Giving Back:

Steven and I have been incredibly blessed through our photography business. In five years we have been entrusted with photographing 79 weddings. We are already booked for 13 next year, and may just reach that 100 mark by the end of 2009.

I received a moment of enlightenment at Thanksgiving this year. We were at Camp IAWAH (located on Wolfe Lake, on the outskirts of Westport, Ontario, just north of Kingston), and during Camp's Thanksgiving celebration, it occurred to me that we have been blessed in order to be a blessing to others.

Because we love Camp so much we decided that a pecentage of our wedding bookings will be donated to IAWAH's CampKids Fund - a fund which lightens the load of financially-strapped families, who could not otherwise see their child enjoy a camp experience.

On another note, the idea of 'giving back' is a personal one for me: not only has my little family been recipients of many incredible, intangible moments at IAWAH, but as a child, I would not have been able to participate in many school or church outtings myself, if it were not for the financial aid provided by generous benefactors.

I am excited that Unveiled Photography will contribute, even in a small way, to a child's fond memory of summertime. I still remember many of my own.