Jewish Festival Annual Report

Sunday's Atlanta Jewish Festival at the Jewish Community Center in Dunwoody, GA was a blast! Thanks to everyone who stopped by to say hello. And welcome all my new friends!

This is the third year I've set up a booth at the festival and it's always a fun (and hot!) day. I was especially excited about this year's festival because I was able to get my sample AsukaBook album printed and bound in time to put it out on display. And WOW, I got a great response from it!

My entire display turned out great too and I have to thank Nick for all his help. There's no way I could have carried that wall in and out of my house, in and out of the car and then set it up and take it down at the festival without his help. What a great boyfriend! Plus, Nick was selling his brand new CD, Ripple, at the festival. It was just released last week and it's amazing. (I took the pictures that are on the booklet and CD tray!) It's a great mix of blues, rock, a little country, and even some beautiful piano and sax love songs. Take a listen at his site and when you buy a copy, mention I sent you.

Anyway, congratulations to Kathy Raible who won the grand prize raffle of a FREE PORTRAIT! Thanks to everyone who entered and see you next year!

wishing & waiting....

The last two days have been really exhausting but extremely exciting. I am in the process of updating my website and I am so unbelievably anxious to see the final product!

You know the feeling of wanting something so much, but the process of completing it takes so long that you start to lose hope that it will ever be finished? Well that's me. And I hate to say how long it's actually been. Through a series of mishaps (wow those were some serious learning experiences), this new website has been really long in the making. But the end is finally in site (get it? - "site" HA!) I must be delirious with exhaustion. Sorry.

Anyway, I don't think that I'm alone in this feeling, so if you have any encouraging words of wisdom or funny stories, I'd love to hear them. Click "comments" at the end of any post to leave your message.

More next time....

One Year Old!

On Saturday, I had a great time when I photographed little Zoey Alexandra's one year portrait. This was a really special portrait for me because I photographed Zoey's mom's maternity pictures last year. This was the first time I was meeting Zoey and I was really excited.

Zoey and mom met me at the door with smiling faces and excitement in their eyes. The maternity pictures had turned out great and I was so flattered to see them all over their beautiful home. Zoey had a great time riding in her fire truck, playing hide-and-go-seek with mom in her room and snuggling up with dad. She couldn't be any cuter. .

Daddy's little girl!

She had a little meltdown towards the end of our shoot, but nothing a cozy nap couldn't take care of.Hope you had a great nap. Thanks Zoey! See you soon.

Drum roll please.....

Welcome to Sara Speert Photography's brand new BLOG! (We are so glad to be joining the new millennia - 6 1/2 years later ain't so bad... ok, it's pathetic. But we did make it and that's what's important, right?)

This will be a great spot for posting news and photographs from our recent weddings and portraits. I hope that you return again and again to fill your curiosity and post your own thoughts.

The most recent great news is that I had one of my favorite images, one I call "Security", printed in Skirt! Magazine (August). Skirt!, as you can imagine, is for women, but I don't think they'd kill you if you're a guy and wanted to read. It's distributed all over the Southeast which makes me so happy. I've really enjoyed photographing weddings in and around Atlanta, North Georgia and Alabama and I'd love to shoot weddings and portraits in Charleston, Savannah, Hilton Head, and especially at the beaches. So, I'm looking forward to feedback from readers.

So, thanks for reading. Check back often and be sure to visit the website.