Rebekah Pope Photography Blog

And nothing says summer fun better than a little boy swinging on an old-fashioned tire swing!

I know that I’m blogging about Mother’s Day a day late, but I just have to share this Mother’s Day story I came across today.  For those of you who don’t know, I have recently started knitting again.  (I learned back in high school and dropped it when I went to off college.)  Of course, I did research on the web about knitting and found a very talented and caring knitter, Alison, who has a wonderful blog that I have started follow.  Her Mother’s Day post had tears streaming down my checks.  I highly recommend you have some tissues handy when you read it.

This past week, I attended a Special Kids Photography workshop in Atlanta hosted by Dan & Micki Simkem of Tripod Photography.   The primary mission of SKPA is to represent special children to professional photographers in an effort to expand exceptional photographic opportunities to these children on a national level.   This unique focus is accomplished through training and education, awareness, funding development and photographic industry support.  The process of becoming certified is four-fold – the photographer must first attend a workshop, take a test, submit 4 photographs of children with special needs and 3 letters of recommendations from the parents.  I am currently working towards this certification as I believe every child deserves timeless images.

I can’t have a post without sharing some images.  Here are a couple from a recent session with a little boy who has autism.  His Mom and Grandfather are working with Leisa Hammett and myself on the Heartache to Hope project.  We are telling the stories of Middle Tennessee families living with autism.

Nashville State is having a photography silent aution to raise funds for the Cathy O’Bryant scholarship fund this Thursday night at the Hutton hotel from 5pm – 8pm.  This scholarship is awarded to a deserving photography student at Nashville State.  The silent auction includes works from faulty, students and photographers.  (I have donated two works for this great cause.)  Check it out, there is going to be some great finds.

I meet one of my favorite models downtown last week for a classic ballerina session.  I took mostly B&W film shots (yes, I still use that old stuff) but I had to take just a few digital images.  I can’t wait to play around in the darkroom with the images captured on film and I’ll share once I have some printed, but until then, here are a couple of the images captured using my newfangled digital camera! LOL