Sail_Beach Session {50th Anniversary+Quick Children's Portrait Session} Lara Parent Photography | West Michigan Photographer

"If ever there were a day so perfect, so uplifted by a warm intermittent breeze..."
--Billy Collins

I am still not ready to let go of the warmth of summer days...

This summer day was perfect: the warmth of sun and love-a (session) celebration of one of my dear friend's parents' 50th anniversary! (...and of course we had to capture a few of these beautiful children...:) )

Thanks for an always wonderful time to the wonderful & forever youthful lovebirds, Larry and Sally, to the lovely "Rex" (not pictured), my rockin' "assistant extraordinaire", Drew (also not pictured), and to the adventurous and so fun, Parker and Ashley--I knew ya when you were just babes....

Merci and enjoy~

Sunlit Session {Bebes et Sylvie} Lara Parent Photography | West Michigan Photographer

"When things were tall,
And all our friends were small,
And the world was new."

-Cat Stevens

Merci, Anita, Beatrice, et Sylvie for such a lovely time!

Lara Parent Photography {Herman Miller's Lifework Blog & Cerentha Harris} Talking Walls | West Michigan Photographer

A number of months ago, Cerentha Harris, writer, editor, and blogger for Herman Miller's excellent Lifework blog and for her personal (lovely and inspirational) design blog, this is a design blog and I connected. Cerentha posted images of my studio/office at that moment in time. (That link is here.)

After that initial post, she came up with the interesting concept of "Talking Walls". In her words, "The idea is to create a kind of visual diary of space...over the next year."

I change my main wall--which has actually been transformed into a very large tack board--throughout the year. I fill it with images, objects, old photographs, new photographic ideas, bits of nature and nostalgia--anything that inspires me. It's a great way of putting everything I love to look at and am thinking about right in front of me.

And so, the wall and my space have changed again. Whiter and lower and very full.

I am so thrilled to have the second installment of "Talking Walls" on today's Herman Miller's Lifework blog.

Thank you again, Cerentha, and xx again to my dear friend, Karn Adams, at Herman Miller for connecting us... happier.

Here is the link to the latest installment of "Talking Walls":

http://www.hermanmiller.com/lifework/talking-walls-lara-parents-home-office

Feel free to leave some comment love while you are there and then hop on over to this is a design blog and leave some comment love there as well! NX, L :)

And, because once again I find it impossible to post without images, here are just a few:

West-facing low view:



Plan view:



One side of the tack wall: