Allies for Alexis

My dear cousin asked me for a favor. She wanted me to use my photoshop abilities to pull the image of beautiful autism butterfly from this picture:

So that they could use it for their T-shirts in the upcoming Walk Now for Autism that they have been involved in for the past 3 years.

I don't think it turned out too terrible.



I thought the idea behind the butterfly was beautiful:

"This butterfly represents the transformation of a beautiful being."

Here is some information about the important cause that my cousin is involved in.

Want to start 2009 off on a great note?
Want to help change families for the better?
Want to help children who can’t help themselves?

Please join our team Allies for Alexis as we start our 2009 Autism Walk fundraising. This is our third year in the mix and we are so excited, that so far each year, we have reached, and exceeded our goal!

As many of you know we had quite a team last year and we are so very grateful for the turn-out (rain or shine). Thanks to all of you, we were able to surpass our goal yet again!

Will you be walking with us this year? Or will you be helping our team via donations?
Both ways are so very important to our cause. Walking with our team assists Autism Speaks in raising awareness about this disease but it will allow you to see the amazing affect your dollars have on children, families and communities. Donating will help as your dollars go straight to the Autism community to help fund schools, research and developments in the way of treatment.

So please no matter the amount or the time, please consider participating with us in some way, shape or form this year.

To become familiar with our team or to donate please take a second and visit our website below—

Thank you again!

http://www.walknowforautism.org/georgia/alliesforalexis

or

http://www.walknowforautism.org/georgia/michaelandjessicajackson

Storyboard Template

So I have been searching the web for storyboard templates for some time to no avail. Today I finally found one on this photographer's wonderful blog.

I wanted to test it out on a group of pictures so I decided to pull some from the "archive" and found these from our beach trip this summer. I think it turned out rather well.

Then again, how can I not love a grouping of pictures of the little love of my life? Especially ones where he is having such a great time.

Introducing. . .

. . .my dear dear friends Lee and Deniesheia.

We discussed some time ago taking an afternoon to take their pictures but our schedules never seemed to click until one day I just said let's do it this Saturday. And that was that. :) I'm really not as bossy as I sound. . .who am I kidding, yes I am. :(

The star of this post however, is not my friends as much as it is this awesome market bag by another good friend of mine.

This girl is ridiculously talented and you can check out these awesome market bags as well as the kickbutt aprons she makes HERE. And her newly established blog HERE.

I was talking to Spencer about some ideas I had for the pictures of Lee & Deniesheia which included a quaint little vegetable stand, and he was the brilliant one to come up with the idea to use Wendy's rockin' market bags. He has such good ideas sometimes, I think I just might keep him around.

This gentleman seemed to be in charge of this vegetable stand and I just loved his look.

Right here he was laughing because Deniesheia was raving about how good the hot boiled peanuts were before she had even eaten one. She tried to explain to him she could tell by how they smelled and so forth, but he was still amused.

At one point he asked why I was taking pictures of Deniesheia. My reply, "Because she's beautiful of course!"

Ever the diplomat, his response to that was "Well, I could see that." :D

Soon to come, much more of this photo session. ;)