Rob and Lauren Blog

A ton of great photographers have decided to give back this year in a really fun way. They’ve started something called “Cans for Comments”. It’s simple. For every comment someone leaves on our blog we will donate one can of food to the Edmonton Food Bank. We’ll run it from now until Friday, December 12 (my birthday, yay!)

So go ahead and comment here, go back through our archives and leave some nice comments anywhere. And then hit up all these other sweet blogs, see some awesome photos, and leave comments! It’s fun and for a great cause!

Chris + Lynn
Shandro Photo
Perspective Eye
Picture That
Blue Olive
CJ Scott
Jamie Delaine
Erin Gilmore
Amber Hughes
Bebb Studios

And apparently there are tons and tons more photographers taking part every day! Check out Chris + Lynn’s blog for the ever growing list!

Now get commenting!

Edit:

Ok, since Kate asked for a photo here’s a photo! From the next wedding to be blogged. Just wait till you see the rest of this one!

Lauren :)

Hey everyone! Keep those comments coming! We have a couple more days in our Cans for Comments event. So I wanna see a ton more comments, especially from all my friends who I KNOW check this blog every day, and haven’t commented yet!

Here are a couple gorgeous shots Rob took the other day to get you inspired. These two are currently our desktop images, since I liked them so much! Hope you enjoy :)

 Lauren :)

Hey all!

First off we just want to thank you guys for participating in our Cans for Comments event. So many amazing photographers from across North America hopped on board, and I’m sure all the Food Banks will be very pleased :)

So we wound up with 41 comments. Pretty good! But we decided to throw an extra bit on there and Rob went off to the grocery store with $67 to buy a bunch of food. We took a peek at the Edmonton Food Bank website (which was actually designed by our cool friends over at LiFT!) and made of list of all the things they need most. If you’re planning on donating to the food bank this holiday season I highly recommend doing that!

Off Rob went, and he filled up a shopping cart with all sorts of good stuff. As our local grocery store is pretty strict on no photo allowed all he could manage to sneak was an iPhone photo of the bounty.

 And once he was outside the near -40 degree temperature was definitely preventing him from getting any other shots! 

But there you have it. A bunch of food successfully donated, thanks to our wonderful blog readers. I hope some of you decide to go out and add some food in there. This is the time of year when it’s most needed. And with the insanely cold temperatures Edmonton is feeling lately, I think everyone could use a hand right now.

I’ll be posting a bunch more weddings and portraits really soon. But for now a little teaser for you.

Come early January the entire Rob & Lauren brand is getting an overhaul. A new logo, a new website, a new blog design, new cards, new letterhead….I could go on and on about all the things I need to design, but there you have it! I hope you guys are excited. I think our photography has really taken on a style of it’s own and it’s time our branding reflected that!

So keep checking in, and one day the blog will just be totally different! Then will come tons of new content, resources, tidbits about us. Basically it’s going to be amazing :)

Lauren :)

EDIT:

I just recieved a very sweet email from Erin in the States. She wanted to share some information about how to best give to the Food Bank! Here’s an excerpt. Give it a read, and then go and donate!

“Here in the states regional food banks are able to purchase food items at 10% WHOLESALE cost from manufacturers and then distribute at no cost to each individual pantry.   This means that by making a monetary donation to a food bank your charitable dollar actually goes 20x further by giving money instead of product.  I know it’s not as exciting as going to the store to get real food to drop off and it seems more impersonal, but in the long run I think the banks benefit more from cash.  Keep the food items coming, too, though.  Every donation, whatever form it may be, is welcomed and put to use.  If you would be so kind as to put this in your comments it would be much appreciated.  With the economy as it is here we have several more people seeking food pantry services and fewer people donating.  The bank I work for may actually run out of food before January.  That’s never happened to us before.  I just want to get the word out.  Thank you and keep warm!”

Thanks so much for sharing that information Erin! Next time they are definitely getting cash from Rob & Lauren :)