06.29.09

Cypress Albums – Iris 12×12, Flush Bound Album GIVEAWAY!

In celebration of Spring and in refreshing your album collection for 2010 , My Sponsor Cypress and I are giving away a Free Iris Book assembly with 20 sides (10 pages) 12×12, a box to protect your beautiful album, and your choice of Swatch.. a $700 value to 1 lucky photographer.

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All you have to do is add your e-mail in the slot below, then write a comment on what your dream photo assignment would be.  Dena Roberts (owner of Cypress) and I will select a winner on Monday May 11, 2009. Both Email and comment must be submitted to WIN. Winner will be selected at random. Good Luck! I swear I want to win this!!

Cypress is my album of choice for all of my portrait sessions and weddings. These albums are individually handcrafted by artisans. Every album is made from rich, smooth, heavyweight fine art paper and fabrics. My favorite album they offer is the Iris Book, a flush mounted album. Who wouldn’t love them?!

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  1. Pamela Strohl - I love these albums, these are exactly what I've been looking for, something really special for the bride and groom. Kudos to the album & box design, it's adorable, classy all rolled into one.
    July 1, 2009
  2. Endearing Studios - I love Cypress and Dena because they are conscience of their impact on the earth and they have a beautiful product!
    July 1, 2009
  3. Stephen DeVries Photo - I love the fact that cypress has taken the time to make their product remarkable. They make sure that every book is amazing, and because of that they're books are the type that anyone that picks them up wants one. That's how I felt when I first saw them...I knew that they were the only book that I wanted to offer. I also love how amazing they are at working with you and explaining everything to you to make sure that you get exactly what you want!
    July 1, 2009
  4. Deann B. - The Cypress line of books - and the Iris in particular - is exactly the kind of book that I want to offer my clients. The books are beautiful and showcase not only an album, but a work of art.
    July 1, 2009
  5. Sherry - My dream assignment would probably be to shoot an editorial for Vanity Fair. :]
    July 1, 2009
  6. erin - There isn't time to list all the vendors I have used in the past. Many names I can't even remember because they had such little impact on me. But Cypress is the one vendor that has made an impact on me in more ways than one. - I know, without a shadow of a doubt, that when I get a Cypress product in the mail it is going to be perfect. I don't have to bother with returns, imperfections, or bad craftsmanship. - I can call and someone answers the phone. - I can visit their booth at a trade show and get sucked in for hours by all the gorgeous products, and even better, the really nice people! But most importantly, I know that my clients will end up with an heirloom product that will last for generations. And that makes me happy.
    July 1, 2009
  7. sarah - Honestly, my dream assignment would be to shoot beautiful weddings for the rest of my life :) I just love capturing those precious, once-in-a-lifetime moments, and I know that the more weddings I shoot, the better I will get. So my dream would be to photograph weddings as long as I can, and continue learning and creating emotion-filled beautiful images.
    July 1, 2009
  8. tira j - Cypress products are so beautiful and I can't wait to get my hands on one. I just called them today and they were extremely helpful. My dream assignment would be to go to the orphanages in Europe to photograph the little ones and then to streamline the adoption process for people in the states wanting to adopt a child. Oh, and to go to a Jose Villa Workshop someday. :)
    July 1, 2009
  9. melissa schwartz - dream assignment...hmmm, fun to think about! i'd love to go to morocco or cuba to shoot a wedding, i love me some colorful, cultural settings. ideal would be multiple days of shooting, a day after session that would give me time to get creative would be lovely :)
    July 1, 2009
  10. kelly - My dream photo assignment would be to travel to Costa Rica with family in tow and photograph the land that my cousins were born and raised on. They moved here when they were young and have only been back once and I want to photograph them in the place where they had beautiful surroundings and absolutely no worries. To go back there and experience it with them would be incredible.
    July 1, 2009
  11. rhee - I think my dream assignment would be to do a boudoir session of my husband. hehehe. No really! He HATES being in front of the camera so I know the only way I could ever get sexy shots of him was in my dreams. (hey Cypress, killer album - I haven't seen your albums in a few years! Going to check them out at your website now...)
    July 1, 2009
  12. ingrid - Oh I would love one. Why? Well I'm just starting out and to be able to showcase my work in something like this would be extraordinary. My dream assignment..would be set in Spain photographing a wedding with all the flavors Spain has to offer. It wouldn't have to be a huge affair..something intimate for the couple and family & friends..that would be perfect.
    July 1, 2009
  13. kim - My dream assignment would certainly be...photographing a loving couple's engagement time, their wedding, their first pregnancy, the little bundle when he/she arrives, and their family session when little ones get a bit older. And have all those memories tied up with a big blue bow around a box holding Cypress albums.
    July 1, 2009
  14. Cindy Chen - Wow, these Cypress albums are beautiful! I will definitely offer these to my clients! My dream assignment would be to shoot a culturally significant wedding in every country of the world. Western style weddings, while beautiful, is just one style of wedding. Wouldn't it be awesome to be able to capture all the different customs and traditions and put it together into one big book?
    July 1, 2009
  15. Kat Braman - My dream photo assignment would be to shoot an extreme skiing wedding where the bride and groom heli ski down to the ceremony.
    July 1, 2009
  16. kate - dream assignment: a book about all the kitschy places in my home state of Michigan
    July 1, 2009
  17. megan - LOVE the Iris. My dream assignment is to document the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation's prison program, where prisoners at jails earn the privilege to work with abused and neglected former race horses. The effect on both man and animal is pretty amazing.
    July 1, 2009
  18. Bernadette Uzcategui - I adore Cypress...their quality is like none other! My dream assignment would be to photograph pups...all different shapes and sizes on the streets of Manhattan. I would love to walk around and be inspired by the amazing life and culture there and shoot adorable doggies!
    July 1, 2009
  19. Sarah Lane Studios - My dream assignment would be a photographing a highlight for Rolling Stone.
    July 1, 2009
  20. bonnie tsang - Dream Photo Assignment: To travel to the Third World and photograph what real life struggle is all about. Know that as bad as the economy is right now, we are still the fortunate ones.
    July 1, 2009
  21. justin - My dream photo assignment would be to take a group of amazing, gorgeous, stylish, fun, quirky photographers and do a major fashion shoot with them as the models. I mean the whole enchilada, hair, makeup, designers, awesome lighting... It would be interesting to really photograph them and see how they would seriously work in front of the camera. Cheers, Justin PS We love our Cypress Albums... :)
    July 1, 2009
  22. jenniferL - love the cypress albums! the cover material choices are beautiful. i'd love to shoot an editorial piece with kids in havana, cuba.
    July 1, 2009
  23. Rich Mattingly - My dream assignment... I was a combat correspondent in the Marine Corps for six years and in 2004-2005 I deployed to Eastern Afghanistan to support an infantry battalion as we fought Taliban-loyal insurgents and trained the Afghan National Army and Police the best we could. My dream assignment is to return to the mountains that haunt my dreams so I can do a couple of things - put some lingering demons to rest and get back to the part of my deployment that impacted me the most - the children. The children we met along our patrols, in the villages and valleys, are among the most interesting people I have ever met. They bridge this incredible chasm between their traditional up-bringing and their longing to be a part and on pace with the modern world as they encounter it through our exported military culture and global transmissions. I'll never forget one young boy who sought me out the few times we were in his village near Jalalabad. He studied at the local mosque as all the boys do, but he also had a short-wave radio. One day he asked me to explain the lyrics to a song he had heard by Courtney Love on a BBC station. It was incredible. I want to go back and photograph those children and show those who would be interested in seeing, how they balance their dual existence and toward which extreme their lives turn - to face away from a more modern society they are told is inherently evil or embrace the slim possibility of leaving their traditional world behind, at least intellectually. So, I guess that's my dream assignment, the one that would be the most fulfilling.
    July 1, 2009
  24. Kayleen T. - My dream photo assignment is simple, just a celebrity wedding in a romantic foreign country with killer details...simple right!?
    July 1, 2009
  25. Tracy Grant - These are stunning! My dream assignment would be to somehow photograph His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Tibetan people..either in Kathmandu or in the states to help promote understanding of the plight of their people.
    July 1, 2009
  26. ning - My dream assignment would be to shoot a beautiful, emotional and happy wedding for a couple. There are pictures that make me skip a heartbeat for their beauty and memories, and that's what I love to do for my clients. If it's on a beautiful sandy beach, that's an added bonus :)
    July 1, 2009
  27. teresa - Everyone's comments are so emotionally compelling but I can only think of two key events that I would love to be a part of: Jose Villa's wedding..... and attending a Jose Villa workshop
    July 1, 2009
  28. jenny - love love these albums!! my dream photo assignment would be to travel to different countries and photograph engaged couples and then design a book featuring the couples. The title would be "Love is All Around You."
    July 1, 2009
  29. Tonya Peterson - My dream non wedding related assignment would be anything at Martha Stewart Magazine. As far as Wedding dream assignment, My dream is to shoot a wedding in Italy someday. It is on my bucketlist!
    July 1, 2009
  30. carebear - film + des = dream (06/27/09 yay!!!)
    July 1, 2009
  31. nancy ray - my grandfather joined the air force in order to pay for his college education and marry my grandmother. as soon as he joined, WWII began. he flew a fighter jet, and he and my grandmother corresponded through letters for 4 years. he returned, the only survivor from his squadron, and immediately married my grandma, "dot." my dream photo assignment would be to travel back in time and photograph my their wedding.
    July 1, 2009
  32. Connie Chou - my dream photo assignment would be to shoot a small intimate wedding in bora bora :)
    July 1, 2009
  33. Geneviève de la Plante - Actually, my dream assignment is quite modest. Simply, I would love to photograph and indian wedding. But not just the wedding, all the celebrations revolving around the wedding during the week before. That, or spend time with monks in monasteries photographing intimate prayer time and their everyday goings on. Like a fly on the wall...
    July 1, 2009
  34. Lynn Michelle - I dream of photographing my family and being able to capture their essence. I don't think anyone who has shot my parents has really captured them.
    July 1, 2009
  35. paige elizabeth - It's just a dream, because it's not possible. But If I could photograph anything... I would go back and photograph my Granny before she died. I was with her in hospice and helped her through her last week and it was a beautiful experience, but it was before I photographed emotions for a living and I never took the time to make her portraits. Her voice, her laugh, the touch of her hands live on in my memory. But only there. And those memories remind me every day why what we do is so very important. We hold moments still forever.
    July 1, 2009
  36. melia - My dream assignment is one I'm missing out on thanks to my calendar and the swine flu. It's a double Indian wedding in the Mayan Riviera... two sisters in saris marrying their men near Mayan ruins. Sigh.
    July 1, 2009
  37. aga - I don't have a dream assignment. All I want to do is keep shooting, exploring, loving it...for the rest of my life...
    July 1, 2009
  38. Sarah Rhoads - My dream assignment would be most likely in a third world country... bringing back the stories of those that are often overlooked..
    July 1, 2009
  39. Ty Miller - My dream photo assignment? I would love to photograph and publish a book of 'A day in the Life' of our local police officers, fire fighters, and EMS personnel. I am actually in the process of drawing up the proposals, so this dream assignment may come true!
    July 1, 2009
  40. Hilary Helton - My dream assignment would be filled with children in every color of the rainbow, outdoors in a beautiful mountain location where the kids could get dirty... and no one would rush in to clean them up!
    July 1, 2009
  41. lisa m - i absolutely LOVE cypress! and while i could say my *dream job* would be to photograph for a major publication, document the homeless, or other very noble assignment my REAL dream would be to capture my own children as i do for my clients. what i wouldn't give to capture every moment of their lives, actually process the images and create albums, slideshows and books for them... dream on...
    July 1, 2009
  42. cindy - My dream assignment - a family portrait session with President Obama's family and his dog at White House. :)
    July 1, 2009
  43. Crystal Beck Photography - WOW! This is an amazing giveaway! I would love to be picked!
    July 1, 2009
  44. Rae Barnes - my dream would be a wedding at Leeds Castle in England.
    July 1, 2009
  45. julie - My dream job would have to be...taking three to six months to travel over Africa, ending in a relaxing hammock in Zanzibar. :) I have a huge heart for the children of Africa, the ones being affected and left behind by HIV/AIDS. I have taught photography workshops to children in projects in South Africa and would love to bring the joy of photography to more countries and more children.
    July 1, 2009
  46. Kristi Lloyd Photography - I love this opportunity! Thank you so much! My dream assignment... I would love to do a photo essay on people over 85 who still celebrate life with joy and vitality. I look up to and aspire to be, just like them.
    July 1, 2009
  47. Araxi - I LOVE Cypress! I use their DVD folios and would LOVE to carry their albums this would be a great start! Thank you Jose and thank you Cypress for doing this. Just awesome.
    July 1, 2009
  48. Loretta Wolff - I would love to be assigned to photograph the next series with Discovery following their Planet Earth series.
    July 1, 2009
  49. jaime - I really love the Cypress albums! My dream assignment would be photographing the First Family on a tour through America - getting to document all the small town Americana as well as our most famous family interacting with them!
    July 1, 2009
  50. Kirsty Edwards - My dream assignment would be to shoot for anthropologie, isnt that every photographers dream :D fingers crossed it might happen one day :)
    July 1, 2009
  51. Araxi - I LOVE Cypress! I use their DVD folios and would LOVE to carry their albums this would be a great start! Thank you Jose and thank you Cypress for doing this. Just awesome. My dream assignment would be to shoot a wedding in my home country of Malta.
    July 1, 2009
  52. jen may - I recently competed in a national contest asking that same question, "What's your dream assignment." The contest was based on how many people you could drive to your site and vote once for you, so I lost due to lack of popularity. My dream assignment is to do photojournalism around the world by documenting stories that non-profits are doing. It's my way of uniting all their hard work and showcasing it to others to help raise awareness on different social causes. Currently, I'm doing it on my own and will be going to Cambodia this summer to help an organization that provides free classes to the youth. Their main goal is to encourage their education and to keep their interest by also providing free breakdancing classes if they keep up with their schooling. It's the first of it's kind out their and their called Tiny Toones. I hope I'll be able to capture their story and share it with others. We all need this side of inspiration.
    July 1, 2009
  53. juliet - My dream assignment would be to do a lifestyle session of Johnny Depp and his family at their chateau in France. :)
    July 1, 2009
  54. amy martin - I have no idea what my dream assignment would be. I Love photographing people in love, couples in love with each other, parents in love with thier children, anyone who is in love with something. And when I get clients like that it turns into a dream assigment.
    July 1, 2009
  55. Shandon Smith - If I could choose anything, I honestly would love to go on a mission trip and photograph the people. They go to places like Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Africa... places full of beautiful people and children.
    July 1, 2009
  56. sharlane - Ooooh, my dream assignment? That's a tough one. It was very easy to say when I was young and still in College: to shoot for Rolling Stone Magazine. Now that I am older and significantly more tired I don't know that I could keep up with a musician's lifestyle. Since this is a dream though..."Kings of Leon", get ready for your close up!
    July 1, 2009
  57. amy martin - Okay....just kidding... I wasnt really thinking outside of the box.... I would love to photograph people and tell thier stories. I have this vision of going to small town and photographing the people that everyone knows. From the local drunk, to the man who bags thier groceries everyday. Then compile the pictures and stories in a book called faces and places
    July 1, 2009
  58. kerri - Dream assignment: traveling to the homes of each of my extended family members, who live across the US, in Italy, Chile and Argentina, to do environmental portraits and compile into a genealogy book.
    July 1, 2009
  59. Emily Engle - My dream shoot would be a fashion-forward wedding, industrial style. I picture a warehouse, downtown with a color combo of white and florescent something. Simple, yet chic! Short dresses and skinny ties, that sort of thing :)
    July 1, 2009
  60. jen berry - without a doubt these albums convey romance, sweetness, love and special.
    July 1, 2009
  61. ashley - How cool! My dream assignment would be shooting a wedding in a small town in a different country with a completely different culture and wedding traditions.
    July 1, 2009
  62. kelli - just one :) I dream about going to Paris and documenting the street fashion, the decor, the old antique buildings with their gorgeous interior designs....and capturing the lives of every day Parisians :)
    July 1, 2009
  63. cindy - My dream assignment would be to photograph a wedding in Venice Italy, with an engagement session before in Tuscany.
    July 1, 2009
  64. Betsy, La Vida Creations - Dream assignment... that's a tough one! Would love to have one of our really fun couples hire us to do a weeklong post-wedding session in a few countries around Europe. I have such a passion for people and old architecture, that would be fabulous!
    July 1, 2009
  65. Oeil - My dream photo assignment would be a small wedding in Greece or Italy. :)
    July 1, 2009
  66. Gina Leigh - I love this contest! And I love, love, love Cypress Albums. My dream assignment....hmm. Well... there is this certain amazing bride and groom that met with me a few days ago. The are a beautiful couple. She is stunning! They ooze with love for each other. They share many interests, but especially love being outdoors together. They are environmentally conscious. (The groom asked me in our meeting if I was a fellow tree hugger!). They are fabulously artistic. Their engagement session will be in a wooded area, in a clearing of trees, more than a mile away from roads or cars. This is the same location that the groom surprised the bride with an amazing proposal. We have planned a beautiful shoot filled with whimsy...including an antique tea set. And the wedding.... Oh, my. The wedding. In a barn, at a farm, scattered with towering oak trees. Her colors? Green and canary yellow. Yummy. Fun and games for the guests during an extended photo shoot...including cricket. Did I mention how beautiful this bride is? As of right now, this is my dream shoot. I guess I live in the moment. I've spent today hoping to see her phone number pop up on my caller id, because I am waiting for her official "yes" to confirm the date. Oh, please, please, please! As if I'm not being dramatic enough already, TODAY I chose to switch back to film. I just forked over $$ for a Contax 645 to keh.com 8 hours ago. So, to sum all this up, my ultimate dream shoot would include this lovely couple, their lovely wedding, and my lovely medium format FILM camera. And my, oh, my. This couple would LOVE a Cypress Album!! P.S. Jose, thanks a million for pointing me in the right direction regarding film choices!
    July 1, 2009
  67. melody - Lots of dreams...one being a destination wedding in Europe...anywhere in Europe...one of my favorite places to shoot!
    July 1, 2009
  68. Molly Michel - I've been dreaming for a long time of spending the day with a ballet company to photograph a "day in the life". That, or following Tom Petty around as his backstage photographer - those would both be dream assignments!
    July 1, 2009
  69. emily - My dream photo assignment, which seems really odd, would be to do a destination wedding with a stunning couple, followed by a trash the dress session in Costa Rica.. The wedding on the beach and the trash the dress on the beach as well, then haul off to a rainforest (cause I know somewhere in there is a natural water slide, and shots from that would be unreal!!). That would be like... perfect!
    July 1, 2009
  70. emily - Dream, right? Well, even though there's no way it could come true, I'd love to shoot a 50's wedding. Like actually IN the 50's, not just a modern couple doing the retro vibe. Non-wedding related, I'd love to travel to Jordan and do a photo essay on the local bedouin tribes.
    July 1, 2009
  71. Hannah Bergman - Although the prospect of singling out a specific photo assignment is rather daunting (there are so many swimming in my head at the moment)... I would have to be honest and forthcoming when I say that this particular dream photo assignment would also be rather impossible. If giving the uncanny opportunity I would jump for joy at the prospect of taking a single photograph of one person everyday from the day they were born until the day they died. Then I would compile a series of flip animation book of the persons subtle changes in age. Aging is such a beautiful and misunderstood process. It would be a lovely accomplishment to change such a worldly misconception.
    July 1, 2009
  72. Brian (BJM Photography) - I think I would like to shoot a photo session with a husband and wife right before one of them went to the Middle East....
    July 1, 2009
  73. Kara Wieler - Gorgeous albums! Just what I've been looking for, a beautiful, well made album to cherish forever. My wedding couples will love this!
    July 1, 2009
  74. des - lovely. my dream assignment would be dodged + burned, printed on fibre paper in a darkroom with my own two hands with trays full of chemicals.
    July 1, 2009
  75. Immer Gramajo - My dream assigment would be to shoot a beatiful wedding in Tuscany Italy, Spain or Mexico. I want to win this beautiful album! José, admiro mucho tu trabajo!
    July 1, 2009
  76. julia - I am a huge fan of Cypress. I raised my prices a couple years ago so I could incorporate them into my product mix. I have sold several folios and small matted albums but have yet to add a digital album into my mix. Having seen this at WPPI, I was ga-ga over it and quickly walked away b/c I so desired one and just couldn't pay for it yet. This would round out my Cypress offerings well. Dream assignment: Other than going to heaven to check in on dad....truthfully, if money and time were no obstacle, I would love to go to the provinces of the Philippines (my mom is Filipina) and photograph a little girl named Jean-Mae whom my husband and I have been sponsoring for 4 years thru Plan USA. I get snapshots of her growth every year but it's always a crappy snapshot. I would LOVE to check in on her, photograph her community, her family and her -- and then blog about it to continue to raise awareness of this dire need to help the needy! It's always a reality check to be somewhere 'developing' in the world. We all need this now and then. Thx.
    July 1, 2009
  77. Courtney Matevey - My dream job would be to produce a beautiful book with images of families and children who have been effected by autism along with their stories of hope! I would love to be able to produce enough of these books to use in physicians office to educate parents about the signs and symptoms of autism! This would be amazing and would hopefully help start parents on the right path at an early age, making all the difference!
    July 1, 2009
  78. diana - My dream assignment would be to photograph a wedding in Italy. I love all that Italy has to offer, the architecture, the people, the cobblestoned streets, and so much more. It would be a dream to be able to photograph something as beautiful as a wedding, in such an amazing place!
    July 1, 2009
  79. Brenda Ernst - My dream assignment is to shoot movie stills for a Quentin Tarantino film in the desert.
    July 1, 2009
  80. julie - I would love to use photography to help stop sex trafficking around the world. Actually .. i already have plans to donate some prints to raise money to help IJM fight this injustice.
    July 1, 2009
  81. diana - My ultimate dream assignment, is to go to Africa, and take pictures of the children and families in need. As far as my wedding dream assignment, My dream is to photograph a wedding in Italy someday. I love all that Italy has to offer, the architecture, the people, the cobblestoned streets, and so much more. It would be a dream to be able to photograph something as beautiful as a wedding, in such an amazing place!
    July 1, 2009
  82. Ashley Livingston - My dream assignment would be to create a coffee table book about all the pubs of Ireland with stories and yarns that I hear while I'm there woven throughout the pages! Hopefully the photos wouldn't be blurry after all that ale, but I think I could handle it!
    July 1, 2009
  83. Tali WIldman - My dream assignment would be to shoot food for any glossy publication. Then get to eat it.
    July 1, 2009
  84. Krysta Manthe - So, I hope this is where we're supposed to attach our comment for the album give-away! My dream shoot would be something straight out of an Anthropologie catalog. I just saw a shoot they did completely under water and my heart was throbbing over it. I loved everything about it. The way the water cut in the photos, the sunflare beaming in, the way the fabric looked weightless. Sigh. I would love to go away to a little village in Italy in the middle of nowhere and do a shoot like this. A girl can dream! Krysta
    July 1, 2009
  85. Darbi G. - I have always wanted to do a photo story on children in foster homes and orphanages. The average age of children stuck in the foster system is around 10 years old. By that time, they oftentimes get neglected because they are "too old" to be wanted by adopting parents. Someday, I would like to do portraits of children, to capture their real personalities, the parts of them that parents would and could love... the parts of them that are buried by the fact they aren't newborns.
    July 1, 2009
  86. andy lee - My dream assignment would be covering everyday news. My dream assignment is to be a true photojournalist.
    July 1, 2009
  87. annie - Portrait session of the Obama girls. Natural light, unposed, relaxed and at play with their parents around them. And it would have to include Bo, of course!
    July 1, 2009
  88. carolyn - I wish that I could say that my dream assignment was related to a wedding...but since I have been following the flickr stream of the white house photographer souza that is now my dream job...or even just the assistant.
    July 1, 2009
  89. Kristi Kienholz - I would love to make a book featuring everyday people that make a huge difference in the world. I would take an amazing Environmental Portrait of them and include their story - in hopes of inspiring others that they too can make a difference.
    July 1, 2009
  90. joey seawell - My dream assignment would be to travel the world chasing the light. Photographing incredible landscapes with an endless supply of large format Fuji film (preferably Astia). Throw in my awesome wife, Jessica and our dog Polly. Perfect!
    July 1, 2009
  91. jeff - That is one wonderful contest! I really hope that I win though! :D Pick me! Pick me!Pick me!Pick me!Pick me!
    July 1, 2009
  92. Aric Becker - My dream assignment is just having great people that are into each other and love photography. No matter where or what I am shooting if they like photography the images will be great. Fancy destinations help but the people make the images not the place.
    July 1, 2009
  93. Emily Abril - Honestly my dream photo assignment would be able to travel around the world and photography dogs different environments.
    July 1, 2009
  94. heather mckay bowes - anything completely unexpected...
    July 1, 2009
  95. Catharine Morris - My dream photo assignment would be to shoot for National Geographic in Africa photographing wildlife. Followed by a trip to the Galopogos Islands! Ok, it is 2 dreams:-) So I guess I will try to land the job with National Geographic first! Cypress has amazing albums!
    July 1, 2009
  96. katherine - My dream assignment would be photographing my brother's wedding. It's a ways away but being able to document my family on that occasion would be amazing. The album is just beautiful! What a great contest.
    July 1, 2009
  97. John Huson - These albums are simple and elegant. I would love to try one. My dream photo assignment would probably be second shooting with Jose Villa or Gene Higa on some destination wedding in Italy or somewhere exotic. I would love to shoot my own destination wedding, but learning from the best in the world while doing it would be pretty awesome.
    July 1, 2009
  98. Kayte Rose - My dream photo assignment: to travel around the country for 6 months and photograph all the different people and create some sort of book. To show people that everyone is different and unique in their own way and beauty is everywhere.
    July 1, 2009
  99. carolin - My dream assignment would be to go to one of two place: Cape Town, South Africa or anywhere in Italy!
    July 1, 2009
  100. Daveen Lindley - My dream photo assignment would be to photograph children at an orphanage in a southern African . . . My father was a minister-missionary in Swaziland during my teen years and living there with my family was a life-altering experience. I'd love to take along my own children on the assignment and alter their lives for the better as well. :)
    July 1, 2009
  101. kacy jo - Love that color of blue! My dream assignment would be to document puppy mills, pounds, and humane societies/animal shelters to raise awareness on both the importance of spaying and neutering pets, and adopting from shelters rather than buying from pet stores - the majority of which get their dogs from puppy mills, where the dogs used for breeding and treated cruelly. That was a long sentence... :)
    July 1, 2009
  102. Karie McLain - As photographers, we have such a special place in people's lives. To capture moments, some special, some unique, in that particular time. While I know that photos impact most of my clients, my dream job would be to re-create memories for people who otherwise don't have the means. Examples would include families affected by acts of nature and have lost their belongings, families who are battling the odds against cancer, or individuals who are in a truly unique situation. I already have a dream job, but to see individuals such as this rejoice over their families memories would be amazing; and to know that you could do something that helped ... to me, that's priceless.
    July 1, 2009
  103. Corbin Gurkin - I love the soft palette of the Cypress book cloths - it's so nice to bring color into an album and at the same time maintain a really timeless look. The swatches are subtle and elegant. Lately I've been dreaming of photographing 'wintery' portraits on the north west coast of Denmark...On a trip there, ages ago, I remember seeing these beautiful grey sand dunes and I've been nostalgic for them ever since. The de-saturated pastel feel to the light seemed to make everything glow.
    July 1, 2009
  104. Wendie DeLano - Hi- I just entered the contest but didn't see anywhere to leave my comment but here. Hopefully this is right. My dream photography assignment has already come true- my two children give me plenty of inspiration! But- other than that, I think it would be great fun to photograph Suri Cruise. What a beautiful child!
    July 1, 2009
  105. Nikole Bordato - My dream assignment is to photograph a destination wedding in Moracco. Sigh...one day!
    July 1, 2009
  106. mark davidson - my dream assignment would be to document / raise awareness for children that have been adopted.
    July 1, 2009
  107. jb - Those albums are so beautiful...I almost forgot that I wanted to check them out again after WPPI. Ok, so this might sound corny but after watching extreme home makeover one night with my son, I was so touched by how the family was touched of the new photos of themselves on their new walls...that I instantly wanted that job. I would do it for free day in and day out if it meant making such a difference for families that have been through so much. Life and passion intertwined by such meaning ..brings me peace just wishing about it!
    July 1, 2009
  108. Marissa Rodriguez - My dream assignment....to shoot a small, intimate wedding in France! Only about 50 people and with an endless amount of details :)
    July 1, 2009
  109. jen slot - My dream assignment would be to shoot an all out dream wedding for an awesomely in love couple. I absolutely love being a wedding photographer and to have a wedding that incorporates not only all of the details every girl dreams of but to have a couple that just can't help but beam joy + happiness and if the ceremony was held under a large oak tree in the middle of some fields that wouldn't hurt either! Lol. - On a side note these albums are seriously gorgeous!
    July 1, 2009
  110. Kallie Buckmaster - My dream photo assignment would either be to shoot Icelandic landscape or go to Sri Lanka and capture how people are still trying to figure out how to have a decent life post-tsunami. Those are about equal. Love Cypress and hope I win!
    July 1, 2009
  111. Melissa Schollaert - I LOVE Cypress Albums! They are so beautiful and such a quality product. The design is simple, yet timeless. The most rewarding thing about being a photographer is capturing images that touch someone's life and makes them happy. A dream assignment would be to provide photos to families that couldn't otherwise afford a photography session so that they could pass on the photos to their children and grandchildren and their children.
    July 1, 2009
  112. wen - My dream assignment would be to travel far to Tibet, and shoot the happiest people, and purest kids in the world...
    July 1, 2009
  113. Lindsay Willmer - Okay, here goes. My dream photo assignment would be to rock out an elementary school's class & student photos. I know this may sound not so dream-like, and maybe it's just because I have a soon to be kindergartener & a 1st grader under my roof, but school pictures are less than fabulous every year. I love the age, K-2nd grade, where kids don't know quite how to smile on cue & so they do the goofiest, contorted smiles known to man...I'd like to record all those & then let them loose for some pictures that will definitely be refrigerator worthy. There you have it! Thank you :) Imagining my dream shoot is leaving me with a smile & visions of toothless grins!
    July 1, 2009
  114. Tabitha Davidson - when I was a child I wanted to be Indiana Jones. This led me to looking through countless magazines like National Geographic and Life. I soon discovered from seeing the amazing landscapes and the moving images of people around the world, that a career in photography was what I wanted to pursue. My dream photography assignment would be to document an unearthing of a historical discovery.
    July 1, 2009
  115. Jill Thomas - My dream photography assignment would be a wedding but not any wedding ... the bride would be artistic, she would adore simple lovely details, her dress would be simple and gorgeous. Her ceremony would be outside at a vineyard just before dusk. The reception would be held in a barn that lies on top of the hill at the vineyard. The bride and groom would be fun and there would be dancing! She would want to be different and non-traditional. She would have home-made pies that towered instead of cake. The whole evening would be goreous, simple and warm.
    July 1, 2009
  116. kiki - I would love to travel to India and take scrumptious photos of beautiful people and stay in an ashram and eat healthy wonderful food. The colors...!!!
    July 1, 2009
  117. jessica - My dream assignment? Maybe photographing the slums in India... the rich colors, the joy, the despair, the poverty, the indignity, the hope....
    July 1, 2009
  118. jason - My dream assignment? To do an assignment the made a dramatic change in the world and saved lives.
    July 1, 2009
  119. jessica - My dream assignment? An inspiration piece, documenting strong men women and children and their lives, leaving their moark on the world.
    July 1, 2009
  120. Susan Petersen - I LOVE these albums!
    July 1, 2009
  121. rafa - It is difficult, but I will say to photograph my wedding. And if that is not possible -it is not-, to photograph the wedding of an Egiptian Pharaoh or a traditional mexican wedding in Chiapas or Oaxaca.
    July 1, 2009
  122. lydia - My dream assignment is shooting a wedding with exquisite details and a couple that values photography at a beautiful location!
    July 1, 2009
  123. Brooke Bryand - My dream assignment is a fall wedding of 50 guests in Napa or Sonoma, where I can capture the essence of each guest and what they mean to the bride & groom. The colors around harvest would be ideal!
    July 1, 2009
  124. Crystal & Jason - Our dream assignment: Backyard mid-summer wedding, 50 guests, kids climbing trees, dogs, farm tables, local wine, wildflowers, a folk band, and a barefoot bride.
    July 1, 2009
  125. christine meintjes - My dream assignment: To take 3 months off and just photograph the children of africa and to compile a book of the photos.
    July 1, 2009
  126. renee - My dream assignment would be to do a movie poster for a high profile film (like Transformers - perfect example!!)
    July 1, 2009
  127. manon - My dream assignment is probably really boring. But I wish I could take some pictures of my grandma. She really hates taking pictures and always turns away if I want to make a picture. But this would be the only think I could hold in hands if she passes away one day, and I don't want to loose her.
    July 1, 2009
  128. sarah k chen - dream photo assignment... i really want to donate my services to the now i lay me down to sleep organization. as a new mother i can not imagine the world of hurt some parents experience when they should be celebrating a most joyous occasion. to be able to capture their baby's short time on this earth so that the families can have a life time of memories of their little one... that would be pretty amazing. i just don't know if i have the courage/strength to do it just yet.
    July 1, 2009
  129. Kallie Walker - My dream photo assignment is actually my dream job. I'd love to work for a non-profit organization and help promote a cause I believe in. James Nachtwey is my hero, and if I could be 1/1000th as influential as he is, I'd die happy!
    July 1, 2009
  130. christina - My dream assignment has always been to go to India to photograph a traditional Indian wedding. I want to spend time with the families to really get a sense of the tradition. The colors in their weddings fascinate me.
    July 1, 2009
  131. Chanelle Segerius-Bruce - I have had my eye on these albums for a while now! Dream... my dream is to visit the Masai Mara in Kenya and to photograph the Masai people. I met a few Masai in Zanzibar, Tanzania during our honeymoon and they really are amazing.
    July 1, 2009
  132. andy stenz - My dream assignment would be 50 weddings in 50 states. It would make for one neat (and very large) album!
    July 1, 2009
  133. KT Merry - As long as I have been in photography (before I graduated HS), and long before I fell in love with shooting weddings, my dream assignment has always been the same. I have always hoped to become well known enough to shoot an ad campaign of portraits of endangered species. I would like to shoot them on backdrops or in studios just like they were celebrities or models, and have the images of their faces run in popular magazines to give a face to what people are accepting to lose.
    July 1, 2009
  134. Michael Norwood - My dream photo assignment? Your wedding, of course!
    July 1, 2009
  135. johnwaire | photo - my dream assignment (from the actual dream assignment contest): i would like to take my wife back to where she was born -- a place her dad said good-bye to forever, vowing never to return. i met my wife (sara) in 2004 in baltimore, md. 2 years later, we were married (twice) and now have an 18 month old daughter. we often think about the chain of events that put us on the same path in life. to get to where we are, my in-laws had to survive the killing fields of cambodia -- stories which you or i can not even begin to imagine. in 1979, sara was born in the jungle...somewhere on the border of thailand & cambodia. the family managed to make it to a red cross camp (in thailand)where they spent almost 2 years before gaining sponsorship to come to the united states. sara recalls stories of eating from a dumpster. in 1981...the family made it to the US, eventually settling into utica, ny -- home sweet home! the story is amazing. the road was difficult. i would love the opportunity to take sara back to where it all began. i'd love for her to meet the relatives that she has never seen. i'd love for them to meet me and our daughter. i'd love for her to see the places where her parents were born...and the places which were transformed by the brutality of the khmer rouge. i am welling up as i write this...imagining the reception...the sights...the sounds....the people. the country continues to struggle. i know we would do everything within our means to make an impact while we were there. the story documented via my lens would help to bring exposure to the many needs in southeast asia....and hold a special place in our hearts forever.
    July 1, 2009
  136. Alicia Swedenborg - I love shooting weddings with lots of personal touches - I want to shoot a wedding at a non-typical location, with a groom who has purple socks, a bride with red lips!
    July 1, 2009
  137. Mary Beth - dream assignment? traveling to dark places, domestically or internationally, and capturing hope.
    July 1, 2009
  138. Deise - I would luv to shoot a wedding in italy on a little village..sweet!
    July 1, 2009
  139. janine kaye - I would love to second shoot with you..soak up your inspiration..learning and growing.
    July 1, 2009
  140. ali - My dream shoot would be if I was sent to New Zealand to shoot the amazing scenery.
    July 1, 2009
  141. Matt Dorroh - Thanks Dena, Cypress, and Jose for this great chance! My dream assignment is more of a personal project, but I would love to spend some time documenting the lives of small town farmers in rural southern Missouri.
    July 1, 2009
  142. Kaosong - My dream photography shoot would be a trip back to my home country, Laos, where I have not returned to since my family emigrated to the US when I was one. I would love to shoot my people in their villages and also my people in the city and then also those in America to show how traditions have changed or remained the same.
    July 1, 2009
  143. Biff Ulm - My dream assignment would be to be given a nice budget and the freedom to create without any expectations from anyone.
    July 1, 2009
  144. bo - my dream assignment is merely to shoot a wedding. i am a budding young photographer and would love the opportunity to shoot one of the most important moment in two people's lives.
    July 1, 2009
  145. renne - My dream assignment would be to shoot the 10 most beautiful destinations in the world, and the culture of the people there.
    July 1, 2009
  146. kayla - I would LOVE to photograph a beautiful wedding in Italy for a fabulous couple! That would be SO amazing!
    July 1, 2009
  147. Sarah Balderas - My dream photo assignment would be photographing an actor like Eric Bana or Salma Hayek at an italian villa for Vanity Fair. I'd want to fly my parents out so that they could watch the photo shoot, wine and dine, roam the countryside, and have an unbelievable time. They've done so much for me – this is the least I could do to repay them for their generosity!
    July 1, 2009
  148. adam - My dream assignment would be anything that would allow me to travel somewhere I haven't been before.
    July 1, 2009
  149. Kierstie - Right now my dream shoot would be my parents 35th vow renewal in Hawaii. My brother, sister and I are trying to plan a trip this summer. I have never shot in a tropical destination and I am dreaming of just the idea of it!! Thanks for the contest!
    July 1, 2009
  150. ceece - My dream assignment would be to photograph my entire family for the day, but with me in the photos too! I can capture my whole, extended family perfectly except for the whole in the pictures. ME! Plus, I know how I like to be photographed (who says photographers are picky?)! If I could figure out a way to shoot everyone plus myself it would be perfect. I'm thinking clone for a day, anyone, anyone?
    July 1, 2009
  151. melissa - my dream assignment would be to travel to Guatemala with my two little cousins and photograph their family (their father is Guatemalan) combine that with a week following them here in Michigan, juxtapose the beauty and reality of both families places in the world.
    July 1, 2009
  152. Tonya - I love your blog...I grew up there...went to Dunn school in Los Olivos...do you know it? Beautiful country...love heading home to visit... Stunning book... dream wedding assignment...actually, I think something simple and romantic. Small. beautiful light. vintage detailing. country wedding with chandeliers hanging from the trees and colors everywhere... xoxo Tonya
    July 1, 2009
  153. michelle - The albums are dreamy! My dream photography assignment would be to second shoot with Jose Villa. His work just inspires me and takes me on a little journey from this mundane chapter of my life called nine to five. I would not care where the shoot took place. I would be in heaven every minute of it!! And then I would document the entire journey, from the minute I leave work to travel there to the day I return home, in one of these fabulous albums.
    July 1, 2009
  154. White Loft Studio - my dream assignment?..... SHOOTING ANYTHING WITH JOSE VILLA!!!
    July 1, 2009
  155. ivy - My dream assignment would probably be for WWOOF http://www.wwoof.org/ doing travel photography and documenting the farms in Europe with my husband and 2 year old daughter.
    July 1, 2009
  156. Darlene McCowan - My dream photo assignment would be an engagement shoot, wedding shoot and trash the dress shoot all in Venice, Italy! Someday maybe. :)
    July 1, 2009
  157. sally - Hmm... my current dream photo assignment would be a destination wedding in Italy... it may sound cliche, but the architecture, landscape, light, colors, etc. all seem like the perfect backdrop for an incredible wedding!!
    July 1, 2009
  158. Michelle Waters - Hooray, Cypress!! I love their albums so much!!
    July 1, 2009
  159. Michelle Waters - Hooray, Cypress!! I love their albums so much!! My dream assignment would be to extend a project I've just started...making documentary-style heirloom albums for families touched by cancer and serious illness/disability. I am documenting a couple of families right now-1 family is celebrating a cancer survivor, and the other may not have much time left together. I am documenting this special part of each family's lives with photo and video clips, and making an album and a video/photo fusion slideshow for each. Would love to help more families have this.
    July 1, 2009
  160. Jeffrey Neal - My dream assignment would be spending a year photographing the president of the United States!
    July 1, 2009
  161. tracy - I would love to photograph an athlete and their family. I think they spend so much time away that getting some shots of them together would be awesome. Thanks for having this contest, I would LOVE to have one of these albums!!
    July 1, 2009
  162. kelly ng - I think this album is exactly what I'm looking for... makes a statement, but not too overwhelming... classy... elegant... just a perfect home for one of a kind imagery. Thank you for showcasing them. My dream assignment would be to do a photojournalistic/real life behind the scenes documentary on Obama... he is so historical.
    July 1, 2009
  163. jessamyn harris - I entered my email but didn't comment, so here it is. my dream assignment is to work for a wonderful lifestyle magazine (sunset, martha, etc), photographing children playing on an organic farm near the pacific ocean, in northern california. we would take wonderful, relaxed portraits and illustrative shots throughout the day, stopping for hearty homemade meals, and sleeping under the stars at night.
    July 1, 2009
  164. Diana - My dream assignment is to simply capture life unscripted... whether it be smiles, laughter or tears. Every moment of life is precious and unique, and I want to cherish & remember those moments. The best photo, compels you to the same emotional state that you were in when it was taken!
    July 1, 2009
  165. Jennifer B. - I love Cypress Albums. My dream assignment would be one that dealt with putting a face on the hidden side of abuses that hurt children, with the sole hope that the photographs actually changed a heart. Changed someone who has caused hurt by actually changing their heart to turn their life around and heal others.
    July 1, 2009
  166. Andrew McMillan - My dream photo assignment(s): To shoot weddings, portraits etc. for people who cannot afford it. To bless them with something beautiful and creative for nothing. Creativity is about bringing life to people, it refreshes and restores and fills up with joy! Its not about me, its not about money, its about Life.
    July 1, 2009
  167. jen Fox - dream assignment would be a gap baby ad :)
    July 1, 2009
  168. Emma Poliquin - My dream assignment would be to photograph my best friends wedding in France when she gets married. We met during an exchange during high school and I miss her so much! I cant wait until she meets the man of her dreams so I can do this!
    July 1, 2009
  169. michelle - Hmmm. Hard one. But, its a tie between: Shooting the Obama family around the white house. Or shooting an ultra chic intimate wedding in a loft style venue in New York.
    July 1, 2009
  170. chris - dream assignment would be to shoot my grandparents wedding. they were both such fascinating people, and so in love for their 55+ years of marriage. I only knew them as grandparents, but their adventures seemed to amazing in the old black and white pics around the house. my grandfather was knighted and wore a kilt and played the bagpipes until the day he died. My grandmother was such a strong women who raised a great family in tough times. I would have loved to have seen them in their youth!
    July 1, 2009
  171. Jordan - Blessed Road Photography - My dream assignment would be to shoot a celebrity wedding! Thanks for offering this giveaway!
    July 1, 2009
  172. Jamie Lawler - This dream is one of many but one that exists at another place and time in the past... and so will always be but a dream. I want to photograph Audrey Hepburn in all her loveliness. From her ballet dancing teen days to her UNICEF volunteer trips as an adult and all of the elegant spirit in between. There I am, right beside her as her personal photographer. I'm shooting with film on old school cameras that today I dream of owning. The experience is raw and amazing and plays out well in my dream.
    July 1, 2009
  173. daniel - My dream assignment would be to shoot with Jose Villa~ He ROCKS!
    July 1, 2009
  174. Blake Grimmer - I'm not exactly a wedding photographer per-say, but I do design albums. I really really want to design a wedding album for my parents, cause they don't have one and these Cypress albums are the bomb.
    July 1, 2009
  175. nancy - My dream shoot: Shooting fashion for Coco Chanel in Buenos Aires; I would shoot in the streets, in old hotels, and gritty (yet beautiful) locations. I would also have an army of assistants helping me carry all my gear, lighting, etc., and have a permit to shoot wherever I wished and be able to shut down major streets for the shoot :)
    July 1, 2009
  176. Terilee - I would love to photograph a couple that has been married plus years in some old ruins in europe somewhere. It would tell such a beautiful picture of long lasting love.
    July 1, 2009
  177. joanna - Since it's a "dream" I'd go back and photograph my grandma throughout her 85 years of life...growing up as one of 5 kids with an outhouse and a sears catalog in hand; falling in love with my grandpa and having 6 children despite miscarriages, financial stress, and moving from parsonage to parsonage in the midwest; teaching kindergarteners how to read and later literacy to adults; fighting that vicious disease that is cancer that eventually took her from us.
    July 1, 2009
  178. jo ann - My dream assignment would be to travel through the small villages of Ikaria, Greece and photograph and interview elderly people there. My father was born on this island and has shared so many awe-inspiring stories with us that I dream of visiting again and bringing some more stories home, this time accompanied with images.
    July 1, 2009
  179. Barbie Hull - I LOOOOOVVVVVEEEEE Cypress Albums and would freak out if I won! My dream photo assignment is to travel around the world with groups on vacation teaching people (regular ones, not photographers) to take better & more creative vacation photos. After we return we would have an art show with a reception for all of those on the trip. (SO much fun right?!!)
    July 1, 2009
  180. Michael L'Heureux - My dream assignment would be a wedding shoot in a lonely desert. High contrast B&W and muted desert colors. A simple high pitched church and a Lincoln Continental. Recipe for cool!
    July 1, 2009
  181. Paul Bryant - Since he's already married, my dream photo shoot would be a family portrait session with Colin Meloy, frontman for The Decemberists. I'd love to take Colin and his family dockside in a New England fishing village, and do an afternoon shoot with a variety of toy, pinhole, and view cameras. I'd shoot a variety of films, but primarily Polaroid Type 89, and Delta 3200 pulled to 1600, to capture the quirky, anachronistic vibe he puts out on his records. Thanks for the consideration! We love Iris, and could definitely use the book in our studio... :)
    July 1, 2009
  182. janet - ooh. dream photo assignment? anything involving travel! i'm easy to please. :D
    July 1, 2009
  183. Richard Israel - My dream assignment is my next assignment always. corny maybe but true
    July 1, 2009
  184. joanne - My dream photo assignment would be to photograph an entire wedding at Disneyland Theme Park.
    July 1, 2009
  185. stephanie - My dream assignment would be to shoot in Southeast Asia with my husband. The people are so beautiful and the landscape amazing. I'd love to go back, take photos and write about what is going on in the areas we would travel to.
    July 1, 2009
  186. tana - Being asked to photograph a couple’s wedding day where all of my favorite conditions fell into place, would be my dream assignment. The mix would include a couple who were soul-mates, excited-to-be-there guests, and a beautiful location with incredible light. I’d top that off with a few of my favorite wedding moments: grandparents telling their own great love stories, young couples caught up in the day’s romance, and a sentimental speech from a proud father.
    July 1, 2009
  187. Hitchcock Photography - My dream photo shoot is where I am the star! I love Trash the Dress sessions and I have been motivated enough to get my butt back into my dress...now just need to be motivated to do the shoot! I would FLIP if I could see myself in one of these albums!! How cool!
    July 1, 2009
  188. carlos - My dream assignment would be to photograph a portrait session with Sade! She is just as beautiful as her music and to photograph her would be fantastic.
    July 1, 2009
  189. morgan - I have just recently discovered Cypress albums and can't wait to see a sample in person. My dream assignment...I have to pick two. I would love to photograph an Indian wedding because of the wonderful colors and then henna process. My other dream assignment would be to document the small towns and farms starting in Minnesota and then working my way across the country.
    July 1, 2009
  190. Ashley O'Dell - I would love to document the creation process of the next Sigur Ros album. Music has always been a significant part of my family, and the work of Sigur Ros has helped me through the most difficult time in my life. And ironically, 6 years earlier, it created the greatest bond in my life. Their music has given me so much; I think documenting their creative process, would be an amazing and beautiful experience for me.
    July 1, 2009
  191. Christine Olson - Jose....you KNOW a Brook-ie such as myself could use one of these. Plus, I just got married and have yet to purchase an album! This would be PERFECT!
    July 1, 2009
  192. Briana Marie - Cypress - your albums are exquisite. Jose - you images are inspiring. Thank you both for you generosity! Dream assignment - to travel to an amazing location with a person who gives themselves fully to an amazing cause. I would love to document the love & authentic giving & use the images to inspire others to know, that they too have the ability to change people's lives with the choices they make. It would be an honor & a powerful role.
    July 1, 2009
  193. Laura G - my dream assignment would involve a month-long trek throughout sweden. i would photograph the people, the area, the customs--in other words, capture the essence of the country. because i am swedish, this would be personal, satisfying, and revealing....
    July 1, 2009
  194. Jason & Crystal - Our dream assignment...hmmm? That's a really tough question. I don't think it would be an assigment, it would probably be a very long vacation, cameras in hand, to places like Greece, Rome, Machu Picchu, Africa etc. That would be a dream :)
    July 1, 2009
  195. lauren - My dream assignment would be to travel to east asia to document the growth and struggles of the underground churches there. It would be an honor to capture the bravery and faith of the individuals and families there that risk their lives every day to share the Gospel.
    July 1, 2009
  196. Millie Holloman - My dream assignment would be to write a photo essay book on children who struggle with debilitating diseases. Not for the sake of capturing the disability but their spirit and courage to deal with those things in such a mature and noble way! I love telling people's stories!
    July 1, 2009
  197. crissy farah - *lol* I can only pick one dream assignment??! I think my life is built on dreams because picking one is tough, but I am going to have to go with some day photographing Gwen Stefani simply because I have always wanted to meet someone who inspires me.
    July 1, 2009
  198. laEmme - The location that would really move me in particular would be the Veliko Tarnovo view from one of the towers. The place is situated in Bulgaria, and looks amazing during sunset!
    July 1, 2009
  199. Laura TURNER - oh wow, some day i want to rent a minnie-winnie and drive across country, stop at all the run-down diners, stop and say hi to the old man rocking on his porch , photo and talk to all.i want to see this country ,the mountains, the dessert ,the poor and the rich.......
    July 1, 2009
  200. jessi - My dream assignment would probably be a three month tour to photograph the 7 ancient wonders of the world (or however many wonders there are now...) and then of course to have a cypress album to show all of the photos in :)
    July 1, 2009
  201. Shahin Edalati - My dream assignment would be to spend a full day to shoot Leonard Cohen as he goes about his day. The man embodies coolness to the fullest. At 75 he is more eloquent with words that most of can ever be. He deserve more respect and attention that he has gotten over the years.
    July 1, 2009
  202. annie - My dream assignment would be to go to Haiti and follow the lives of an American Family (of Doctors) who volunteer their time to fix children's medical problems--like cleft lip and palette.
    July 1, 2009
  203. Jonathan - Wow what a great contest. My dream assignment, as odd as this sounds would have to be to do a bridal or a couples session in an old European castle or village. My real dream would be Dracula's castle. See I told you it was weird but the location is so unique and different. Remember you asked for my dream assignment.
    July 1, 2009
  204. erin kate - Cypress albums make me smile. They are simply lovely. My dream photo assignment would actually be photographing my mother who is not longer with us. I wish I had more beautiful photographs of her!
    July 1, 2009
  205. christy - My current dream is very simple: I'd love to spend the day with an ordinary family, photographing them, and showing how their beautiful, normal life is realy a treasure.
    July 1, 2009
  206. Rebecca Hutchins - I would love to photograph a fun arty couple or family in Paris.
    July 1, 2009
  207. jules - Is this where we submit our dream assignment? These albums look so beautiful in the photos, so much more elegant then the other albums I've dealt with... My dream assignment would be... photographing my college best friend's wedding across the country. Her family had unusual requests, like married friends shouldn't be a bridesmaid (I'm married) and no friend should work at their wedding policy... It's nothing grand as a tropical island wedding, or a beautiful rustic wedding in the forest... but I this would be my dream assignment, to capture the special day my friend has been waiting for most of her life to the guys she's been dating for the last 7 years, through family deaths, and remarriages. I'd have loved to be right there with her, every step of the way, instead of flying 3000 miles to sit in the audience...
    July 1, 2009
  208. Hannah Suh - I have so many dream assignments! Do I have to pick and write bout just one? I would love to one day travel the world and everywhere I went, I would photograph dancers. Dancers in all shapes and forms and styles. As the song Hip Hip Chin Chin says, dancing is the driving force that holds our lives together. Without rhythm your heart wouldn't beat. Without direction, without moves, and without shape. People say that music is the universal language, or math, or even love. But I think Dance can be added to the list of things that humanity shares in common. Everyone, in all parts of the world can experience the joy of movement, and I would love to be able to capture that movement, in all its different forms. That would be a dream assignment.
    July 1, 2009
  209. Lisa Willis - I live for photographing my adorable 1 1/2 year old, Mason. He is my pride and joy. Every morning I get him out of his crib and I swear he aged 3 months over night. I have photographed him at least once a week since he was born. I love looking back and seeing how much he has changed. I guess my dream assignment would be to get paid to photograph my little man. That or photograph Brad and Angilina's family but I would do that for free! :) I have been designing an iris album for the past 6 months but have not been able to place my order because of this darn economy. Winning this would be a dream!
    July 1, 2009
  210. Alyssa Vincent - These are so much better then the company I have been using! Really simple, clean, and elegant. I wish I would have known about Cypress earlier. I heart it so much and would love it to be mine. My dream assignment -- a simple country wedding in Alessandria Italy This is where my Father's family is from and it would be an incredible experiences to be able to work and shoot something I love... (weddings and the beginning of a new branch of someone's family tree) and have some extra time to take pictures of a place that has a lot of historical significance for my family... It would be so amazing to do a little side project of taking portrait of families that are part of my huge family tree but that are separated by an ocean.
    July 1, 2009
  211. Raquel - My dream assisngment? Hmmmm....I live in KY so I am surrounded by beautiful farms, pastures, rolling green hills, and horse farms. I have also already done a session on the beach. So I would love to shoot in a dramatic change from all of that. I'm thinking a little cabin in the Rockies, fireplace in the middle of glass window covered wall over looking the snow-capped mountains. Yeah, that would be my dream.
    July 1, 2009
  212. Kelsy Nielson - My dream wedding assigment would be to photograph my Mother's wedding. She is the most amazing woman in the world and I would like nothing more then for her to find true love. I would do anything to photograph her very own love story. It could be in any location, with any decore, just as long as she was happy.
    July 1, 2009
  213. Katie Mosley - My dream assignment would be to photograph children in Honduras and tell their stories through the pictures. My husband and I have been on mission trips there and we sponsor 2 boys there also. I would love to meet them and capture what a day in their lives really is like. I think it would be extremely meaningful and fulfilling.
    July 1, 2009
  214. Rowell Dionicio - Those albums and album covers look so simple and elegant. I'd have to say that my dream wedding to shoot would be one in a secluded area in the mountains with lots of beautiful terrain and unique flowers to stage a couple in for fantastic shots!
    July 1, 2009
  215. Catherine Wygal - My dream assignment would be a year long exploration of America. Each week I'd go to a different state and photograph a same-gender wedding. By the end of the year I'll have been to all 50 states and been a part of 50 ceremonies celebrating love (with two weeks to spare!) I'd love to help changes the laws in each state to allow marriage for all.
    July 1, 2009
  216. Pam Breese - a travel shoot, anywhere old with cool architecture!
    July 1, 2009
  217. Caitlin - Cute books! My dream assignment would be an engagement session in Hawaii on the tops of glorious mountains and under breathtaking waterfalls, complete with random white orchids and other Hawaii foliage to serve as part of the background. It would be BRILLIANT. : )
    July 1, 2009
  218. beth erisman - So my dream photo assignment would be to photograph Obama with his children. Although I'd be super nervous I'd still LOVE to photograph them!
    July 1, 2009
  219. Jeff Honeycutt - My dream assignment would be a commissioned book documenting different marriage ceremonies/rituals throughout the world.
    July 1, 2009
  220. Jill Anderson - Ohhhh.... lovely album... dreaming of my wedding photos by Jose on the coffee table in this beautiful book... My dream shoot? Can I say as an amateur that I would love to shoot the people I love the most, in the places I love the most... my parents sipping coffee on their patio in the morning, my cousins jumping off the dock into the lake just past sunset, my fiance backcountry skiing through crystalized pine trees, my friends belly-laughing so hard in each other's company... to capture and keep my favorite moments close at hand... to look at and smile... to be grateful.
    July 1, 2009
  221. Cristy Cross - So, my favorite catalog is anthropologie. And they just came out with a new catalog featuring work by Barbara Cole. She does underwater fashion photography and I would love love to work with her one day. I would love to learn how she got started and tricks and tips for underwater photography. That would be my dream assignment for sho! Oh and to work a wedding with the wonderful and fabulous Jose Villa-not kissing up. I promise :)
    July 1, 2009
  222. Cory Ann Ellis - I've been using Cypress for about 4 years now, maybe 5. I love them. They are by far my favorite album company to work with. The IRIS is one of my favorites. My dream assignment would be to photograph my Dad's life for a week or so. I don't get to see him often enough and like me he is a workaholic. He is a commercial fisherman in Northern California and has been fishing all his life. I would love to document the preparation, the actual fishing (or crabbing), the sitting and bs'ing with the other fisherman and all other things he does. It would be special for me and my son as well as my sisters and nieces and nephews to have. Cory Ann
    July 1, 2009
  223. heidi - Love the cypress albums. My dream photo shoot would take place on a bright green grassy hill with a cool gnarled old oak tree atop it. My subjects would be a uniquely gorgeous couple with the woman wearing a great flowy dress that'll blow in the wind.
    July 1, 2009
  224. Justin DeMutiis - Portraits and Weddings are my current passion and career, yet nature and conservation photography has remained close to my heart. Thus, my dream photo assignment would be to embark on a journey photographing the most endangered lands in North America. It has always been my dream to travel to the far reaches of our continent and spend more than just a vacation. I have always dreamt of spending months witnessing the majesty of glacier carved mountains, hearing the silence of a forest buried in snow, and being able to look up on any given night and be able to gaze upon stars that shine so bright they cast a shadow. Much like the images of the wedding day, photographs of our vast wildernesses and preserves will become a record of the beauty that once was. Just like the moments on a wedding day, the glaciers, the wildlife, the endless expanses of wilderness, and the intimate details of the forest are transient and fleeting. The images from this assignment would be beautiful in their own right, but also serve as a history and a means of preserving our beautiful lands that are so rapidly declining. We hope that our wedding images and albums will become timeless heirlooms that will live on forever. I hope that with an assignment like this, the natural places bestowed upon us will live on forever, for all generations to witness and enjoy.
    July 1, 2009
  225. dree - i would love to do a family session with jolie-pitt family!!!
    July 1, 2009
  226. leo - I remember hearing about Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon reserving the entire Six Flag for their wedding. Now that'd be the ultimate assignment for me.
    July 1, 2009
  227. christine cornwell - I dream of photographing at the beautiful PANGKOR LAUT RESORT, Perak in my home country Malaysia. It's a captivating private resort on its own island- breathtaking emerald beaches and white sand, lush tropical flora, and of course the best people in town!
    July 1, 2009
  228. Lea Reed - My dream assignment would be: making my own album at cypress.
    July 1, 2009
  229. Ashley Blake - Dream assignment: capturing a newborn's day of arrival.
    July 1, 2009
  230. Andrea Tunbridge - My dream assignment would be a full several day, traditional Indian Wedding. Awe....., the colors, the Henna, the jewels, the party, the dancing, and the beautiful PHOTOS, that would go into my beautiful CYPRESS ALBUM!!!!
    July 1, 2009
  231. Melanie Whitaker - Whooo hooooo, I really really really hope I win! I think me dream assignment right now would be to do a fashion shoot with some models and some designer gowns...I would love play with that and see how I'd do. :)
    July 1, 2009
  232. Akil Bennett - Sup' homie! Here's to hoping I win the free album, they're solid man! I guess my dream assignment would be to do a celebrity wedding...preferably a couple with a lot of style at a cool destination somwhere.
    July 1, 2009
  233. Eric Velado - My dream photo assignment is to photograph my parents' 50th Anniversary.
    July 1, 2009
  234. kristin eldridge - I'm a children's photographer, so my dream assignment would be a wedding...with all the gorgeous details!
    July 1, 2009
  235. missy cochran - a commercial shoot for Free People catalogue
    July 1, 2009
  236. jessica - My dream assignment would be to shoot alongside Mary Ellen Mark, my most favorite photographer. I would go anywhere with her, but if I could choose any location, I'd choose Mumbai, India.
    July 1, 2009
  237. Vanessa Kohler - I'd love to have the power to come back to the day I got married and get my camera to capture all the happiness in my grandma's face. Her eyes were shining and we realised the photographer did not take any pictures of her. Some time later she passed away.
    July 1, 2009
  238. lisa - How wonderful would it be to have a gorgeous Cypress album to go along with my new website that I am working on?! These books are stunning! My dream assignment... I want to photograph children & families all over the world; showing their daily interactions with each other... doing the simple things that make up every day life, document their love, their struggles, their happiness...
    July 1, 2009
  239. Jay Quicho - My dream assignment would be to travel to Nepal in search of the Yeti.
    July 1, 2009
  240. Lynsey Tedesco - My dream assignment would be to go back in time and be Kennedy's personal photographer and follow him around for his term and shoot only in black and white film. Perfection!
    July 1, 2009
  241. April Rocha - I would love a photo shoot in Mendocino County. I went there a lot as a child and have such fond memories of the place and it's so beautiful and very different than most of California. It's like a little piece of New England in California.
    July 1, 2009
  242. Matthew Johnson - With the recently changed rules regarding travel to Cuba I would love to have a couple that could get us entry to Cuba for a wedding with their family. Whether we shot along the coast or the interior of the island, I can only imagine how unique and inspiring this country and its people would be. A new bio shot on my website of me puffing on a Cuban cigar would be pretty amazing!
    July 1, 2009
  243. Melissa Kelsey - My dream assignment would be a natural, breezy wedding in the forest with sunlight flooding and filtering through the trees, little flower blossom petals floating through the air, an amazing wedding gown with little pleats and buttons and details, feathers in hair, fairytale flowers, an oh-my-gawd fantastic looking couple (with hearts of gold). All the guests and bridal party would be those kinds of people that sparkle from the inside; shiny, happy people. Ooh! There would be minstrels playing lutes and flutes. Yes, that would all be quite lovely and would look amazing in a sumptuous silk Cypress album afterward. Oh my!
    July 1, 2009
  244. jenny - There is a certain love felt at a wedding. Shooting weddings allows me to capture that love and be a part of the beginning of a new family. My dream assignment would be to capture a different beginning to a family by traveling with a couple or individual as their long journey to adopt becomes final with the meeting of their new addition.
    July 1, 2009
  245. heather - my dream assignment would be to do a photographic essay of NYC or Paris.
    July 1, 2009
  246. eden - a wedding in Japan. I love the people and their culture is so beautiful. yes, that would be a dream. can't wait till it comes true...
    July 1, 2009
  247. Justin Moreland - I'd like to travel to a poor, 3rd world country like Haiti or a war-torn country like Rowanda and photograph the current conditions, yet the hope that the people have. I would like to somehow through my photographs bring about awareness & change with the help of people from the wealthier countries of the world. It's lofty I know, but an amateur can dream.
    July 1, 2009
  248. Susan Baker - Dream photo: One that is not contrived. A true moment where you do not sense the photographers hand..and where that moment transcends subject and matter.
    July 1, 2009
  249. brett - My dream wedding would be to shoot at a village in the foothills of the mountains of Khinchara near Beirut Lebanon.
    July 1, 2009
  250. Katie Neal Photo - Oh my goodness, that book causes my heart to pitter patter. :) Gosh, how do you pick a dream photo assignment. I'd love to do a documentary on the child soldiers in africa, the women who have been mercilessly sold into sex trafficking, and also travel across the world documenting orphanages and the little ones that are stuck there. The hard part would be that I'd want to save each and every person and bring them home with me! Although I can't do that, at least with my photography I'd give them a voice!
    July 1, 2009
  251. Christa Meola - So many dream job ideas!... I would love to photograph old men who own shoe shine shops :)
    July 1, 2009
  252. Sheye Rosemeyer - My dream assignment would be this: To take my husband and my four children to a huge field, filled with spear grass and butterflies and late afternoon light. And just one of those trees. You know them. To lay in that grass, to chase around that tree, to belly laugh together and have every single precious moment captured. It can't ever be made reality, one of those four children left for the Fields of Heaven 2 years ago. We never did get a portrait of the six of us. To just imagine the scene makes my heart smile. Thanks Jose. S x
    July 1, 2009
  253. Kaitlynn - My dream photo assignment would be photographing children at orphanages in Mexico.
    July 1, 2009
  254. ellie - My dream assignment is to photograph the most perfect wedding. 'Perfect' in every sense of the word that anytime the couple fights and is on the brink of a divorce, all they have to do is look through their pictures, perfectly assembled in a Cypress album, and the couple has forgotten the negativity. A few years down the road, I get a call from the couple stating how my photographs saved their marriage.
    July 1, 2009
  255. Jodi Pfunder - My dream photo assignment would be to photograph my kids with my grandparents (as long as it's a dream, I might as well include a time machine)
    July 1, 2009
  256. Elizabeth Leighton - I was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1974. My Mom married my American GI father and we left the country to come back to America, leaving my Mom's entire family behind. I would love to go back to the country I was born and photograph the lives of those left behind...they struggle like no one should struggle. They live like no one should live. Yet they love like those more fortunate than they.....I would go back and photograph them...my family I don't remember.
    July 1, 2009
  257. Ny Brown - My dream photo assignment would be to shoot a presidential election in at least 10 countries, to not only document the moment for each person (Prez), but to document the people who elected them.
    July 1, 2009
  258. anne - My dream assignment would be to photograph the labor and delivery of a couple having their first born baby in their home. What a great moment in life. Happy Mother's Day!
    July 1, 2009
  259. Kim Sobel - My dream assignment would be to photography the president.
    July 1, 2009
  260. christina - Hmm. Since I'm just starting out I'll say that my dream assignment would be in a big field with lots of flowers during sunset. I love the pictures I have seen from you in this type of setting. Thanks for sharing your work!
    July 1, 2009
  261. Tanya Sakolsky - My dream assignment would be to photograph a bunch of 4 to 7 year olds who have never been told "Say Cheese." Kids don't realize how incredible they are when they just look at you straight on. Their is so much wisdom and curiosity behind their eyes.
    July 1, 2009
  262. Robert Sukrachand - Dream assignment: spend a month at a time photographing in fishing villages all over the world, for a year.
    July 1, 2009
  263. andrea caballer - My dream assignment would be to photograph the birth of every child, it is such a magical experience and it only happens once. Every child and every mother should have this and it would be beautifully displayed in a Cypress album.
    July 1, 2009
  264. Marianne Wilson - Love these! My dream assignment would be to go to Uganda and photograph Rosey my sponser child and her friends and family. It would be awesome to give them the gift of photography.
    July 1, 2009
  265. erica - My dream assignment would be to document the life of a couple who struggled with infertility and ultimately became parents.
    July 1, 2009
  266. paula leme - my dream job would be to travel to europe for a summer just to photograph old buildings, landscapes, people... :)
    July 1, 2009
  267. Ellie Kurz - I'd love to shoot the Kentucky Derby. All the fun and fashion dressed up partying before the race, but also the power and speed of the horses up close.
    July 1, 2009
  268. alison bank - Hi Jose! My dream job is to travel to Ethiopia to track down and photograph the vanishing Jewish tribes that live there. Supposedly, there are only about 100 Ethiopian Jews still living in all of Ethiopia (there used to be about a million.)My friend, who's a writer, and I have talked about joining forces... Yup. That's my dream assignment. Oh! and maybe an Ethiopian wedding thrown in there...awesome!
    July 1, 2009
  269. erica - kinda random, but my dream job would be shooting angelina and brad's wedding. How cool would that be?!?
    July 1, 2009
  270. Tonya Riggs - My dream assignment would be to photograph the Obama children in the White House Garden. I would love to capture them barefoot and carefree!
    July 1, 2009
  271. Carrie Roseman - My dream assignment, in a nutshell, would be Africa. Any country on that amazing continent would serve to educate my soul and feed my hungry eyes...there are so many stories to tell there, and I'm ready to be the one who captures them.
    July 1, 2009
  272. Jacquelyn Leong - What beautiful photo albums. My dream photo assignment would be to travel to malaysia for the international lion dance competition to capture all the exciting action.
    July 1, 2009
  273. christina - When will the winner be announced?!
    July 1, 2009
  274. Darrell Brock - I do not currently use Cypress, but I have considerng them for awhile. I just shot a beautiful outdoor wedding on the water that would be perfect for this album. My dream photo assignment would have me photographing my late grandfather. He was like my dad since my parents were divorced when I was young. I wasn't a photographer when he was alive and how I miss not having any quality images of him. How I would give anything for him to be here and to spend the day with him documenting his life. A more realistic dream would have me documenting a military family's life when the husband (or wife) gets deployed. This would take place over a few sessions and start with them as a family, show the deployment and saying goodbye, include kids birthdays and holidays that were missed while deployed, and end with them being reunited. I feel this could be a very compelling story over an 8 month to 1 year span.
    July 1, 2009
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