A Texas-born, mountains-to-coast transplant, Sarah is a people-centered coastal creative at heart.

After 20 years behind the camera and thousands of sessions with passionate people, business owners, families, and brands, Sarah launched Elevate 757 to bring it all together: visual marketing, real estate, and an unwavering belief that first impressions can be beautiful and bold without losing the humanity behind them.

With a formal education from the University of Tennessee (Go Vols!) and a soul full of the need to serve and create, Sarah began her creative career in 2004, photographing everything from families to weddings, new moms, high-end restaurants and menus and start-up entrepreneurs. Since then, she has planted her roots here in the Virginia Tidewater area, where Sarah lives with her wild and wonderful crew.

Sarah always says that life is big, full, often hilarious, and always incredibly real. She encourages others in teaching that each individual’s history, successes and failures provide the perfect foundation for how we can best serve others.

At Annabelle + Ivy, Sarah combines years of experience with humor and her love for people to tell their stories in the most beautiful and genuine way. She is excited to serve couples, families, graduating seniors and women with the same heart she brings to her home, family, and community: grounded in faith, rich in joy, and always ready to roll up her sleeves and dig in.

Sarah firmly believes in the individual light that each of us carry, reminding others often that “You Did Not Wake Up Today to Be Mediocre.” 

She attacks work with intention, living and acting fiercely — whether chasing  goals or soaking in a sunset, she has the mindset to purposefully give it her all.

She believes in a positive outlook, honest work, deep conversations, second chances, fresh flowers, back porch laughter, and helping people present their homes and their stories in a way that reflects who they are.

If you’re looking for someone who gets your vision and brings the heart, hustle, and visual strategy to your images—Sarah is your girl.

Sarah’s photography sessions are about capturing moments just as they are at that very time.  It is her goal that you enter into your time together confident and relaxed, trusting that your images will be the true representation of you and your event. 

When she began her photography journey in 2004, Sarah took on just about any project that was thrown at her.  She had the opportunity to photograph everything from families to marketing for menus at high-end restaurants.  But, over the past 20 years Sarah has been able to live and sort through what she loves and does best. 

Today, Annabelle + Ivy Studios house four pieces of the photography world that have become Sarah’s favorite pieces of being a professional photographer. She specialize in:
WEDDINGS, ENGAGMENTS + ELOPEMENTS
FAMILY, SENIORS, + MATERNITY
BOUDOIR + BOUDOIR EDUCATION
PORTRAITS + HEADSHOTS for BUSINESS, BRANDING, AND SOCIAL MEDIA

Sarah is grateful for this unpredictable, exciting, emotional career full of people like you.  Connections with others and the creation of awesome images are her number one priority.  She ais so glad that you’ve stopped by and are looking around.  She would tell you that she is already entirely excited about working with and serving you.

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