alison bickel photography

I will be on vacation July 14-22.  All emails and phone calls will be answered after the 23rd.

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One of my images was chosen for National Geographic’s Daily Dozen on May 17th!! From the Daily Dozen, a selection of photographs are chosen monthly to be published in National Geographic Magazine. This would be a MAJOR dream come true!!

To see all the amazing photographs, check out the Daily Dozen…

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/your-shot/daily-dozen

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just really busy!  Finishing up the rush of fall pictures and starting in with the holiday season has made my days fly by these past few weeks.  Generally I like to slow things down in December and focus on my family and prepare for the holidays.  That said, blog posts will be sparce over the next few weeks.  You may also notice some changes in the weeks to come both here on the blog and the website.  I will update as I go so you can check them out.  In the meantime here is a preview of some changes you will see…

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I got quite a surprise on Sunday evening as I was doing some work online.  Every now and then I’ll do a google search to make sure my website is getting crawled like it’s supposed to, so I’m doing this and the second line under my website says, “Kodak Picture of the Day, Photographer Alison Bickel”.  WHAT?! So I searched some more and sure enough…last Sunday one of my images was Kodak’s Picture of the Day in New York’s Time Square.  They have a billboard there that features a new photograph each day (as well as posting it on Kodak’s POTD site).  Total surprise. I submitted several pictures about a year ago and they said that they would notify you if any were chosen, but for whatever reason that didn’t happen.  I was a little bummed because I always thought that if I ever had a picture chosen I would go to New York to see it in Times Square.  Oh, well…

(example image of billboard from flickr)

So then I had a thought, if I didn’t hear from them on the picture last week what about the others I submitted?  So I started going through past months and sure enough 2 others were chosen.  One in February and the other in March.  Now I know some of you may be thinking at this point that they were stolen and posted since I never got a notification from Kodak(a friend suggested this to me, I didn’t think of it), but I know they are my submissions because of the narratives I included with them.

Pretty cool, even if I wasn’t able to see them as I’d hoped to.  Maybe next time…a girl can dream right?

Red Racers – February 27th

Soccer Legs – March 10th

Perfectly Him – September 27th

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