TARA (SHE/HER)

Here's one of my truths: I recognize deeply that time is a non-renewable resource and that we get to live each day just once. I want to use my time here to tell the truth about the messy highs and lows of being human, to document the love of family (biological and/or chosen) and to see and appreciate all of the emotions that come along with just being a person.

I use my heart to make art about the human experience and the beautiful earth we share. My photography seeks to tell the story the light within you. Thank you for trusting me to help reflect it back to you with my camera.

Some of my favorite things:

- My family — my husband Ben and our two children, River and Jude.
- Music
- Our french bulldogs Honey and Zula. World’s best nap girls.
- Houseplants
- Staying curious
- Cross country road trips
- Good coffee (it's so important)
- Writing / singing / watercolor hand lettering / whatever new way my creativity wants to find its way out of me
- Meditation
- Hot, salty baths with essential oils
- People! I studied human communication in college and the way we connect with each other is endlessly fascinating to me.
- Mother nature
- Podcasts. So many podcasts.
- Rain and thunderstorms
- Investing in the potential and magic of middle- and high school students. I volunteer for a non-profit dedicated to the development of the next generation and they make me feel hopeful and inspired about the future of our planet.
- Not eating animals
- Laughing
- Navigating and learning more about my recent later-in-life inattentive ADHD diagnosis
- Alone time
- How badass and invincible giving birth made me feel
- Sunsets
- Fort Collins, Colorado. We dreamed of moving here for about a decade and I can’t believe we made it happen! We live in a funky 1970s passive solar house in this city we love and every day I can’t believe this is my real life.