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First I want to say thank you to everyone for voting. I continually amazed at “the following” this blog has…over 5000 hits a month! And most are regular visitors! Even though I’m not sure why everyone reads my blog, I’m totally thankful and blessed by your support. I hope you are encouraged as a photographer, mother, business professional or whatever stage of life your in. I would love to hear from you and if you’d like me to write on any particular topics…now that the Spring Photo Contest is done the sky is the limit for what’s next on the blogging docket.

The winner of the Spring Photo Contest is Jodi Hillen!!!! YEAH!

I loved this picture! Thank you for sending it in…now I just need to get you your Itunes gift card!

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One more day of voting for your favorite image (or your friends photo) and then the contest winner will be announced! So…get on the phone, email your whole address list or advertise it on Facebook but get people to vote for you or your favorite picture so that it wins!

I love having contests! Thanks for all your feed back on the changes to the photos. Wedding season is just around the corner and I can’t wait to start posting slideshows of new photo shoots every week! Photography is ever changing and challenging…I can’t wait to grow again as a photographer this year!

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Here’s the images that received the most votes in the last round! You have until midnight of Thursday, May 15th, to vote for your favorite! The winner will receive a $20 itunes gift card from NoemiPhotography!

Choose Wisely…remember the theme is spring! I’m going to use this photo contest to teach a little “photography” techniques…remember it’s just my opinion and it’s not that I feel like the pictures were bad…I’m just giving a different way to look at them.

Photo A - I really like this picture but I would’ve liked to crop out the distractions in the background. I tried but it really changed the feel of the picture. I punched the colors a little and pretty much left it as is.

Photo B - I enhanced the colors…because they are so beautiful. We’ve talked about the rule of thirds before on the blog but, for those who are new, it basically means the photo is divided into thirds both horizontally and vertically. The corners where those divides meet are usually where your eye is drawn. I cropped the flowers out a little and moved the monument to be where the thirds meet. See if you think it makes a better picture.

Photo C - I cropped this photo too! Wanting to focus on the subject and not the forest. I also wanted to show you another example using the rule of thirds.

Photo D - I added more black to this photo so we can see more detail in the birds skin. I loved how raw and fragile this photo is and I wanted to enhance that feel!

Photo E - I cropped out the people who were not featured because they can be a distraction and I enhanced the color in the image. Always ask yourself “what am I taking a picture of?” and capture that to the fullest!

Alright those are your new choices! Vote for your favorite!

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Ok…the contest is over…(Not counting the people who continued to vote after Sunday night) so here’s the winners so far!

Here they are; the top 5:

L,D, Q, S, C

I’m going to work on the images and re-release them tomorrow.

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Wow! After I made the last call for photos they started coming in by the floods! SO FUN! Okay, so I gave you tons of time and we got some real beauties…now is the time for voting…get your friends and family involved! Remember there’s a $25 gift card to ITUNES as the Grand Prize! Voting will start as soon as this post is up and end Sunday night. That gives you plenty of time to email your entire address book and tell them to vote for you!

Photo A - Jill Whitehead

Photo B - Melissa Kruger

Photo C - Melissa Quebedeaux

Photo D - Calissa Kneip

Photo E -Kristi Fonseca

Photo F - Jenny Pena

Photo G - Shelly Jerrett

Photo H - Jill Derner

Photo I -Theresa Noble

Photo J - Kristin Pelham

Photo K - Becky Van Hofwegen

Photo L - Jodi Hillen

Photo M - Katie Copeland

Photo N - Shanda Collette

Photo O - Shannon Olgin

Photo P - Shannon Olgin’s 8 year old daughter Sara’s entry Nothing like using my blog to encourage the next generation of photographers!

Photo Q - Julie Bock

Photo R - Jenny Kunze

Photo S - Varsha Tummala

Photo T - Teri Sommer

Photo U - Jeremy Greenhouse

Photo V - Stephanie Funck

Photo W - Heather Cayless

Photo X - Karen

Photo Y - April Sauers

Photo Z - Sue Shetler

THIS IS THE BIGGEST PHOTO CONTEST TO DATE! I’ve run out of Letters…YIKES! Pay Attention when voting cause I’m going to use AA, BB, CC from this point on…

Photo AA - Rebecca

Photo BB - Kacy Johanson

Photo CC - Pam Booth

WOW-Eeeee! Can you believe it? I can’t. I think next time I’ll have to narrow it down somehow. Getting these pictures together for the blog took me an hour and half! That’s a lot of time for a new mom! BUT, IT IS SOOOO WORTH IT! Aren’t they pretty?

So, your votes will narrow it down to the top 5 images and then I’ll retouch them and we’ll pick our favorite again. Remember be sure and write what you like best about the photo and why it’s your favorite.

I’m giddy…let the voting begin!

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