Mission | Clients | Testimonials | Bio | Resume | Exhibits
Mission
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Since 2000, Sarah
Valentine’s Photography has been helping realtors,
home owners, developers, builders, architects, designers and
business owners portray
their work in their best light. Sarah’s true passion for photography stems from
her love of colors, shadows, lines and textures, and whether she
is shooting for a virtual tour or a commercial ad for a
large development, her strengths lies in the use of
light and composition. She thrives on repeat business by
developing relationships with her clients. She makes
professional quality photographs easily available in
large format. She does this by using a pricing structure
that makes her digital photographs a household name.
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Clients
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• Old
Edwards Inn & Spa
• Burlingame Country Club
• Mckee Properties
• Chattooga Ridge
• Discovery Land Company
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Testimonials
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Sarah has worked for
me providing high quality photography for the past six
years. We have used her work in magazines, promotional
pieces, and on-line advertising. Sarah always strives
the highest quality results and we regularly get request
from our competition on the source of our photography.
She has been instrumental in setting the standard for
all others to follow in our small community.
Mark Meadows – Real
Estate Developer of Burlingame Country Club
We are a high-end
luxury real estate brokerage firm located in Cashiers,
North Carolina. We specialize in properties in the
$2,000,000 and up range and are an affiliate of
Christies Great Estates of Western North Carolina.
For the last five
years Sarah Valentine has been our sole resource for
on-line visual tours. We
can say without hesitation that Sarah is an outstanding
professional to work with. She is prompt, professional,
knowledgeable and reasonably priced. Its refreshing in
the real estate business to have a long-term
relationship with someone who you can count on to
produce excellent results each and every time. We
wholeheartedly endorse Sarah Valentine and we would
recommend her to anyone who is in need of a visual tour
or professional photography.
A. William McKee –
President and Developer of McKee Properties
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Bio
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Even as a child, photography fired Sarah Valentine’s
imagination. She learned the power of images from her
father, who had a passion for travel and photography.
Many of his large safari photos hung on the walls of her
bedroom. Seeing the strength and grace of a cheetah
hanging from a tree made her want to duplicate that
experience. Her freshman year in high school Sarah
studied Ansel Adam’s zone system of exposure and
darkroom techniques. By her senior year, she was the
year book photographer. |
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In 2000 she started
Sarah’s
Visual
Tours,
providing an internet marketing service for
realtors as a part time venture in Marco Island,
Florida. After moving to Highlands, North Carolina in
2002, it became a full time venture. The studio name,
Rainhouse Productions, reflects the new
multimedia marketing services that it now offers with
the addition of web site design, commercial photography,
stock photos and fine art photography as well as visual
tours. The additional tools help meet the ever changing
marketing demands in her community that include
builders, developers and realtors.
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Sarah continues to seek opportunities to improve her
skills. Her vision is to travel and through her
photographs awaken awareness of the environment
world-wide.
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Resume
Owner/Director
10/2002 – Present,
Sarah Valentine
Photography & Rainhouse Productions,
Highlands, NC
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Architectural, Residential &
Commercial Photography
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Multimedia Marketing Company
with Visual Tours, Web sites, Brochures, etc |
Marketing Director -
4/2002-10/2002
Signature Properties, Highlands, NC |
Administrative Assistant
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8/2001-4/2002
To Barbara Johnson, Prudential Florida WCI
Realty, Marco Island, FL |
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Exhibits |
Juried Show
Bascom Louise Fine
Art Gallery, Highlands, NC
October 21, 2007 - November 21, 2007 |
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Show
Village Square Arts and Crafts Show,
Highlands, NC
September 2, 2006 |
Education
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1983-85 American
University, Washington DC
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Studied Business, Majored in
Marketing |
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Sample Assignments |
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McKee Properties, Cashiers, NC
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Streaming photos to music
playing 24/7 at Wade Hampton Cable TV
Channel, an ongoing assignment
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Ad in the Christie’s Great
Estates Issue One 2008 p.155 |
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Views, The Magazine of Lifestyle &
Leisure, Macon, GA, Summer 2007 -
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Tug Wa Ridge – 2007 Highlands
Showhouse layout |
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Discovery Land Company, Cashiers, NC
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Assigned area stock
photography for brochures for a new
development called Mountaintop |
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Meadows Mountain Realty, Highlands, NC
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Photos for promotional
work in Magazines, promo pieces & web site
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Ad in the DuPont
Registry Magazine
With my area stock photos |
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Burlingame Country Club,
Sapphire, NC
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Photos for promotional
work in Magazines, promo pieces & web site |
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