sooooo so so fantastic.
So many, many gems, Tara. I’m right there with you on the love/hate relationship with being forced into something weekly. Getting on board with something like this might be what will kick my mojo back into gear! (Or maybe I should just start having cute kids?) :)
Oh how I’ve missed your blog! What a lovely collection from 2013, just great.
Aw, it”s over. I’ll miss these crazy fun shoots.
Oh Tara, I love these photos, this idea, those beautiful faces! So lovely. Hope you are well. xoxoxo from ky.
I didn’t know you blogged about this. Just seeing all the images in one place is so cool. I love your kids. I wish I lived in California, so your kids knew me and I knew them and we were like family or some shit.
I’ve enjoyed seeing You Are My Wild Photos. It’s encouraged me to get my big camera out and shoot more (I’ve been in the habit of using my iPhone only for a while)… just started a 52 week project of my kids “together” this year.
Glad to see a new post again!
these make me ache to take more photos of my family. So, so so good miss tara. As always.
I love every one of these. But my absolute favorite is the one of you running behind your son on the beach. So much joy and laughter. Your heart is singing! This inspires me to grab my camera — or iphone — more often than I do to truly capture who my children are! Thanks for sharing!
also … did you shoot with your film cam, iphone, mark III or all of the above?
Your pictures are just so refreshingly real and full of soul. Thanks for sharing them : )
I love these. The emotion. The relationships. Everything. Thanks for sharing them.
I agree that it is an amazing project and this year I’m taking a photo of my kids once a week even though I take photos every day but taking individual ones to reflect their personality is awesome. I love your photos and the group one of the kids at the table is great. Regards Kathy A, Brisbane, Australia