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Tuesday, December 30, 2008, 07:44 PM
Choosing my favorite moments of 2008 was so difficult to do!
This year truly has been one of the best years of my life. It has been full of change and challenge.... a perfect breeding ground for growth.
Our couples have really made this year amazing for us. I honestly think we have the best, raddest, purdiest, most amazing couples in the world. I find myself so attached to a lot of our images for various reasons, making it next to impossible to pick just a handful of favorites especially when you consider that we have shot somewhere in the ballpark of 250,000ish frames throughout the course of the year!
But there was just something about these images in particular that resonate with me. When I look at the frames as a collection...most have sprinkles of imagination and others strike you right in the gut with their honesty and ingenuity. And some are chosen for reasons that perhaps only I will understand ;) there was just something about them.
I think it is so important for us as artists to look back on our different seasons, the things which we gravitated to and see how those things have changed and are different....I had a lot of fun reflecting on my different shoots, my different couples, my tendencies. I walk away realizing how much I have been stretched, how I have grown & learned to spread my wings.
But as I look upon this last year I also realize how much growth I want to see in the next. It makes me want to push myself creatively harder than I have before, It makes me want to love more passionately and more deeply because I think at the heart of any true success their must be love for it to have any sort of genuine resolve.
Thank you to all of our beautiful couples, our beautiful friends and our beautiful families for your support in 2008. We are so blessed to have you in our lives.
Thoughts
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what a wonderful entry. happy new year blondie!
This collection of photos are soo gorgeous and inspiring! You are very talented and it's a pleasure to read your blog! keep on keeping on!
dig the new blog sister. looks like you've been busy creating AMAZING images!!!!! much success in 2009!!! xoxo
Great work! The new blog format is really cool.
good stuff Sarah - your work is fresh & inspiring...
fantastic collection. love your work :)
Great Selection! It is so nice to see your work grow. Happy New Year to you!
Your work is amazing and I HEART your self portrait. It's nice to find a place I can peek in and be inspired. I love Seattle and had a shoot there last year. What a great place to live. Maybe some day we can meet. Let me know if you ever come by Denver. Your very soon future HORIZONTAL sister!
meg
Gorgeous gorgeous photos. It's so fun to watch you evolve and make the world a more beautiful, joyful, and passionate place. I love this line "I think at the heart of any true success their must be love for it to have any sort of genuine resolve". And you, my bestie, leave your mark of love everywhere you go.
Can't wait to see what's to come from SRP in '09!
you are one amazingly talented person! your imagery has such depth & emotion--love it. excited to see where you go this next year---somewhere big, i'm sure! it was great meeting you (finally!) at the PUG xmas party, you're as great as everyone says you are. :) happy new year!
jenny
What a beautiful recap of the year! Just a reminder of why I stop by to look at your images all the time! Can't wait to see what you and Chris cook up in 2009...
Sarah...there is something so pure about your images, that it is hard to describe in words. You do amazing things with your camera for amazing people and I am sure I speak for everyone out there when I say, thank you for sharing your art with all of us. Hope you both are well and I wish you both a wonderful 2009.
Awesome range Kenslow! I'll have you know, you picked many of the very ones I would've picked for you :) The great thing is, When I look at those particular images, I know EXACTLY WHY I would've picked them. I know that kinda sounds lame, but to me, there's something great about an image when I'm able to immediately point out the "why" about my appreciation for it.
@Elizabeth thanks sister... it was really fun to see some of my first shoots of the year to now.. big changes. Happy New Year to you.
Wowzers...you're such a talented lady, and a good little thinker. Looking back, you can see the growth in your work.
You chose all my favorites! Keep up the hard, beautiful work
love them all! happy 2009! ;-)
hello mama... geez... i was gonna list my faves but umm. yeah. the list was a little too long so then i decided it would be easier to list the ones i don't like. here it is...
xoxo
~S