I met the Wood Family at Reflections Lake on probably one of the nicest and hottest days of the summer, I am talking 80 degrees - Alaskan heatwave!
Photographing families like these are what makes my heart sing as a photographer... being able to capture these loving and fun-filled candid moments are what make my job so amazing!
I have been photographing this family for a few years now and I absolutely love watching these kids grow up, they are all as sweet as they look!
I feel so lucky to have a job where I get to capture the love and connections between such amazing families!
We skipped a month in this project, so getting back to videoing was so freeing for me! This month's project was free choice of anything we wanted to video of one second clips. I was lucky enough to be able to document my kids and their cousins loving life down on the beach in Ninilchik...something I had been wanting to do for some time now! I had my newborn strapped to me, so creativity was limited, but I am still happy with what I was able to capture!
There is so much talent in this group, go over and check out the super talented, Amber Walder and check out her beautiful video!
I have had a lot of people ask me where I got these square prints from on my wall, so I decided to blog about them!
I literally have about a zillion images on my computer of my kids and was getting sick of them just taking up hard drive space. I love seeing my family in print on my wall, but know how expensive that can get-and then when you throw in frames, canvases, albums, etc...it only adds to the expense.
I don't always want to frame every image I take, and was trying to think of a unique and cost effective way of displaying them. After doing a lot of research, I came across Artifact Uprising and their awesome square prints that I absolutely love AND they start at $14 for 25 prints, what is better than that?! They come in different sizes, are thick and have a matte finish-which look really good as a stand alone print. I prefer matte over glossy anyways, it just has more of a finished, refined look than glossy does in my opinion.
Here is one way to display the square prints, but there are a bunch of other ways you can display them as well. I always love turning to Pinterest for inspiration- type in 'display square prints' and bam! there you go! Inspiration for days!
I hope this helps in giving you ideas on how to get those images off of your computer and onto your walls in a fun and fresh way!
"Family is...
The people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who you are, love you no matter what and would do anything to see you smile"
Potters Marsh
Exploring on the boardwalk
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the treehouse park
Dandelions for mommy
I had an amazing time capturing this family simply just spending some quality family time together doing some of their favorite activities-baking, art and snuggling! It's the little moments in life that are so important to document!!
I have been photographing this family for a few years now, and they never fail to bring it! They are close friends of mine, and this photoshoot was bittersweet because it was a few days before they moved back home to Nebraska. {insert cry emoji}.... to say they will be missed by many Alaskans is an understatement! We did make the most of the beautiful Alaskan spring sunshine and had fun exploring and capturing some beautiful candid moments for them to treasure of the Last Frontier!
This month's video was not easy, due to how we had to film-either with a Lensbaby lens or by freelensing, both of which are complex ways of shooting. I chose to use my Lensbaby Twist 60 lens! The girls and I went down to a local creek with friends and we splashed around and played on a beautiful summer day... it doesn't get much better than that!
Check out the amazingly talented, Anita Perminova's video for this month's blog circle.
We had fun adventuring at one of our local parks today, playing in the forest and finding lots of treasures! I ended up with quite the collection of weeds! :)
What do you do when it is 55 degrees in Alaska? Bust out the swimsuits and sprinkler of course!! Once the sprinklers are out, to me, that means the official kick off of summer! Yes, you heard that right-summer not spring! :) The girls had a blast playing in the sun and we look forward to many more sprinkler days this year!
Baby Joey was the sweetest little guy, along with his adoring big brothers. I had so much fun capturing this awesome family loving on the new addition to their family, you can tell he is going to be one adored little brother!
The Turner Family was so fun to document. Lifestyle sessions seriously have my heart, they are so much more relaxing and slow paced. To be a fly on the wall and capture everyday moments of families that they will cherish for a lifetime is priceless. What a gift it will be for the family to look back upon these moments that may seem mundane at the moment, but mean so much even a few months from now as our families change SO much everyday.
This is a video fusion slideshow. I am offering these to clients as an add on purchase this year! Video, even if they are small clips add so much more emotion to a slideshow!
My April video was to document a day in the life of and I chose to document a lazy Sunday at the our household! I know I will appreciate these days when it was just the four of us in a a couple months when baby boy arrives, but it'll be so much fun to see how the dynamic changes as well!!!
Go check out the super talented Celeste Pavlik
Price $225 {$50 off regular session fee}
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Why a motherhood session and who are these good for?
Any mama and her child (children) and/or expectant mama’s. These are not family sessions. It is important that we (mother’s) get in front of the camera with our children, these images are as much for you as they are your children. There is nothing quite like the love of a mother, and it’s one of my favorite connections to document!
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When & Where?
Your location of choice- in your home or outdoors (I have lots of location ideas)
These are not mini sessions, so I have a limited amount that I will do each weeknight/end.
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Contact me @ tashaboinphotography@gmail.com if you want to book a session!
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These two were the most adorable couple ever, seriously. They were grinning from ear to ear the entire day and love just radiated from them. I know everybody says that about the bride and groom, but they really did!
I am always re-inspired and renewed by photographing weddings, it's a beautiful thing being able to capture love. Pure love.
It's been a long and COLD winter. We are all over it, and ready for some warmth, sunshine and summer shenanigans. We finally got outside yesterday and were relatively comfortable and not freezing, it was glorious! We blew bubbles, ran around barefoot and did some sidewalk chalk. Needless to say, we are ready for summer!
Spring from Tasha Boin on Vimeo.
This month for our project, we were supposed to do a video portrait of somebody. I chose my oldest daughter, Emma. She is definitely not an enthusiast of having her picture taken at the moment, which is why I wanted to do her...I figured it would be a challenge. :) I also wanted to focus on her because our family is getting ready to welcome our son and last child in June, so I feeling a bit nostalgic about my first born, and how fast she is growing up. I feel like we just welcomed her into the world not so long ago.
I wanted to focus on asking her some questions about things she is currently interested in, and well, as you will see-the awkwardness set in. Which initially annoyed me, but then I realized this is who she is at the moment and I should capture this awkwardness.
Emma from Tasha Boin on Vimeo.
This is part of my blog circle, check out this beautiful video by the talented Fiona Yates !
My February video of me getting in the frame was actually more fun than I thought it would be! The girls and I made valentines cookies and we decided to just make a huge mess and have fun (as you can see)!
This is part of my blog circle, check out this beautiful video by the talented Celeste Pavlik !
