Ashley Tisdale below at Envie in Beverly Hills during a private "All Natural Light" photo shoot. Presented by Caro Marketing. See this photo shoot at WireImage.com

Fashion for Body Parts Models. See Ricki Noel's Zed Card and the others that I shot Here.

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A Holiday Thought about Charities
With so many charity events and causes in the books so far this holiday season, I couldn't help but notice the how the business of Charity has grown. I do have keen sense of the obvious. The old saying..."Charity begins at home", may be true, but it certainly has found a new vacation home on Wall Street.
Are we that committed to helping others that the time has come to commercialize our good nature on this scale? I use to know only a handfull of people who were working for a charities, now everyone seem to be part of one is some way or another. The other day I met someone who just bought a new house.....I asked "So you work for a charity, is that part or full time work." She responded "Oh it's full time work and I make a good living at it." Great, so we've figured out how to make maintain our way of life and make a good living by feeding starving people around the world. I can just imagine a human resources campaign that's trying to recruit new college grads......"Get rich, feed the poor".
It also seems that the holiday season itself has grown too. I remember when my parents use to say, "OK Thanksgiving is over, now get ready for the Christmas ads and store displays ", now Santa competes for shelf space with Dracula costumes and the Clydesdales barely make it through Octoberfest without have a snowball fight. What's next Santa lighting off fireworks while waving the American flag?
I stopped and asked myself the other day; "Are more people, by percentage, getting help in the world today, than there were ten or twenty years ago?" Perhaps there is someone out there who can answer that, but it's certainly not me.
I did shoot an event recently that stopped me cold. The Christmas Party by the Fulfillment Fund at UCLA for children with special needs. The look on the faces of these kids told me they were having the best day of their lives. Cheers to the Fulfillment Fund for doing that every year and makeing a difference.
Don't forget....January 1st, there will only be 364 days of shopping left.
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