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0 Camp Quality Supper Club

Georgina Lewis and Paul O’Brien supporting Camp Quality

I recently had the pleasure of supporting the Camp Quality Supper Club. Over 288 guests had an exciting evening out at 24 top Brisbane restaurants. The Supper Club has been going for 10 years, starting in Melbourne, to raise money for childhood cancer sufferers and their families.

It’s always a fun night

Its the 7th year in a row that I volunteer my skills as a photographer to capture the evening. This year the theme was ‘Wonderland” so I managed to meet The Queen of Hearts, Alice of course and The Mad Hatter. I will post photos as soon as I get them.

Photographing celebrities

Many celebrities were present and I was very happy to meet Georgie Lewis from Channel 10 News, Damien Anthony Rossi and Val and John Foote who are on the Board at Camp Quality.

So How does this work?

Almost 200 of Australia’s top restaurants gave generously, donating tables, food and service to children’s cancer charity Camp Quality. Throughout May 2013, six cities hosted the Camp Quality Supper Club, which fundraises to help create a better life for every child living with cancer in Australia. After the guests have enjoyed their fine dining experience, they are chauffeured by Lexus to a Secret After Party at a special location.

Camp Quality Chairman John Foote with wife Val at Moda Brisbane

This year’s Camp Quality Supper Club ‘Secret After Party’ location..

This year it was in the Amazing Cloud Land in The Valley. WOW. There were tables over flowing with lollies, live music, croquet and free flowing wines from the sponsors McWilliam’s &  Champagne Taittinger.

It’s always a pleasure

to be part of the evening and I thoroughly recommend it to any business or group wanting to have a fantastic evening out and for the great feeling of knowing all the money raised is going to Camp Quality to help brighten the lives of all the families and their children.

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0 Family Portraits for Caritas – Project 2

Margherita Gregory and Joe Foley from Caritas acknowledge the recent achievement.

Being a family portrait photographer in Brisbane..

and specialising in family portraits I had been wondering for a while how I could use my love of family portraits and contribute to an important cause at the same time.

Then my daughter came home from Mount Maria College with a Project Compassion money box in her hands.

“Maybe you could help Caritas” she suggested.

An idea was born… a portrait-project fund-raising idea..

I was always impressed by Caritas..

and their work in Australia and around the world. I liked the way they help people.

Along with direct assistance, they also deliver education programs on micro business and health initiatives. This vital work helps communities move forward as a whole.

What also impressed me is that Caritas guarantees that a minimum 90% of money raised goes directly to where it is needed. I was encouraged by this high standard.

Setting the ball in motion..

Thinking it might work I got in touch with Trish Ryan from Caritas and we met up to explore the idea a bit more.

The idea was to create a special family portrait pack and donate the proceeds from each pack to Caritas.

We both felt it had potential and decided to give it a try. We set an exciting goal for the project of $10,000.

The family photography project was enthusiastically received and proved to be very popular.

With great excitement we reached the goal in November 2012 by raising $10,000.

Wow the time has flown, and I thank everyone for their support to reach that goal.

We worked together to share the message through the local community.

Margherita Gregory meets Lulu Mitshabu at a Project Compassion launch.

It’s been lots of fun..

meeting all the local Brisbane families and their adorable children.

It’s also been great knowing the money raised is going to so many special programs.

One example I was introduced to is the Safe Motherhood Program in Bangladesh where local women are trained to be midwives.

These remarkable local women are saving the lives of many babies and mothers with their newly acquired ‘hands-on’ skills.

It was a privilege to meet Julienne who started the Safe Motherhood Project and find out more about the challenges experienced by mums and their babies in Bangladesh.

I learned that the problems arose from a lack of access to up-to-date knowledge. This was causing unnecessary infections and complications for mothers and their babies.

Since the program’s inception, not one life has been lost..

when a ‘Caritas-trained’ midwife was present. This is an exceptional outcome and very close to my heart.

Whilst regularly photographing newborn babies around Brisbane I am constantly reminded how important it is for us to continue working towards reducing these types of preventable problems in the world.

Caritas does so much amazing work both here in Australia and around the world, for me this just feels right.

After reaching the goal last year..

and raising $10,000, we have been invited to continue our work with Caritas and it’s with great pleasure that we’ll be continuing with the project.

A new target of $8,000 has been set and we look forward to this new challenge.

Are you overdue for family portraits?

If Mums and Dads are overdue to have a family portrait taken this really is the perfect opportunity.

It’s a great alternative to going to a local shopping centre and having indoor ones done. Families can have something really delightful created.

These designer portraits will be professionally taken in a natural location by me personally.

These special family portrait packs are limited in numbers and they go fast.

If you would like to support this project by securing a pack for your family please contact me at the photography studio and I can tell you all about it :)

Talk soon!

Margherita :)

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0 Kiss Photography YouTube Channel

I’m  really excited to announce the new Kiss Photography YouTube Channel at www.youtube.com/kissphotography

It features a video of a family portrait shoot I did recently. We had lots of fun that afternoon.

It was on the beach at Miami on the Gold Coast and it was beautiful.

The children have a great time running around on the beach.

Once on the beach I find that Mum’s and Dad’s relax pretty quickly also.

I’m not sure if it’s a delightful sound of the surf that relaxes them or whether it’s the feeling of sand under their feet, or both!

With joyous children and relaxed adults this is when the magic starts to happen.

We just take our time, and with some very casual direction great images start taking shape.

The Kiss Photography YouTube Channel video’s are all High Definition.

If you have fast broadband be sure to switch to the 720HD setting that becomes available when you hit ‘play’.

On the the channel there are also a series of slideshows featuring family portraits. I love seeing them all set in motion to music!

Enjoy, and let me know what you think !

Margherita

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