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OpLove – July 09

Melinda Ledsome — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:00:00 +0000

I met up with Lori on a beautiful morning at the San Antonio Botanical Gardens. We were meeting up to do a photo shoot of her to send off to her deployed husband.

Lori is such a beautiful girl with a cute sweet personality… he is one lucky soldier!!

OpLove – Maternity

Melinda Ledsome — Sat, 02 May 2009 22:08:00 +0000

The cutest couple! This was a ‘rush’ session. She called me and wanted the session and the book before he took off since he wouldn’t be able to get her a mailing address for a few months. She is pregnant with their first baby and he will be deployed for the birth. Oh, and we had to include their pup Jake in the session!

Featured Vendor on MilitaryAvenue.com for Nov 08!

Melinda Ledsome — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:40:00 +0000

For those who don’t know… I was married to an active duty Air Force enlisted man for 13 years, have worked with the military community in some fashion for about 20 years, and I am currently engaged to a Firefighter on Lackland AFB. Over the years of living in the ’system’, volunteering on base and working as a Civil Servant here on Lackland for the past 8 years… I have seen and lived through deployments, reassignments, separation’s and the hardships that ALL military families suffer through.

That is the reason I work with Operation Love ReUnited and made available a Military Discount on my sessions and prints.

A month or so ago I received an invitation to sign up as a vendor on a site called MilitaryAvenue.com and my profile mentions my “military discount”. Military Avenue.com knows that finding military-friendly businesses in new communities and resources that aid our mobile lifestyle can become an overwhelming task. Their site was created to attempt to ease these burdens! I haven’t been tracking how many people it has driven to my site, but I have it out there just in case one family sees it and wants to take me up on the offer.

Today in my email I get this:

Melinda, Good afternoon from the Team at MilitaryAvenue.com! Other Than Roses Photographyhas been recognized by our Team for its MilitaryReward. Your Reward has been selected as the November Featured MilitaryReward on the site. We have posted a short informational article and an image in our two blogs and it will appear in this week’s business information newsletter as well which comes out Sunday.You can see the blogs at Military Blog and Military Marketing. They are titled “Featured MilitaryReward for November 2008”.

As if getting the opportunity to help out military families through their site wasn’t reward enough!

Supporting the Relocation, Travel, and Lifestyle Needs of the American Military Family

OpLove – Garza

Melinda Ledsome — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:00:00 +0000

I don’t have much background on this homecoming… I was actually at the airport for another scheduled homecoming that had been rescheduled.. but I didn’t get the message.

So as I was walking around the terminal making sure I hadn’t missed the family I was supposed to meet when I saw a Mom and 2 kids with balloons and signs. I had some OpLove brochures on me and I walked up to her and introduced myself and asked if I could capture some photos for them. She said sure and so I did. She emailed me a couple of weeks later and I sent her off the photos. She was very excited to have memories of the day, and I was glad I just happened to be there for them!

OpLove – Huerta

Melinda Ledsome — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:55:00 +0000

I received a call from a rushed sister on a Tuesday afternoon. Her big brother is in the Army and was being deployed to the desert that Saturday. She had just found out about the Operation Love Reunited (OpLove) program and wanted to know if I could manage to get some photos of her brother Amedeaus and the family before he left.

Well – how could I say no!

We met up at Elmendorf Lake Park (right behind OLLU) Thursday evening and grabbed as many shots as could.

Amadeaus – Army strong… Army proud

The Family

All the siblings

With the sisters

With the brothers

Little brothers always look up to the big brothers

Even the littlest of the brothers

Operation Love ReUnited – 9 Feb 2008

Melinda Ledsome — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:49:00 +0000

On Saturday February 9th I had the honor of my first Operation Love ReUnited

photo shoot.

If you’re not familiar with the organazition, photographers volunteer our time and creativity to capture precious memories of the families of deployed service members. We then send (at no charge) a book of the photos to the deployed spouse.

I signed up for this since many moons ago I was a military wife and know how hard it was for him to be away for any lengths of time. Being a civil servent here on Lackland and dealing with airmen of all ages and ranks and knowing what they sacrifice on a daily basis it just felt right!

Here is the slideshow I made from the photos for the family:

Here are a few of the photos from that session.