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08/06/2008 02:20:06 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by MattO:
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Donate 100 boxes of those cookies to Art Roflmao? |
I wondered how long this would take to be brought up. As the prices of them cookies go up and the size of the box goes in the other direction I'd ask for 150 to make up for the difference.
Matt |
Yeah, I really love the cookies. I tried joining just to get access to the supplies, but they rejected my application.
...oh yeah - "shut up Art" - sorry. :) |
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08/06/2008 02:26:20 PM · #27 |
I read an article about a man who did portraits at a nursing home. It was sad and I was crying my eyes out by the end, but he did a great thing for the families of the people.
He talked to the nursing home to get permission, then he talked to the families about what they would receive (he gave them all 1 8x10 and 8 wallets or something like that) then he spent 4 or 5 days photographing the individuals. Each one alone and off to the side. He talked to them and got to know what they enjoyed doing, etc... Then, he photographed them (all with natural or available light) in black and white. Most of the people he photographed had passed away within a year, but he had given the families a memory. It was very touching.
Just a thought :)
ETA: He didn't photograph EVERYONE. Only the people that agreed and said they would like to have a portrait done. See, they can't get out/leave to go have one made :)
Message edited by author 2008-08-06 14:27:11. |
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08/06/2008 02:29:05 PM · #28 |
Originally posted by TCGuru:
I read an article about a man who did portraits at a nursing home. It was sad and I was crying my eyes out by the end, but he did a great thing for the families of the people.
He talked to the nursing home to get permission, then he talked to the families about what they would receive (he gave them all 1 8x10 and 8 wallets or something like that) then he spent 4 or 5 days photographing the individuals. Each one alone and off to the side. He talked to them and got to know what they enjoyed doing, etc... Then, he photographed them (all with natural or available light) in black and white. Most of the people he photographed had passed away within a year, but he had given the families a memory. It was very touching.
Just a thought :)
ETA: He didn't photograph EVERYONE. Only the people that agreed and said they would like to have a portrait done. See, they can't get out/leave to go have one made :) |
I read that same article.....it was fantastic....it's on my 'to-do' list....for sometime! |
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08/06/2008 02:32:30 PM · #29 |
Originally posted by dassilem:
Originally posted by TCGuru:
I read an article about a man who did portraits at a nursing home. It was sad and I was crying my eyes out by the end, but he did a great thing for the families of the people.
He talked to the nursing home to get permission, then he talked to the families about what they would receive (he gave them all 1 8x10 and 8 wallets or something like that) then he spent 4 or 5 days photographing the individuals. Each one alone and off to the side. He talked to them and got to know what they enjoyed doing, etc... Then, he photographed them (all with natural or available light) in black and white. Most of the people he photographed had passed away within a year, but he had given the families a memory. It was very touching.
Just a thought :)
ETA: He didn't photograph EVERYONE. Only the people that agreed and said they would like to have a portrait done. See, they can't get out/leave to go have one made :) |
I read that same article.....it was fantastic....it's on my 'to-do' list....for sometime! |
i dont know if i could do that. i have connections and everything, but thats.. i dunno, emotionally difficult i guess. for me at least. dunno why.. |
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08/06/2008 03:59:43 PM · #30 |
Art, you can have as many boxes as you want from here:
How about doing shots showing the beauty of your community, printing them up (even just on computer paper to keep the costs down) and donating them to be displayed in the local library?
(BTW, I'm my daughter's GS troop leader, so keep it up!) |
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08/06/2008 04:08:09 PM · #31 |
Originally posted by JDubsgirl:
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Donate 100 boxes of those cookies to Art Roflmao? |
lol shut up Art |
Is that what they teach you in girl scouts now?
Because when I was (much) younger they apparently taught the girls to say - "Would you get away from me." Or at least thats all I heard from girl scouts.
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08/06/2008 04:08:48 PM · #32 |
| How about going along to your local animal charity and taking 12 photos they can use for a calender for next year, talking to local businesses to see if they'll sponsor a page each, talking to someone who would print it. The charity could sell the calendar for fundraising. We raise a reasonable amount from selling our calendars. |
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08/06/2008 04:30:07 PM · #33 |
Originally posted by JDubsgirl:
I am 16, and unfortunatly still a Girl Scout. Mock all you want, it looks damn good on a college application form. Anyways, i am trying to do a Gold Award(the highest award i can get in girly scouts) and was trying to get by by having my huge 65 hour project be doing 50 meaningful photographs. In other words, i was going to yo 50 challenges and be over with it. But i just got verbally beaten by the local head queen Girl Scout lady about my project not being 'concrete' enough for her. Obviously this was more for me then benifiting my community(you guys) and the Girl Scout head haunchos dont like that. So i need help coming up with an idea for a project concerning photography that will physically benifit my community(you guys). help? |
One thing I wanted to do and never have was to contact a local Boys & Girls Club and offer to take portraits of the kids for the kids. Get a local business or two to foot the cost of the printing, you donate your skills and time, etc. |
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08/06/2008 06:27:18 PM · #34 |
| I seem to remember hearing that one of the local Boys and Girls clubs was looking for volunteers to teach a photography/photoshop course to their kids. Maybe you could start a photography course. Digital cameras have been around long enough that people are starting to have older models sitting on a shelf somewhere, maybe start a donation drive to set them up with some basic point and shoots. Install a version of GIMP on their computers, and you are well on your way. |
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08/06/2008 08:39:06 PM · #35 |
some really cool ideas here (I especially liked your's Art (just glad you stayed away from the obvious brownie jokes lol).
A few years back I had heard a woman on a radio interview, she had grown up in a very poor family but had fought to overcome it and became a pretty successful woman. She talked about how she had no photographs of her childhood, siblings or now gone parents, because her family couldn't afford something so fancy as a camera or film.
Since then I have had a desire to come up with some way to provide disposible cameras and prints to such families. I thought if I could get a store such as walgreens to give me a break on the camera's (some give you a new disposible free with developing) I could distribute a few, tell them I'd be back in say 3 months to collect it and would return the prints to them. All at no cost. I even considered getting the birthdays of the families with kids and ensure they had a camera during that time or the holidays but just giving a camera to a kid to play with may change their life forever.
I think a community event like the family or nursing home would be an awesome idea and since it's digital your personal cost could be kept at a minimum...shoot the nursing home may even be able to cover a bit of the cost, who knows.
Good luck with it.
Message edited by author 2008-08-06 20:39:17. |
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08/06/2008 08:46:34 PM · #36 |
Originally posted by sabphoto:
some really cool ideas here (I especially liked your's Art (just glad you stayed away from the obvious brownie jokes lol).
A few years back I had heard a woman on a radio interview, she had grown up in a very poor family but had fought to overcome it and became a pretty successful woman. She talked about how she had no photographs of her childhood, siblings or now gone parents, because her family couldn't afford something so fancy as a camera or film.
Since then I have had a desire to come up with some way to provide disposible cameras and prints to such families. I thought if I could get a store such as walgreens to give me a break on the camera's (some give you a new disposible free with developing) I could distribute a few, tell them I'd be back in say 3 months to collect it and would return the prints to them. All at no cost. I even considered getting the birthdays of the families with kids and ensure they had a camera during that time or the holidays but just giving a camera to a kid to play with may change their life forever.
I think a community event like the family or nursing home would be an awesome idea and since it's digital your personal cost could be kept at a minimum...shoot the nursing home may even be able to cover a bit of the cost, who knows.
Good luck with it. |
since im not sure if handling an auction is even plausible, and i really liked the idea of doing a day of family photographs for the underprivilaged families in my area. i'll have to do some research for places in the area willing to help |
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08/06/2008 09:42:07 PM · #37 |
Originally posted by JDubsgirl:
Originally posted by dassilem:
Originally posted by TCGuru:
I read an article about a man who did portraits at a nursing home. It was sad and I was crying my eyes out by the end, but he did a great thing for the families of the people.
He talked to the nursing home to get permission, then he talked to the families about what they would receive (he gave them all 1 8x10 and 8 wallets or something like that) then he spent 4 or 5 days photographing the individuals. Each one alone and off to the side. He talked to them and got to know what they enjoyed doing, etc... Then, he photographed them (all with natural or available light) in black and white. Most of the people he photographed had passed away within a year, but he had given the families a memory. It was very touching.
Just a thought :)
ETA: He didn't photograph EVERYONE. Only the people that agreed and said they would like to have a portrait done. See, they can't get out/leave to go have one made :) |
I read that same article.....it was fantastic....it's on my 'to-do' list....for sometime! |
i dont know if i could do that. i have connections and everything, but thats.. i dunno, emotionally difficult i guess. for me at least. dunno why.. |
I was going to suggest the same thing. I believe it was an article in Rangefinder, but perhaps somebody else's memory is a bit better.
I agree that it would be emotionally difficult, but I'm guessing it would be very rewarding also. |
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08/06/2008 10:56:11 PM · #38 |
Originally posted by TCGuru:
I read an article about a man who did portraits at a nursing home. Then, he photographed them (all with natural or available light) in black and white. |
One of my all-time faves is the "Girls" at the facility where my mother-in-law stays.
They're really something!
It's rough having relatives in these places, especially when there's so much that robs you, and them, of the people they were.
Sometimes, I'm more of a bright spot in these gals' lives than I am in my own mother-in-law's simply by virtue of being a friendly face with no baggage and/or history.
The kindest, most generous thing you can give of yourself, ESPECIALLY at your age, is time.....
And if you get some world-class memories, and the images to go with them, that's just a bonus.
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08/06/2008 11:29:30 PM · #39 |
JDubsgirl,
Contact your local historical society. . . I am sure you have got one somewhere. Ask them what you might do for them. If your community is close to a centennial all the better. Develop of photographic time capsule If that doesn't work, try you chamber of commerce. Business often sponsor community events. They might want pictures to show the community to new people. . . welcome wagon type thing. If they have nothing for you try the fire department. Document their drills and practice or even a response from beginning to end. Might even get a call to photograph a fire call.
All of these want photographers for document aspects of their contributions to the community.
For the historical society you could find old pictures of the community, go to those same people, places or events today and re photograph them. Or simply document an event from beginning to end.
If you want some more specific about some of these you are are welcome to PM me again. |
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