Giving back in smiles, this is what we have been doing during Family Portrait Month since 2007. This year’s Family Portrait Month is in October!

This month’s PPA Professional Photographer magazine featured a paragraph about me and several of my photos in the online version of the magazine (see this link), To quote it says this

Portia Shao, CPP, from Santa Cruz, California, 
has supported PPA Charities since she joined PPA in 2007. 
She was one of the top donors for Family Portrait Month in 2013. 
"It feels good that I can make a difference in a child's life with such a small contribution," she says.

Please help me continue the tradition of supporting PPA Charities and create smiles in this years Family Portrait Month. During October, come in for a family portrait (any portrait with a family member, or a pet!) and I will donate the session fee to PPA Charities. It only takes $240 to fund one surgery to change a child’s life forever. The children with cleft lips and palate not only look terrible, they could not eat or speak properly. It is amazing to me that only $240 could change their lives! You will get a great family portrait and know that you have helped to create a real smile in a child and make a real difference!

Don’t Miss Our Special Family Portrait Month Promotion

Before and after operation by Operation Smile

I thought you would want to know about a very special family portrait promotion we will be participating in with an elite group of photographers around the country.  From October 16 to November 15, we will celebrate Family Portrait Month, a wonderful opportunity for you to update your family portrait (or portraits of your children), and support Operation Smile, which treats children around the world who suffer with cleft lips, cleft palates and other facial deformities.

Along with other studio members of Professional Photographers of America (PPA), we have pledged to contribute your $98 session fee to PPA Charities which has chosen Operation Smile as its charitable beneficiary. Every $240 will enable one child to have the needed surgery to have a normal smile that the rest of take for granted.

What’s more, we want you to benefit from this special offer: so I am offering

1. Saturday Oct 19 sessions for those of you who like a weekend appointment
2. 12pm-5pm Oct 31, Halloween specials for kids (or adults) in costumes, $40 package (includes 20 minute mini-session, and one small digital file of your favorite pose, additional orders are 50% off normal price). ALL proceeds from this day will go to Operation Smile!

Recording the faces of children and their families is our greatest pleasure. That’s why we are so pleased to support the work of Operation Smile. Each year this incredible organization of more than 6,000 volunteer doctors, nurses, dentists, and specialized health care professionals, perform free reconstructive surgeries for children suffering with facial deformities. More than 100,000 children are born with a facial deformity each year in Operation Smile’s 26 partner countries.

We hope you will join with us in helping to make this vital work possible. Don’t forget that the holiday season is right around the corner, so there’s no better time for a family portrait, which is always appreciated as gifts for family and friends and to send along with holiday greeting cards.

Your Family Portrait Can Create Smiles and Change Lives!

Celebrate your family by helping a child! Call now 831-426-1400. Appointments are limited! Remember… Your family portrait is perfect for holiday cards! Family Portrait Month is sponsored by PPA Charities.

As always . . . we look forward to creating some truly wonderful portraits of your family.

You will always get my BE THRILLED OR BUST guarantee on any portrait taken at my studio. This is a great opportunity to experience for yourself or to gift a friend or loved one something they will treasure.