Thaipusam Gear Giveaway!
Thaipusam Feb 4th – 11th, 2012
As you no doubt have heard by now, Gavin Gough and I are leading an amazing workshop in Penang, Malaysia, February 4th – 11th, 2012. We are fortunate to have two very generous sponsors for this event, Phottix professional photo accessories and Spider Camera Holster. As such, we want to share the love with… well… everyone we can.
Let me first explain why this workshop is unique and a great value. We will be hosting the workshop participants at the historical Campbell House boutique-hotel. This Heritage hotel has 11 individually decorated suites and we have secured them all. Yep, we have booked the whole hotel for this workshop. During the day we will be out and about either in pairs or as a group photographing the diverse culture of Penang, Malaysia. Few other places on earth will you find Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim and Christian cultures flourishing side-by-side in such a small community. But, the bulk of our time will be spent photographing the exciting festival of Thaipusam. Penang is one of the few places where you can get actually in and among the participant of this festival. Thaipusam commemorates both the birthday of the Hindu god Murugan son of Shiva and Parvati, and the day when Parvati gave Murugan a lance so he could kill the evil demon Soorapadman. The festival runs for three days and starts with a chariot procession from downtown Georgetown. Thousands line the streets of Georgetown to see a silver plated chariot containing a statue of Murugan making its way to the Nattukkottai Chettiar Temple its temporary home. Many devotees carry pots of milk on their heads as a show of devotion and love to the god. Others carry elaborate frameworks on their shoulders called “kavadis”, which have long chains hanging down with hooks at the end which are pushed into their backs. Many of these pilgrims are pierced with two skewers (symbolic spears); one through the tongue, and one through the cheeks. For the devotees there is a sense of joy and celebration.
But it is not just the festival that make this a special workshop, we will have arranged families and individuals for our workshop participants to interact with and tell their stories. Our goal is to help you understand how to discover and tell a story visually. What better opportunity than Thaipusam to learn this.
To top things off, we have even arranged a private photo session with a Malaysian and Chinese model, all for you!
Contest:
Strato II Multi 5-in-1 Wireless Triggers
Phottix professional photo accessories has generously given us a set of Strato II Multi 5-in-1 Wireless Triggers (whether you use a Canon, Nikon or Sony we have you covered) to give to some lucky person. But don’t fret with you are not interested in off camera lighting because Spider Camera Holster has also given us a The SpiderPro Single Camera System.
The SpiderPro Single Camera System
We believe in the power of social media. We know how powerful things like Twitter, Facebook and blogs are and quite frankly we want to take advantage of it. So we will be giving away the Strato II Multi 5-in-1 Wireless Triggers or the The SpiderPro Single Camera System to two of our Twitter, Blogger or Facebook friends. To enter, simply post the following link (tinyurl.com/digitaltrekker) on your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and your other favourite social networks. Then return here and post a comment stating how many different Social Media networks you posted to. So, for example, if you post our link on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn then let us know that you posted to THREE networks and you’ll have THREE chances to win. If you’re posting to Twitter, please include the hashtag #thaipusam. And, yes, we will check. The contest runs from today till Friday Nov 18th. So start being social!
Special thanks to the Thaipusam workshop sponsor Phottix and Spider Camera Holster for providing the prizes.
Twitter for me @wmvjohnson
Posted to 3 networks: fb page (thesiracusas.com), twitter (@thesiracusas:disqus) and linkedin (Emanuele Siracusa)
Thanks!
Ok, done!
Twitter (@heimana:disqus )
LinkedIn (http://be.linkedin.com/in/heimana)
FriendFeed (http://friendfeed.com/heimana)
Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/HeimanaPhotography)
TumblR (http://www.tumblr.com/blog/heymana)
Phottix Strato II Multi is yummy 😉
yo matt! Am in with 4 posts!
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/mojosanjay/status/136460839552155648
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mojosanjay/posts/124306444346253
Google +: https://plus.google.com/u/0/113995388106168830774/posts/NWUkERDmeXL
LinkedIn: http://in.linkedin.com/in/sanjayshri
Oh yeah, the phottix would be a killer win 😀
Done!
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/Todphotog
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1068983543
Would love the phottix. Could have really used it on my shoot the other day! 🙂
I’m in with 3:
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=6841205&authType=name&authToken=lXsW&goback=%2Enmp_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1_*1&trk=NUS_NP
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/DWAinAZ
Google+:https://plus.google.com/u/0/114263119314687838998/posts
Phottix would be great!!
Great contest Matt!
Here are my links…Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hebervegaphotography/posts/216915168381657
Google+: http://plus.google.com/111516075069740402440/posts/dZ8h66hovAv
Twitter: http://twitter.com/hebervega/status/136527760939163648
Thanks for spreading the Gear!
Here is my facebook link
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1224109785
Hi Matt,
I spread the word on your workshop and giveaway on 2 sites: Twitter and Google+ (https://plus.google.com/u/0/106671072496477110202/posts).
Incidentally, the workshop sounds fantastic. Someday hopefully I’ll make it on a similar one. Thanks to you and your sponsor for your generosity too. Been putting off buying triggers for too long.
3 posts: twitter https://twitter.com/#!/teemuy
google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/104200199897846441934/posts
facebook https://www.facebook.com/teemu.ylikoski
One Post on Twitter http://twitter.com/#!/g___s/status/136676957512413184
http://twitter.com/#!/g___s/
posted on g+
https://plus.google.com/u/0/117518101242712055809/posts/N17TMzTr9yV
and twitter
http://twitter.com/#!/ysrphoto/status/136749340558503936
Phottix strato II are great triggers!
good luck
🙂
Posted it on tumblr:
http://prettyandfab.tumblr.com/post/12878491625
and
twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/franceirish/status/136772345116368896
Posted on facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/DeDavidPhoto/posts/236171569779666https://www.facebook.com/DeDavidPhoto/posts/220058948063264Posted on twitterhttps://twitter.com/#!/PicDavid/status/136762407476396032https://twitter.com/#!/PicDavid/status/136762364367351808Posted on g+https://plus.google.com/u/0/102474861703720529925/posts/jbXV9JoUgSehttps://plus.google.com/u/0/102474861703720529925/posts/Zb6CUhgWKEB
3 Posted on facebook, twitter and g+
https://twitter.com/#!/PicDavid/status/136762407476396032
https://plus.google.com/102474861703720529925/posts/jbXV9JoUgSe
https://www.facebook.com/DeDavidPhoto/posts/236171569779666
http://www.facebook.com/AnGkErhttp://twitter.com/Adrian_Choo
https://plus.google.com/u/0/111639576692357760136/posts
https://twitter.com/#!/Adrian_Choo
https://www.facebook.com/xwchang
Facebook 1 – http://www.facebook.com/pages/Frankie-Tan-Photography/212489312131325
Facebook 2 – http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1031544479&ref=tn_tnmn
facebook / twitter / instagram
peter berg
Facebook Page : https://www.facebook.com/nickrostronphotography
Facebook wall : https://www.facebook.com/#!/wwwNickRostronCom
FB – https://www.facebook.com/raynertay.ys
Google+ = https://plus.google.com/u/0/116010828201885679383/posts
Twitter = http://twitter.com/#!/rayner_tay
Oh, and forgot Google+, so here it is: https://plus.google.com/u/0/101910391478366442444/posts
(hope you can see it) – which is the 6th post on (different) social medias…
Thanks for this great contest, and hope you’ll get many people to your workshop! 🙂
PS. Phottix Strato II is definitely a winner 🙂
Four for me:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InvisibleGreen/posts/277094842335962
Google+: https://plus.google.com/115580227117161529977/posts/3vTSnaLPWLG
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/InvisibleGreen/status/137553923279036416
Blog: http://www.invisiblegreen.com/penang-malaysia-workshop
0ne for me:
Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1008285806