It took a bit for this super cute brother and sister team to warm up to me but of course, once they did, I couldn’t keep up. Thanks to mom for driving up to the cities for the session!
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39/365 | Out of Office
I headed out this morning to catch some of the snow on the trees but it’s Sunday and I didn’t get out of the house too early…but Jase and I still headed down to the old Cedar Bridge to get a few photos while on the way to REI to talk my way into a new camera bag. Photos = win. REI camera bag = fail.
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(f7.1 70mm 1/2500 ISO320)
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(f7.1 56mm 1/800 ISO320)
I’ll be out of the office this week to attend a workshop it seems I’ve been waiting forever to attend! Not only do I get to meet four amazing and inspiring photographers, I get to learn from them too! If you haven’t before, check out Audrey Woulard, Tamara Lackey, Lena Hyde and Laura Novak and see why I’m beyond excited. On top of that, I’ll be hanging out with 60 other photographers from across the country! I ‘heart’ photo workshops. Tough ‘work’, I know! I’ll return all emails and calls when I return.
Giving Is Awesome - Again
I’m so happy I decided to become a part of Giving is Awesome this past holiday season and am amazed at how much the idea has grown! I’m still waiting for it to warm up a bit before I have my Giving is Awesome session but am looking forward to it! Please read below for some more information about how the founder, Kristin Kalp, is trying to grow the idea…with the help of a contest, Microsoft and $50,000!
Giving is Awesome was founded in December of 2008. It was a simple premise: photographers give a portrait shoot and products to a family who deserves it, but can’t afford it. In the twelve weeks since then, over 530 photographers have donated over $550,000 worth of custom portraiture to families who couldn’t afford it. Artists in places as far flung as Australia, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, and Mexico joined in. Giving is Awesome is also featured in this month’s issue of Professional Photographer magazine, and we’re looking to continue to spread the word about giving. Lenovo and Microsoft are sponsoring the ‘Name Your Dream Assignment’ contest, which grants $50,000 to the photographer who wins to shoot whatever/wherever they would like.
What better way to spread the word than to load 12 photographers into a tour bus and hit up cities with Giving is Awesome shoots? The blog traffic generated by the tour would easily reach 50,000 photographers per day, thus multiplying the number of photographers who sign on for the 2009 version of Giving is Awesome. (The goal: 15,000 photographers for the 2009 edition.)
…but how would we decide who to shoot for those tour bus Giving is Awesome giveaways? Why, we would rely on our friends at ConKerr Cancer, an international charity, to provide our subjects: children currently living with cancer. We’d be bringing awareness of both utterly smashing organizations to light, spreading the photographic love, AND rockin’ a tour bus! Now we’re talkin’!
What if this project doesn’t cost $50,000? Easy! ConKerr Cancer receives the funds to purchase cameras for their chapter coordinators, less the expenses of the tour. This allows the impact of the tour to go much further than the people on the bus, or even the photographers associated with Giving is Awesome. It’s the ripple effect in its truest form, giving sparking giving sparking giving.
For more information about the organizations mentioned: http://www.givingisawesome.com & http://www.conkerrcancer.org
DIG IT? GO VOTE! Click that little ‘pic’ button in the upper left of the assignment details, when you get there. (You’ll have to register to do so, but I promise it’s worth it! Pretty please, vote?)
http://nameyourdreamassignment.com/the-ideas/givingisawesome/giving-is-awesome-tour/
Hey Pops!
Just kidding, I’ve never called my dad pops. I just wanted to make sure I caught his attention in case he was quickly browsing my blog. I wanted to make sure I wished him a happy birthday by posting a favorite photo of him.
A couple years ago a scanned a TON of family photos, even some that were on slides, and put them on disk for my sisters and parents. I was taking a peek through some folders on my hard drive and took a while to look at them again and had to post this one for him. I just love it. My mom took it while they were on their honeymoon. It kind of makes me want to print out more photos I take so they look all cool, scratched, dirty and aged when my kids look at them. I think that’s a cool part of looking through old photographs that the next generation will miss.
Happy Birthday Dad!
