Please keep Haiti in your prayers and continue to give financially if you are able to. It really is as bad or maybe even worse than the media is portraying.-Benj

There’s no time for tripods when you’re trying to scramble out of a canyon before night falls.

Waterlou, TN .

When we were first starting this, my realistic goal was to raise $200 and my fantasy goal was $500.  That was my wildest dream.  Scotty had bigger plans, I think he thought we could raise $1000. Either way, you’ve blown us all away.

Thank you, on behalf of the people you’ve helped.  And thank you, from all of us.  This was really a labour of love on our part, and your (overwhelming) support means more to us than I know how to describe.

If you’ve won a print, you will be contacted within a few days to arrange payment and mailing information.

- Kristel

Who is Switch Cities? Switch Cities started as a small group of wedding photographers who wanted a venue to post more of their non-wedding photos.  Its an outlet for our art and a way for us to display something that we find different and unique.

Can you donate prints? You can send all of your submissions to switchcities@gmail.com in jpeg format and 715px wide, although we cannot guarantee your photo will appear in the auctions, we will do our best.  We highly suggest everyone promoting a similar event on your own blog.  We will support all of your efforts and do what we can to make it successful because you have helped us make Switch Cities successful.

Will we continue to raise money after the auctions? No doubt we will.  This is a terribly rewarding and sincere event we have held. Like I said before, we never dreamed to would be this awesome.  We have every intention in giving it everything we had but the support we have received is overwhelming. We are currently working on new and exciting things… some that I can’t announce yet but I promise they will be of epic proportions.

What can you do to help out? Blog, promote, announce, give and/or copy what we are doing.  None of us have taken a percentage of credit for what is happening but we believe that you all have created a small movement across the photography world.  Some of you have said that you dont believe your site gets enough hits to do something like this… well before this past week we averaged 20 hits a day, a little over 100 on a day that we posted, thats not much and is probably average for a lot of you.  We used twitter and our fellow photographers to promote our event, and it may be luck but we created support and a following, we are beyond thankful.

So whats next for Switch Cities? Nothing has been confirmed but I know that what we are talking about is incredible and we hope it will change peoples lives =)

I personally want to thank everyone involved in the bidding, the contributions and the interest; it is completely awe inspiring.  I wont lie, I’ve shed a few tears of the past few days at the success of what is going on.  You are the ones who inspire me.

Feel free to contact us any time a switchcities@gmail.com.

Thank you,

Scotty

Taken with … Nikon d700, Mamiya rz67 with polaroid back, and a Fuji Instax Mini

5dmkii :: 45mm t/s