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Our First Contest | Best Of | Weddings | 2011

We have been thinking of this for a while.

We have been watching as all of our friends, photographers and photographer friends have been re-capping their year.  Now it is our turn.

We also wanted to take this re-cap to the next level and involve you, our blog readers, our facebook friends and fans, and new fans and friends who are yet to be discovered.  So we are running a contest.  This is the first contest that we have ever run.  Like ever!  We enter a lot of contests but never run them!  Now it’s our turn.

We are asking you – What was your favorite wedding of 2011?

There are going to be a couple prizes too!  A prize for our wonderful winning wedding of 2011, a prize for a lucky random voter, and a prize for us!

Here are the rules:

1. There will be a gallery posted on our Facebook Page, you can visit the gallery and LIKE one photo of your favorite wedding.  It doesn’t have to be your favorite photo of the couple because you are voting for the wedding.  Your vote won’t count unless you are a fan of our Facebook Page, so become a fan.  We would also encourage you to share the link to the gallery on your facebook page!  So you get one vote for your like.

2. You get one vote for your comment on your favorite wedding of the year – this is your comment on the picture of the couple of the favorite wedding you are voting on.  Again – you must be a fan for your vote to count!

3. Since we don’t want this to be a Facebook only contest, we are giving the non-facebookers out there a way to vote too – by your comment on the ORIGINAL wedding blog of the couple (you will find the links below).  Have no fear, we have tallied up the comments that are already on the blog, and those don’t count – so comment again!!

So everyone can have up to three votes in this contest!

What do you win you ask?

The winning couple will get an 8×10 framed image from their wedding of their choice.  This will be framed and matted as an 11×14 size!  These are BEAUTIFUL!!! We are liking them even more than the canvas prints that we have been buying for ourselves.

The random voter will win a $25 gift card to Amazon – cause Seriously, you can find anything on Amazon

And we win, many many many more facebook friends – so like us, and tell your friends to like us!  Help your favorite couple win!!

 

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Allen & Jessica

Follow the below links to refresh yourself on this great wedding – be sure to leave your comment on one of these links!!

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Matthew & Tara

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Chris & Jennifer

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Josh & Heather

Follow the below links to refresh yourself on this great wedding – be sure to leave your comment on one of these links!!

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Dane & Katie

Follow the below links to refresh yourself on this great wedding – be sure to leave your comment on one of these links!!

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Brad & Kristina

Follow the below links to refresh yourself on this great wedding – be sure to leave your comment on one of these links!!

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Jarred & Samantha

Follow the below links to refresh yourself on this great wedding – be sure to leave your comment on one of these links!!

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3 Faves!!!!

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Jason & Alicia

Follow the below links to refresh yourself on this great wedding – be sure to leave your comment on one of these links!!

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4 Faves!!!!

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Josh & Candice

Follow the below links to refresh yourself on this great wedding – be sure to leave your comment on one of these links!!

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Adam & Corinne

Follow the below links to refresh yourself on this great wedding – be sure to leave your comment on one of these links!!

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2 Faves!!!!

 

So that’s it folks.  Those are our 10 couples of 2011

You know the ways to vote.  You get three votes – Liking the picture on facebook, commenting on the picture on Facebook, and commenting on the Blog.

Make those votes count.

Remember too – your votes on Facebook only count if you are a fan.  Be a Fan!

This contest will run until January 31st – which just happens to be the day Brandi & I got engaged!

   

Looking Back | A Year in Review

You just saw our very last photo shoot of 2011 a few days ago.

Now that we have wrapped up an Awesome year, we are quickly preparing for the new year.

We are filling up fast for weddings in the summer.  Booking engagement sessions on free weekends in the Spring.  All indications point to a really fantastic year ahead.

With that being said, we also can’t forget where we came from, and all the great weddings that we had in 2011.

I have been preparing for this image below all year.  The 9 ties of 2o11, from our 9 handsome grooms.

If you know me well, you know I have a thing for ties.  The brighter the better for me, and I have a fondness for Striped, Polka dots and even a little argyle (go figure right?).  So of course I had to make sure I photographed the ties of our grooms.

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Which one is your favorite?

Start thinking – leave us a comment and let us know which one is your favorite.

   
Alison - January 9, 2012 - 8:39 am

I love the camo, but I have to give the last classic red my fav!

Family | The Bishops | Surry, Maine

Another wonderful family wanted some pictures for the Holidays!!

This family just happens to be my family too!!  Even better!

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Gotta love Jack rockin’ it on the tree swing!

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Emma was promised she could go visit the horse.  Best sentence ever!  That got a smile!

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It’s always great to get together with family right before the holidays!!

   

Family | Kevin, Jacquelyn & Olivia | Millinocket, Maine

I was thinking this was going to be a short post.  I mean the photo session wasn’t even 30 minutes.

But there are just so many great pictures – especially of Olivia and her cute little face!! I couldn’t resist.

I grew up with Jacquelyn.  She is the sister I never had.  So of course I couldn’t wait for another opportunity to photograph her beautiful daughter – who I of course consider my niece.

We start off slow.  Olivia wasn’t quite sure what was going on.

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Still not really sure.

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Yup – not quite warmed up to me yet.

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Distracted…

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We may be onto something here…

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Wait… not sure again.

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This may have been the point where I started throwing snowballs – not at her… yet.

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Woosh!!!!!!!

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Ok, and now we are throwing them BACK at ME!

She hit me quite a few times too!

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LOVE

THAT

FACE!!!!!

OOOOOO I could just eat it up!!! But I won’t, cause that would be weird.

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Alison - January 4, 2012 - 8:34 am

Oh my goodness she is so cute! Love the curls! Love the shot of dad and his baby girl!!

Engagement | Brian & Lindsey | Fort Knox, Maine

It was a COLD day in early November when we met this 2012 couple.

Yes, I know it looks sunny – but TRUST me.  It was  COLD day in early November here in Maine.

Darn cold.

But, Brian & Lindsey braved the cold – with no coats – for some truly amazing engagement shots!!

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This may be our new must have shot when we photograph at Fort Knox again.  Love it!

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Ok, I gotta say I love the rim light in this shot too.

Really, you may hear me say that I love a lot of images from this session:-D.  What can I say, I know what I like:)

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AND this secret little spot is someplace we have never been before – but you bet your bottom dollar we will be going back.

Such a cool little place.  If you know the fort well, you probably know where it is, if you don’t know the fort well…. well I am not going to tell you.  You need to find it yourself.  Trust me, It makes it that much better when you find it yourself.

Oh yah, and Stella came with us too!

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Brandi was inside the doorway with Brian & Lindsey, and I was outside with Stella getting this shot.

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So we broke the rules… I think.

Now I can’t remember if the sign said no “standing” on the cannon, or do not climb on the cannon.  Let’s go with no “standing”.;)

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Brandi… ANOTHER killer shot!  LOVE IT!

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Yes, the HOT SHOT FURNACE.  I couldn’t resist.

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After the Fort, we went to the Beach.  Another favorite spot of ours.

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Snugglin’ the dog for warmth!

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Brandi, Brandi, Brandi – rock on (get it? Rock – engagement ring – rock – hahahahahahaha)

Love this shot!!

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You will be seeing this couple again

2012 is going to be a good year!!

   
Alison - January 3, 2012 - 11:38 am

Ok, so if I come visit will you show me that secret place? That is awesome!!!!! These two are so cute together and they did awesome not looking too cold!

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