Wednesday brings me to the lovely home of Charlotte and Graham, who had all sorts of dress-up adventures. Graham is the most observant baby I’ve ever met, and his mama tells me nuclear physicists are in the family…that’s about right…
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Yah, it was 72 degrees on Saturday. We call that SPECTACULAR, here in typically-chilly Pennsylvania. I love how this image just about captures the chaos that is 2 tiny kiddos…and I adore that Yafit downright glows.
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Um. I guess there are photographers out there who are so used to being published that they open the magazine featuring their work, sip their latte calmly, read the article, yawn, and then go about their day.
I am not ashamed to tell you: I’m not one of them. When the UPS guy came, I tore the package open while talking a mile a minute, did a little dance, started crying while dancing, and then read the article. And danced some more.
This is even MORE special because it isn’t about me — it’s about GIVING IS AWESOME, which is — well, you know, awesome. If you’d like to help in a simple way, GO HERE and vote for Giving is Awesome to win the ‘Name Your Dream Assignment’ contest. We are steadily climbing up the charts — from 100ish yesterday to #56 today — let’s get to number one!! Woot woot! (See the last blog post for more details.)
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YOU can change the world. Really, you can. Here’s a simple way to help.
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. You know what that is…Giving is Awesome shoots! To get more people to sign on, and to spread the photographic love, and to get this thing bigger and bigger and bigger!
The details — PSST! STEAL THE WORDING BELOW AND POST IT ON YOUR BLOGS, PHOTOGRAPHERS!
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.
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! The world will thank you! (You’ll have to register to do so, but I promise it’s worth it! Pretty please, vote?)
Hit up the link, or use the flash doo-hah below, people!
http://www.nameyourdreamassignment.com/the-ideas/givingisawesome/giving-is-awesome-tour/
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