The first time I witnessed a fine art print emerging from the printer, my heart stopped. The weight of the paper in my hands, the texture of the cotton under my fingertips, and the way the print seemed to glow from the inside. I held in my hands the most beautiful version of a photo I had ever taken, a tangible link to another time and place.  

Photography was a pastime looping and twisting itself through my teens, twenties, and early thirties. It was that other thing that I did alongside raising four amazing children. I knew how to take pictures but not how to make pictures consistently and deliberately. Eventually the time came where my youngest was just old enough, and my oldest wasn't thoroughly into the magnificent teen years, so I committed to studying photography professionally at Hallmark Institute of Photography.

Ten years post graduation, with all my kids grown, I get to give myself over to what I love most:  

Portrait making.  

This is the love of the journey.

Based in Seattle/Tacoma Washington, with a satellite studio in Eugene, Oregon.

Sara Heinrichs- Portrait Photographer

Education: Hallmark Institute of Photography 2009-2010