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| Hi! I'm Anna Kuperberg. |
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I photograph weddings, families, and dogs in San Francisco and beyond. Follow me on twitter. Photographers sign up for the KuperSkool workshop mailing list here.
Office hours Tues - Fri: 9am - 5pm  415.401.0806  anna@kuperberg.com
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| Another $10,000 to Environmental Defense |
Saturday, December 20, 2008 • News |
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I am happy to announce that I've donated the total of all holiday online print sales to Environmental Defense, same as last year. In spite of the horrible economy, you all were eager to purchase reprints for your loved ones as holiday gifts. Call me biased, but I think there is no better gift for a family member than a photo of loved ones. This is especially true when you're shopping for your parents, because they already have everything they need and they love to see their kids and grandkids more than anything. Parents love photos! I give family photos to my own parents every year. I think one good outcome of this bad economy is that we're reminding each other of what's really important. So spend some time with your loved ones this month, and take a photo while you're at it.
(Speaking of that, tomorrow I'm leaving on a cruise to Mexico with family, and might not have internet access for a while. If you see me posting in the next week, it's a pre-canned post that I set up before leaving. If you need to get in touch with me, I'll get back to you after January 6th). |
| Happy Earth Day |
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 • Personal |
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Go out and enjoy some nature :)
PS one thing I did for Earth Day: I downloaded this pocket seafood selector from Environmental Defense. It is very handy and well designed. I printed one for myself and one for Beth, my office manager. |
| $10,000 for the environment, thanks to all of you |
Wednesday, December 19, 2007 • News |
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In mid-November I put all the expired 2007 wedding galleries back online and I sent out e-mails to tell everyone they could order prints for the holidays. I also let everyone know that 100% of the proceeds (everything but sales tax and shipping) would go to my favorite organization, Environmental Defense (formerly the Environmental Defense Fund). The response was overwhelming. Total November online sales ended up being $9,741. Wow. I am rounding it up to a nice $10,000 for this year's donation. I feel very grateful to be able to run a business that not only makes people happy, not only provides a creative outlet for me, but also helps the world in a bigger sense. And I am very thankful to all of my clients for this. Thank you a million times.
Click here to find out more about Environmental Defense
I wasn't sure what photo would go with this post, so here's a wedding photo I took in Yosemite last year at Andrew and Eleanor's wedding, depicting the beautiful California Redwoods, most of which have been cut down. These trees can live to be thousands of years old. |
| And here's another type of photo to make you think. This was taken by Seattle photographer Chris Jordan and it depicts 60,000 plastic bags, the number used in the US every five seconds. This represents what I don't want my business to be. One thing I like about my business is that a wedding album or framed print is not disposable. You keep it forever and it becomes more and more valuable to you over time, not like most of the things we buy that become less valuable almost immediately. I don't deliver products in plastic but in cardboard and paper. Even still, my business's effect on the environment is not zero, for instance, it takes fuel to get the photos from my place to yours. I'm doing what I can to at least offset the damage, and I'd like to do more in the future. |
| PS In San Francisco, grocery stores are no longer allowed to use plastic bags like these, only paper bags. |
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