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I only met Sarah a couple of weeks ago at a Super Bowl party here in New York. Much like me, Sarah just moved to New York, and is still getting adjusted to life in the big city (coming from Florida…big change!). Also, much like me, Sarah LOVES New York so far. Since meeting Sarah and her family, we’ve been over to their home on Roosevelt Island a few times for dinner and hanging out, and during our time together I found out that Sarah’s been a ballet dancer for most of her life. Like I mentioned before, I’ve been excited about the idea of shooting a dancer for sometime, so I almost instantly asked her if I could photograph her. Sarah’s father works with a church planting/training organization (correct me if I got that wrong Sarah!) and was asked to come live in New York, so Sarah came along for the ride. It’s great meeting new people, and even greater to get to photograph them being themselves.

On a quick semi-side note: Photographing a dancer was so much fun…any dancers out there in NYC or Alabama (I’ll be down south for the summer) who want to be photographed?