This weekend is the 65th annual Cranberry Festival in Bandon. There are lots of great activities going on all weekend including the parade Saturday morning through Old Town, and check out the photography competition/exhibit at the Harbortown Events Center on Saturday!
I loved photographing the Cranberry Court all year long - good luck to all of the girls, competing Friday night for the crown - and a spot in the Miss Oregon Pageant!
Check out the entire schedule of events >>> HERE <<<
Next up on the Bandon Business Spotlight blog is Julie Miller. Julie is not only the Executive Director of the Bandon Chamber of Commerce, she is also the President of the Oregon State Chamber of Commerce. It was a pleasure to update this busy woman's professional headshot.
As you can see - I don't shoot the traditional (stuffy) lights and backdrop sort of headshots. I prefer natural light, relaxed environment, plenty of outfits and big real smile headshots. Julie worked her signature scarves and bright red jacket perfectly and I hope these shots show her happy and outgoing personality.
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Thank you all SO much for your support for my Birthday month food drive!!
In physical donations from friends, family and clients - we had 65 cans of food which equalled 58lbs when I dropped it off at Good Neighbors food bank this morning!!
In "virtual" donations in the form of comments on blog posts, new fans of Cardas Photography and Bandon Business Spotlight on Facebook, Re-tweets on Twitter, and comments on Facebook photos and posts, we had 88 total!!
I was going to buy those 88 cans of food and donate them, but instead I decided that the food bank can stretch the dollars they have buying bulk better than I can. So I decided to donate a dollar for every virtual can of food which combined with the real food was 153 - which I then rounded up to 200 with a cash donation of $135 along with the real cans of food.
Thank you all again for making my birthday month so special!!
May is my birthday month!! Call me immature, but I still love my birthday - and everyone else's, cursing the day you arrived on this earth seems negative to me :) But - I don't need a thing, ok, maybe the Candy Apple Red Kitchen Aid Stand mixer... but I digress...
For the rest of the month of May I am hosting a canned food drive. With the economy the way it has been for so long, the demand at food banks continues to be great. While collection efforts tend to be strong around the Winter holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas, the need remains throughout the rest of the year. I would like to do my part to help during the Summer months.
For the rest of the month of May I will donate a can of food for each of the following:
*One can for each comment on a May blog post, here on the blog itself. (If you are reading this through a different program, please visit the blog here: http://cardasphotography.typepad.com/blog/ ) *One can per post/per person
*One can for each new fan/ or "Like" of the Cardas Photography Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/cardasphotography
*One can for each new fan/ or "Like" of the Bandon Business Spotlight Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/BandonSpotlight
*One can for each comment on a May post on the Cardas Photography Facebook Page *One can per post/per person
*One can for each "Re-Tweet" of my posts on Twitter
BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE!! If you have a portrait session or wedding during the month of May, and bring me 10 cans of food, I will add an additional $25 in print credit to your package! That's 5 4x6's, 2.5 5x7s or an 8x10!!
So use that "Share" or "Suggest to friends" link on the Facebook pages and suggest to anyone you might think would be interested in what I do. Whether that's the Cardas Photography page or the Bandon Business Spotlight - there's something for everyone!
I have been thinking about this project for a long time and I am so excited to finally get it out there!! Bandon Business Spotlight is my newest photography/community project and my favorite Nail Tech Lynn Giovannetti is the first to be featured.
Check out the whole feature on the Bandon Business Spotlight blog
