Embracing Family
Friday, August 10, 2012 by Tracey Clark 
With this month’s prompts all being inspired by Elevate the Everyday, I have been delighted by all of the images and comments you’ve shared. Obviously the contents of the book are near and dear to my heart which makes your responses that much more meaningful. Thank you so much!
Today, as you visually translate the poignant prompt of family, I am beyond excited to share with you that today’s post and prompt has even more collective energy than usual. Today, Shutter Sisters has the honor of being one of the stops along the way in the Blogust Blog Relay for Good. That means that each and every one of YOUR comments today will translate into a $20 donation to Shot@Life (also near and dear to my heart) to get vaccines to children who need them most. Yes, $20 per unique comment, up to a maximum of $200,000 to reach 10,000 children. WOW! And not only will your comment count on today’s post here, it will also count over on my personal blog as well. In other words, with 2 simple comments today (one here and one on my blog), you are inadvertently giving $40 to Shot@Life. That’s donating all of the vaccines that two children need for a shot at more family time. And that is pretty awesome!
And because we share our support, encouragement and responses through visuals around here, be sure to add the #blogust tag to your images too (in addition to #sselevate) to help show your support and spread the word so that other shutter sisters (and brothers) around town know to come participate too. The more the merrier when it comes to social good, wouldn’t you agree? And speaking of other shutter sisters, Anne Geddes is a part of the campaign as well. We're in good company.
So be sure to leave a comment today, go hug your family and take your camera with you to document it! Then tag your images and help spread the good word. We’re a part of something very special over here and we want everyone to join us! That's how we do it here...together!
To keep up in the Blogust relay, check out the calendar of bloggers so you can follow along all month long to help us reach our $200,000 goal!
Reader Comments (114)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/anydirectflight/7754388158/in/photostream
this was one family moment captured during the summer camp summer we just finished. family time during those weeks is far and few between, so this was a gift.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/the-mer-family/7674376068/in/photostream
(sorry if this is double posted...i'm having internet instability)
Maternity in the sunset
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kainlane/5886161979/in/photostream
Here is a link to a portrait of two people I hold near and dear - my son, Dawson, and his cousin, Abby. They are the best of friends and it really warms my heart to see how much they love each other.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/c3danderson/7664667302/in/photostream/
http://statigr.am/viewer.php#/detail/254978499897443239_4719079
http://www.flickr.com/photos/meghandavidson/7746212430/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/68774264@N03/7754575734
Here's mine...http://www.flickr.com/photos/64139800@N06/7754631060/in/photostream
As our country Singapore has just celebrated our 47th Years of independence, I would like to share with you one of our favorite national day song ,"home"
Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTkVG6lWvwY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Miss them so much!
Woo hoo!
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/65650633@N08/6813725650/" title="IMG_3068-1 by allisonau@att.net, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7208/6813725650_89b3982fcd.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="IMG_3068-1"></a>
I recently helped plan a family reunion; it was magical!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/carmenghia/7755807882/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sheepsandpeeps/7756236738/in/photostream
Embrace your family!