Vegas, Baby!

I will be on my way to Vegas tomorrow for WPPI.  I am so excited to learn new things that I will be able to incorporate into my business.  I will be gone from Sunday, February 15th-Thursday, February 19th.  If you need to contact me please call (209) 406-4280 and leave a message and I will return it as soon as possible.

Beautiful Blue Eyes...

Here is little A.  He was such a joy to photograph.  He was so easy to get to smile and was a little trooper for all the pictures we took.  

Blossoms Mini-shoot

We have another mini-shoot coming up here at Misty's Portraits.  I am planning on doing a mini-shoot in Manteca at my in-laws orchard.  This time of the year is beautiful out there because of the blossoms.  They are perfect around the first of March so I thought I'd take advantage of it and do a blossoms/Easter mini-shoot.  You could even use these pictures for your Mother or Mother-in-Law for Mother's Day.  So if you are interested in booking a session give me a call as soon as possible because I only have 4 slots available.  If you are able to do it during the week let me know and I will plan another day to have a mini-session during the week.

The day of the mini-shoot is Saturday, March 7th.  The time slots are:

8:30-9

9:15-9:45

10-10:30

10:45-11:15

The mini-session fee is: $50.  If you order your pictures within 7 days of your online proofing you will receive a free 5x7.

If you have any questions feel free to contact me at mistysportraits@sbcglobal.net or call me at (209) 406-4280

Contest Winners...

I know that all of you have been waiting patiently for the winners of our current contest.  There were a few mix-ups with the voting so I had to give it a little time.  Well, you don't have to wait any longer because the results are in:

The winners of The Best of 2008 contest are:

1st Place is image #3.  Miss H wins a trio frame with 3 - 5x5 pictures in it. 

2nd place is #28.  Miss N wins a $30 gift certificate for Misty's Portraits.

3rd place is #7.  Miss H wins a $30 gift certificate towards Misty's Portraits.

Thanks to everyone who participated in this contest.  When I initially thought about this contest I told my husband that I would be so happy if 50 people voted.  Well, the number of people who voted was 5 times my expectations.  I just can't believe that I got 250 votes for my image contest!  I'm truly WOWED!!!  I hope that you enjoyed the contest and I will be doing it again next year so if you'd like to be a part of the best image contest you will need to book a photo shoot sometime in 2009.

Now, let me just tell you that I didn't have an easy way to pick the winner of the voting contest.  So, I wrote every name, yes a little over 200 names and then put them in a hat and picked out a name.  It was very time consuming but I wanted it to be fair.  Honestly, I wasn't expecting that many votes. (not that I'm complaining.)  Next time I'll use a company on the internet to pick them.  =)  Well, the winner that I picked is: 

Alesha Pichler

A free sitting fee

and 

A free Trio Frame with 3 - 5x5 pictures

Congrats Alesha Picheler!!!  =)

Please check the blog often for more contests.  I enjoy doing the contests and will be doing more in the future.  

The best of 2008 contest has begun...

I have decided to do another contest.  It is an image contest of the best image from 2008.  I have went through and selected 30 of my favorite images from 2008.  Please vote for your favorite image.  Please only vote one time.  Voting is on the right of this post.  Now, in order to keep it fair you have to send me an email at: mistysportraits@sbcglobal.net with the number you voted for and your information so that I can verify all the votes and that someone didn't vote 10 times. Only one vote per email address please.  Feel free to sent this to anyone you think would like to vote and win something.  

Now, what do you win, you ask??  There are two parts to this contest.  First, the grand prize winner of the images will win a framed collage of 3 - 5x5's of a past photo shoot or a future photo shoot.    This is a $179 value.  The second and third place image will receive a $30 gift certificate to Misty's Portraits.  

Now, the second part of the contest is for those of you who vote.  If you place a vote and email me with your information you will be in the running to receive a free photo shoot and a free framed collage of 3 - 5x5's from that photo shoot.  This is a $279 value.  

Voting is open until Wednesday, January 28th @ midnight.  Good luck to everyone!  =)

Best of 2008 images

A step backward..

The holiday season was so busy that I was barely able to keep my head afloat.  I wasn't able to post any pictures from that time so I am going to post them now.  Here are some examples from my Christmas Card Mini-shoot.  It was really hard to just pick one.  Thanks to all the families who allowed me to be a little part of their Christmas.  =)  I enjoyed every single one of these shoots.