Save-A-Limb Fundraiser | Family Photographer Berlin, MD

In honor of our son, Brayden, we have formed Team Footprints for Brayden to raise money for the Rubin Institute of Advanced Orthopedics.  The Save-A-Limb Fund is set up by the hospital to help the hospital financially assist patients who cannot afford housing, transportation, physical therapy or adaptive equipemnt.  It also helps the physicians offer free consultations to patients who qualify for financial aid.  The fund supports the fight to save limbs from amputation and provide hip and knee replacements to patients in need both domestically and abroad.  You can read more about how the funds are used here:

http://savealimbride.org/SaveALimbRide/HowFundsAreUsedSaveALimbRide.aspx

I will be donating a lot of my time and photography resources to help raise money for the fund by doing these sessions. After each mini-session I will be editing the top 12 images and delivering them to the client on a flash drive.  Clients will be allowed to print the photos at a printer of their choice. 

These sessions would be great for holiday cards or beach family photos when you want a handful of images to make cards or use for gifts.  These sessions will not be eligible to use on newborn sessions.

Sessions must be prepaid in advance of the session and the $200 does include the session fee.  A signed model release will be required to make a blog post about each session (no client names will be used).  I would love to share at least one photo from each of the sessions on our blog to show the support for our team, "Footprints for Brayden".

You can read more about Brayden's story here:

http://opsoulone.blogspot.com/

Self-Portrait

A different kind of self portrait.  I downloaded Ellie Goulding's, "Lights" to my iPod several weeks ago and loved her album cover for that single.  It has played in the back of my mind as a really cool photo.  Then this morning I log onto facebook and saw a friend had done a unique take on a self-portrait of himself and I decided it was time to update mind.  This photo really shows how I feel at the moment.  "Just Breathe".  I repeat this mantra more often than I would like to but right now my family is gearing up for a big chapter in our lives.  My son Brayden has PFFD and will be undergoing his first round of limb-lengthening in just a couple of months and at times it has felt the weight of what is to come resting on our shoulders can be heavy.  I look at this photo and it accurately depicts so many emotions right now and while I would have done a few things differently if I didn't edit it in just 5 minutes, I really appreciate the emotional climate it portrays.