Category Archives: personal

Looking back on the year (with a few frames of which I am quite fond) | 2011

gretna virginia

I think I could spend weeks trying to come up with the perfect things to say about the past 12 months. My heart is completely full of joy and thankfulness and humility as I look back on my first year as a photographer–2011 has been one big, messy, exciting, busy time, but a time for...

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hillsborough portrait session | A rainy morning walk with Jax | hillsborough, NC

jumping in puddles with jackson

Happy spring, everyone! We’ve been getting A TON of rain, it seems. And each time it rains during the night and clears up in the morning, I’m always sure Jax and I will go on a walk, in search of the perfect puddles. No posing, just quiet observations. I really love these images for their...

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chapel hill portrait photographer of a really, very cute baby (i.e. more pictures of Max)

Chapel Hill portrait of a cute baby by photographer sarah der photography

Early Saturday morning, Shannon passed me Max before the sun had really risen, before the clock had even struck 7 (and before I even had my morning coffee, brushed my teeth, and before I had even gotten out of bed to find my glasses) and I just have to say, spending the first hour of...

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we have stockings!

sarah der photography makes stockings for christmas!

In the name of holiday spirit, I spent yesterday evening sewing some stockings for our little family! It was an urge I had (I can sometimes be very fickle and spontaneous), encouraged by my dear mother. But as I didn’t have any Christmas fabric, I used some red and green (and black for Toulouse!) scraps...

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