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Mission

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.

Clients

Old Edwards Inn & Spa

  • Meadows Mountain Realty

• Burlingame Country Club

  • Cullasaja Club

• Mckee Properties

• Chattooga Ridge

• Discovery Land Company

  • Sweetwater Builders

  • Cimmarron Homes

 

Testimonials

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

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.

    

     In 2000 she started Sarah’s Visual Toursproviding 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.

 

   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.

 

Resume

Owner/Director

10/2002 – Present,

Sarah Valentine Photography & Rainhouse Productions, Highlands, NC

§            Architectural, Residential & Commercial Photography

§         Multimedia Marketing Company with Visual Tours, Web sites, Brochures, etc

Marketing Director - 4/2002-10/2002

Signature Properties, Highlands, NC

Administrative Assistant - 8/2001-4/2002

To Barbara Johnson, Prudential Florida WCI Realty, Marco Island, FL

Exhibits

Juried Show

Bascom Louise Fine Art Gallery, Highlands, NC

October 21, 2007 - November 21, 2007

Show

Village Square Arts and Crafts Show, Highlands, NC

September 2, 2006

Education

1983-85  American University, Washington DC

§           Studied Business, Majored in Marketing

 Sample Assignments

McKee Properties, Cashiers, NC

§         Streaming photos to music playing 24/7 at Wade Hampton  Cable TV Channel, an ongoing assignment

§         Ad in the Christie’s Great Estates Issue One 2008 p.155

Views, The Magazine of Lifestyle & Leisure, Macon, GA, Summer 2007 -

§         Tug Wa Ridge – 2007 Highlands Showhouse layout

Discovery Land Company, Cashiers, NC

§         Assigned area stock photography for brochures for a new development called Mountaintop

Meadows Mountain Realty, Highlands, NC

§                                                        §         Photos for promotional work in Magazines, promo pieces & web site                            

§             Ad in the DuPont Registry Magazine

    With my area stock photos

Burlingame Country Club, Sapphire, NC

§         Photos for promotional work in Magazines, promo pieces & web site

 

Architecture  |  Commercial  |  Residential

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Rainhouse | 166 Panther Ridge Drive | Highlands,NC 28741 | 828.787.2342 | Sarah@sValentinePhotos.com