Now that the US is out of the world cup I need something to make the rest of the games more exciting.  Because when watching the US matches, every minute was really exciting (especially with their tendency to go down a goal early).  But now I find that I’m just not that into the games.  They’re still fun to watch, but I have nothing vested in them.

So, to make the World Cup a bit more exciting for me I’m going be offering free prints via Twitter to randomly chosen people who retweet about the giveaway and my selected team loses.  This should increase my excitement a bit since I don’t particularly want to take the time to make and send out free prints.  So, stay tuned to my Twitter feed during select matches and maybe you’ll get a free 5×6 print of one of the images above.

More about my prints here.

Sunday June 27th Match:
Mexico vs. Argentina: Giving away 2 prints if Argentina wins.  Results: Argentina wins 3-1 (although it should have been 2-1).  2 prints given away.

Monday June 28th Match:
Brazil vs. Chile: Giving away 4 prints if Chile wins.  Results:  Brazil wins 3-0

Tuesday June 29th Match:
Spain vs. Portugal:  Giving away 1 print if Portugal wins: Results: Spain wins 1-0

Friday July 2nd Match:
Uruguay vs. Ghana:  Giving away 2 prints if Ghana wins:  Results: Uruguay wins in penalty kicks.  It was such an amazing finish I’m giving out one of the prints anyway.

Saturday July 3rd Match:
Argentina vs. Germany: Giving away 1 print if Germany wins:  Results: Germany dominates 4-0. 1 print given away.

Tuesday July 6th Match:
Netherlands vs. Uruguay: Giving away 2 prints if Uruguay wins: Results: Netherlands win 3-2.

Wednesday  July 7th Match:
Germany vs  Spain: Giving away 1 print if Spain wins: Results: Spain wins 1-0.  1 Print given away

Saturday July 10th Match:
Uruguay vs Germany: Giving away 1 print if Germany wins: Germany wins 3-2. 1 Print given away

Sunday July 11th Match… THE FINALS:
Spain vs Netherlands: Giving away 1 8×10 print if The Netherlands win:  Results:  Spain wins 1-0.

Final Tally: 6 Prints given away

Some rules:
* Only one entry per person per match
* Your retweet must have been sent before the match starts
* You must also be following me on Twitter
* These rules may change at any time

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The winner of the first annual 2010 I’m A Photographer And Need Your Approval Photo Contest (aka, The Free Useless Photo Contest) is John Darwin Kurc.

According to John:

“I shot that last week at 0400 in the AM. I was using a Nikon D3 with a Nikon 50mm 1.8 lens. It was with available light (street lamp). The model’s name is Sara and that was her first fine art shoot. The photo was not altered.”

Check out John’s website here where he has some great musician and concert images.

In his comment, John stated:
“If I win, I will be having a party. It will be a big party with women and liquor”

Well John, I better get an invitation to that party.  And I promise, it had nothing to do with my decision.

Thanks to everyone who entered.  I just hope you got your money’s worth.

And now, I’m prepping for the eighteen other photo contests I’m about to launch… stay tuned for details.

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The other day I donated some money to The American Red Cross to help with the Haiti disaster relief.  After seeing more of the pictures coming out of Haiti (warning, graphic photos at that link) I decided I wanted to try and do  more.   So, I will be donating 100% of the proceeds from the next ten print sales* from my etsy page to The American Red Cross or Oxfam (buyer choice) to help with the Haiti disaster relief .  Print prices range from $50 – $200 depending on the size of the print, so the larger the print the more money will be going to Haiti relief.  All prints are individually custom printed by me.

You can visit my Etsy page here for more information about the available prints:
http://www.etsy.com/shop/jeffsingerphoto

You can also make your own donation to The American Red Cross here or Oxfam here.

Please forward or retweet to spread the word and hopefully get some much needed money to the Haiti disaster relief efforts.  It’s not much, but anything will help.

*100% of the print sale will be donated after any paypal/etsy fees or taxes.  Just mention this blog post or Haiti disaster relief when ordering.  Good through the end of February.

Haiti photo: REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz

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One of my pictures of The Golden Gate Bridge is a “finalist” for inclusion into Pingg’s San Francisco Designer Series.  If my image wins the vote, I would get a Fujifilm FinePix F70EXR digital camera.  Well, as we all know the best way to win any election is to buy your votes… so, if you head over to the Pingg voting page and vote for me and then retweet the following, I will give away the camera to one lucky person (if I win it that is):
RT @jeffsinger Digital Camera Giveaway: http://bit.ly/6OCg7q

Here is the voting page:
http://www.pingg.com/content/san-frans-finest-vote-now/

Of course, I have no way of knowing if you actually voted for me… and you should vote for the picture you like best, but if you win the camera and can live with yourself, that’s between you and your therapist.  Then again… if I don’t win, you don’t win.

What’s that you say?  You don’t tweet?  What, do you have a life or something?  Well, if you don’t tweet you can also leave a comment in the comment section and that will count as an entry.  But, a retweet and a comment will get you two entries.

Oh, and if you want a print of the Golden Gate Bridge image, click here.

The Fine print:  There is no fine print.  I’ll even pay for shipping.  But, if I don’t win the camera, then I don’t give one away.  The voting ends December 14th, so hurry on over and vote.

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Some Polaroids from this weekend.  More in the “Last Polaroid” section of my website.

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I realized today there is a point where you may just drive your assistant crazy.  Here is the moment I drove friend and assistant Emily Merrill to the breaking point on an editorial shoot.

And, here is Emily doing her best ”I’m a model and I can contort my body into weird positions for no apparent reason whatsoever” pose.

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We finally got a good dumping of snow here in California, so I headed up to Tahoe for the weekend.  These are some shots taken with a cool little point and shoot, the Panasonic DMC-LX3 (100% identical to the Leica D-LUX 4, so don’t waist your money on the little red dot)

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Here’s one more for the revival of film. The folks over at The Impossible Project are in the process of bringing back Polaroid film. Here’s to hoping they’ll have something like Type-55.

Head over to their website and show your support:

http://www.the-impossible-project.com/

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I was talking about my lack of blogging over diner with a friend the other day. She only recently has taken the time to read some of my writing and said she thought it was funny. I think she was just being kind. I thanked her in my typical uncomfortable with compliments kind of way. I stated the obvious and mentioned that I hadn’t really been blogging much lately, to which she asked why. I didn’t really know how to answer. I mean, I’ve actually been fairly busy with some interesting projects and there’s no reason I shouldn’t be writing about them and other things I’ve been working on lately.

One problem is, I usually think of how to write about something at the strangest or most inopportune of times. By the time I’m in a place where I can get my thoughts down, they’ve already left me. Even with this post I was lying in bed just about to fall asleep when I started thinking about what I should write. My initial thought was to wait until morning but I knew if I did I wouldn’t remember anything I was thinking. So, despite my quickly approaching sleep, I sat up, grabbed the laptop and started typing away…. and I know what you’re thinking… I should have just gone to bed.

I could take a que from other bloggers out there. Take Thomas Broening for example… he always has something to say… sometimes even two or three times a day. I know Thomas and I’m sure he knows I respect his work and blog so I think he’ll understand when I say this: His posts are a mixed bag from the long and fascinating to brief and interesting to the lengthy and mind numbing to the quick and useless. The posts mix his personal life, at times with no photographic content, to his professional musings.

Should I do the same? I’ve always thought that I couldn’t imaging anyone being remotely interested in what I had to say if it didn’t have something to do with photography (and even when it does, only slightly). Do I start talking about my personal life here? Do you want to know who I’m dating? With the exception of my mom, I seriously doubt it (I’ll fill you in later Mom). While my personal life is often the source of great amusement for some of my close friends, I doubt it has broad appeal. So, I think for now I’ll stick to the photography related posts (or blog writing related posts)… but who knows, if I get desperate again maybe I’ll let you know my plans for Saturday night.

Like I said, I’ve had some interesting projects over the last month or two… so I’m going to do my best to get back into the swing of things with this blog. But, that will have to wait for another day… I want to get to sleep now.

Oh, and if you’re wondering why there’s a picture of a bus at the beginning this post… This last weekend I finally came across one of the many busses driving around San Francisco with a recent campaign I shot for SPM Advertising for Brown & Toland.

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My intern Jill standing in before a shoot.

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