Laurie Sachs Photography

Recently I had the priv­i­lege of pho­tograph­ing a very spe­cial lit­tle girl named Kylee through the char­ity orga­ni­za­tion Inspi­ra­tion Through Art. Kylee suf­fers from mito­chon­dr­ial dis­or­der which causes a com­plex mul­ti­tude of health ail­ments. Kylee has a feed­ing and a drainage tube and wears a lit­tle back­pack that holds her nour­ish­ment. She has a hard time tol­er­at­ing heat and cold so we did her ses­sion here in my stu­dio. Kylee’s sib­lings all suf­fer from mito­chon­dr­ial dis­or­der in vary­ing degrees but Kylee is the most severely affected. Kylee was back in the hos­pi­tal just after our ses­sion. While I hear she is doing well I hope you’ll join me in prayer and well wishes for her con­tin­ued recovery.

2011 has been an amaz­ing year!!! I had the plea­sure of work­ing with 32 tiny new peo­ple. I was able to cap­ture some first smiles and even a few first steps! Over 40 babies came to see me for mile­stone ses­sions. My Fall sea­son was jam packed full of fun fam­i­lies. My lit­tle fam­ily has con­tin­ued to blos­som, I am truly blessed. Thank you for let­ting me be a part of your year.

My last avail­able week­end appoint­ments for 2011 are quickly approach­ing. If you are inter­ested in hol­i­day card pho­tos please check out my mini ses­sion infor­ma­tion here. Mini ses­sions will be held on Sat­ur­day Decem­ber 3rd, I have a few remain­ing spots avail­able. I have two remain­ing week­day spots for the year the week of Decem­ber 5th. All orders for hol­i­day cards or gifts must be received by Decem­ber 9th to insure receipt by Christ­mas. Other than the 3 or 4 Christ­mas babies I have due I’ll be tak­ing a much needed vaca­tion with my lit­tle mon­keys full of hot cocoa with marsh­mal­lows and bak­ing cook­ies for Daddy and Santa. I’ll also be try­ing to catch up on my blog so every­one can see all the gor­geous fam­i­lies I have enjoyed pho­tograph­ing this Fall.

Santa Clarita res­i­dents please check out page 7 of the most recent Sea­sons cat­a­log for details on the City’s Com­mon Spaces art exhibits. July 1st through Novem­ber 1st the city will dis­play win­ners from the SCVPA’s spring print com­pe­ti­tion. Go and check out my best in show image of baby Nicholas and my two merit prints as well as tons of other amaz­ing pho­tographs dis­played right on the first floor at City Hall.

Recently the Santa Clarita Val­ley Photographer’s Asso­ci­a­tion held it’s annual print com­pe­ti­tion. I am proud to announce this image of sweet lit­tle Nicholas won over­all best in show!!! My framed print will be on dis­play at City Hall this sum­mer, I’ll keep you updated once it goes up!

It’s that time of year again, time to update the web­site and blog! One thing I’ll be adding to my site is a tes­ta­mo­ni­als sec­tion. I’ve been resis­tant to this idea but after con­sid­er­a­tion I do think it would be a lovely way for new fam­i­lies to hear about the por­trait expe­ri­ence, from all of you! I’ve received some amaz­ing let­ters over the years that I’ll be includ­ing but if you would like to share your expe­ri­ence with hav­ing me pho­to­graph your baby please e-mail me.

2010 was an amaz­ing year! My busi­ness grew, my fam­ily con­tin­ued to blos­som, I am truly blessed. I had 132 pho­to­shoots this year, pho­tographed 45 brand spank­ing new peo­ple. Many of those new­borns came back to see me through­out the year as baby plan­ners. You have allowed me to rock and snug­gle your babies, cap­ture your gig­gles, tooth­less grins, and first steps. Thank you for mak­ing this such a mem­o­rable year! Lau­rie Sachs Pho­tog­ra­phy 2010:

There’s a storm brew­ing here in town regard­ing the Bridge­port devel­op­ment and their place within the greater Valen­cia mas­ter­plan. In a nut­shell yes­ter­day signs went up stat­ing Bridge­port was pri­vate prop­erty for res­i­dents only and pho­tog­ra­phy was specif­i­cally pro­hib­ited. Accord­ing to the city of Santa Clarita the areas sur­round­ing the lake at Bridge­port were always zoned and intended to have pub­lic access and those areas are con­sid­ered part of the Valen­cia paseo net­work and there­for the signs are ille­gal and must be removed. Tonight the signs remain threat­en­ing pros­e­cu­tion if you enter Bridge­port or God for­bid take a pic­ture. I was asked to write an arti­cle on the sub­ject for SCVtalk.com. Within 20 min­utes of my arti­cle being posted the Sig­nal News­pa­per called and asked me for an inter­view. Clearly peo­ple pay atten­tion to SCVtalk.com and the infor­ma­tion and opin­ions shared there. Please go read the arti­cle, learn the details and leave some com­ments with your opin­ions on the sit­u­a­tion. Here’s some pic­tures I’ve taken at Bridge­port over the years, it would be a darn shame if that area were no longer avail­able to SCV res­i­dents even though the devel­op­ment was approved for con­struc­tion based upon it being open the the pub­lic and part of the paseo net­work. Imag­ine what our beau­ti­ful com­mu­nity would be like if each neigh­bor­hood in Valen­cia declared their sec­tion of the paseos pri­vate prop­erty and blocked access. It cer­tainly would no longer be the com­mu­nity we’ve all come to love and call home.