Photo Fundraiser

These are a couple of samples of the photographs my roommate took at 5th Avenue on Sunday. I will go through the photos this weekend and come up with a list of people for whom he got photos and then early next week all of those photos will be available on his website, Jeff Carpenter Studios, for viewing and ordering.

The above photos were cropped by me so obviously they will look even better when Jeff gets a chance to work with them in Photoshop.

For a $25 donation, with all proceeds going to Team for Kids, you will get the high resolution digital source file and an 8 x 10 print of your marathon photo. Unless your photograph appears above or below, there is no way to know yet whether we got your photo or not, so don't donate yet.

Jeff didn't get into position until roughly 1 p.m., so this is the first person he photographed, Anne Perl De Pal, who crossed the 35K mark at 2:55:45, or at 1:05 p.m.

And he ran out of memory at 4:06 p.m. and had to stop. So if your 35K time was over 4:53:30, he didn't get you. That is the time of the last runner Jeff photographed, Betsy Friedman-Palmieri and now Blogger is doing that weird thing where it won't let me upload photos, but I'm just thankful it let me put these 3 up there (it is somewhat tempermental on the whole "upload photos" thing).

So if your 35K time was quicker than 2:55:45 or slower than 4:53:30, I'm sorry but he probably did not get your photo. And I say "probably" only to recognize the chip vs. gun time difference, so there is a minute or two margin of error there.

And if you were in that 2 hour window as most people were, he still may have missed you due to the crowds, light, bad luck, etc.

So check back here on Sunday and if your name is on the list I would encourage you to wait to see Jeff's photo when it comes online before buying the Brightroom photos, since Jeff's will be better, cheaper, and all the money will go to the kids!

If your time falls outside the window I would say go ahead and see what Brightroom has to offer. But first, if you were faster than Timmy Elsner, I would go to the Yahoo Group and check out his wife Aimee's mother's photographs, she is also offering her great shots as a fundraiser.

Sorry again that we couldn't shoot everybody, I will get back to sorting through the photos and making the list.