A Kid’s Life is a collection of several amazing images, which have been featured in our LOOKSLIKEFILM Kids group last month.

A Kid’s Life

Are you in love with kids and capturing them in their daily lives? This is what LOOKSLIKEFILM Kids is all about. Unposed, raw and natural images from thousands of amazing artists all over the world. Artists that are trying to capture kids in their most playful, amazed and funny way possible.

Be sure to join our community if you want to contribute some of your images our site. Maybe we can include some of your amazing images in one of our future LOOKSLIKEFILM Kids updates here on the website.

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Alizabeth McLendon – www.alizabethgracephotography.com

Andrea Sissons – www.andreasissonsphotography.co.au

Ashley Marston – www.instagram.com/ashleymarstonphotography

Bergen Howlett – www.bergenhowlett.com

corinna keiser – www.instagram.com/corinnakeiser

Cynthia Dawson – www.cynthiadawson.com

Erin Powell – www.instagram.com/thesweetmyerslife

Erin Powell – www.instagram.com/thesweetmyerslife

Holly Awwad – www.instagram.com/hollynicoletimekeeper

Jamie Eilts – www.instagram.com/jamieeilts

Karen Osdieck – www.karenosdieckphotography.com

katt van den oever – www.instagram.com/kattvdo_

Kelly Szabo – www.KellySzaboPhotography.com

Martina Grose – www.wildautumnphoto.com

melissa bissell – www.melissabissellphotography.com

Monika Bendel – www.monigraphie.com

Morvern Shaw – www.instagram.com/lifewiththelittleshaws

Natalie Curry – www.natalie-curry.squarespace.com

Pearl Wilson – LKO – www.thatgirlpearl.com

Rachel Keohane – www.instagram.com/rachel.keohane

Samantha Ramos – www.carbonandcopperphotography.com

Sarah Gupta – www.sarahguptaphoto.com

Sarah Lewis – www.behindthestones.com

Teresa Peterson – www.evelynleighphoto.com

Teresa Peterson – www.evelynleighphoto.com

If you are interested in Kids Photography and enjoyed our “A Kid’s Life” feature be sure to join our first ever Kids Photography contest here ! We have some super cool prizes for the winning images.

1st Place

• 300 US $
• 5 Meridian Presets of your choice
• Print feature in the October Issue of the Rangefinder Magazine
• 6 months unlimited storage on Cloudspot
• Fine art print by QT Albums

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• 200 US $
• 3 Meridian Presets of your choice
• Print feature in the October Issue of the Rangefinder Magazine
• 6 months unlimited storage on Cloudspot
• Fine art print by QT Albums

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• 100 US $
• 1 Meridian Preset of your choice
• Print feature in the October Issue of the Rangefinder Magazine
• 1 month unlimited storage on Cloudspot
• Fine art print by QT Albums

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A Kid’s Life is a collection of several amazing images, which have been featured in our LOOKSLIKEFILM Kids group last month.

Please note: The content of this page may contain nudity.

A Kid’s Life

Are you in love with kids and capturing them in their daily lives? This is what LOOKSLIKEFILM Kids is all about. Unposed, raw and natural images from thousands of amazing artists all over the world. Artists that are trying to capture kids in their most playful, amazed and funny way possible.

Be sure to join our community if you want to contribute some of your images our site. Maybe we can include some of your amazing images in one of our future LOOKSLIKEFILM Kids updates here on the website.

JOIN Our LOOKSLIKEFILM KIDS Group ON FACEBOOK
FOLLOW LOOKSLIKEFILM kids ON INSTAGRAM

Alexandria Mooney – www.alexandriamooneyphotography.com

Amanda McClellan – www.amandaleephoto.com

Amber Carbo Privizzini – www.instagram.com/creating_artprivizzinispassion

amber talbert – www.instagram.com/ambertalbertphotography

Francesca Marchese-Reeder – www.francescamarchesephotography.com

Holly Awwad – www.instagram.com/hollynicoletimkeeper

Holly Awwad – www.instagram.com/hollynicoletimkeeper

Jayme Ford – www.paperdeerphoto.com

Jess Buttermore – www.instagram.com/jessie.b.photo

Jessie Nelson – www.rockcreekphotos.com

jordan weldon – www.jmichellephotographyga.com

KATIE CARNEY – Meridian PBX O6 HARD – WWW.WOMBTOWORLDPHOTO.COM

Marley Clark – Portra 160 – www.marleyfeliciaphotography.com

Mike Levad – www.twinbirchstudios.com

olivia rosnarho – www.olivia-photography.com

Rachel Keohane – www.instagram.com/rachel.keohane

Rachel Keohane – www.instagram.com/rachel.keohane

Rachel Keohane – www.instagram.com/rachel.keohane

Renee Mulcahy – www.rncphotography.info

Sarah Garman – www.purplefernphotography.com

sarah wynn – www.madeinhisimagephotography.com

Sarah Hamilton – www.instagram.com/sarahhamiltonphotography_

Sherida Rae Taylor – www.sheridaraephotography.ca

Steph Pate – www.instagram.com/steph.pate

Susan Grimes – www.instagram.com/susan.grimes

Tressa Comeaux – www.instagram.com/embrace_your_story

If you are interested in Kids Photography and enjoyed our “A Kid’s Life” feature be sure to join our first ever Kids Photography contest here ! We have some super cool prizes for the winning images.

1st Place

• 300 US $
• 5 Meridian Presets of your choice
• Print feature in the October Issue of the Rangefinder Magazine
• 6 months unlimited storage on Cloudspot
• Fine art print by QT Albums

2nd Place

• 200 US $
• 3 Meridian Presets of your choice
• Print feature in the October Issue of the Rangefinder Magazine
• 6 months unlimited storage on Cloudspot
• Fine art print by QT Albums

3rd Place

• 100 US $
• 1 Meridian Preset of your choice
• Print feature in the October Issue of the Rangefinder Magazine
• 1 month unlimited storage on Cloudspot
• Fine art print by QT Albums

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Florida based photographer Twyla Jones is guided by moments in life that really speak to her, creating images that resonate with others. Twyla made her transition working as a Biologist at a Pathology Lab to a full time photographer. She decided photography was what she wanted to do when she started documenting moments with her own children. Twyla’s work is both honest and surreal to me; it evokes emotions that hit you deep down and leave an imprint.

Twyla will be speaking at at Choo Choo Camp this October, 10 – 13th 2016, in NYC! If you want to hear her speak, sign up and confirm your ticket here.

1. What do making images mean to you?

I’m choosing the moments in life that really speak to me that I want to live on.  Moments I feel are so powerful they deserve to be felt again. More often than not these moments are originating from embraces, glances, fleeting moments that have never been photographed but that I’ve experienced and feel compelled to share.

2. What is life to you? What it should be?

Life to me is pursuing what it is that makes me feel like I am living. For me this is being with my children and watching as they discover new amazing things every day. This is also the pursuit of adventure and beauty through all living things. Creating images that speak to me and seeing them resonate with someone else is incredibly fulfilling.   

3. There are a lot of professions out there – why be a photographer?

I honestly just stumbled into it. I have a degree in Human Biology and have been working at a Pathology Lab in my hometown for ages. As long as I can remember I’ve had some type of camera in my hand attempting to record the events around me. Once my children were born I finally decided to get serious and have some say in how my images looked beyond what i was seeing in the frame. After a few months a friend asked me to photograph her son and I’ve just said yes to everything since that day. I have been so fortunate to receive some incredible support from my family and friends, without which I could not have obsessively taken on this craft.

4. How much is your family an influence on the way you view life, see things?

In absolutely every single way. I’ve always kind of felt like I was still living in my little kid head (something my mother nurtured incredibly well) so it’s a pleasure having my little boys to share things with. I’m still fascinated by bugs and berries and anything under a rock. There is something so powerful that happens after you have children and every embrace and tug and plea seems incredibly precious and I think I have a heightened awareness of that now.

5. Are you creativity satisfied at the moment?

Incredibly. I’ve found that shooting for myself has been the best thing I have done in my photographic journey, better than any holdfast or preset even. There is something so freeing about getting as weird as you want and having the courage to shoot in new kinds of light and settings.

6. What music are you listening to?

The dreamiest of dreamy music, haha. My favourite at the moment is GAPS – I know it’s you but i also listen to a lot of José González, Alt-J, and Bon Iver, with a little Portishead and Flaming Lips mixed in to keep it weird. I like for my images to feel the way this music makes me feel. If you’d like to fall asleep you can find my dreamy playlist on Spotify.

7. Describe your path to what you’re doing now.

I am really trying to listen to what is in my head and heart and I have to remark that sometimes that can be incredibly difficult to do being inundated by such incredible images day in and day out. I think it’s important to let that inspiration just flow through you. Whatever sparked something within you will stay with you and you have to trust that all the right things will be conjured up in a unique way just for you when the moment presents itself.  

8. Have you had any mentors along the way?

I actually haven’t really even had any photographer friends until just recently and that is such an incredible thing to finally be a part of.  My friend Anne has been an incredible support to me navigating through the world of websites and branding, weird ideas and terrible pictures, amazing brides and whatever you’d like to call the opposite of that, haha. She was brave enough to pick up a camera and second shoot some weddings with me with only a very brief photography lesson from me and she really has been all around amazing. Sometimes just having someone around to tell you you’re not awful when you’re afraid you might be is all you need.

9. Do you shoot with your left or right eye?

I had to take a picture to know, it’s the right!

10. Where do you see yourself in 10 year’s time?  

Hopefully doing a lot more of this but in some more amazing places!  I want to see and experience everything. I’m dying to share new cultures and  experiences with my children.  I would like to become more of an asset to the photography community and have something of value to contribute. It can be so difficult pouring yourself into your work and i think it’s incredibly important that we are here for one another and cheering each other on to be better every day. Everyone needs that.

Bonus Q: Do you think the gear you use affects the way you photograph? Why?

To an extent. I think i can still express emotion with the camera on my phone but to really take you into the moment i just need a lens to take me around 1.8  Of course I have gear I prefer to do this with and that make it a lot easier.  My gear of choice at the moment is a nikon d750 and sigma art 35.  I have other cameras and lenses but this is really all i want. The freedom i have when i’m not tied down with other lenses and accessories allows me to really focus on the moment. Oh-My-God. I also have to mention the amazing little couch editing desk my fiancé Gary made me. I learned everything I know sitting at this thing while nursing an infant and to this day I’m way more productive editing from a couch than a desk.

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Based in Blenheim, New Zealand, Niki Boon is inspired by her environment, capturing life as a collection of moments – weaving them into stories worth remembering. She documents her children to help see them as happy and free: Niki’s work marries fine art and photojournalism so delicately that the energy and spontaneity captured in her work transports you as if you had lived it yourself, viewing it now almost nostalgically. It’s a testament to what life should be when growing up.

1. What do making images mean to you?

To me it is the reflection of my life, and my children’s life as it stands right now, my family , my home, our daily life. As a mother I often wonder and worry if what we are providing for our children is enough. The pictures help me to see that my children are happy and free, and that it is indeed enough.

2. What is life to you? What it should be?

Life to me is a collection of moments that join to make the stories. It is all we have at the end, so I aim to make the stories worth remembering.

3. How does where you live influence your creativity?

I am lucky to live on a 10 acre block of land in rural New Zealand, with beautiful rivers, wild coastline, hills and bush nearby. I am inspired by windswept beaches and wide open spaces, anywhere unrestricted, so I find inspiration everywhere.

4. There are a lot of professions out there – why be a photographer?

I love it, I can’t get away from it and can be often consumed by it. I figure if it is something I am obsessed with I should be doing it.

5. Are you creativity satisfied at the moment?

I live in a beautiful country, surrounded by some wild vast open spaces, with my four wild and free range children, although my personal internal, creativity waxes and wanes. I am lucky to be around so much external; inspirational.

6. What movie did you love recently?

I love character based movies, lately I have enjoyed Silver Linings Playbook.

7. Describe your path to what you’re doing now.

I started shooting my children’s daily life, my current project,on a regular basis when we decided to educate our children more alternatively, and the photos helped me reflect on what we were doing, and general day to day goings on… My photography learning pathway has come from books, a few online courses and lots of shooting.

8. Have you had any mentors along the way

I haven’t had any ‘formal’ mentors but I have been lucky enough to have ‘met’ and been taught by some incredible artists in my journey so far.

9. Do you shoot with your left or right eye?

Right eye (had to go to my camera and check though)

10. Where do you see yourself in 10 year’s time?

In 10 years’ time my children will all be grown, but I hope that my curiosity they helped instil in me and my passion for my art will remain, and that as long as I keep my eyes open a new project will come to me.

Bonus Q: Do you think the gear you use affects the way you photograph? Why?

I shoot with a canon 5D Mark III, and a 35mm lens. I think using a 35 mm has influenced the way I approach a picture. I used to work with only a 50mm or occasionally an 85mm, but with the 35mm I think it forces me to think more, to compose more carefully and think harder about the frame, what to put in and where.

Field Notes:

Currently digital it is what works best for me in this stage of my life with a busy family life, but one day I see some film experimentation too. My processing usually starts with Kodak tri-x 400 or Ilford HP5.

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Clare Barker Wells travelled and lived in 2 different countries before calling Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia home. Originally from Ross-on-Wye, UK, Clare started learning to photograph 4 years ago – who would have thought? Clare’s family and newborn work not only captures key moments but also the in-betweens artistically. And despite being a busy Mum to 1 kid (with another on its way), Clare finds time to embark on a personal projects, as seen on “whereverIamwithyou”, where along with other like-minded photographers, she documents her own existence in moments spent with her family. With a nomadic lifestyle, Clare hopes she’ll still be photographing with passion in 10 years’ time.

1. What is life to you? What it should be?

Life is sunshine with the occasional shower. It’s about adventure and new challenges, and yet at the same time, it’s about home, it’s about routine. I am nothing if not a contradiction.

Life is good, for me. I’m lucky; I realise that. I live a wonderful life, in an exotic place, work at something I love, and a surrounded by a family of friends. I can’t ask for more. (Except for this morning sickness to just STOP already.)

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2. Where did you grow up and how did that play a part in your photography?

I grew up in a small town in the UK. It was rural, and probably pretty uninteresting to the outsider, but we made our own entertainment and had plenty of fun. It was a great upbringing, full of horses and mud and Wellington boots.

I don’t know that it had a huge part to play in my photography, since I didn’t actually pick up a camera until I was 29, and already living in a different town, in a different country, in a different continent. I have mentioned this in the past, but I always felt that I was creative, but had no outlet for it (I was notoriously bad at ‘Art’ – which at our school meant drawing and painting), so I went down the academic, sensible-job route, and that was that. It wasn’t until (and what a cliche I am for this), my first child was born,  and I picked up a DSLR, that I realised that whilst I perhaps couldn’t create beauty, I could certainly capture it. I was hooked.

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3. Where do you call home?

There is a quote that floats about the internet that goes something along the lines of:

“You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart will always be elsewhere. That is the price that you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place”

That just about sums it up, for me. We’ve lived in three different countries so far, and will likely live in more. I have friends now in countries all over the world, which is great for holidays, but not always so great for keeping in touch.

I think my feeling on my home can be summed up by the fact that I say I’m ‘flying home’ when we fly back to the UK for a visit, but whilst I’m there, I talk about ‘flying home’ in terms of flying back to Malaysia. It’s a wonderful, yet confusing life!

4. Do you have a “second profession” or passion?

My past life was in the corporate/sales world, which I have little desire to get back into. I have always loved reading and literature though, so I guess that’s my kind of back-up hobby!?

5. What do you like to eat?

At currently 5 months pregnant, can I just say ‘anything and everything’?! I love flavoursome food – the more flavours and tastes the better – bland food is kind of pointless to me. Because of that predilection for flavours, I’m all about Thai food (most Asian food actually, which is lucky because I live here), Italian food, and (slightly randomly) ANYTHING that is salt and vinegar flavoured – the stronger the better. That taste that makes you pull a face that looks like you’ve bitten a wasp? That flavour. Mmmmmmmmmmm. Ok…must. stop. talking. about. food.

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6. Is/Are there any project(s) you wish you could do – or might do?

I started a 365 last year which did no end of good for pushing me out of slumps, and to always be thinking creatively. Unfortunately, when I found out I was  pregnant in September I became so ill that I didn’t pick up my camera for the last three months of the year. I’m keen to see if I can actually complete one, but my past history with projects is that they generally do go unfinished!

Work-wise I am a huge believer in supporting other people in the industry – the more great photographers there are, the more people will see and therefore demand good photography. It can only be a benefit to all of us. I’d love to start a mentoring programme of some sort, with the aim of working with newer photographers and helping them reach their goals.

I’ve also spent the last year ‘getting in the frame’ with my kids as part of a collaboration with a group of incredibly talented women. As the default ‘chief photographer’ of the house, it’s made me realise how important it is to actually get in the picture to prove that I was there too. I hope to continue this as long as the group will have me! You can see the whole project at www.whereveriamwithyou.com

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7. Do you shoot with your left or right eye?

I can’t be the only one who had to pick up my camera and hold it against my face to check that?!

Left…which is weird, because it’s the eye that needs strongest help with glasses etc. Although I am left handed, so perhaps that’s part of it?

8. What movie did you love recently?

I’m not a big movie person, I just don’t have the concentration levels for them! I love TV dramas though – they are basically epic movies in bite size chunks. I’m a big fan of a good detective series; particularly those that are beautifully filmed. It makes my heart happy to see the light and composition executed so perfectly, as well as giving me so much inspiration. A lot of the Swedish crime dramas seem to be like that – Wallander is one of my favourites. Hinterland (set in deep dark North Wales) is also filmed in a similar way and I love it.

If I had to choose a movie though, I did watch Grand Budapest Hotel last year and was mesmerised by it the whole way through…seriously, Wes Anderson is a talent to behold.

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9. If you were to start all over again, is there anything you would do differently? Why?

I actually am very happy with where I am in life right now, so I can’t say that I wish I’d done things differently. That being said, part of me definitely wishes I had picked up a camera about 15 years earlier. I hear of so many people who studied photography in high-school, and am envious, and slightly confused – that was certainly never on our curriculum in my school! Like I said above, I always desperately wanted to be a ‘creative’ but forced myself to fit the mold of an academic/corporate career girl, and didn’t really think too much of it. Now I realise that although I had a great time, that was never REALLY ‘me’. I’m thoroughly enjoying the release of gradually letting myself be who I always wanted to be, living slightly off to the left of centre.

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10. Where do you see yourself in 10 year’s time?

Our life is slightly nomadic, and very dependent on my husband’s company, and so I literally don’t even know what continent we’ll be living on in 10 years time, and where we’ll have been in the meantime. That makes it hard for me to have an idea in my head of what my life will be like – you can’t really have long-term goals when you don’t know what language, climate, or country you’ll be immersed in at the end of this year let alone in ten years. My aim is just to keep up this love for shooting, keep living this wonderful expat life, and keep surrounding myself with like-minded people.

Bonus Q: Do you think the gear you use affects the way you photograph? Why?

I’m sure it does. I shoot differently with each camera I have – I feel like I shoot much more freely with my X100t than I do with my DSLR – I’m much more of a perfectionist and expect far more from myself when I shoot with the DSLR. And then film is a whole different way of shooting altogether – I’d love to take some of the lessons that I’ve learnt from film on slowing down and transfer them to my digital work, but so far that doesn’t seem to have happened. like everything, it’s a work in progress.

Gear list:

• D750

• D600

• F100

• X100t (my love – it goes to more places with me than my child does)

• 35mm 1.4 Sigma Art

• 50mm 1.4 Sigma Art

• 85mm 1.4 Nikkor

• 105 2.8 macro Nikkor

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