I have a very ambitious friend named Lydia Shannon.  We met about 2 and a half years ago at a seminar and managed to stay in touch through email, Twitter, etc.  She emailed me a couple months ago, telling me about this fundraiser she was doing to benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation for breast cancer!  She was trying to get photographer’s to be put up for auction, with the winner of each auction getting a mentor session and the proceeds going to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.  I quickly agreed to help, but wondering if anyone would actually bid on me?

Fast forward a couple weeks, and Lydia started tweeting about new people being added to her auction.  Names like Jose Villa, The Image is Found, Carlos Baez….my jaw dropped open!  What??  What kind of auction did I sign up for?  I can’t compete with these people!  But then I realized, it’s not a competition.  Anything we can do to help raise money for this great organization is a good thing.  I’ll just pretend for a day that I can fit in with these folks!

The auction will run for 5 days from Thursday, October 14 through Tuesday, October 19.  I think I’ve decided that I’d like to mentor someone on Photoshop, so if you feel the need to spruce up your images with some Photoshop magic, plan on bidding on me!  I want to do a 1 hour Skype videochat session, so I can share my screen with the winner and show them some stuff about this awesome program!  Maybe even have them email me some of their images before the session so I have them and can show them what I’d do to their own image!  Fun, huh?  When the auction goes live on October 14, she’ll send me the link to my auction so I’ll post it here so you guys can go straight to it.  Please…..don’t let me feel like a loser.  BID for a great cause!  🙂  (in case you’re wondering, f/stop is a photography term. I love the auction name’s play on words!)

Here’s a video that Lydia put together to promote the auction.  You can catch a short glimpse of her craziness…I mean, enthusiasm for this cause: