The winner of the local photography session for Project Love has been announced! Click here to see the blog post announcing the winner!
****Entries for Project Love have been extended (see below) due to an event to be held on July 23rd promoting Project Love. Please click here to view the blog posting about this event, and to see details of who will be helping me to judge the Project Love entries!****
Project Love is officially launched! This project was inspired by the love that I witnessed between Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi in their wedding video.
Part of the dream is to travel to L.A. to photograph Ellen and Portia for their upcoming wedding anniversary on August 16th. (If you are on twitter, please send an @ message to theellenshow to let them know about this project! twitter.com/theellenshow)
Noah, Rebecca and I are fans of both The Ellen Show and Portia’s new show, ‘Better Off Ted’. Noah is especially enthusiastic, and created a wonderful poster for Project Love, which you can see in the following youtube video:
The local dream is to celebrate Love in Toronto by holding a contest in which the winner will have a complimentary photography session with me.
Here’s how to enter: email me a jpg photograph of who you love and why you would love to win the photography session. See below for further details/requirements*. If I can get Ellen’s attention, perhaps she will help with the judging! Otherwise I will be announcing local judges soon.
So, whether you are a family:
A couple:
Or have a pet that you love:
I would love to hear from you! Please enter the contest and help me get the word out about Project Love!
Thank you!!!
* Contest closes at midnight July 31, 2009. Winner to be announced by August 9th. Photography session must take place before September 30, 2009. Jpg image must be no larger then 400x600px, 72 dpi, or 300 kb showing who you love and why you would love to win the photography session (no more then 300 words). You must consent to the image/words being used on my blog. You must agree to sign a model release so that your photography session can be shown on this blog. You must be over 18 and live within Toronto. Please provide name, address and phone number with entry. This session may not be used in combination with any other offer (i.e. donated gift certificate). Standard terms and conditions apply as seen on my website. The session will be a standard 1–2 hour weekday shoot, if weekend session is required additional cost will be due. Judges decision is final.
This was a large family shoot! The four siblings are planning something special for their parent’s 50th in August.
I had a great time shooting the children on their own. First up was Helena, who helped me find the ‘light’ in the backyard. Love this shot, love the stray hair coming across her face, she has fabulous hair!
I love the background in this shot:
Charlie was a bit of a tough cookie, but I love this serious shot of him:
Charlie’s older brother Ben, love the sparkle in his eyes!
Love this serious shot of Pearce. Like me he is more comfortable behind the camera then in front of it. (I can relate Pearce!)
Pearce’s older sister Madeleine, doesn’t she have the most amazing eyes? Love how the background colours match her eyes too.
She is gorgeous in black and white too!
Love this shot of Claire, another beautiful red head with curls!
Love the contrasting green in the background against the red curls of Claire’s hair:
Claire’s older sister Grace. Love the serious direct look she’s giving me in this shot:
Gotta love a twinkle in the eyes!
Love this moment of ‘just the boys’!
And here are all the parents!
We were fortunate to be able to work around the weather! (I sure hope that settles down as summer begins!)
Thanks to everyone for being such good sports and putting up with the long shoot that was necessary to capture everyone! 🙂
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