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Cans for Comments Food Drive

Kelly Niemann — Wed, 27 May 2009 20:10:02 +0000

Last holiday season, many of my fellow photographer friends participated in “Cans for Comments”, a food drive where for each comment on their blog, they donated one non-perishable or canned food item to a local food bank.

Since I was late to the boat before Christmas, and since need knows no season, I decided I’d make up for it this summer by running Cans for Comments from Memorial Day to Labor Day in 2009.

My goal? To donate at least 500 food items to the Houston Food Bank by September 11th. But I can’t do it alone, I need your help! So what do you need to do? Leave me a comment! About anything, about nothing… on a new blog post, or find an old one. Don’t stop with one comment, leave a few! Stop by every week and comment on new posts. We’ve got 105 days to get those 500 cans, so comment away!

And since no blog post is totally complete without a photo, here’s one from Tricia and Nathan’s Day After session last fall at the 1940 Air Terminal Museum.

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Flickr’s Explore

Kelly Niemann — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:46:12 +0000

Sometimes it’s the small achievements that make me excited.

For my blog (and for sharing, fun, and sometimes silliness), I host the photos I post on here on my flickr account. Flickr had an area called Explore and shows some of the best photos based of what they call “intrestingness” and… well, they can explain it better than I can.

Interestingness!

Besides being a five syllable word suitable for tongue twisters, it is also an amazing new Flickr Feature.

There are lots of elements that make something ‘interesting’ (or not) on Flickr. Where the clickthroughs are coming from; who comments on it and when; who marks it as a favorite; its tags and many more things which are constantly changing. Interestingness changes over time, as more and more fantastic content and stories are added to Flickr.

We’ve added some pages (and changed some existing ones) to help you explore Flickr’s most interesting content. Before you start though, you might want to take your phone off the hook, send your boss to an executive training session and block off some time on your schedule, because we don’t think you’re going to be walking away from your screen any time soon. Beautiful, amazing, moving, striking – explore and discover some of Flickr’s Finest.

Since I’ve posted the below photo last Sunday (up until right now) I’ve had 4,867 people view the photo, 334 people mark it as a favorite, and 95 people comment. On Sunday, September 28, 2008, I had the #1 photo on flickr. I’ll have more from Mark and Jackie’s wedding (and subsequent day after / trash the dress session) later, but for now, let me show off.

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Alex and Nick’s Trash the Dress! Kemah, Texas

Kelly Niemann — Wed, 28 May 2008 02:48:57 +0000

The wonderfully talented Stacy Reeves invited me and Brittani Oliver to join her, and newlyweds Alex and Nick while we trashed Alex’s wedding dress!

Now when some brides hear “Trash the Dress” you can see the fear of God in their eyes. Others get really excited about their “extreme bridals” and start planning fun, unique ways they can rock the dress (all after the wedding, of course)! But there’s a saying for it, “It’s about creation, not destruction.”

Below are some of the photos from our totally rockin’ shoot! Enjoy!

I love bright, bold colors! The arcade was awesome!

Stacy found this spot for this creative pose! (I love shooting with other photographers; I learn so much each time, regardless how long I’ve been shooting!)

On the boardwalk, this was some of the most yummy, beautiful light I had ever seen! The sun was so warm and the light just wrapped around her face. I LOVE the evening light…

Next, we headed out into the water!

Playing with some textures for that “grungy” look…

My favorite from the session!

Alex was so brave! Even laying down on the slimy green rocks, all for the sake of art!

Finally, back on to dry land! I’ve learned so much from Stacy, including how to properly expose fabulous night shots!

Thank you, Alex and Nick, for getting down and dirty in Kemah, and thanks, Stacy for inviting me along!

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