The Best Compliment I Can Ever Receive...

...is to receive letters like this:

Dear Sarah, 

These photos are absolutely fantastic and brought tears to my eyes. You have totally captured the essence of Gracie’s personality from moody to mischievous, happy to cheeky and in her element doing her favourite thing – dancing!

It is so hard to chose favourites! But I would have to say that I would love to arrange to have the following ones printed, framed then hung in pride of place in our home.

Thank you again for capturing some great memories!

A Quick Rewind of 2009

I should probably post few photographic highlights of 2009, no? And quick-like, before January is over! This month is already wooshing by so fast. Which is fine by me. I hate January and the chilled-to-the-bones hibernation effect it has on me.

Anyway! Without further adeu:

Here's to a wonderful, productive 2009! What's in store for 2010? Well, you'll have to wait and see. I hope this next year will be brimming with more creativity and out of the box type thinking as I continue to push myself and hone my skills in this magical art form.

Cheers!

Hello, 2010. I'm Sarah. I take pictures.

Hello, out there! {out there!...out there!...out there!...}. That's the echo I'm hearing as I cast my lot into the vast Sea of Photography Blogs. But as this is my very first post and I don't know anyone yet, the silence and the echoes are expected. 


This is a momentous occasion. See, I sort of have a love-hate relationship with bloggery; I get a kick out of reading other people's blogs, yet I've always felt a little too self conscious to create and keep up my own. But this is a new year - a new decade, nonetheless - and so it's time I took sometiny courageous steps, put myself out there and made some new friends. 


So, hello! I'm Sarah and I take pictures. Mostly of people - because photographing people makes my toes tingle. I just recently started small portrait photography business and I'll definitely be posting photos from those sessions as well as photos from my personal projects. However, I don't necessarily intend for this blog to exist for the strict purpose of generating more business...although, more business is ALWAYS welcome! I'd like to be free to write what I feel, to rant or rave, to prose, to praise, or to ponder - to be me. Not a business, buttoned-up version of me {although there is a time and place for that, to be sure}, but me me. It's a little terrifying...what if I suck and you don't dig me? What if I don't suck and you still don't dig me? What if you dig me as a person, but you think my work totally sucks? Yeah. I think about these things. It's the reason I hesitate to blog at all. It's much easier to be quiet and hide behind a regular website. 


But it can be awfully boring, hiding. So I'm outing myself...and away we go!


I'll end this first post with one of my favorite photos thus far. It was taken in a bar here in Boston {with the subjects' and bar manager's permission, of course}.  :)

 Cheers!