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Salt Air & Slow Days

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I'm Mara — writer by the sea

I write about coastal living: slow mornings, salt-air walks and the small rituals of a life by the water.

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Mara photographed our rooms in a single grey morning and somehow made them look like summer.

Aoife Byrne Guesthouse owner
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She spent two days just watching before she took a picture. It shows.

Daniel Reyes Surf school
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I read the Tuesday letters on the bus and arrive at work feeling like I've been outside.

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  • Three hours on location
  • 25 edited photographs
  • Web-ready and print files
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$1,750
  • Four half-day shoots
  • One per season
  • A shared image library
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So happy you're here

This journal is written at walking pace, and I hope it always feels like a lungful of sea air.

Mara
Slow mornings, salt air, no rush
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Slow mornings, salt air, no rush

Tuesday letters from the coast: what the weather did, what I cooked, and where the light was good.

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