AIDS Lifecycle Fundraiser | Fremont Portrait Photography

Embarassing Ginny Fact: I can’t ride a bicycle.

Embarassing Ginny Fact: Once friends in college tried to teach me on campus, late at night, and I crashed into a tree in front of a bunch of drunk party-goers.

Embarassing Ginny Fact: My husband insisted on teaching me a few years ago along with one of his similarly bicycle skills-impared friend. The results: Intense embarassment and extreme amounts of padding, screaming, and crashing into the football goal post on the high school field.

Super-Awesome-Non-Embarassing Non-Ginny Fact: My sister (Kristin) and her boyfriend (Bryan) (who are much more skilled than me…) are participating in the Aids Lifecycle in June. They will be riding their bikes from San Francisco all the way to Los Angeles, camping along the way, and riding as a gesture to raise awareness and funds for AIDS research, services, and education.

What is the Aids Lifecycle?
(from http://aidslifecycle.org)
It’s a 7-day, 545 mile bike ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles that raises money and awareness for the HIV and AIDS services of the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center and the San Francisco AIDS Foundation. This marks the thirteen year for AIDS/LifeCycle and the twenty-first for the event overall, and during the week of June 1-7, 2014, thousands of Cyclists and volunteer Roadies will come together to do something incredible. Something that will change lives. Something that YOU can be a part of!

In order to participate, they each need to raise $3,000 towards the fundraiser.

To help, I will be offering mini sessions in exchange for donations. For donations in the amount of $175 or more, I will be offering a 20 minute photoshoot along with 10 digital images in order to help raise funds! 100% of your donation goes to this cause. These sessions can be portriats of you, your family, with your significant other, with your dog….

The Details:

-Cost: $175 (or more if you are able to give more! This would normally be a $350 value…its a good cause!! We’ll happily accept a higher donation if you feel compelled to donate more to this cause- 100% will go to the AIDS Lifecycle)
-Number of sessions available: 10
-20 minute session
-Available dates: 4/12 (mustard flower field, Fremont CA) + 4/27 (olive tree grove, Los Altos CA)
-10 digital files, sent to you via dropbox. High resolution, with print release
-You are receiving this session as a thank you for your donation, not redeemable for cash/credit/nontransferable. Session are subject to availability.
-To book, you will need to send your donation to me directly so I can keep track of the number of participants/availability of these 10 sessions

Our locations:

To make your donation and book your thank you session time slot:

-Email ginny@retrospectimages.com with subject line: AIDS Lifecycle Donation Session
-Include your date preference from the aforementioned dates
-Let me know who I will be photogrpahing during your session (Just you? Your family of 4? Your two children? You and your husband?)

I will respond to let you know if I still have availability and if so will let you know a timeslot and will provide instructions for making your donation, as well as some details on your photo session.

 

Kristin and her riding partner on last year’s ride (in silly masks, of course):

(photo not by me)

 

 

And Kristin + Bryan, whom we are trying to support on this impressive journey, so you can put faces to the names:

(photo not by me)

Thank you so much for supporting these two amazing human people and the mission of the AIDS Lifecycle!