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Headline: Photographer Creates Amazing 'Farmily' Family Portraits Featuring Animals & Pets

Caption: How are these for family portraits? Photographer Tasha Hall creates what she calls ‘Farmily’ portraits – featuring families and their menagerie of animals. Tasha, from British Columbia, says she got the idea after wanting to include all her own furry friends in her a family portrait. She now travels the world capturing other families and their collections of livestock and beloved pets. Tasha explains: “I started creating these images because I wanted to create a full farm portrait of our own farm. To me, all of our animals are also our family, and having a portrait of all of us together was something I really wanted to create. After I had figured out how to make it happen, and shared it online, people started messaging me to see if I could create something like that for their farm too. I started practicing on other farms, and slowly my business was born. “The images themselves take some time to create. We spend most of a full day at a farm, spending time with our clients and their animals. The “set” is created, and then we start photographing the animals. Sometimes we do one animal at a time, sometimes more, depending on how well behaved they are. We take our time and work on getting the very best portrait of each animal. Once I get home, the real magic begins as I put it all together to create one final portrait. (A time-lapse video shows the actual shooting of one of the farms: info@covermg.com). “You always see family portraits on the walls of people’s homes, but for me, the family doesn’t stop with the people. What about all of our furred and feathered ‘Farmily’ members? They are just as much a part of the family as any human component, so I decided to change the way people look at family portraits! I travel the country photographing full ‘Farmily’ portraits. We include everybody from the largest horse, to the smallest guinea pig, mouse, or snake. “The last four years have seen us travelling all over the place, visiting farms, and meeting some of the most wonderful people and animals! Most of our work has been in BC and Alberta so far, but we have also been to Tanzania, Africa, and created two wonderful ‘Farmily’ images there as well. We are starting to book farm tours in the USA and other parts of the world as well, so the sky's the limit!”

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