Morgan Henderson Photography | Fun family photography in Durham, NC

Friday, January 8, 2010

Wine tasting & silent auction to support Independent Animal Rescue of Durham

If you want to attend a fun event & support animal rescue in our area, mark your calendar for:

Sunday, February 21st, 2010
4 pm - 8 pm
Rigsbee Hall, 208 Rigsbee Avenue, Durham

Independent Animal Rescue invites animal and wine lovers to enjoy phenomenal wines, fantastic food, and funky music while perusing and bidding on truly unique silent auction items. This year's tasting event will explore notable artisan wines of the south of France including wines from the Rhone, Provence, Languedoc, the Southwest, and Roussillon. Additional wines from around the globe will be available by the glass.

100% of Have a Heart profits will aid in the rescue and care of homeless, abandoned, and abused animals

Ticket Information
Tax-deductible tickets are $20 in advance or $25 at the door. Advance tickets can be purchased through Friday, January 29th in person at the Cat Hospital or online through Paypal

Visit this site for more information

I'm donating a session along with a 16"x20" canvas gallery wrap. Come bid on this or any of the other items in the silent auction. Canvas wraps are a beautiful way to display a favorite image. I personally have plans to cover my walls with them.

I also want to share a collage I made for my display at the event. It was so much fun putting together some favorite images for the display.

college of fun family photography in Durham, NC

I'll also be working at the event taking pictures of the venue & attendees. Click on the "IAR Events" link at the top of this page to see pictures from the event (after February 13th.) Hope to see you there!
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Sunday, December 6, 2009

What are the odds?

I couldn't help noticing that the majority of the children I photographed during my trip to Texas have blue eyes. Maybe I noticed this because I'm a genetisist or maybe it's due to how much time I spend looking at eyes while editing pictures.

I'm sure one of my fellow nerds will calculate it for me, but what are the odds of 75% of these children having blue eyes, when brown is dominant?

Fig 1. Lower right-hand corner, the 25% with brown eyes

In college, a party trick of mine was to calculate a couple's chance of having a child with blue eyes if they had offspring with their current partner. Yep, I'd draw out punnett squares at parties on napkins. Recently, I learned that everything I thought I knew about eye color genetics was really oversimplified, so I don't know if the odds I calculated are close to the true odds. If they are, I have a 1/6th chance of not "contaminating my husband's gene pool with my brown eyes." Those are his words. He comes from a blue-eyed family. I like to remind him that my eye color will dominate over his. Yeah, that's what two married scientists joke about.

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A day with Sara - the last day of my Texas trip

This trip made up for missing my 10-year class reunion last summer. Allyson is another friend I've known since high school. We met on the Victoria High swim team. She was my "big sis" my freshman year.

We started the shoot at a park. You'll see in the next few pictures that Sara found a nook she didn't want to leave.