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August is National Breastfeeding Month – Blog Contest

Stacie — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:00:19 +0000

August is National Breastfeeding Month (and August 1-7 is World Breastfeeding Week for a double helping) and because I do a lot of breastfeeding portraits, both as portraits and in my personal, more arty, work, and because I haven’t had a blog contest in a while it’s time to have one.

I will use the wonders of random.org, which generates a number random enough to suit (we’ll not get into the vagaries of getting a truly random number) to give away one of my breastfeeding board books including shipping as long as I’m only shipping within the continental United States. Live far away and win? You can either have me ship it to a friend in the continental US or I’ll find out the actual shipping cost for you. There will also be some runners up, who will get breastfeeding magnets.

How do you enter, you ask? So easy.

* 1 entry per comment on this post (1 comment per person, please)
* 1 entry per link back, not counting tweets (as many link backs as you’d like, as long as they come from different URLs)
* 1 entry per tweet with a link

I’ll close comments on August 31st, post the big winner, and email all the winners to get their addresses. Voila. I said it was easy.

(I’ve realized that Facebook doesn’t generate a “there was a link from here” comment for whatever twisted reason of Internet logic so if you do post on Facebook please leave a separate comment telling me that. Blogs, websites, these things all generate a “this post was mentioned on….” but not Facebook. Why? Why?)

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Facebook Fan Contest

Stacie — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:17:39 +0000

Wheeee! I hit 1,000 fans (or “likers” as Facebook now terms it) on Facebook and, as promised, am doing a giveaway to celebrate that arbitrary yet nevertheless pleasing number. What do you win? A set of 24 folded cards with a picture (my choice) from either your session* or, if you haven’t had one or simply prefer, one of the pictures below. How do you enter? Just leave a comment on this post if you are a fan on Facebook. Please be fair and only comment once, otherwise you’ll make my life difficult and I will have to cry. If you must have a second entry you can tweet about the post and the tweet will show up as a comment number.

I’ll use a random number generator on August 10th to select a winner and email that person to ask what image I should put on the cards.

(Click on each thumbnail to see the full picture)

* Session must occur before 12/31/2010
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And we have a winner! Congratulations Maria!

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Fresh Faces Contest Winner!

Stacie — Thu, 13 May 2010 14:19:07 +0000

With the most unique comments in the month of April, Sweet Little Girl won the voting contest. Please pick one of these for your mounted 11X14 wall portrait.

Our VERY CLOSE runner up, who had more total votes but fewer in the month of April, was Itty Bitty Sleepy Girl. I’ll send you a surprise runner up prize (I mean, you were SO close) so watch the mail for a package later this month!

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April Contest – Fresh Faces Abound!

Stacie — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 01:37:07 +0000

As you may know I did a slew of Fresh Faces shoots in February and March. It is, after all, the slow season here in the frozen northeast and what better time to add some new babies to the portfolio and try out a few new poses? And the mothers were all such good sports, bringing me their babies to photography when they weren’t even two weeks old yet! Each model got a free session and an 8X10 of their choice (or their mother’s choice – so few newborns really have an opinion on their portraits yet.) BUT, they were all so adorable and delightful I wanted to share them all with you and thought – hey! I haven’t had a contest in a while.

So.. here’s the rules:

Vote for one baby via the comments on the original blog post (not Facebook – trying to keep track of two voting areas would make me battier than I already am).
One vote per person, please.
All votes/comments have to be placed in April to count.
Voting closes on April 30th, 2010

The baby with the most votes wins a mounted 11X14 of the image in his or her blog post; if there are multiple images in the post the parents can choose which one they want. AND one random commenter on the winning baby will get a $25 gift certificate. Go forth and solicit votes from parenting boards, Facebook, family, friends, coworkers and total strangers on the streets.

Though I hope people will play fair I am not going to try to figure out if the same person has used 10 different emails and 10 different names to stuff the ballot box. You’re on the Honor System.

Here’s a quick listing of all the babes:

Baby in a Hat
Baby in a Sling
A Boy and His Mother
Sleepy Girl
Wide Awake Boy
Itty Bitty Girl
Sweet Little One
9 Baby Faces
Sleeping Girl
Baby C

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And We Have a Winner!

Stacie — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:31:10 +0000

The “You be the Photographer” contest has come to a close. I’d like to thank everyone who submitted a picture ~ y’all have some cute kids!

The winner, by a considerable margin, was Connor! Drop me an email to set up his free session.

There are a couple of honorable mentions: Delainey and Meredith, both of whom I’ll send a $100 gift certificate.

And as a big thank you towards everyone who played – send me an email by December 31, 2009 with your current mailing address and I’ll send you a $25 gift certificate.

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February Contest Winner Sneak Peek

Stacie — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:26:55 +0000

You may remember this sweetie, who won the February blog contest and got a 45-minute free session. She was being quite adorable this afternoon playing with violets. I think you’ll like the results of the session – I’ll have your full gallery up later this week.

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