Laurie Sachs Photography

Today I met a lovely mother to be, eagerly await­ing the birth of her first child. This should be the most won­der­ful time of her life except that the man she loved, her baby’s father, was killed in an acci­dent five months ago. She had her mom and her aunt there with her today and you could just feel how much these ladies cared for one another and how they had pulled together for each other and for this baby. There were some tears, there were some laughs, and there was def­i­nitely a feel­ing of excite­ment for the future. We tried to incor­po­rate some remem­brance of James into the pic­tures, his dog tags and his mil­i­tary flag. I hope I have done them jus­tice. Enjoy the sneak peek, more pho­tos to come. It was a honor to take your pic­tures Michelle.

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Well this is a fun blog post to write! This week­end was the Santa Clarita Val­ley Photographer’s Asso­ci­a­tion annual print com­pe­ti­tion. I’ve never entered a print com­pe­ti­tion before but thought why not, could be fun, but I wasn’t sure what to expect. On the drive over to the pho­tog­ra­phy expo Rose Marie, the owner of Fast Frame of Valen­cia, called to con­grat­u­late me. I won first place in the por­trait cat­e­gory, third place in the land­scape cat­e­gory, and received a merit award for my other entry. I was stunned and thrilled to have my work place so well against the well over one hun­dred other fan­tas­tic pho­tographs from some of the won­der­ful pho­tog­ra­phers of the Santa Clarita Val­ley. These pho­tos are cour­tesy of my hus­band and his iphone:

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Thurs­day May 14th is the grand open­ing cel­e­bra­tion at Stork Vision of Valen­cia. You need to come on down and check out their state of the art fam­ily friendly facil­ity located on Cin­ema Drive. Refresh­ments will be served and there will be a raf­fle full of good­ies includ­ing a Tar­get gift card, free ultra sound scan, a free por­trait sit­ting plus print credit from me, and lots more! You’ll be able to take a peek at some of my work dec­o­rat­ing their offices and framed cour­tesy Fast Frame of Valen­cia too! 4pm to 7pm Thurs­day May 14th, 23300 Cin­ema Dr #2910.

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Given the option to do what­ever I wanted on Mother’s Day I def­i­nitely was going to get out with my cam­era and my very favorite mod­els, my four kids. I wanted to try an urban shoot with them, well as urban as Santa Clarita gets :) Thanks to my hus­band who served as photo assis­tant and baby spot­ter no chil­dren were harmed in the tak­ing of these pho­tos. I hope you’ve had a won­der­ful Mother’s Day one and all, I sure did!

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This is the win­ning letter:

I am writ­ing to nom­i­nate a friend of mine for your “Incred­i­ble Mom” con­test.  Her name is Stephanie Cruz. She is an incred­i­ble mom, teacher, Sun­day school group leader, friend and wife.  She has three adorable chil­dren and she works hard to make sure they are grow­ing up to be won­der­ful peo­ple.  She is a teacher in the Saugus school dis­trict and is one of the valu­able teach­ers wait­ing to see if she has a job next year with all the bud­get cuts.  Stephanie worked on her cre­den­tial while being a mother to her three chil­dren.  She faces all the chal­lenges that come her way with a calm and peace­ful atti­tude. I was espe­cially impressed the way she has dealt with her son. After find­ing that he was hav­ing a hard time at school, she set out to find out what was going on.  She never gave up and they have been able to find the prob­lem and ways to work with it with­out any type of med­ica­tions.  Through­out the process she said that this expe­ri­ence was going to help her be a bet­ter teacher to the chil­dren she has in her classes.  And that she would be bet­ter able to help the par­ents too. 
Any­one that meets Stephanie is instantly com­fort­able, she puts every­one at ease.  I am hop­ing that she wins your con­test because I know she would love hav­ing pic­tures of her fam­ily and with the uncer­tain times it would not be some­thing she would be able to do.

Stephanie will receive a free photo ses­sion and mounted 11 x 14 print, and just because I have such a soft spot in my heart for good teach­ers I’m going to throw in an 8 x 10, two 5 x 7’s and a set of wal­lets so she can get a nice set of prints of her fam­ily at no out of pocket expense. I so look for­ward to tak­ing your fam­ily pic­tures Stephanie and your kids are so cute one might think they were ringers! Happy Mother’s day one and all, the hard work we all put in to rais­ing our fam­i­lies does not go unnoticed.

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This lovely lady is a dear fam­ily friend and last week she and her boyfriend sur­prised us all by elop­ing to Hawaii! Being around them you can just feel how bliss­fully happy they are. Con­grat­u­la­tions Chris and Juan, we wish you all the hap­pi­ness in the world. Enjoy the sneak peek, more to come…

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