I'm Sarah
I'm so glad you made your way here. I take photos of weddings, families and food in the extended Baltimore and DC area. Travel makes my heart beat faster, so please do get in touch if you have a project outside of the mid-Atlantic area. I would love to see where you live.
My Oregon phone number stayed with me from my original home, I moved to Maryland for graduate school in liberal arts (following a bachelors in the same field). I'm often asked about the apparent disconnect between my degrees and the profession I ended up in. I’ve found the two to be perfectly complimentary. Philosophy requires creativity and attention to detail, and good photography requires the same. They both demand problem solving. They are both fundamentally concerned with truth and beauty. And they are both, especially, about stories, and stories are my great love.
I make lots of other things as well because creating gives me a high. I cook and bake every day, bread or pho or maybe a turmeric lemon cake, and I am a poor but extremely enthusiastic gardener. I try to sew, knit or thrift all of our textile needs, and I love to make witchy tinctures and remedies from medicinal plants that I grow or forage.
Other things that make my heart sing: strange foods, my 250 year old house with huge windows and perfect light, reading other people's stories (let's be friends on Goodreads?) long nights laughing with friends over our dinner table or a picnic blanket and most especially my boys. I have a kind and smart husband and three little boys.
I’d love to hear about you, what makes your heart sing, whether you like summer or winter, fiction or nonfiction, if you have human or fur babies, and of course how I can capture your beautiful life in photos.
Hello
My previous careers were teaching, bouncing at a jazz club, serving in restaurants and I was headed to graduate school for publishing and writing when I switched gears at the last minute to photography. That was over 10 years ago and I've never looked back.
A few more facts
For someone who dedicates hours to watching gardening shows, pores over seed catalogs and requests vermicomposting systems for Christmas you might expect that I’d be ready to open my own produce stand. However, despite a consistent yield of elderberries—thanks to their status as a local native plant—and occasional successes with garlic and lettuce, I still have more failure than success. But every year undaunted I try again with new hope.
A grey thumb
The plan was a magical Oregon forest ceremony but it's Oregon so it poured all day. The backup was an old WWII chapel lit by candles (that dripped down on us!) at sunset and the backup was absolutely perfect.
rain on our wedding day
I love a good story, and the greatest story of my life is being written daily with these little loves.
These endless numbered days
Schoolhouse No. 6 - the minute we saw it we knew it was home. The worn wood floors give us splinters, and more than one antique window pane has been shattered by a stray ball. I've birthed two babies in the living room, our neighbors are like family, and the tiny bayside village on the Eastern Shore that surrounds us is pure magic. We still can't believe we get to live here amidst all this beauty.
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No matter the mood, no matter the weather, outside is my tonic. Photography has taught me to see the light on winter grass more vividly, and to notice subtle details like fox paths and mantis nests. If we meet for a shoot outside chances are I'll be stopping to pick some turkey tail at some point and I'm happy to share it with you.
Opt outside
Picking a favorite place in the world is like picking a favorite child - they're all my favorite. I'm always up for a travel adventure to discover my new favorite.
Travel
