shutter to think

wine auction fundraiser

Click on the link to see my pictures from the auction. $10.3 mil was raised for 47 non-profits in the napa valley.

http://www.napavalleyregister.com/v2inc/mm/ss/080612auction/

 
  

our upside down world

there is a picture of a woman lying on the ground, with her arm around her dead son, taken by jason lee of reuters. that is the picture that broke me. i actually cried from the photograph. it wasn't a compelling image, but rather how straight-foward it was. there was no complexity necessary to make it an interesting picture. i didn't need to see pain on her face but rather it was her body language, her arm around her dead son. and she was with him while the dead person next to them was left alone. the earthquake in china is devastatingly sad. it was so disasterous that it literally took the Chinese army to be the first responders. if only our country could have responded as fast as the Chinese govt to the Katrina disaster....

and shame on the burma govt....they are literally killing their own people by preventing humanitarian aid, food and water to enter the country, while people in China are trying to survive, under concrete rubble, in hospitals, or on roadsides, with broken hearts. It doesn't take a natural disaster to act in genocide. and it doesn't take a war or religious differences. it takes a government's stupidity and selfishness...to do something like this. intentionally. when the people are strong again, they will remember how were neglected. and with their unity, they will overthrow their government.

Tibetan Freedom Torch

well i decided that I wanted to shoot some news. it was an amazing morning. the city was packed with passionate demonstrations all about the olympic torch and i just need to be out there...shooting. i haven't shot much news lately, if at all. And well actually i haven't shot anything i really cared about in about a month. mostly i've' been burying myself in video editing my mexico project - which is nearly finished - but sometimes, you just have to break out of the safe and secure valley and just get into it...life. its so easy to be lazy here in napa. there's not much going on, not much going on in the communities and you have to dig to find stories. this paper also doesn't cover issues or news stories outside the Valley so I tend to feel very sheltered from the rest of the world and that is scary to me.

so here's what i saw....

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Second posting: Reaching out to you all seeing this!! I swim on april 12.

As a photojournalist, I cover issues and events that highlight others in their humanitarian efforts. But for the first time, I'm putting down the cameras and notebook, and jumping back into the water to swim laps in support of the humanitarian programs of SurfAid. This is my first time participating in a fundraiser and one that I am so excited to do! I was a competitive swimmer for nearly half my life so naturally I would splash at the chance to do something like this!

Worldwide, 10 million children die each year from preventable diseases. I'm participating in Swim 4 Life to raise money and awareness for SurfAid International's life-saving programs.

Thank you, in advance for your support of me and my efforts to reduce death and suffering from preventable disease in isolated regions of the world.

Hope to hear from you soon!

Lianne

Follow This Link to visit my personal web page and help me in my efforts to support SurfAid International

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