Category Archives: ACPCG and Charity

Senior Philanthropy

Since moving our shooting space from Columbus to Granville last year, we discovered that Atelier is the perfect location for photographing high school seniors. Outbuildings on the property and nature provide unlimited vignettes which change in appearance month to month. As we begin to move into a new color season (there’s still a couple of...

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Dando Amor National Shoe Drive

Earlier this morning (I’ve been up since 4:45am!), part of the Dando Amor crew stopped by Atelier here in Granville to collect the nearly 2000 pairs of shoes everyone helped us collect for their national shoe drive. They stopped for the briefest of breakfasts, only to hit the road and continue their journey. In the...

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A Month of Giving

Happy Easter! This is our last official day collecting for the Dando Amor National Shoe Drive. A semi truck will be coming sometime before April 10th to collect all of the shoes that so many people have generously donated. Tomorrow Ryan and I will be counting, sorting and re-bagging everything you see pictured above, plus...

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Kolkata Sanved

I’m so glad to finally be able to share this post! Assisting with Brooke Shaden‘s Blossomy workshop for the women at Kolkata Sanved was the entire reason why I traveled to Kolkata, India earlier this year. Everything else that occurred on the trip fell into place after this commitment. I’ve been wanting and waiting to...

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Another Way to Give

Image from www.stelladot.com. I am so thankful for all of the support from both friends and strangers during this month’s Dando Amor shoe drive. Along with the drive and our Bohemian event promotion, Stella & Dot stylist, Tricia Frank, has stepped up and offered to donate 10% of any sales ordered through a special online...

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More Community Pick-Up Dates

We’ve added more dates for shoe pick-ups in the area. If your community isn’t on our list, but you would like to organize a collection in your neighborhood or for your street, etc., just let us know and we can schedule something just for you. Likewise, donations may also be scheduled for drop-off at our...

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Bohemian Event

This month we’re asking you to clean out your closets and donate old shoes to Dando Amor, who will distribute them to people in need (read two posts down or by clicking here for more information). No one has reached out to us yet for the community pick-up dates when I plan to visit specific...

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New Light Workshop

If you’re a professional photographer who is planning to sit in on the POD Brooke Shaden and I are leading at AfterDark STL, you may want to hold off on reading this post. I’ll be sharing many of these images and words at that time. — This is one of the great adventures that came...

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Good for the Sole

The strangest things have been happening in my life this past month. Coincidences upon coincidences have been piling up and I can’t help but wonder if a true calling is revealing itself to me. I’m feeling pulled like a wave to the moon. On my last day in India, I left a pair of shoes...

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Thanksgiving

I know I’m a couple days behind, but here is my official Thanksgiving post. This season, what I’m most thankful for is the joy of this family. Last year I photographed Miss M. while she was undergoing chemotherapy treatments for stage four neuroblastoma. She had no hair at the time (nor her father who shaved...

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