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This summer took me to a lot of places and I got to make work with so many people who I already loved or came to love.

It's hard not to love when we pay attention, isn't it?

I'm back home to spend the next few months making closer to home- I'll be

I'm Rachel.

I take pictures of families, of homes, of bodies, of days.

I've got a bunch of kids (one of who is missing from the first picture- such is the life of a mother with grown kids.)

I often say that photography is a practice of noticing- i

Yesterday I shared that I dropped my oldest on off at college.

It If I had a nickel for every person who said "it goes so fast" I wouldn't have enough to buy a coffee but I'd still have a lot of nickels.

It's true it goes so fast.

And it

Before I became a mother and probably in the early years as well- when I rebelled from being overly attached to the title- I believed some idea that to be a mother meant I was to be small and tamed and mild.

I saw motherhood as domestic and forgot t

Years ago I got to photograph Michaela and Will's wedding.

Earlier this month I got to celebrate the approaching arrival of their baby.

I'm having big feelings, chief among them gratitude.

I'm Rachel.
I love floating and hate yard work.
I like to cook dinner but not breakfast.
I like to write but I'm a pretty bad speller and I mispronounce enough words to be embarrassed (I got that from my mom)
I like to take pictures but I didn't take

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