••••••••••••WINNER IS HEIDI DEAN, #129!•••••••••••••••••••
heidi, email me and get me your address. you have a rad new camera strap headed your way from emily and i! wish i could give 831 straps away, i always hate the let down after all the build up of excitement…
yesterday, em came over after school as a surprise for the little girls (we have been hearing moan-y sad complaints like “when will we EVER SEE HER AGAaaaaaaaaaaIN?” with much flopping and hand to forehead sighing) (an hour spent on video chat sunday evening did nothing to satisy them) (where did they ever learn that? certainly not from their overly dramatic and emotional mummas!), to watch our tivo’d project runway, and get indian for dinner. and so that i could eat my weekly allotment of yindi’s neck.
our routine has become ritual at this point. sacred. and awesome.
she also sewed a new (vintage!) ribbon onto my camera strap. i’ve been eyeballing it for weeks in her shop, and lucky me, i get it for free. and guess what? SO DO YOU! (well, one of you!) we decided it would be totally fun to do a camera strap giveaway on my blog. for anyone that doesn’t know, em started making her “funky camera straps” in april 2007. no one else was doing it at the time, she is the original gangsta! when we met, she had the coolest strap on her camera, and i begged her for ages to start making them and selling them. i knew firsthand how hard it was to find a cool strap. i had looked high and low for years for a camera strap that wasnt just utilitarian. and im the google queen, and i could never find anything that wasnt intended for an older male photog and his khaki pocketed vest. she set up shop on etsy, and has sold over 800 of them since.
and now its your turn to get one. if you already have one, awesome, enter to win anyway and have two to switch out!
just comment on this post by 1:30pm PST Sep 18. i will draw a winner soon after that. winner gets the same strap as me. this wonderful, adorable, kitschy vintage goodness.
two someones wanted to model camera straps too…
I read your blog all the time. You take some really amazing pics. Can’t wait to see what you will do next!!!
So-my husband bought me a new camera. Sony Alpha350. Nice! As I shopped for funky cool bags, he came home with a boring black one as a gift. His heart was in the right place…so I haven’t purchased a funky cool bag. (yet)
But I’m DEFINITELY in the market for a funky cool strap! If I don’t win it…I’ll be on that site shopping this afternoon!
Thanks for sharing your talents, and the talents of your wonderful friend Em!
BTW, will you teach an online photo class??? Would love to learn from you!!! I’m on your blog and frequently wondering, how’d she get that shot? What lens did she use? etc.
Thanks!!!
Kim in Duluth, MN
800 straps sold @ $32.00 each? Holy smack! way to go Em!!
These straps are so neatooo!! I’m so gettin one for my B-DAY :)
Pick Me,Pick Me, Pick Me, Pick Me, Pick Me,…I love all of your photos, you are such an inspiration to me, you have helped me to think outside of the box. I have learned from you that photos are about moments, figuring out what is unique about each family that I shoot and then recording it. Thank you for being such a great photog and always being there to answer our petty questions (well mine anyways). So glad you are part of the blogging community!!!
I love those straps! Thanks for sharing them with us! I would love to have one someday!
you’re all sorts of fun tara…..put me on the *win* list!
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wow! i guess i am not the only one who thinks this camera strap rocks! [plus, who doesn’t want to sport a great strap like miss whitney? :)]
count me in!!!
Ok. I never win, but what the heck! I’ll give it a shot anyway because I LOVE that strap! :)
I would love to win, thank you so much for the chance to win. Very generous of you :)
Very nice! She’s so very talented!
I would so love to get my hands on one of those camera straps! Will it help me to take better pictures too?
Ahh they’re wonderful..I only have my icky Nikon one :p
what a fun way to wear your camera – no boring straps here!
Em’s camera straps rock and so do you! Thanks for making me smile daily with your beautiful pictures and
words :-)
LOVE the flowers!! And of those truly beautiful 800 straps, two went to me! One for me and one for my BFF, who picked up a camera with me back waaaaay back in the day!
Coooome ooooooooon #484!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOVE LOVE LOVE IT~~.. how cute are those!!!.. if i don’t win i am also going to buy one.. maybe too..
Well……I don’t know how I missed this post…..but 486 comments later here I am!! I love the pictures of you and the kids………and I am drooling over the camera……..and I love Emily’s straps….have been wanting to buy one for a while for my lovely Rebel!! Have a great day….thanks for the fun giveaway!
OHHHHHH< yaaaaaaaa! Pick me pick me! I so WANT/NEED a funky camera strap for my dream camera! The one that came with the camera is so itchy and uncomfortable and of course ugly!
I’m drooling over that funky strap!!!! PICK ME!!
I have been an Emily Falconbridge fan for some time now and would love to win one of her camera straps! And of course any way I can be like the oh so talented Tara Whitney…I’m all over it!
Oh..pick me..pick me…! I desperately need a new strap. I tossed the strap of the camera onto the counter so my godson would not pull it off and it accidently settled on a candle. Yep..I caught my strap on fire..LOL
Love these! Awesome blog contest!
Let me have it!! :)
as my 3 year old says so well….me me me!!
Those are so cute, I would love to WIN one so pick me because I never win anything – EVER!
Thank you for being such an inspiration to other photographers, you have influenced my look at people that depicts in my photos now.
You are awesome!
pick me, pick me! I hate my camera strap being all canon-y and from the box. needs some vintage flowery goodness. :)
I love those! What a great idea!
That strap is so pretty. I’d love to have one. Thanks for giving one away. Conrgatz to that lucky person that wins it.
Wow! 489 comments so far. I guess my odds for this are better than the lottery!
Love your blog Tara!! You are awesome!
i need one
So cute and fun! I hope I win!!
Yummy! I want one! :)
love the strap! would be awesome to add some vibrance to my boring black camera:) Thanks for the opportunity:)
Me!! Me!! Pick me!! Please pick me!! I need style help and this would be the perfect place to start!! :)
I have always wanted a nice funky camera strap to combat all that black that is my camera and lenses.
Jen
http://jennifermartinovici.typepad.com
hope it will make my clevage look like that, too!?!?!? =)
I’d love that one!! My camera strap is sad………
LOVE it. I will sit here with my fingers crossed until 1:30 PST.
It will be difficult to eat lunch like this. :)
Love it! Want it! Need it! Please pick me!
Liz
It’s me, commenting. Oh, you might not know me….it’s my first time commenting on your blog. But I am a faithful reader and am strapless (camera that is…), so PICK ME!! Please!
Love your blog BTW!
What a beautiful strap..It would look very nice holding my Canon!
Count me in for the giveaway!
Ooooh…I’ve been drooling over Emily’s camera straps for the last little while. Love the orange flowery goodness :)
AHHH I LOVE IT! Always wanted a strap and never got around to getting one! Yall are too sweet!
These straps are sooo cute. Would love to have one.
Ali
Love the strap! And love your site. Thanks for sharing with us!
Love the strap! Love those photos of you, too!
I absolutely love Emily’s straps and would love to win one! :-)