Random Acts of Kindness are rewarded at Deanna Gomes Photography!

Deanna Gomes Photography, Colorado Springs Photographer of the Year, is honoring random acts of kindness! If you know someone who's been exceptionally NICE, please e-mail the studio with their full name and address with a description of their kind deeds and we will mail them a $75 gift certificate as well as enter them into a drawing for a FREE 16x20 wall portrait!!!! Send to: deannaphoto@msn.com
*Recipients must live in the Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Denver areas or be willing to travel to Colorado Springs to redeem their gift.*

2010 Fallen Fire Fighters Memorial

I had the great honor of being asked to photograph the 2010 Fallen Fire Fighters Memorial by the International Association of Fire Fighters with Tom Sluder on September 11, 2010. I was so overcome with emotion during the ceremony that I could not keep myself from sharing tears with the families of this year's fallen heroes.
Fire fighters and their families traveled here to Colorado Springs from all over the United States and Canada in a unified expression of love and sorrow.
I will be forever changed for this experience. I encourage everyone to attend this memorial if they have the chance.
I've created a slide show of some of the images to share with you. I hope you are touched and moved like I was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_Qmptl6ChA

Deanna Gomes
Colorado Springs Photographer
2010 Colorado Photographer of the Year

Collaborating

This week I collaborated with another photographer, Tom Sluder, to create a painting from one of his photographs. Truman is a lovely 6 year old boy and during his portrait session he dressed up as a Air Force pilot. I loved the intense look on his face and couldn't wait to start painting the image. I think it turned out wonderfully!