I've Moved!

I'm moving my blog to a more fitting place- my website!

Please join me at www.sarahsilverphotography.ca

I look forward to seeing you there!

Parksville Alley Crawl

We spent 90 mins combing the alleys of Parksville, looking for ugly grungy places. The locations were a blur of garage doors, exposed brick walls and loading docks. But all we unearthed was beauty. These ladies were a treat!

5 acres of scenery as my backdrop

Relax was the word of the day on my last photoshoot. Held on their 5 acre piece of heaven in Qualicum Beach, the shoot went by in the blink of an eye. This lovely couple and their 4 year old son were an absolute dream to photograph. There were so many images to choose from but here are my favorites.

Sometimes it's the simplest moments that make the biggest impact. Here is father and son operating the excavator.

As is every woman before a photoshoot, she was nervous about looking good for her portraits. But wow. Just look at her! Stunning!

Can't you just hear her laughter through this image? She has an infectious laugh and I think it shows!

He is small but big on personality. I think he was telling me a story while I shot this one.

Father and son doing what they do best, hanging out and taking it all in.

Thank you for an amazing shoot. I enjoyed every minute!

Parksville Alley Crawl

What do you get when you combine 4 gorgeous girls on a beautiful sunny afternoon in the alleys of the town of Parksville?

Fun. Pure and simple.

I enjoyed the shoot and can't wait to show more of it to you.

Website- coming soon!!!! (I can hardly contain myself at just 4 exclamation points!)

new favorite!

Alright... I was going to save this one for myself. At least until the launch of my website! (getting there....) But if you have come over here to find this, then here is your special sneak peek. This one is definitely destined for my portfolio page. =)



More on the facebook fan page of this amazing little guy and his sweet baby sister!

This time of year

I love fall...

It's a time of new beginnings for me, every year.

This year even more so with the onset of my new venture.

The kids clearly enjoy fall as well.

Especially when it includes a visit from Uncle!

Temporarily home

Work has begun on my photography website! I am so excited to show it to you all. But for now, this will be home. When the website is done, I will post here and move over to my new blog home within the website.

A sneak peek:


This is the logo that my husband Todd created for me. Love it! The font choice fits me perfectly!

Most fun on a photoshoot thus far!

This was great fun.

Take one lopsided (on purpose) cake, decorated by yours truly.


Clearly cake making should be left to the professionals.

Then take a charming little girl who is just about to turn one year old.



Add girl to cake and allow things to unfold naturally.



Thank you to my friend and her daughter for their great sense of humor today. I really appreciate the help to expand my body of work. I hope you enjoy your images!

Leap!

I have just had a life changing weekend and I needed to share my pure joy and enthusiasm right this moment. I have been inspired. I have a whirlwind of thoughts and clarity at the same time. I have a goal. I have passion.

Alright, so I've always had all these things, I WILL give myself that credit. But never in this amount. Or this saturation of being all these things. All at once.

I have a big dream to become a professional photographer. I have always been something of a shutterbug and this hobby has manifested itself to much more than just another one of my creative outlets. I find myself actually living to get that amazing shot. I want to just go out and find faces for the other side of the lens. When I can't find a face, I use my own. Usually the frames are filled by my adorable 3 1/2 year old twins.

So to say that I want this would be an understatement. A big one.

Enter Jasmine Star, wedding photographer extraordinaire. A powerhouse of a woman, she is a wedding photography specialist in Southern California. More recently, she was the creative talent for a 5 day long live course offered by creativelive.

This course changed everything for me.

I will admit it- I was afraid. Pure and simple. I was afraid to put my talents out there. Fearful of the new and unknown. Jasmine Star has shown me (and few other 100,000 people who were watching) that it's okay to put yourself out there. Be yourself. Be REAL. Allow your talents to attract those they were destined to attract and repel those that were not meant to be. Don't be all things to all people. Be you.

Well, even I can do that!

She told us to allow our branding to be an extension of ourselves. This is key to marketing ourselves effectively. This spoke so loudly to me. I don't fit the "girly" aspect that many female photographers may be comfortable with. (I don't mean girly in a bad way, I just don't know how else to convey it) It simply isn't me.

I need to be authentic. I need to be me, through and through.

So what am I, exactly? Well, we have already established that I am not a morning person and require at least 3 calls to get out of bed and a large cup of coffee before I can function. I will never be a "spring out of bed to watch the sun rise and do yoga" kinda girl. I am great with numbers but bad with names. I love to cook but have troubles straying from the recipes at hand. I simply can't read fiction, especially before going to sleep. I don't know why I find it frustrating but I do. Give me a non-fiction read of any kind and I am happy. I am someone who sees the big picture but finds joy in photographing the smallest details. Maybe that's because I can't remember them. ;) I am a Mumma to beautiful twins and love that role in m life! I am a wife of 6 years. I love being at home with my family and I love being a stay at home (and working!) Mum.

I am a sum of so many parts. And without a single one of them, I wouldn't be me. And the addition of any one thing, like yoga at dawn, would dramatically change that makeup. And I am at a place in my life where I like me. Heck, there are even days when I love me. Room for improvement? Sure. But no yoga, thank you.

And I will now take what I learned this weekend with this amazing course and apply it to my life, on my terms. I want to legitimately call myself a photographer. it's time to put it out there. It's time to hang a sign that says open for business.

And so, after much contemplation, dreaming, stalling, procrastinating and pure laziness... I officially open my brand, my store. Sarah Silver Photography.

Slower pace

Part of being in a smaller town and the part that I am truly looking forward to is taking things just a bit slower. It is sometimes joked about as being "Island Time" but really- it's just a reduced stress level and taking things as they come. How much more to you really accomplish by tackling 4 tasks at once?

Things I am working on this week in an effort to slow down my own frenzied pace:
1. scheduling one night a week for something truly my own after the kids have gone to bed
2. speaking in a calmer voice whenever possible (it gets really loud here some days to be heard over two 3 year olds!)

I'll sign off with this; nothing quiets the mind like pulling weeds in an overgrown garden.

H.O.M.E.

I am finally, without a doubt, home.

This has been three years in the making and happened so quickly. After all that planning- we did not move where we had intended. Careful consideration was given to each and every neighborhood of Nanaimo. We knew what schools we wanted to live near and where we wanted to shop. We knew what lake we wanted to spend our spare time at. We planned it all out.

Then we moved to Parksville.

We found a house, fell in love and took it- sight unseen. An adventure. Well worth the risk. We love our new home. The smaller town life. The slower pace.

It's bliss.

I'll share more and photos on flickr to match over the coming weeks.