Finally got a chance to sit down and post the winning images from the ‘You Pick It’ shoot giveaway. Olivia (Makeup Artist for Image 1) and Beth (Everything – Image 2) have both been in front of the camera more than once and are fantastic people to work with. I look forward to creating some awesome images with both of them.
Thank you again to everyone that submitted images. I really enjoy getting to know creative and motivated people! 
Rock on!
First up – thank you again to everyone that submitted for the ‘You Pick It’ free shoot contest. Voting ends tonight at 9pm, and I’ll be posting the winning looks some time tonight or tomorrow. If you have an image up for voting, start beating down doors/phones/emails to get people to support you! Get social with it – posting a link to the voting on your Facebook/MySpace/whatever is a pretty simple way to make sure your supporters can help you out with little effort on their part. Good luck everyone!
Here’s a few shots from the ‘Santa’s in Speedos’ run this past Saturday morning. The Nespoli brothers (pictured last here along with CIA operative and general business mogul Kevin/You’ll-never-know-my-real-name/Anthony) put this on to raise money for breast cancer research – over $11,000 was raised! :D And this was only the first year! The day kicked off at Crickets Bar on Front St in the middle of downtown (uptown if you’re a mailman) Berwick @ 10am. Gathering @ a bar @ 10am – GENIUS! The run was supposed to start at 1pm, but things got a little overzealous around 12:40 and everyone just took off, paying no attention to what time it really was.
Fun, Exciting, Important! Congrats to The Brothers Nespoli for such a successful first go of this. Start looking for your own speedo for next years event! :D
I was hoping to see a nice blanket of snow this morning to go along with the theme for today’s wedding. Looks like we’re a little north of the big party, but there’s still a chance for a nice coating later today right when things are getting fun. I’m crossing my fingers for some mother nature style special effects tonight!
We have a crazy busy couple of days ahead of us: Today’s wedding; Sunday’s catch up on the rest of life day; another shoot at Berwick Brewing on Monday (looking forward to the results of that experiment!) and some big heavy suit & tie stuff on Tuesday. So I thought I’d take a couple of seconds and mention the deadline again for the 2nd round of shoot give-away’s.
We’re giving away 2 this time. 1 that I’ll be picking from whatever we get, and the other that will be decided on by anyone interested in casting a vote in the poll I’ll be posting here. Grab yourself, or a willing victim and get to work. I wanna see what people can create with a little motivation. Take a picture of your creation and send it to info@studio-d-photo.com with the subject line “YOU PICK IT”. You have until 9PM Monday night (the 21st) to shoot it my way. I’m hoping to have the poll up by Tuesday morning…in time to have it up for 48 hours AND still give me time to announce the winners but Christmas Eve. (I just like the way that works out! )
You can focus (pun – hahhaahahhahaha) on makeup, costume, or a mix of both. The only requirement is that it is something that makes a jaw drop. That’s it. However you interpret that, that’s what I want to see. Don’t worry about your photography or lighting skills for the shot. Just create, capture and submit. (Although I should qualify that with, if we can’t actually SEE what you’re going for in the image, it’s probably NOT going to help your chances – just do your best).
Looking forward to anything we get…
Quick update – it’s been about 7 hours since I started this blog and the snow has just arrived. This is going to make thing quite interesting today.
Alright…gotta finish this up. The other reason for this blog was to announce to the winner of the first free shoot give away. Here’s the think n’ skinny of how it went down. The idea for this came from watching some very hard working ladies put together the Victorian Nights event here in Berwick last week. They just get it done. I wanted to lend a hand if I could, how I could, and see if anyone would be inspired to head down to the event with the motivation of a possible shoot ahead them. I didn’t have a clue if anyone would, but it was worth trying. Then I tossed the curveball with the requirement of having to actually hand deliver the idea to me. Obviously this didn’t work for MOST people, but again, the entire point was to see if I could get anyone to head downtown for the night. I got 6 or 7 submissions in email/Twitter/Facebook/MySpace and even a text msg or two. In and of itself, that was pretty rad. It was cool to see motivated people making waves in the current of everyday life. But I had to stick to my guns and only count the 3 submissions that tracked me down at the event. It was inspiring to me to see people put down on paper their ideas…and then hand deliver them. Thank you!
In the end, the first submission I got was what I consider to be most in the spirit of the idea and the blog wrapped around it. Getting up and living your dreams so you can take the one chance at life you’re given and enjoy it to the fullest, however you want to. Lindsay’s write-up was right on. I’ll keep the actual shot idea itself a secret til we get the shots done up, but it was passionate, direct and free wheeling in theme. She nailed my motivation for giving the shoot away and her shot idea is just awesome. We’re hoping to have it all rolled up in early Feb, ready for posting shortly after. If I do my part right, we’re going to get some killer images.
Thank you everyone who submitted…and particularly to the people that made it downtown to Victorian Nights. Knowing creative and energetic people makes life more colorful…I’m glad to know as many people like that as I can!
Time for me to get outta here…got a touch of snow to deal with! :D Can’t wait!