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.

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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!

Halloween Shmalloween

So last night I went to do a family portrait of my sister's family. Let me just say I thought 5:00 would be great for lighting but it was not a good time for Sophie. She didn't have a nap and that's around the time she starts winding down for bed. We are doing it over on Saturday around 10:00 hopefully that will work out a little better. Here are some of the pictures that were less than happy Sophie!

She's even doing the lip curl...

Her friend Heath came by to show us his costume, he wasn't feeling it either! Sophie wouldn't wear a costume this year.

Happy parents and a not so happy Sophie!

Be on the lookout for the re-shoot coming very soon! On the bright side when we got done she decided to play and she learned how to high ten with me! Of course she's happy when the camera's gone. Ill or not she's still gorgeous!