WOW. wow. seriously, today has been an unreal day.
Canon just contacted me to let me know that one of my photographs has been selected (out of hundreds and hundreds! AH!) as one of the top 30 semi-finalists in their Project Imagin8ion contest. its a project headed by Ron Howard (director of A Beautiful Mind and Angels and Demons among many others) – 8 photographs will be chosen to be the inspiration behind his next hollywood project.
i didn’t even mention that i was entering this contest here on the blog because… well…. there were like HUNDREDS of submissions, and the people who submitted photographs were unreal. i mean, crazy crazy good photographers. but, now that they picked me to be in the top thirty, i need your help!
you can vote for your favorite image by going to http://www.youtube.com/Imagination. My photograph is in the ‘relationship’ category and you can find it if you search ‘lexia’
if my photograph is selected as the winner, i will have the chance to go to NY to meet Ron Howard and see the production he is creating that my photograph inspired. it would be the biggest honor… i can not even IMAGINE. so please, just take a quick second and go to http://www.youtube.com/Imagination, and search ‘lexia’
the image is from Ali’s birth of her baby Rowan (you can see the whole birth story at http://sugarleafphotography.com/site2/index2.php) at one of the pivotal parts of her labor- right when she was in transition.
This photograph has a special place in my heart for a couple of reasons. I’ve photographed Dusty and Ali throughout all the pivotal moments of their life together (wedding, maternity, childbirth, etc) so when she asked me to photograph the birth of her baby, it was a no brainer… except for the fact that i live across the country now. At the first sign of labor i hopped on a plane; it was a risk, but luckily her labor lasted long enough that i was able to arrive in plenty of time. It was the first birth i had ever photographed and it spurred in me a desire to be a part of the whole birthing process from a photographer perspective. there is something about being right there when new life arrives…
i knew right after taking this photograph that it was one of my favorites of all time. it doesnt really have anything to do with the picture itself (technically or composition wise) but just because of the emotion and the support that was in that room. i am SO happy and honored that someone else was moved by it as well.
wow. so absolutely grateful. Thank you so much Canon and Ron Howard!