On October 1st 2011 these three ladies spent some time together in Donna Dolphy Yorkville hair salon.  In the picture below, a moment in the sun, you see Marie Jo Thompson beside Donna Dolphy and that's 23yr old Danielle Thompson on the right hand side. She is the winning photographer in the Haircuts and Hair Styles photo contest on Lenzr that ended on Sept 1st 2011.

Haircuts and Hairstyles was a business story told by the people for the people on behalf of Donna's Yorkville salon.

Danielle was rewarded with a flat iron and a hair dryer. Both are expensive salon quality implements.  This is the happy ending. Look at Danielle's hair before and after (top and bottom) it was styled by Donna, that's another part of the story.

The Art of Capturing Details in Nature in Landscape Photography

Business wants to appear green and mother nature needs to be visible all around industry to sanitize its unwholesome  appearance.

Landscaping and Lawn Care photo contest on Lenzr challenges landscape photographers. Partipants could win $250 worth of battery operated power tools courtesy of an eco friendly property maintenance company that uses solar powered trailers to recharge battery operated equipment.

What is Brand Personality?

Later in October, Lenzr was honoured further when Richard Carmichael wrote about the current contests and Business Storytelling in his Just Be Frank blog. He penned a dissertation about brand personality and the high quality business storytelling of Nora Camps of Duo.ca and in particular her decision to use a Lenzr photo contest to crowd source images for Canadian Harvest business story. This is how she engineeers an orchestra of particpation to help businesses prosper online in an age of earned media. Richard writes, "Brand personality is the personification of your organization or product. Virgin Group, which includes Virgin Records, Virgin Airways and Virgin Mobile, is a great example of a brand with personality."

CANADIAN HARVEST photo contest on Lenzr for business storytelling

Nora Camps runs DUO Strategy and Design Inc, a brand personality and business storytelling consulting agency in Toronto. She is sponsoring the challenge to evidence Lenzr's ability to collect and display themed pictures opn a aseparate page of her website. Duo Strategy and Design is also making $400 CAN photo licensing agreementavailable to the perfect image that Nora can use in further marketing endeavours related to the Canadian Harvest photo contest.