aaand the winner is...

... WELL, let me first tell you that this has been really hard for me to decide. I got really different sugesstions. Here my favorites in no particular order:

Joanna via FB: I would love to have our family carwash/turned major water fight photographed. Its something we do together, and I would love to have the memory captured.

BPG: The first day of school in Mt Baldy! My school is one of a kind with an outdoor auditorium, creek, wildlife, and beautiful view of the mountains!

Alli:I think you should do a photo shoot with as many different hats as you can find! ... Or as many hair-dos as possible! So fun!

Heidi: Playing Twister

AAAnd the winner is:

BPG

I'm thinking of tying books together with a belt, hanging from the kids shoulders. Lunchboxes, maybe a Schultuete (the german in me), pencil behind ear, ... maybe a pathway where the child "walks to school"...

BPG, please contact me so we can set this up!

Thanks everyone for participating!

cravings

I'm CRAVING something new. Something I don't get to shoot all the time. Something fresh. I don't talk about a couch in the field new (maybe if you add to it), I talk about personality, beauty (whatever that means), I want a challenge, some "one on one" time (or maybe two). Gimme hippie, gimme ghetto (nothing nude!!), gimme retro, gimme wrinkles, gimme model, gimme organic, real, fake, rich, poor, drama, funny, serious, elaborate, simple ... I DON'T KNOW!

Send me your idea. Best idea wins a shoot (portrait or couple only... and the only thing i ask for is traveling fee, if further than 10miles from chino). I'll give you a whole MONTH to think about it.

Ideas to lydia@lydiatolman.com

Winner will be picked and notified September 1, 2011

Thanks!

Lydia