Motherhood in Focus

Motherhood in Focus Hi I’m Tara Mahoney, a natural light lifestyle photographer. I shoot candid documentary-style and Hello!

I’m Tara, a natural light-loving lifestyle photographer based in Sydney’s North. I shoot documentary-style and want to capture you and your family in all of your natural, comfortable and unforced moments. I can’t wait for you to invite me in to experience a little slice of your life...to focus on you in your own world, on your home turf or in a familiar stomping ground. Time is fleeting, no one kn

ows this more than mothers and fathers. One moment you are clutching a positive pregnancy test and staring down the barrel of a long nine months and the next you are holding your heart and your newborn in your arms. Then you blink again and you’ve got a one year old...a toddler...maybe another child or two...a kid going to school. There are big moments in life...pregnancy, birth, celebrations, birthdays. And there are little moments too...Sunday morning rituals, trips to the park or to the beach or just to the supermarket, snuggling together reading books, laughing until your sides ache. All of these moments are part of your story, the big ones and the little ones and I want to help you tell and remember it for years to come.

You guys...she’s SIX! And she’s everything I could have ever wished for in my oldest daughter. She’s brave, and smart. W...
28/12/2018

You guys...she’s SIX! And she’s everything I could have ever wished for in my oldest daughter. She’s brave, and smart. Witty and silly and kind and so very melodramatic. She loves dressing up, singing, performing. She loves our garden and swimming pools (and the beach too but we never quite get her there!) She’s bright and beautiful. I hope her sparkle never fades. I hope she continues to burn this brightly her whole entire life. I hope she sets the world alight.

As I head to the conference today it feels so appropriate to post this pic of a dear friend and client and her newborn ...
07/09/2018

As I head to the conference today it feels so appropriate to post this pic of a dear friend and client and her newborn daughter. Every single time I am invited to support a woman in her pregnancy and birth is an absolute gift. And getting to capture it as well so she can remember these moments forever...such an honour!

I get the guilts...you know the guilts...they come in all shapes, sizes and forms. The social media guilt I get is that ...
18/07/2018

I get the guilts...you know the guilts...they come in all shapes, sizes and forms. The social media guilt I get is that I’m a “business woman” and so I should be showing more client work and less personal work. I should be running my media like a business account.

But let me level with you...there ain’t all that much happening in old business land. Perhaps I should market more, or hustle, maybe I should show more client work and less personal work so I trick you into thinking I’m a total badass in demand chick. But I’m not.

This isn’t a pity post, I’m just really on board with vulnerability and reality. (Although if you were on the fence about getting in the frame with your family and you’d like to see me do a happy dance then by all means message me and let’s book something in!)

Oh look, a call to action...perhaps I’m more of a “business woman” than I realised.

I get the guilts...you know the guilts...they come in all shapes, sizes and forms. The social media guilt I get is that ...
18/07/2018

I get the guilts...you know the guilts...they come in all shapes, sizes and forms. The social media guilt I get is that I’m a “business woman” and so I should be showing more client work and less personal work. I should be running my media like a business account.

But let me level with you...there ain’t all that much happening in old business land. Perhaps I should market more, or hustle, maybe I should show more client work and less personal work so I trick you into thinking I’m a total badass in demand chick. But I’m not. This isn’t a pity post, I’m just really on board with vulnerability and reality.

(Although if you were on the fence about getting in the frame with your family and you’d like to see me do a happy dance then by all means message me and let’s book something in!)

Oh look, a call to action...perhaps I’m more of a “business woman” than I realised.

Oh I remember that delicious feeling of baby kneading while breastfeeding. When they still feel like they are a part of ...
25/04/2018

Oh I remember that delicious feeling of baby kneading while breastfeeding. When they still feel like they are a part of you. Sometimes I really miss breastfeeding. I stopped abruptly, almost violently, when my youngest was 5 1/2 months old. We were in hospital and I was desperately trying to piece myself back together after post natal depression and the wrong medication shattered me into a thousand tiny pieces. I made a choice, out of fear and desperation and love and a deep, deep desire to be a better mother and human. And I don't regret the decision, because the decisions I made while in hospital started me down a path of slow recovery. But I do miss it.

Three! Three!!!!! Three is adorable, funny and demanding. Frighteningly smart, diabolically cheeky and terrifyingly adve...
17/04/2018

Three! Three!!!!! Three is adorable, funny and demanding. Frighteningly smart, diabolically cheeky and terrifyingly adventurous. Three showers you with compliments and says "I love you" at least 20 times a day, if not more. Three is awesome. Happy birthday darling girl.

There's a reason they're called the mental lentils...
06/04/2018

There's a reason they're called the mental lentils...

Pretty soon I'm going to get a phone call, the best kind of phone call...the one to say "I'm in labour" or at the very l...
27/03/2018

Pretty soon I'm going to get a phone call, the best kind of phone call...the one to say "I'm in labour" or at the very least a text message that says "I think I'm in labour". And then with excitement and a beautiful sense of anticipation I'll start to prepare, to plan and when the time is right to make my way to a goddess in labour. And I'll quietly observe, I'll hold space, I'll document her grace and strength, her tears and laughter and the team around her supporting and lifting her up as she births her baby. I'll pinch myself, that this woman and her husband have invited me to be a witness to the moment they become a family of five. As if this isn't the best job in the whole wide world.

Couldn't be sassier if she tried. Also, man do the school days take it out of her (and all of us). So much tired, so muc...
14/03/2018

Couldn't be sassier if she tried. Also, man do the school days take it out of her (and all of us). So much tired, so much boundary pushing, so much yelling and all the emotions. Lucky she still seeks comfort in cuddles and most things can diffused with kind words and a little space, a nice quiet bath or chilling in front of the TV (obviously).

Sometimes I see beautiful light as an invitation to play. Sometimes I see it and I am happy just to notice it. Other tim...
11/03/2018

Sometimes I see beautiful light as an invitation to play. Sometimes I see it and I am happy just to notice it. Other times I don't notice it at all. If I've learned anything in my few short years as a parent it's that nothing stays the same. Everything passes, everything changes. The images I make together with my daughter now bear little resemblance to the images I made of her as a toddler. And they no doubt bear little resemblance to the images we will make together in the years to come. Everything changes, everything passes...I find comfort in this knowledge.

A little more floating goodness from this gorgeous pregnancy goddess. Seriously can't get enough of this. I'm going to b...
05/02/2018

A little more floating goodness from this gorgeous pregnancy goddess. Seriously can't get enough of this. I'm going to be lucky enough to photograph her birth in a month or so and I CANNOT WAIT!!!

Floating. Dreaming. Nurturing her growing babe. With a side dish of ignoring her two other crazy kids splashing in the w...
29/01/2018

Floating. Dreaming. Nurturing her growing babe. With a side dish of ignoring her two other crazy kids splashing in the water just out of sight because, well, motherhood. Gotta take those moments of serenity when they arise.

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