I have been sitting on this blog post, writing and deleting for an entire day. I can’t put my feelings about this session into words. The best thing I can say is that I loved the way this family loved each other.

There are certain times when I am working with my face behind the camera, and my own tears will fog up my glasses. I am an extremely emotional person every day of my life. Next to the definition of the word SAP is a big ol’ picture of me, taken while trying not to break into the ugly cry during a commercial. It makes sense that these same emotions carry over into my job. I get so invested in the emotional connection of a family that often I get goosebumps, or my heart beats THUMP THUMP in my chest, or I get a lump in my throat, or my glasses fog up with tears.

I wouldn’t have it any other way.

This session was one of those times. They flew all the way from Brazil. Our session was peppered with beautiful, thick Portuguese accents. The kindness, love, and openness just oozed from this foursome, and I was the lucky one that got to sponge it up. Sponge up the love. They gave me their feelings so trustingly, and so honestly that they took my breath away over and over again.

(This is the third time I have posted photos from this session. You can see other images here and here.)

xo

Tara

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