My name is Tara, and I was born and raised in Washington State.
In 2010 I married Bill (bmac62) and retired ... two of the best choices I ever made! :)
In March, 2013, we sold our home in Washington and went on the road in our RV full time. What a blast! There is so much world out there to see!
After traveling around the West for a few years, we got rid of the motorhome and are now spending winters in deep-south Texas and summers in Washington State. Spring and fall finds us visiting whichever place strikes our fancy at the time!
If I’m missing from Renderosity from time to time, I’m busy having fun elsewhere.
Thanks for your interest in my work, and for stopping by to learn more about me!
Canon 70D
Tamron 24-70mm f2.8
Canon 70-200mm f4.0
Zeiss 50mm f1.4
Photoshop CC
WACOM Intuos 4
ArtRage
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Comments (25)
Wolfenshire
wow, I like all the reflections, the capture begs for someone to play that piano.
kgb224
Amazing capture Tara. God bless.
durleybeachbum
Their home is so very elegant, and you are the perfect photographer for such a place!
jmb007
bien vu!
Juliette.Gribnau
ha ! that's cool !
Faemike55
Great capture that is very cool
Adobe_One_Kenobi
Excellent light in this Tara.
jayfar
Lovely shot Tara and those windows must be a pane to keep clean.
photosynthesis
You have a keen eye (not that I didn't already know that) to pick up on the light on the ceiling & use it as a unique compositional element. I'm a little puzzled about the physics of this, as I usually expect light to be coming in from above & projected onto the floor, rather than the ceiling...
Merrylee
Very nice looking....cozy
FredNunes
Beautifully seen and captured.
helanker
What a superb shot you have taken here, Tara :-)
mickuk50
Hello Tara. It seems a lot has happened since I was last on here . Congrats☺. Excellent work as always. Mick
mandloks
Wow! What a beautiful room! I would like to hear somebody play. Great, great shot!
junge1
I not only like the light on the ceiling Tara, I like the whole composition!
Krittermom
As usual I am behind. First , beautiful capture. I have seen many pictures of pianos, almost over done. This one is so very elegant that it made me look. The light is beautiful and the feeling is one of welcome to anyone who would like to play. So, who plays? David, Trent or both ? What kind of music ?
wysiwig
Lovely skylight. I agree with Andrea, an elegant home I would love to see. Outstanding lighting considering you were shooting into the bright window.
RodS
That light is lovely - what a great shot, Tara!
CavalierLady
Elegant setting and beautiful image, Tara... the light and reflection are well seen!
MrsRatbag
Re Claude's question, I would assume that the light is reflecting onto the ceiling via the piano's shiny surface, right? What a superb capture of this immediately recognizable room--and piano! They should know their piano is famous here!
auntietk
I'm not sure how the light got there! For once, I didn't put it there myself! LOL! Maybe reflected from cars down on the street? Maybe, as you say, from the piano? Perhaps it's because the glass is original to the house (1920s) and it's slumped, making the light reflect in a funny direction? It was a very bright day, and all the walls are white, and there was no other furniture in the room. So many variables!
moochagoo
Lovely atmosphere here :)
dochtersions
It's a bit of a mysterious photograph, which I just love.Those beautiful windows with tinted and frosted glass. It also exudes an mysterious yet a very intimate atmosphere of security. In my opinion the beautiful reflection of light on the ceiling comes not from the piano, but just from that lovely window, Tara. But, who knows ;-).
ArtistKimberly
An Outstanding Image,
anahata.c
There's a dialogue, above, about how the light got on the ceiling. My entry is that Trent and David PAINTED it there, so people could ponder "how'd that light get there?" It wouldn't be a lasting trick: Once you've seen it, the whole bit's over, and then you have to live with the damned thing the rest of your life. But yes it could come from the piano, from the floor, from the glass, from something on the patio, all kinds of things. But it gives articulation to that beautiful interior space that you've captured many ways before. And it's a quiet presence here, kind of "crowning" the rest of the shot. But as a pianist who still yearns to play the piano again (I mean every single day, without exception), I am drawn to the piano as well. You've done a number of shots of this piano, and they all are grand---no pun---and beautiful, and they capture several moods of the beautiful beast. This one is a blue interior mood---I keep coming back to that word "interior," but it's a big part of your interior shots, I mean interior mood not just interior space. The blue-ness of the shadows make the piano feel reflective and inward, as pianos will feel in darker interiors, during bright days outside. This piano would call out for reflective rather than dramatic, music. And because of your crop, the pic opens up as we go up---into the beautiful almost cathedral-like window, and all that open space above, as well as to the blinding bright lights of the patio and outside. You do have a way with dissolving-light, you do it beautifully, and you have a second sense of how it contrasts with that intimate enclosed feeling of the interior that the light bathes. Your shots of this piano are a category all to themselves, and I've yet to see one shot that wasn't beautiful and expressive of the massive beast that grand pianos are. They're big swooping black behemoths, and they shine like jewels. (And, when tuned, they sound like them too---the original pianos were much more strident and cutting in tone, more 'string' like, more what metal strings were supposed to sound like; whereas the modern piano has a jewel-like tone that's almost non-string-like in its purity. Thus they sound, at best, like they look. Like diadems, jewels.) A quiet loving interior portrait.
jgeorge
I like the light on everything! really a classy evocative image... I like it very much