Every year, I shoot photos at an “Pet Blessing” put on by Summit Northwest Ministries, a local Seventh Day Adventist church. The goal is to get photos of people and their pets, as well as photos of the various events. Last year, it was kind of a flop, so we decided to promote it a lot more during the event, so I made fliers/postcards to pass out to promote the service (which is free).

I wanted to design something eye-catching, so that it would grab peoples attention, so I wanted to include several colors. I was able to use photos that I took last year, as well as recycle old photos which seemed to fit it. That truly is the benefit of archiving old projects.

Anyway, above is the card I designed. I will post some of the photos later this week. I have had a drought of blogging since school got out. I really need to post some stuff soon, I feel behind.

Dylan Barns, Stephen Sturges, and Chase Lamphier

Last Friday (Jan. 22), was the latest school dance. Once again, our class was able to take photos of students as a fundraiser. As this was not Homecoming or Senior Ball; but the white-out dance, there really wasn’t a demand for photos. Our last strobe-light dance only sold $5 worth of photos for the hours we were there… so we created a new marketing strategy… $1/person/photo. This would essentially make it completely affordable for anyone who wanted a photo. As a result, we made around 6x more money this time.

Furthermore, to save costs, we decided that an electronic delivery method would be ideal. We have received complaints in the past that the only reason people got their photo taken was to post it to their Facebook or Myspace page… but weren’t able to do that with a physical photo given to them. So I created an online event gallery system (which will be released later in Open Source for anyone who needs something similar) which would host the photos for the people to go download them after the dance.

Login screen for my gallery site