Sarah Maren Photographers » Around the Office http://www.sarahmaren.com Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:47:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Ringing in the New Year with a Dream Come True! http://www.sarahmaren.com/ringing-in-the-new-year-with-a-dream-come-true http://www.sarahmaren.com/ringing-in-the-new-year-with-a-dream-come-true#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:23:22 +0000 Sarah Maren http://www.sarahmaren.com/?p=6250
I am so excited to share this with you! Earlier this year we did a HUGE shoot for the Downtown Sacramento Partnership for their new marketing campaign. Seriously, I can’t tell you how awesome that shoot was. We had a great time for two days going to some of our favorite places in Sacramento and making awesome pictures with even more awesome people. You can see the pictures all over downtown, as well as loads of local magazines and of course the DSP Website. But the loves at DSP made my dreams come true by publishing an amazing 2012 calendar featuring the photos we took of my favorite place in the world. I love that I got to photograph some of my favorite people ever (hey, when you have to provide your own models, you bring your friends and family) in the town I adore. And now seeing all of that together in a calendar is just incredible! I feel so blessed.

A huge thanks to all those who were involved with the shoot, and an especially huge thanks to the DSP for letting me make a love letter to Sacramento. I LOVE this town, and feel so blessed to live and work here. Thank you to all of our 2011 clients as well. We had a great year and look forward with loads of anticipation to 2012!

Happy New Year!!!

]]> http://www.sarahmaren.com/ringing-in-the-new-year-with-a-dream-come-true/feed 0 Shoot Out 2011 http://www.sarahmaren.com/shoot-out-2011 http://www.sarahmaren.com/shoot-out-2011#comments Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:27:19 +0000 Sarah Maren http://www.sarahmaren.com/?p=6193 It’s that time of year again kids! Time for me to share all the weirdo pictures we take of each other while we are working. There are A LOT this year… like too many to share. But this is from 30 weddings and engagement sessions and commercial shoots and family portraits and holy moly we took a lot of pictures this year. Not only that, but we’ve got to work with so many awesome couples and so many amazing vendors. We had such a great year, and feel so grateful to do what we love with people who rock!

Testing photo booths has become a goldmine of shoot out photos.


As always, we want to thank all the awesome people we have been so blessed to work with. While I wasn’t carrying a baby around in my belly this year we still had a great time with our friends. Thanks to my beloved bestie Bethie B for shooting a wedding with me, the fabulous glamazons LeiLani and Renee of Hello Glam for making so many of my brides so very pretty, the incredible Shannon of Flourish for making so many wedding so darn pretty, and the awesome team of Kate Miller Events for making my job so damn fun! We love you guys and can’t wait to work with you lots more in 2012.


We also had the joy of spending a few days with our lovely Tammy Swales while she was in Califoria this fall. She was a peach and came and hung out with us while we worked a photo booth – and dang that girl is fun.


And of course we have to show some love to Francisco for rockin’ our Sacramento photo booths and being a great assistant.



Thanks to all of our awesome clients for having us be a part of your weddings, portraits and projects. We so enjoyed this year, and look forward with much anticipation to 2012! Check out our SLIDESHOW HERE or below for more from one fabulous year!

]]> http://www.sarahmaren.com/shoot-out-2011/feed 2 The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year! (out of the office, yo!) http://www.sarahmaren.com/the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year-out-of-the-office-yo http://www.sarahmaren.com/the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year-out-of-the-office-yo#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:07:05 +0000 Sarah Maren http://www.sarahmaren.com/?p=6187

I’m sitting at my desk, trying to plow through the last of an inbox that seems to multiply overnight and thinking about how wild this year has been. Despite how crazy this year has been, it has been equally awesome. But I can’t lie to you… I’m really excited about turning my computer off… FOR THE NEXT FOUR DAYS! That’s right kids, it’s my Christmas present to me! I’m shutting down the computer, turning off the phone and closing the door to my office until Tuesday, December 27th. Dustin and I shot 31 weddings this year and 35 engagement sessions, we shot the new campaign for the Downtown Sacramento Partnership (more on that later), some magazine pieces and family portraits. So, we’ve been BUSY! And honestly, I really miss my babies. I am very excited to just be a mama for the next few days.

With that, I wish you all the HAPPIEST of holidays! We hope you and yours enjoy this most wonderful time of the year. We will be back next week because HELLO! I’m SO behind on blogging and have SO much to share. I think I’ll start with our yearly shoot out slideshow. :) See you next week!!

]]> http://www.sarahmaren.com/the-most-wonderful-time-of-the-year-out-of-the-office-yo/feed 0 Announcing the 2011 50% Off Print & Canvas Black Friday Sale! http://www.sarahmaren.com/announcing-the-2011-50-off-print-canvas-black-friday-sale http://www.sarahmaren.com/announcing-the-2011-50-off-print-canvas-black-friday-sale#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:58:19 +0000 Sarah Maren http://www.sarahmaren.com/?p=6014 If you know me, you know I LOVE me some Black Friday sales. I’m so one of those people that go to the midnight opening of stores, large cup of coffee in hand and a thermos in the car. My sister and I pour over the paper on Thanksgiving day to lay our plan of attack. I love the feeling of returning home, car full of the spoils of early morning adventure, knowing that we are making this Christmas an awesome one for our family. Of course, I love sharing that feeling with my clients as well, so this year our Black Friday sale will not only be for canvases, it will be 50% off loose prints as well! We are super excited to help make this holiday season a special one for you and your family as well.

All 2011 galleries will be open on our proofing site WWW.SARAHMARENPHOTO.COM from Friday, November 25th through Sunday, November 27th. The Black Friday sale ONLY applies to purchases made BEFORE MIDNIGHT CENTRAL TIME on Friday, November 25th by using the coupon code: blackfriday. Any purchases made on Saturday or Sunday will be at our regular prices. The sale will not be extended under any circumstances, so get in while the getting is good! We hope you and your family have a wonderful holiday season filled with many memories!

]]> http://www.sarahmaren.com/announcing-the-2011-50-off-print-canvas-black-friday-sale/feed 1 A Note from The Weeds {personal} http://www.sarahmaren.com/a-note-from-the-weeds-personal http://www.sarahmaren.com/a-note-from-the-weeds-personal#comments Fri, 04 Mar 2011 19:02:35 +0000 Sarah Maren http://www.sarahmaren.com/?p=4503
This week has been full of long drives, amazing photo shoots, yummy dinners with the boy I love best, amazing french macaroons, more driving, two sick kids, no daycare because kids are sick, lots of songs, cough medicine, Tylenol, Vick’s vapor rub, googeling home remedies, and working late into the night once the babies are in bed and my brain is mush. Despite the break-neck pace of this crazy life, I can’t tell you how grateful I am to have it… to be living it. I love my kiddos – even when they are hacking up their lungs and needing to be cuddled while their fever breaks. I love my husband – who calmly makes the best fajitas ever while I try to return emails with a sick 4 year old in my lap. And I love my job – Even when it’s hard to do, even when I feel like my inbox could be my mortal enemy, even when all my equipment seems to break at once, even when I feel like I can’t look at the computer for one more second or my eyes are going to bleed – it’s still the best job ever with the best people ever. And so in the midst of all the crazy of this last week I can’t help but feel profoundly grateful for a really, really great life. Have a great weekend everyone! Hopefully next week will be a little calmer for everyone.

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