family portraits

Carrie, Kyla, Pacifica, Tinsel, Zach / December 28, 2021 by Rebecca Tillett

Family portraits with 3 dogs?! WHY NOT. I don’t have a whole lot of experience shooting dogs OR kids but I’m guessing it’s the same thing really.

The Oxoteguys / October 15, 2017 by Rebecca Tillett

“Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Familes are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole.” ―Diane Setterfield

Recent Snaps / September 14, 2013 by Rebecca Tillett

I wanted to share a couple of my favorite photos from some recent shoots. The first is my good friend Kathy's daughter who needed some senior portraits. Maddie and I had such a good time on this shoot. All she knew was she didn't want "anything typical" in the world of senior portraits and all I knew was her and I were in complete agreement on that desire. The second is Pepper Greene, one-third of the Hawkins/Greene family, whom graciously allowed me to stay with them in Phoenix last week.

“Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.”

— Clementine Paddleford

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about 3 months ago

I am so proud of this woman. And so enamored by the idea that someone whose own blood I share could be so bold and fearless in their approach to life.

Bigger Love in the Moon's Shadow

Bigger Love in the Moon's Shadow

about 7 months ago

Needless to say, when I learned in early 2023 that here in Oklahoma, we would be in the path of totality for 2024’s eclipse, we knew immediately we would be seeing it.

Maddie and Wyndham

Maddie and Wyndham

about a year ago

Last month I trekked to White Salmon, WA to shoot the wedding of Maddie and Wyndham, a beautiful couple in one of the most beautiful places on this little globe.

Scene at Hastings Rd

Scene at Hastings Rd

about a year ago

My last shoot with Amanda (my oldest friend and one of my very first models nearly 20 years ago now) was in 2016 in Santa Fe. The one before that was in 2012 and I remember waxing poetic after our last one about how the previous 4 years had just inexplicably flown by and now: here I am, posting my favorites from our last shoot that happened 7 years following our previous one.

Chasing Butterflies

Chasing Butterflies

about 3 years ago

Before this girl was born, my husband and I would talk at length about how strange it would be to finally meet her, wondered what she’d look like, who she’d be. When she was a baby we’d marvel at how tiny she was, yet how big her personality, and we’d talk about how strange it would be to imagine her as a child, walking around, talking even. It all seemed so distant & strange and impossible to really comprehend.

Hermanas Hermosas

Hermanas Hermosas

about 3 years ago

How come the cousin relationship doesn’t get much attention? It’s pretty great and unique actually. You’re friends in that you don’t share parents but family in that you share grandparents. I mean, it’s basically best of both worlds, right?

OK Winter Wonderland

OK Winter Wonderland

about 3 years ago

Last weekend the Tulsa, OK area got an unusual amount of snow. My family and I just moved from Denver to a 7 acre property about 30 minutes south of Tulsa. This particular piece of land happens to have a small lake (or a big pond) on the property and the sudden and ample snowfall completely transformed this thing into a picturesque scene out of a storybook or painting.

Love in the Moon's Shadow

Love in the Moon's Shadow

about 7 years ago

The trip was of course, wonderful, until the last 30 minutes of the drive home when Serenica's engine began stalling on us whenever we'd drop beneath a certain speed (hoping it's a minor fix!). Fortunately, after stalling out on several occasions and getting it restarted again, she died right inside our RV storage lot gate and wouldn't turn over.

Don’t zoom so far out on your life you sacrifice the little things.

I love you.
Thank you for being here.
You don’t owe me a thing.

When you’re young, you are the center of the universe and everything outside of you seems big and endless: time, space, other beings, our very existence,…all seemingly perpetually unchanging.

And then you get older and you grapple with

The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.

From a sermon given by Frederick L

I was awoken around 3:30 this morning by the violent storms happening outside my windows, awake for a while after that. And then despite my pleas and protests awoken again around 6am by my 6 year old who was in bed with me and decided to wake up and

Forever enamored by Mother Nature.

I must have listened to this album on repeat probably 954 times at least back in 1996/97. Some truly underrated tracks on this gem.

It’s seeping through my fingers like honey
then like water
then like the air you feverishly gulp
in a raging drought

It’s gone
It’s gone

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the
influence of the earth.” —Henry David Thoreau