Emma’s Blurb
Giddy, bright, curious girl; into yoga, apple mac, photography, conversation, Buddhism, art, crafts, giggles, outdoors, travel, movies, music & more…

Twitter – @ellakopella
Flickr – sunsetsandseabreezes/
Posterous – ellakopella.posterous.com/
MobileMe – web.me.com/emmajanesmith

Lisa’s Blurb
My love for fashion and all things fashion related began as soon as I left my mother’s womb I think. I have always experimented with clothes- looking back, some outfits worked better than others! However, it has only been in the last 5 years that I have made fashion my life. I started a photography course and found myself falling in love with the models I was shooting and how clothes fell, hugged and sometimes completely changed their bodies- taking on a alternative personality each outfit change. I moved on to study commercial photography at degree level, specializing in fashion photography. Now entering the final few months left at university I am ready to spread my wings and throw myself into the fashion industry. I have grown to be particularly interested in Fashion PR and Fashion Buying as possible routes when I graduate.

Follow Lisa on Twitter – @lisahollowood
findyourtribe.com
lisaannhollowood.blogspot.com/

Trish’s Blurb:
Hails from Vancouver, BC, Canada which at this moment, hosts the 2010 Winter Olympics.

“I love working and experimenting in all the possible categories of photography. Currently, I mostly work with musicians/producers/djs and actors, being Vancouver is ‘Hollywood North’ after all. I love playing with plastic cameras, phone cameras and vintage cameras, but of course, most clients prefer high resolution studio/strobe photography these days…”

My blog (which I haven’t updated in eons) and website: www.trishmeow.com
Flickr: www.flickr.com/trishliao

Add me on Twitter if you like to hear someone complain about everything and anything all day long:  @trishmeow

Jena’s Blurb
I’m a retro fine art photographer who was born in the wrong decade.

Twitter – @jenaardell
Website – jenaardell.com
Blog – jenaardell.blogspot.com
Flickr – flickr.com/photos/jenaardell/
Shop – Etsy

If you want to be next weeks #Fridayfeature, you know what to do….. if not, you can click here.

The Red Cross contacted me and advised me to stop the raffle because the all the fraudulent websites around.

What’s funny, as soon I announced what had happened on Facebook & Twitter the donations came flooding in. HAHA. It just shows that negative publicity works, but we all knew that anyway, didn’t we Kate Moss.

So in the true random spirit, I’m pulling the plug on raffle but still going to do the draw. So, if you have entered, you have a much better chance of winning something. Now that’s exciting isn’t it?

Again, thanks to everyone who helped, i’m not sure how much we raised, but it’s not bad for about 8 hours of spamming fund raising on Twitter & Facebook.

A big thank you to James, Elaine and Becky who were going to donate some of their amazing art and textiles for the raffle. You lot are ace :-)

All the best, and thanks again.
Random Sam
xx

Expect the results in the next couple of days… Fingers Crossed :-)

And lastly and most importantly, go and donate on the British Red Cross website. Haiti needs your help.

Good luck!

Hello my Random friends,

Well over a week has passed since the earthquake has hit Haiti and things really don’t seem to be getting better for them with large aftershocks happening this week, making life even more unbearable than it already is. If the photos and videos coming out of Haiti have affected you as much as they have affected me, then please, just for a second… carry on reading…

British Red Cross photostream from Flickr

I propose a raffle in aid of the people of Haiti.
I’m going to try and raise £1000 for the British Red Cross in 4 weeks (Or shorter if we can)…. I know it’s going to be tough, but I’m sure we can pull together and do this. I know that i’m no Bono or a member of Coldplay (Thank fuck for that), but I feel it’s my duty as a traveller/human to do something for the people of Haiti, who are in dire need of our support at this time. PLEASE HELP!

How’s it going to work.
I have 1000 raffle tickets priced a £1 each.
You can buy 1 ticket or all the way up to 50 tickets, it’s totally up to you how much you spend, but the more you buy the better chance you have winning. So let me clarify it for you:
1 ticket is £1
50 tickets are £50

What you do you win?
Having just bought 3 A3 size frames the other day to decorate my wall with my photos. I thought, instead of decorating my walls, how about I decorate someone else.
I shall print 3 photos from my Far From Home project, frame them and give them away to the lucky winners.

This way, you have 3 chances of winning something. Now that’s exciting, don’t you agree?
I’ll even pay for the postage to ship the photos out to you, even if you live in Timbuktu.
And for the kind soul who donates the most, they win a  Toy Camera T-Shirt.

Prize 1.

Prize 2.

Prize 3.

How/When will the winner be announced?
Once the last ticket has been sold, I shall put all the names into a hat (Probably not a hat, more like a cooking pot) and pull 3 names out under the watchful eye of my house mate ‘A Guy called Guy’. We shall make a video of it and stick it up on YouTube, so you can see that it was done fairly. The winners will be contacted by the email they used to buy the tickets with.

Raffle is now closed

#FridayFeature
Thanks to Twitter, the past year I have found so many great photographers/bloggers who have shown me some unbelievable pieces of work. I was thinking, wouldn’t it be great if each Friday I could feature one Photographers from Twitter on my blog.

What’s in it for me?
Well, nothing really, except keeping my blog looking fresh and interesting with amazing photos from all over the world. It will also keep me active on my website.

What’s in it for you?
The smugness of being crowned the #FridayFeature King or Queen for the week. As well as free promotion for yourself, your photos & your website. You can’t say fairer than that, can you?

Do you want to see your work here?

If your interested in having your work on my blog, this is what you need to do:

1. Follow my Twitter - twitter.com/samdj1210
2. Send me up to 5 of your best photograph’s to FridayFeature@randomphotographer.co.uk. No more than 500 pixels wide.
3. Tell me about yourself and include your Twitter id, website and blog (if you have one).

Small (BIG) Print – The Rules

1. You can only submit your own photos.
2. You agree to provide randomphotographer.co.uk a non-exclusive right to publish your work.
3. The copyright remains the property of the photographer, like it should be. We shall have no funny business going on here.

What’s new on here? The back end of the website has been altered, but you shouldn’t notice much of a difference (I hope). More exciting, I’ve added a new gallery on the projects page called Lomophono. Go and have a look and tell me what you think.

Please let me know if you find any bugs, etc.

I hate saying this but I have a ‘fan’ page on Facebook. Why they had to call it that is beyond me, but it’s a really useful tool to direct traffic to this site, as well as show my work off to a new audience.

And of course, I’m still hanging out on Twitter. It’s still the fastest way of getting news, links, and of course, make new friends. I use Twitter a LOT and find it one of the most useful tools out there on the net.