… but when over 173,000 people (which, I might mention, is more people than actually live in Eugene, OR) have seen you dressed up like Princess Leia, you can’t help but act a little bit like a star:
Sorry for the lack of updates on the “Send Teal (a.k.a. Princess Leia) to Cambridge fund” and other exciting tidbits, like the fact that our humble photo has traveled to the four corners of this world wide web-o-sphere, but life and schoolwork have to take first priority, even for two newly-minted internet celebrities.
Of course… who are we kidding? Our limelight has passed. The collective interweb has already moved on to watching more YouTube videos and laughing at more LOL Cats. But for our fifteen seconds of fame, it was kind of fun (and scary) to imagine hundreds of people crawling all over my website at the same time.
In any case, the whole thing has been a fun adventure. And hey—y’all are a generous bunch! All together, so far, you have given Teal almost $450! This is, admittedly, not going to cover her tuition any time soon, but it is still remarkable—we really owe you.
This will probably be my last post on this topic for a while, unless something else exciting and unexpected happens. Teal is exploring her educational options for the fall; I’ll post an update sometime in the coming months about her decision.
In the meantime, thank you again for looking at our photo. I’m so glad you all like it.
And now *sigh * back to our regularly scheduled programming. 
May 15th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
She’s not only a princess and a star, she can make a mushrooming trip happen!
Good work, Teal and Erin, with the photo and the fund drive. Sorry I couldn’t whip up TV media enthusiasm. Perhaps those broadcasters need to enter the Internet age. ;o)
May 15th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
Even tho I read digg every day, I somehow missed your picture. (I don’t always read the picture submissions)
It’s really awesome tho, congrats on your 15 minutes of fame. I got a couple photos on flickr of the Mac OS Leopard developer seed, and they got some high views …. until Apple legal sent flickr a letter.
Anywhos… keep up the good work
May 16th, 2007 at 4:00 am
Princess Leia? Ooh
May 18th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Hi Erin. I like you
I found your website in a google search for photography business cards, and the image of your ‘business’ card showed up. I’ve been browsing your site ever since. I can’t believe you’re only a teenager. You’ve totally impressed me, & I’m sure I’ll return to your blog. Oh, and p.s. I like your self-portraits- no need to apologize one bit for them 
And the picture of the red shoes in your header? Awesome 
June 27th, 2007 at 11:49 am
Thanks for this site!
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July 8th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
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October 5th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Hello Erin,
You have nice photos and special talent.
I’ve recently been in USA (I’m from Brazil) and I saw some R2D2 mail box. When I come back, I search for more information to post in my blog and in the CCVP blog and I found your Leia’s photo. Congratulation!!!! It great, wonderful…a Jedi master photo!!