Click here for information about and to sign up for our Valentine Day Photo Fundraiser for the Arlington Academy of Hope

Love Speaks…A Photo Fundraiser for Valentine’s Day

Create works of art that shows the love to celebrate your family. This fundraiser benefits students in Uganda at
Arlington Academy of Hope
Sitting fee: $50
Date and Place: Saturday, February 13, 2010
Private home in Arlington

Schedule a Session

More Information

Please contact Jessica at jessica@portraitplaytime.com if you have any questions.

It’s my great pleasure to invite you to participate in the International Charity Model Search, a charity photo competition.

This contest is a search for the most Fabulous Family which aims to raise funds for the non-profit Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep Foundation (NILMDTS.org). The grand prize is a NEW CAR! Not to mention the great feeling that comes from supporting a worthy cause.

The Details

• I will be photographing families from Jan 23 - Mar 30, both indoors and outside.
• The $50 entrance fee includes a 30-minute mini session and the submission of one image to the contest.



• Finalists will be determined by online votes. Each vote costs $1 (there is no limit on the amount of votes you can cast), and all proceeds from votes benefit Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep (NILMDTS.org).
• The grand prize international winner will be determined from the 52 city finalists. The winners will be selected from the finalist gallery by photography and modeling industry experts.

For more information, or to book a session, call us at 703-860-2222.

*Contest open to residents of the US and Canada. For more information, visit http://sandypucmodels.com/.


Why this photo contest?

Why am I bonding together with photographers all over the United States and Canada to support NILMDTS? I have built Portrait Playtime around supporting organizations that put kids first. The work of NILMDTS clearly recognizes the importance of every child. The work is heartbreaking, unthinkable…but infant mortality is still a reality. I personally know at least five mothers who lost their babies at birth and I have seen some of the precious photos they took. I know what it would have meant to them if a photographer could have come to take heirloom images of their babies. So when I heard about this photo contest, I knew I had to join. Please join me and so many others to support this amazing organization.

Happy new year,

Jessica
Portrait Playtime…we put kids first.

703-860-2222 (landline)
240-481-3918 (cell)

School closings and copious amounts of snow are probably delighting your children and making you wonder what in the world you are going to do to keep them entertained over the next two weeks! One idea is to squeeze in an end of the year photo session that captures the fun of the Snowpocalypse and holiday spirit at your house.

I am offering private sittings this week and next as a part of a fundraiser for Arlington Academy of Hope, with a goal of raising $1000 on their behalf over the next month. If you participate, you pay the regular private sitting fee of $175 and I donate $100 to them. We are also running a portrait special right now: with a purchase of an 11×14 portrait, you receive a second one free of any image from your session-our gift to you.

Why Arlington Academy of Hope

AAH is a nonprofit that helps children in rural Uganda by creating model aahschools to provide education and clinics to healthcare. I did a fundraiser for them earlier this year after hearing stories about the work they do and seeing photos of a friend’s trip with the organization to Uganda.

Then at Thanksgiving, I saw FromOneVillage, a documentary about Arlington Academy of Hope and what it means for the kids who attend, their families, and ultimately the community of Bumwalukani at large, I knew I wanted to continue fundraising. My family was experiencing it’s own mini-crisis at the time I saw the video-my husband’s employment was uncertain, and we had just moved into a new house and acquired a new mortgage! Seeing the AAH video provided me with much needed perspective-no matter what challenges we were facing, even if we had to sell our new house and move in with family I knew we would have health care and clean water, my daughter would start school in the fall and probably go to college someday…all things that are daily struggles of the families in Uganda. This became my inspiration for doing fundraising for them in this new way-through private sittings.

Session Details

Here are the details:
~ At your house
~ Schedule availability from 1 - 6 pm .
~ Your road and drive must be passable and safe for me to bring in my equipment. (if you’re still snowed under, schedule for next week !)
~ Feel free to invite the neighbors; the more the merrier.

Recently, I’ve done some really fun sessions where we spent about half of the session time in front of my big studio lighting at a table and the other half of the time with me on the move capturing the kids at play. These sessions produce a great mix of studio and natural shots, and then the only hard part is choosing which ones you love the best. I’d love to do something similar for you…in the snow or in your home!

Give me a call or drop me a note if you want me to come play in the snow with you.

Jessica
Portrait Playtime

703-860-2222 (landline)
240-481-3918 (cell)