Danielle! With a whopping 82 votes!!!  Congratulations, Danielle!  Your favorite photo has won you a portrait session and a $50 credit towards your final prints!

Coming in second is Kaye with 23 votes!

And tied for third are Sharlie and Selena both with 10 votes!  Congratulations everyone!!!

Kaye, Sharlie, and Selena will each receive a mini session.

Thanks so much to everyone for submitting photos and voting!  Stay tuned, there will be many more contests to come, that was too much fun!  Happy holiday weekend!

It’s fun to host a contest until it’s time to choose finalists!  Thank you so much to everyone that entered, it was so fun to see everyone’s personal photos and hear the stories behind them.  I did narrow it down to the top five photos.  Now it’s up to you to vote to see who wins!  The winner will receive a  free session with me along with a $50 print credit! Two runners up will receive free mini sessions.  So email Grandma and Aunt Suzie and tell them to vote for you!  Here are the top five entries and the stories behind each photo.  I will be taking votes until Thursday of this week!

#1
“This was just too-sweet they had played so hard in the water and Pierce just did not want to get out so they just laid down and rested in the water together.”

Photo taken and submitted by Danielle Nowell

#2

“The person under the knife was me! That picture was taken during Esther’s birth.”

Photo submitted by Sharlie Chapman

#3

“We were at the park, and I just happened to catch them being sweet.”

Photo taken and submitted by Selena Lewis

#4

“It is my favorite because it reminds me of people in remote villages living everyday with things we don’t have.  Plus this lady is beautiful!”

Photo taken and submitted by Maria Purviance

#5

“My daughter took this one with her cheap cell phone!  Betsy had gone to her closet and hit the door then pointed to her tutu!  One-year-old!  Pretty funny!”

Photo submitted by Kaye Haun

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Yaaay!  I love contests and drawings!  I recently won one of each myself and it was so exciting that I decided it would be fun to host some contests of my own.  The grand prize for this contest is a free session with me along with a $50 print credit! Two runners up will receive free mini sessions.  For what might you use these free session you ask?  I’m glad you did, let me give a few suggestions -

1.  Engagement Session – Getting married soon?  Would you like a free engagement session?  I thought so.

2. Bridal Session – Ditto.

3. Boudoir Session – Looking for a super steamy unexpected gift to give your husband for his birthday/your anniversary/Christmas.

4. Family photos – Early fall is the peeeeerfect time to take a family photo to use in your Christmas card, and with the $50 print credit, you’ll barely have to spend any money to have a Christmas card picture to make all your friends jealous (not that I endorse doing something to promote jealousy…)

5.  Anytime session – Just want some fabulous photos of yourself or you and your hubby or wife together?  This is the perfect opportunity!

Here’s the contest!  Send me your favorite personal/family photo and tell me briefly why it’s your favorite.

It can be from today, last month, or 50 years ago, it doesn’t have to be a photo that you took just one from your circle of family or friends (not a professional photo).  It can be of you, your kids, your mom, your dog.  It must be in digital format, please don’t mail me anything =)  You may enter as many photos as you like!  Send your submissions to beth@bethdreyer.com.  All entries must be submitted by next Friday, May 15th.  I’ll pick my favorites and post them and then let everyone vote for the top three!  So stay tuned to the blog and get ready to have your friends family and acquantances vote for you!

Here are two of my favorites.

This was taken by Jake after Shep was born.  I loooove this photo!

This is of my grandparents on their wedding day.  Their 60th anniversary was been last December.  Beautiful!

I can’t wait to see your photos!