Fathers - Call For Photo Submissions!

I would like to open up my father project to photo submissions.  If you have any pictures of you and your father, your husband and your children, etc. that you would be willing to submit for use in a slide show honoring fathers, please send them, in their highest-resolution format, to liz@lizziejanephotography.com.  I would be thrilled to work them into the video!  Thanks so much to everyone who has participated thus far. This is a work in progress and I have high hopes for the finished product.

~Liz

Think "fathers" and send me what you've got!  This rock climbing picture is one of my favorites from a recent father photo shoot.  Below that is the first submission I've received with a few Photoshop tweaks from me.  Thanks Kim!

Casting Call - Fathers!

 

Calling all fathers!  Calling all fathers!  I am pursuing the fulfillment of a personal project and would like to invite all fathers, their children (if they have them), and their parents to help.  I will be making a video slideshow for distribution on YouTube, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc. The purpose of this slideshow is to remind the world of the importance of fathers to the healthy development of families, children, and society.

Beginning this Saturday the 11th, at 8:30am, I would like to schedule one hour of "father photography" each Saturday and Sunday morning.  There is no pay involved.  In return for your participation (and permission to use the photos in my project), you will receive AT LEAST one high-resolution, fully processed image from the session.

Let me share with you a glimpse of my vision.  Here is what "father photography" means to me:

• Dad having a heart-to-heart with teenage daughter about boys.
• Dad in the kitchen, helping kids make breakfast in bed for Mommy.
• Dad teaching son how to fix something.
• Daughter watching Dad teach son how to be a gentleman.
• Dad leading the family in prayer and scripture study.
• Dad wrestling with little kids.
• Dad reading stories at bedtime.
• Dad rocking infant.
• Dad playing games.
• Dad on an outing with kids.
• Dad rubbing Mommy's feet.
• Dad coming home from work in shirt and tie.  Kids at window watching excitedly.

This should be enough to give you some idea of the message I'd like to convey. If you have more ideas, please pass them along, but most importantly, I need some volunteers to let me tag along as they go about tackling their day to day life.  Staging is one option, but capturing and chronicling the "natural Dad" would be ideal.  Also, I'd love for mom to be in the photos, but sort of on the periphery as we focus on Dad for a moment.

 

 

Here's a little quote that may provide some insight as to why this project, and its message, are so important to me:

Who Needs Fathers?

American children are in crisis and families are in need of assistance due to father absence.

• Research results show that 24 million children (34 percent) live absent their biological father.
• Other results show that children who live absent their biological fathers are more likely to be poor, to use drugs, to experience educational, health, emotional and behavioral problems, to be victims of child abuse, and to engage in criminal behavior than their peers who live with their married, biological (or adoptive) parents.
• Thus, reducing father absence via supporting and encouraging fathers to become actively involved in their child's life offers significant potential to reduce the adverse effects of father absence and to empower individual lives, foster families, and contribute to community wellbeing.

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Either comment here or send me an email if you'd like to participate.  Thank you!