{"id":120025,"date":"2012-03-22T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.163.193.130\/~junebugw\/blog\/what-junebug-loves\/?p=120025"},"modified":"2013-09-23T14:43:45","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T21:43:45","slug":"fashion-shoot-to-benefit-thirst-relief-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/junebugweddings.com\/wedding-blog\/fashion-shoot-to-benefit-thirst-relief-international\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion Shoot to Benefit Thirst Relief International"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

$\"Thirst$ <\/p>\n

Today we are celebrating World Water Day with an incredible project that was born from the generous, giving spirit of someone in our own wedding community; photographer Jim Davis Hicks. He founded Thirst Relief International<\/a> to tackle the crucial international shortage of clean, plentiful drinking water. Thirst Relief is able to do big things with even small donations, so everyone can help make a difference in someone else’s life. Five dollars provides someone with clean water for 25 years!<\/p>\n

One of Thirst Relief’s projects is an annual benefit shoot that takes place every year at Wedding & Portrait Photographers International, WPPI<\/a>. Before the event, wedding photographers bid on the chance to learn from and shoot alongside some of the world’s best talent, and 100% of the proceeds go directly to Thirst Relief water projects located around the world to help provide people with a long-term source of clean water.<\/p>\n

$\"Thirst$
\nphoto by Mike Colón<\/a><\/p>\n

This year’s shoot boasted an incredible line-up of instructors: Mike Colon<\/a>, David and Luke Edmonson<\/a>, Rocco Ancora<\/a>, Roberto Valenzuela<\/a> and CM Leung<\/a>. The shoot took place at Ghost Town outside Las Vegas, and took on a Wild West-boudoir feel with the featured corsets by Glamtastik<\/a>. Here are just of a few of our favorite shots from the day…<\/p>\n

$\"Thirst$
\nphoto by Mike Colón<\/a><\/p>\n

$\"Thirst$
\nphoto by Bernie Aho Photographer<\/a><\/p>\n

$\"Thirst$
\nphoto by Matthew DeMaria Photography<\/a><\/p>\n

$\"Thirst$
\nphoto by Rocco Ancora<\/a><\/p>\n

“It was a true honor and privilege to be involved in the Thirst Relief Charity shoot. It has been, without doubt, the most rewarding thing I have ever been involved in. The money that we raised will give 2000 people fresh drinking water for the next 25 years.<\/i>–Rocco Ancora<\/p>\n

$\"Thirst$
\nphoto by Hector G Zouls of Zouls Photography<\/a><\/p>\n

$\"Thirst$
\nphoto by Jeffrey Kuo Photography<\/a><\/p>\n

$\"Thirst$
\nphoto by Krista Puruhito of Puruhito Photography<\/a><\/p>\n

$\"Thirst$
\nphoto by Donal Doherty Photography<\/a><\/p>\n

I was attracted to the event because the images from previous years are exceptional and the instructors I would have an opportunity to shoot and learn and hangout with are all amazing. We travelled to Ghost Town outside Vegas, which has the most random of random stuff lying around and is such an amazing location for photography.<\/i>–Donal Doherty<\/p>\n

$\"Thirst$
\nphoto by Marian Bader Wedding and Lifestyle Photography<\/a><\/p>\n

$\"Thirst$
\nphoto by Wing Wong<\/a><\/p>\n

$\"Thirst$
\nphoto by Luke Edmonson of Edmonson Weddings<\/a><\/p>\n

$\"Thirst$
\nphoto by Meaghan Elliott Photography<\/a><\/p>\n

Pretty amazing, life changing stuff!<\/i>–Meaghan Elliott<\/p>\n

$\"Thirst$
\nphoto by Caleb Cheong Photography<\/a><\/p>\n

Would you like to join the cause and help provide clean drinking water around the globe? Thirst Relief is partnering with Sevenly<\/a> to sell limited edition t-shirts that are only available this week (and are only $22!) in honor of World Water Day. All proceeds will go to building four wells in India. You also can make a fast and easy donation right on the Thirst Relief<\/a> website. Remember that $5? Imagine skipping your morning latte tomorrow, but having it matter for 25 years. Pretty awesome!<\/p>\n

$\"Thirst$
\nphoto by Aundrea Shafer of A. Shafer Photography<\/a><\/p>\n

$\"Thirst$
\nphoto by Raye Gillette-Whaley of Gillette Portrait Arts<\/a><\/p>\n

$\"Thirst$
\nphoto by Victor Carrillo Photography<\/a><\/p>\n

$\"Thirst$
\nphoto by Rebecca Bouck Photography<\/a><\/p>\n

$\"Thirst$
\nphoto by Lynne Sarao Photography<\/a><\/p>\n

To learn more about Thirst Relief International<\/a>, be sure to visit www.ThirstRelief.org<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Today we are celebrating World Water Day with an incredible project that was born from the generous, giving spirit of someone in our own wedding community; photographer Jim Davis Hicks. He founded Thirst Relief International to tackle the crucial international shortage of clean, plentiful drinking water. Thirst Relief is able to do big things with even small donations, so everyone can help make a difference in someone else’s life. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"kia_subtitle":"","footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[1287],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-styled-photo-shoot"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/junebugweddings.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/junebugweddings.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/junebugweddings.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junebugweddings.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junebugweddings.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/junebugweddings.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/junebugweddings.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junebugweddings.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/junebugweddings.com\/wedding-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}