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I am a wedding and portrait photographer located in beautiful Willamette Valley, based in Corvallis Oregon. I'm an artist that loves to create beautiful images. I've been photographing people for over 18 years now [I started taking portraits in high school, back in the film days!].
My style has been decribed as fun, artistic, and modern.
If you have any questions please feel free to email me. Thanks for stopping by! Oh, and comments are always welcomed!
♥ Sara ♥
The Vixen line is having a booth at the Affair of the Heart event this Thursday, February 11th at the Lane Events Center in Eugene 4-9pm. Admission is free and so is parking! So grab your girls and head over early so you don’t miss any of the FREE, FABULOUS FUN! The schedule of events is listed on the link below:
I hope to see you there!
I will be in San Francisco on vacation for the next few days — I can’t wait! I grew up three hours from this spectacular city. My grandmother and great uncle both lived in S.F. and in my younger days I must have drove across the Golden Gate bridge dozen’s of times. Of course then I didn’t know how lucky I was to be experiencing such a beautiful city. Now I do! I’m excited to go back!
I love this shot of the Golden Gate bridge with the city in the background (I found it on flickr):
Hopefully I’ll get some cool shots like this one! I will be out of touch during this time, but my husband will be home so if you call he can answer your questions. Have a great weekend! ·Sara·
I’ve been looking for the perfect location for my studio and I finally found it! It’s located in Corvallis in the Madison Avenue Plaza behind Noah’s Bagels and Starbucks. I’ve been busy the last couple of weeks getting it ready and just finally finished. Let me know what you think!!:
View from the front door:
Stop by and say hi — I’ll be there various times throughout the week. The address is 425 SW Madison Avenue, Suite C in Corvallis, Oregon.
I will be having a grand opening in the next month or so. If you’d like to know more about that sign up for my newsletter (you can sign up for it at the very bottom of this blog). I will be sending out an announcement via the newsletter with various offers and discounts that will apply if you attend the open house!
This is what it looked like before all my hard work (and my husband’s hard work too – thanks Joe!!):
I have had the vision of this studio in my head for years and now it’s come true! I’m SO excited!! There are so many great things planned for 2010 and I can’t wait to introduce them all to you… stay tuned!! ♥ Sara ♥
- Awesome! Congrats. :)
- Oh my gosh, it looks awesome! Can't wait to see it in person at your open house!
- oh my goodness sara it looks fabulous! it feels so inviting and cozy even through the pictures! wishing you the best in 2010!!!
- WoW- great space! Cheers to all teh beautiful pictures you'll make there!
The photos below are of Libby’s extended family. We had a great day playing in the leaves and the sunshine! Some of my favorites:
It cracks me up that she’s sticking her tongue out at me, love it!:
- Love the colours!
- Cute, love the leaves!
I photographed Brian and Libby’s wedding a few years ago and this fall I had the pleasure of photographing their family! They have a sweet new addition, and she was such a joy to photograph! Below are some of my favorites:
Hmmm, what’s this?…
…she just couldn’t resist!!:
I love her cute little scrunched nose!: 
I have an amazing story to share with you about my sister and how kind people can be…
It was right after Christmas and my sister had $500 cash and a $50 check that she needed to deposit into her bank account. It was a weekend and her bank was closed, so she went through the drive-up ATM at her credit union. She deposited the money and the machine took the envelope and spit out a receipt that said “no deposit made”. She was in a panic as you can image! She called me all flustered. She decided she would call her bank and try to get through to somebody about this, even though they were closed.
As she was driving home my Grandmother called her and said that a gentlemen came across her envelope of money (the atm machine actually spit it out at him!) and he found the check with my grandma’s name and he called information to get her current phone number, luckily she was listed. He called her and asked if she knew who’s money this was and that he wanted to return it to her. My sister immediately called him back and they agreed to meet up. She called me so happy and also shocked that this man was so kind (I was surprised too).
She met up with him and his brother — Ken & Mike who were heading out for an evening of fun on the town and could have easily spent her money, but they didn’t. She offered to pay them $50 for returning it and being so honest. They refused and told her to spend the money on her children. As many of you that read my blog know, last year my sister suddenly became a widow and she is now raising two girls on her own. Their kindness truly was a gift to her.
I sometimes underestimate the human race — most of us are decent, kind people and thank you Ken & Mike for reminding me of that!
- Wow, what an awesome moment. I am glad that God blesses those that bless others. It was a pure act of kindness for they could have taken that money and spent it just as you had mentioned. It's good to know that there are still amazing people out there who do what is right. Great Story!
- Amazing story! It's always nice to hear stories like this, so touching.
- Thanks so much for commenting. Please leave comments as I love hearing from all of you! I also cried when my sister told me about this act of kindness. It was a great way to start off the New Year!
- Sara - My immediate response what that this brought a tear to my as I was reading it (sorry, Jessie, I guess I didn't have an original reaction). :-) I wasn't going to post - since Jessie's reaction was identical, but I think it's important to see that decency and kindness touch us all in pretty much the same way. Maybe a simple New Year's resolution would be to be kind and decent to all we meet. What a better world we would all live in! :-) Thank you for sharing this wonderful story.
- That seriously brought a tear to my eye. I love to know that there are still kind souls out there going out of their way to do the right thing. God bless them!
I hope you all rang in the New Year with family and friends! I did – we had a great celebration! 
I’ve been really enjoying this holiday season with my family. I have many posts to show you but it probably won’t happen until after the New Year. In the meantime I hope everyone is also enjoying this wonderful season with family and friends. Thanks for a great 2009 and I have a feeling that 2010 will even be better!
Happy Holidays everyone! Below are some recent photos of my Angel Baby in her holiday attire:
- these are lovely!!!
I love this new bag that Kelly Moore just came out with! I’ve been on the search for a stylish camera bag that will fit all of my gear in it for years now — I’m going to order the purple one!!:
Kelly’s Website: [here]
On Friday my daughter said to me “Mommy can we go take a walk in nature?”. I figured if she’s asking then it’s time to get outside, plus I love nature. We went to Bald Hill and I expected it to be packed given the great weather but we only saw two other people which made it very peaceful. It was a beautiful day although it was freezing! Here are some images I took of Miss Lily and our dog Pepper:
She is such a joy and I love being her mom!!
[*My blog had some major issues over the weekend so if you were on here you might have noticed it looked different. My server company finally fixed the issues, but my blog was down for three days. I guess on a positive note -- at least they were able to fix it!]
- What a beautiful, beautiful daughter. She is growing up so fast she is no longer your little baby, she is now your little girl. Pure joy in her smile in her movements. Your wonderful photography captures her essence beautifully?
- ahh...what sweet pictures of your girl! she is such a cutie!
- She is SO CUTE!
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