Snapshot Chronicles

Susan Getgood's personal blog

Slurping Life and love for Parker

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cross posted to Marketing Roadmaps

Last month, I  told you the story of Katie Gardner, off to Uganda to take photos with children in the IDP camps. Katie was a recipient of donated photo gear that HP sent bloggers who wrote about the Capture Your Ever After photo contest.

Today, I want to tell you what Melody from Slurping Life has decided to do with her thank you gear. She is hosting an "online love offering" to raise money for the healthcare costs of a young boy with numerous medical issues. The HP photo gear is the featured prize in the associated raffle.

When we came up with the idea to give the bloggers some gear to donate to a charity of their choice, we knew they would have no trouble coming up with deserving recipients.

But the creativity of their choices has exceeded my wildest expectations. That a digital camera and printer and some photo paper could make a real difference in the life of a sick little boy and his family… That a digital camera and printer and some photo paper could make a real difference for the children in the IDP camps…

Makes you feel good. Real good.

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Announcing A Little Perspective, a Kids Photo Contest

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I am thrilled to be collaborating with Tracey Clark of Picture This and Sheri Reed of The Little Zygote That Could on A Little Perspective, a photo contest for kids.

The contest starts next Tuesday, July 24th. Submissions end on August 10th and we’ll announce the winners on August 24th.

A huge thank you to Photojojo and HP for donating contest prizes.

Read all the contest details here.

Tags: A Little Perspective, photo contest

Doug’s Lobster Dinner

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So yesterday, I said I didn’t think I’d use Scrapblog much. Figures that today Doug would reach an important milestone that merited the Scrapblog treatment: his first lobster dinner of his very own in a restaurant. We went into Boston today, popped in quickly to the NE Aquarium, and then took a Harbor Cruise to Charlestown where we briefly toured a destroyer and the USS Constitution. Afterward, we went to Legal Seafoods for a late lunch, early dinner:

Scrapblog link: http://www.scrapblog.com/sgetgood/6B7BE503-ACD3

The weird thing about Scrapblog was that today I could not find a simple direction to “generate embed code.” Instead I had to muck around with the different publish options until I found one that would work with my WordPress blog.

On another note, Doug and I both took our new HP cameras today. I was a bit disconcerted at not having a viewfinder, even though we really don’t use them that much with snapshot cameras, but overall, pleased with the quality of the photos. You can see the whole set from the day on Flickr.

Doug’s principal goal was to get a good picture of a jelly fish. Which he did.

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Tags: Boston, Scrapblog