Shutter Sisters

Hello Gorgeous!

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Last year, my friend Kelly Rae asked me if I could take some photographs of her, that would make her feel beautiful in her new pixie haircut. I was honored, of course! As photographers, I think one of our best gifts is to be able to capture the beauty we see and and reveal it to those around us. I cannot think of a better thing to do, but to make someone feel seen, gorgeous and happy in their own skin. And isn’t she a beauty through and through? It was easy peasy. That is why I love my job 🙂

With that said, it’s time for a June Mini Photo Contest. That means it’s time for you to share your best image that fits our theme this week. And today (guess!), it’s Hello Gorgeous!

So show us what you’ve got between now and Sunday night at midnight PST over in our OWP Flickr pool and leave a comment here with a link to your shot. Only one image per person please and only those images shared through links in the comments here will be considered. There will be one “Grand Hello” winner that will receive a 36X24 canvas (Hello!) and 2 runners up that will win a 20X24 canvas compliments of Hello Canvas, of course! Winner will be chosen by best interpretation of the theme. Good luck!

Comments

  10. my step-daughter was in town (love her to pieces) memorial weekend and she has been keeping up with my photos on flickr the best she can. She has been begging me to do her senior portraits so we decided to practice. she is very shy around the camera and it was fun and funny. When we went through and edited a few, this one she couldn’t stop staring at!
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/49243144@N08/4649563545/in/pool-shuttersistersonewordproject

    it makes her look soooo grown and sooo georgous! Even her mother called with high praises. Proud moment . . . showed her just how gorgeous she really is!

  15. why, yes. she is very beautiful. i love that hair cut, by the way! i wish i could pull that off.

    i recently took several shots of my best friend. she did not ask me to. it was just for fun. but i’m so glad i did. she is one of the most beautiful people i know… inside and out. and the camera absolutely loves her! although technically, my shots were not the best of her, they are among some of my favorite people pictures that i have ever taken. it was hard to pick between one of two, but this was the one i chose.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/28567264@N05/4669167634/in/photostream/

  19. I’m so excited! I just figured out the whole flickr thing and I think this will become a new addiction!

  43. My beautiful sister…she’s not only gorgeous but she’s sweet, funny, and a little gullible, which makes for an amazing combination!

  45. I chose an image of my girlfriends getting ready for a rare night out without husbands and kids – just the girls. As mothers, we often forget to take time for ourselves and, while the getting gorgeous part in the photo seems pretty obvious to others who may look at it, the most beautiful thing to me about this image is that I have such a wonderful group of girlfriends that became sisters. It’s especially important for this girl who who grew up without that sister relationship. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicoleishida/4310262477/in/pool-shuttersisters

  55. One day last year I was fooling around with my camera. My then six year old daughter was willing to be my subject (an unusual event) and I captured this shot. It blew me away. Like every parent I think my kids are lovely, and I see the beauty in the dirty faces and the messed up hair and the silly smiles that are in most of my photos of them. This one though, this one is of a gorgeous GORGEOUS girl. She looks mature far beyond her age and I see the glory of what she is going to become.

    Hello, gorgeous.
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/konehead/3608386555