Operation Love Reunited

I recently joined up with Operation Love Reunited as a volunteer photographer.   Operation Love Reunited (OpLove) is a non-profit organization made up of fully volunteer photographers that provide free professional photography for military families and members that are preparing to deploy, are already deployed, and returning home from war zones.

Each family is able to get 2 sessions per year per deployment.  The available sessions are Saying Goodbye (documentary style with a cd of images sent to the family here Stateside), Pre-Deployment, Already Gone, and Homecoming (documentary style).  The program is to boost the morale of the deployed service member, so for Pre-deployment and Already Gone sessions an album is sent directly to the deployed service member.  Each volunteer photographer has the option to offer an album or a cd of images for the Homecoming session for the family.

Being back in SoCal for just over a month now, I have done 1 Already Gone session and 1 Pre-deployment session.  I wish I could share the Already Gone session, but we are waiting for the service member to get the album first (though the image above is one from the session).  Here is an image from the Pre-Deployment session I just did.

I have to limit how many sessions I can take on each month.  I am already fully booked for September and October!  A lot of homecoming sessions coming up.

Please spread the word to all those you know of this great organization.  And if you are a photographer, please consider joining.  We are in great need of volunteer photographers.