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**Please understand, Operation: Love ReUnited sessions are for deploying, depolyed and returning military families. Many of our photographers offer seperate pricing for military members if you are interested in family portraits. Thank you!**

If you have ever been through a military deployment, there are no words to explain how hard it is to send the father or mother of your children off to some foreign, dangerous land, leaving you all behind…. Alone. It’s indescribable to watch their faces light up as their mother or father comes up the stairs of the airport after months, possibly a year or more, of not hugging each other. Emotions fly through the main lobby, it’s so very good to have them home. Your base’s Family Support Squadron will help you with your deployment. But the last thing on your mind when your wife or husband arrives home after a 4 to 18 month tour, is capturing all this love– on film. Most people are so overwhelmed with emotions they forget to simply point and shoot the camera they are grasping of their child’s first hug, or that single tear of relief from a mother being able to hold her twenty year old son again. With the help of Operation: Love ReUnited and local photographers near your base, you can.

Operation: Love Reunited - San Diego, Celebration Event

Are you a military family with a loved-one who is currently deployed? Would you like to do something special to show them how much you love and miss them – and give them a way to reconnect to you and their family stateside?

In honor of Independence Day, on Thursday, July 3, 2008 a group of photographers will be collaborating to offer Operation: Love Reunited family portrait sessions between 9:00 and 3:00 to families who have their love one deployed. You’ll spend about 30 minutes with a photographer, creating some great casual portraits and candid shots of your family. The photographer will prepare an album of 4×6 prints and send it directly to your deployed loved one, as this is how the OpLove program works.

We’ll be doing this at Liberty Station in the big grassy promenade area behind Vons and the North Chapel (2881 Roosevelt Road, San Diego, CA 92106: enter off of Rosecrans Blvd. and Roosevelt Rd. and park in the parking on the right side before the chapel).

To schedule your appointment, please contact Julie Edwards via EMAIL or by phone: 619-417-7397. Portrait session will have the usual patriotic theme, so wear your red, white, and blue, bring some boots, a hat, a jacket, dog tags or small props like a flag or a photo of your loved one. You will be required to sign a release and show proof of deployment when you check in, other than that there are are no strings attached – it’s completely free to eligible families!

Hope to see you out there!!

War on Terror News

They posted an article about OpLove on their blog!  Pass it on!

http://waronterrornews.typepad.com/home/2008/06/operation-love.html

New Splash Page!

Kim at Simply Splash was gracious enough to donate a splash page for OpLove!!  Look at her awesome work!!

www.oplove.org

So if you get a chance, drop her a note and tell her Thanks!!  :)

OpLove Apparel and Products!!

Show off your support of this wonderful organization!! We have 2 stores!

OpLove CafePress Store
OpLove Zazzle Store

Please Help Support OpLove!

We have a badge on MySpace that you can add to your profile!  Please join our cause!

 


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Video

I found this on youtube from one of our photographers, Sarah Anne Photography!

 

Applications…

Hey all, I know it’s taking some time to get thru the applications this month.  I’m so sorry that you’re having to wait.  I currently have a TERRIBLE sinus infection that is hindering my entire life it seems like right now.  On top of being due in a month, well it takes a toll.  Gina, my knight in shining armour is working tediously on the applications today.  She’ll get thru them as soon as possible.  In the meantime please be VERY patient.

Welcome New Photographers

I’d like to welcome:

Marilyn, Emily, Devan, Philip, Desiree, Kelly, Jessica, Allen, Angel, Rebecca, Joy, Lisa, Dena, and Monica to OpLove!

Photographer/Designer CONTEST!!

PHOTOGRAPHER CONTEST! (You must be a photographer or designer to participate!!!)

As you can see our blog is in SHAMBLES!  Jared at ProPhoto Blog donated us a template!!! So excited!

The banner is flash and rotates at the top… so we could have multiple banners of all our images! yay!! and there’s a spot for a nice logo to the side.

I thought it would be fun to have a little design contest (logoish), and the vote for the favored “biopic.” Feel free to jazz it up!!  Maybe instead of our traditional logo, the initial OLR in front of the flag… etc….

We’ll have a vote on the best submission, and winner will receive a VERY generously donated gift voucher (not eligable for custom work) from Renee of Vibe!  If you haven’t checked out the Vibe website, you should! LOTS of yummy actions and fun!

The “biopic” below the header, needs to be 215×312px
and the rotating headers need to be 980×250px

Go ahead and email your submissions for the blog to oplove1@gmail.com  We’ll run this contest until the end of the month and then vote the 1st week of May.

Please welcome!!

Please welcome our new photographers!

 Gwyneth Dahler, Amy McCall, Melissa Squires, and Kate Switalski!

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