Meningitis Angels and Sierra’s Race Against Meningitis is spreading the message, “GET VACCINATED”! Young kids are particularity at risk. Kids can get vaccinated for Meningitis after a child turns 2. Meningitis Angels have the most amazing stories, and they’re here saving lives! My heart is overflowing. I’m amazed at the amazing power of God’s love working with great force and power through these individuals. A simple vaccination can save your life, and that’s the simple message they’re trying to spread.

So Thankful for these loving organizations for spreading the WORD to GET VACCINATED for Bacterial Meningitis ~~
Meningitis Angels http://www.meningitis-angels.org/
and http://www.sierrasraceagainstmeningitis.com/

Please check out these two websites to find out more including how and where you can get vaccinated as soon as possible.
It comes like a horrible storm, leaving a path of destruction, taking limbs, faces, and lives. This storm can be prevented with a simple shot.

My family and I met a sweet boy (7 yrs old) from Meningitis Angels foundation who lost his legs, arms, and part of his face in March 2010. He is still undergoing surgery to repair his sweet face grafting skin from other parts of his body to his face.

It’s way too easy for us to turn our back to this and say it would never happen to us but Bacterial Meningitis took the lives of two hockey players from Fort Collins last year. Two lives that would be here today with a simple shot.

With the economy taking a dive for the last two years, many people have lost their jobs. Some have gone on to find other jobs; some have not. A lot of those who have not, realized that if they own a digital camera, they claim they are a professional photographer. How hard can it be, right? And then, sadly a lot of people that are in need of a photographer, lump us all together in one big melting pot of no distinguishment. A photographer is a photographer right? Just pick the least expensive one. It’s easy. Well I ask you, do you buy the cheapest car you can find, the cheapest shoes, the cheapest pair of jeans? The cheapest vacation spot? Then why the cheapest photographer? This is why there are three times as many photographers in Larimer and Weld county compared to two years ago.

The camera is just a tool. Like a guitar, it takes an artist that has studied and practiced for years to make it sing. Most of these “new” photographers don’t have a clue what half the functions on their camera are and how to use them. So many I’ve seen, their skin tones look dead, lifeless and unnatural. I’m a perfectionist at my craft and having my camera settings perfect, my lighting perfect and processing perfect so that am able to give you rich, vibrant skin tones, and color the way it naturally should be. Plus, they don’t even have a business license, no tax license, no insurance, no studio, no Prolab; they just give you a CD of images for you to print. That’s about like buying a car with no engine. How a print is made is half of the art of having a beautiful print you can be proud of and get compliments after compliments from people who see it on your wall. You will walk by your wall, and say to yourself, I’m really glad we did that. Sorry, but Walgreens or Sam’s Club can’t do what a good professional Prolab can do. There is a night and day difference. Our prints are done on true archival silver halide photographic paper by the best Prolab in the country.

Here is another scary thing. Some of these photographers are now printing their pictures themselves on inkjet printers. They get paper that says Kodak or Fuji on the back and hey, you know, it may appear o-k. But it’s not archival. In 5 years it’s going to look like grandma’s old snapshots. There are a lot of shortcuts in this business, I’ve just named a few. They do allow for cheaper prices, but at a big cost down the road.

I’ve made my living as an artist all my life, for the last 12 years painting with a camera and light. Every year I go to workshops to study with the masters in the art of photography and study posing, and how to pose different body types and faces for the most flattering image. I keep up on the latest software and camera advancements. I promise you, we take NO shortcuts. With us, every step is done with the final image quality in mind. Many photographers shoot several clients a day. I don’t, I can’t. I have over 10 hours of work invested in every shoot because I do it all by hand. Being the best at your craft isn’t easy. I am an artist, a skilled and technical photographer, a professional at this craft. Making my clients happy makes me happy, and my mission is to provide them with art on their wall of them and their loved ones that they can be proud of forever.