Fine Art

I've been getting some of my fine art images together for a new bakery coming to town in January so I decided that maybe I should post a few pictures every now and then. I'm thinking about doing some post cards as well as canvas prints. Let me know what ya think!

Family Portraits

This past Saturday I had the pleasure of shooting my brother and sister-in-laws family portraits at Lake Benson in Garner. I also did some for Elizabeth's sister Abby's family. It was cold out there but they were troopers! I hope you guys like them!

Sorry about the random different borders I'm trying to figure out what I like best!

At work on Black Friday?

Yep that's right I'm at the office helping Adam out today. I guess it's okay seeing that I wouldn't be out shopping during this madness even if we had the day off! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving, I know Adam and I did.

We started our day off with a noon lunch at Adam's grandma's house. There are so many babies there this year, we've had 4 new additions to the family just this year! My nephew Owen, Evan(in our hearts), Carsen, and the newest member Madelyn! I didn't even think to take my nice camera to the events and didn't pull out my point and shoot there, hopefully I'll get some of the pictures everyone else was taking!

Next we headed over to my sisters where my side got together at 3! Yep that's right we had to eat 3 hours after our first meal. Sweet Potato Casserole, Turkey, Ham, Broccoli Casserole, Dressing, Mac and Cheese, and much more! I'm sure I ate way to much and hopefully I'll still be able to fit into my bridesmaid dress that's being altered as we speak! It was a wonderful day and despite how hard of a year it has been I know we have so much to be thankful for! Here are a few snapshots (with my point and shoot) of Sophie, I wish I had a picture of my nephew Owen they had the same shirt on!

Alisha & Andrew

As I promised here are some more photos from Saturday's engagement shoot! They were up for anything so I tried my best to find some different locations downtown. Make my day and let me know what you think!

By far my favorite!

Just in case I don't blog again before Thursday I hope everyone has a wonderful thanksgiving! This is our first thanksgiving as a married couple so I probably should work on stretching my stomach since we have Adam's family at noon and mine at 3!

I guess I won't be losing that 5 lbs. before Grolly's wedding after all! The food will make it worth it! I personally am stoked for the pumpkin pie and moms homemade stuffing! YUM!

Sneak Peak

I thought I would do a little "sneak peak" of the engagement shoot from this weekend. Alisha and Andrew are a very attractive couple and we had a blast! I'm feeling a little under the weather today so I'm going to go get some rest. Here are a couple and I'll post a few more tomorrow! Thanks for you patients!

Mr. Isaac Thomas James

Yesterday I had the pleasure of photographing one of my best friends little boy Isaac! He is the cutest little thing! After Charissa and I got undistracted (if that's a word) from watching General Hospital we got to work. Isaac was a little startled by the flash to say the least but luckily I got a few good ones before he was done with me and my flash! Charissa and Steven I hope you like these! There are plenty more but I'll get those to you guys next week. I can't wait to do some more!

I think this one is my favorite!

It may be a little cheesy but I just couldn't resist it once I saw the basket of animals!

Nothing like a mothers love! Charissa you are a wonderful mother, it was a joy watching you with your beautiful son!

Brightening my own day...

When I'm having a bad day there are a few things that I know will cheer me up Prayer or any kind of God time, my husband, and playing with or taking pictures. Being so busy at the office and being down to one car between my husband and I, I haven't had a chance to actually shoot lately so I've been playing with my actions I showed you guys yesterday. Luckily I have a sitting tomorrow and Saturday so hopefully that will get me back on track! Here are some samples of what I can do with your photographs now. Yes I just posted some yesterday but today I took 2 different ones a cool one and a warm one and did multiple actions on each so you can get a better idea of what they actually do! First we have my beautiful niece, yes you've seen these pictures but they are just too cute to not stare at for hours!

***Side note if my grammar is horrendous I apologize, I'm a photographer not a writer.

Original ImageNext up we have my oh so handsome nephew Owen!

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Some of them are subtle but if you look closely you can see how the colors pop more, it softens the picture or completely changes it to B&W. :)

A New Toy!

I got some new actions last week and I'm so excited about the cool things I can do with my photo's now! Check out some of these before and afters! Welcome to 2007 Sarah Tayler Photography!

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These are just a few things I can do now! Let me know what you think.

Last minute trip...

Thursday night while sitting on the couch watching The Office it dawns on Adam, he has to get his continuing education by December! The seminar he wants to go to in December is the weekend of the 1st, I quickly remind him he can't do that one because that's the weekend of Grolly's wedding! (Greg and Holly) So Friday he finds a seminar in Roanoke Virginia on rehab on Saturday! That's right folks the next day! So we quickly make plans to get down there Saturday and stay one night and come home after his class on Sunday. We called the hotel that the seminar was scheduled at and they tell us since there is a VT game we have to stay Friday and Saturday. Well that's wasn't going to work b/c we knew we would be at the office until 6:30 or so that night so we kept looking an ran across the Hotel Roanoke we booked a night and left early Saturday morning! We pull up to the hotel and Adam is like "this can't be right". I insist it is, it's a Double Tree and I remembered the picture. This place is awesome! We don't get to stay in nice hotels usually so this was a treat! I slept and watched TV all day Saturday while he was in class, lucky me! Sunday I went to the mall and drank some hot chocolate and read my Joyce Meyer's book, I Dare You. It was a nice relaxing weekend for me! We decided I needed to at least take some pictures and Adam had found a pamphlet on a natural bridge not to far away so we started driving. We drove and drove, 45 minutes later we arrive only to learn we have to pay $12.00 each and yes we are cheap so we laughed and said that's okay. We decided to head home. Here are some pictures from my not so creative trip!

Eric and Megan

Saturday I did a shoot with Eric and his girlfriend Megan. We had a blast! You may remember Eric from my website, I did his pictures for his album cover last year around this same time. You can hear his music and his bands A Clerestory on my site as well.

This is my favorite shot of the day.
Just for fun!

I love this series of photos!

They were adorable, smiling a laughing the whole time! It made my job very easy! Thanks for everything guys!