"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." ~Anne Frank

A big "thank you" to everyone who helped me name my latest project.

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point.click.change

Soon point.click.change will have a new home and a space for all photographers to share their stories about giving back to the community.  A big thanks to Sandy Puc' and CreativeLIVE for inspiring me!  It really was an amazing experience to be a part of the live audience.  Stay tuned for the new home and where you can learn more about making a difference.

"You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one." Albert Einstein

I had this idea...I could try to explain it...but the video is better.




So help me come up with a name for this project.

*A blog-based challenge for photographers
*donate their time, art and skills
*showcase their chosen charity

do you have a creative name idea?

Tweet your project name to @GreenApplePics
Use #nametheproject

Submit before March 17, 2012

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons. ~Ruth Ann Schabacker

I've neglected my blog for the past week. How do you sum up the experience of a lifetime? How do you put it into words? How do you explain the gift that has been given to you? You can't...it isn't possible. I have changed. period. CreativeLIVE has given me a gift - of friends, knowledge, experience. And I appreciate it all. Thank you to my new friends Omar, Karen, Carol, Nathan and Stephanie. How can 6 people, from all over the world, bond so quickly? I am so happy to have shared this experience with you. ...and the baby dolls...

"What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it"

At this point it is even difficult to process, let alone reflect on the last 2 days of CreativeLIVE with Sandy Puc'. But I can tell you it has been amazing and so, so much fun. We joked on day one that it was like being on Oprah. Sandy speaks, we sit on the edge of our seats and then she gives away stuff. At one point she actually said "you are all going home with one". Sandy's favourite things!! I felt like the luckiest girl in the world. But the truth is I didn't need prizes or this trip to Seattle to know that. I have the most generous, supportive, loving family in the entire world and I'm so lucky to have this forum to share that with you. Sandy has broken it down to what really matters: Time with the people you love. She's been inspirational and genuine and really, really funny. Benedryl!! LOL. Thank you for everything - everyone.


Thanks to Kenna for taking this shot. She's one of the beautiful people in this world too.

" A culture, we all know, is made by its cities." Derek Walcott

As we walked around the downtown streets of Seattle, with our luggage, diaper bag, camera bag, laptop bag, stroller and oh yeah - our baby, we looked for some sign of where we had gotten off the light rail from the airport. Joe had his GPS, but wasn't getting a signal and I had no idea how to get to our hotel. It felt like the Amazing Race - Baby edition. At last I spotted a map located on a street post...this is where the tourists find their way and we were exactly that. Joe and I argued for a few minutes on the street - oblivious to who was walking by and probably laughing and I still had no clue exactly where we had to go to get to the hotel. When finally our hero appeared from his shop and said "do you need some help?" I was happy to say "yes!!" He also asked us if we were Canadian. I looked around for signs of a maple leaf. "takes one to know one" he told us followed by directions to our hotel. Coming from a small town in Ontario, big cities always excite and scare me. My experience in Toronto or Montreal is that everyone else is in a rush, walking with their heads down on their Blackberry (shout out to Waterloo) or iPhone and no one has the time to help a pitiful tourist trying to find their hotel amongst the skyscrapers. But Seattle is different. It's as though many different small towns have been pushed together by the forces of nature to form one large small town. People smile as you walk down the street, they help you find your way and welcome you into their small town.

"A good video can make all the difference." ~ Brian May

Hello internet! CreativeLIVE recently announced it's newest workshop Newborn and Babies with Sandy Puc' and as my video entry states, "I'm super pumped about it". For every CreativeLIVE workshop, they invite several people to attend live in Seattle. All you have to do is create a video and get chosen.
So check out my dorky video!