I’m very happy to report that this mama and her twin girls, whom I photographed for their first Birthday, second Birthday, third Birthday, fourth Birthday, and fifth Birthday, are getting their sixth Birthday session and CD for free!  Thank you to everyone who voted for them and thank you to their mom for all these years of support!

The picture with the second highest number of votes belongs to this family, the winners of a 50% discount on a 2012 full session and collection, or 50% discount on a 2012 mini session!!!

Third place goes to these three sweet sisters.  I would love to see their family again this year and their prize is 50% off of a 2012 mini session!

I started this post two weeks (or longer) ago, and was considering putting a couple more winners, but if I wait until I come up with those, who knows how long we’ll be waiting.  So these are our three winners, and stay tuned for some random giveaways and specials on my Facebook page over the next few months!!!

Thank you to all my contestants and voters for your awesome participation!!!

It’s been a year of special memories – capturing those of other families and creating my own with my family. I’m super excited for what 2012 has to bring!

As usual, we’ll have a few winners and the prizes are to be determined! Please vote for your favorite picture by leaving a comment. The picture with the most comments will win. Please also click the Like button below to share this contest on your Facebook page for additional entries!! Thank you thank you!!!

1. Throwing Kisses

2. Cutie

3. Family of Four

4. Happy Twins

5. Family on the Swings

6. Hug

7. Three Girls

8. So in Love

9. Light

10. Tickles

11. Cousins

12. Valentina

13. Belly

14. Babies

15. Baby Hands

I love looking back at my favorites from previous years.  Some of those photos continue to be my all-time favorites.  If you’d like to take a look back…

2010

2009

2008

This year’s contest will be open until January 8th at 9pm.

It’s not too late to have some nice fall pictures of your family taken this year! Let me know if you’d like me to squeeze you in during the next two weekends. After that I may be finished for the year (except for newborns), and then I am planning to take January and February off for maternity leave. Yay…it’s getting close to new baby time!  

Thank you to everyone who voted, shared the link with your friends, posted on Facebook, suggested that your Facebook friends like Maegan Dougherty Photography.  It’s so fun to see people rooting for and supporting their friends and family in the contest.  I also LOVE getting votes from people who don’t know any of the entrants.  Lots of good times!

The photograph with the most votes, and the winner of a FREE 2011 SPRING MINI SESSION (INCLUDING CD) is………………..

(posting additional photos of Xander here because he is so cute and I want to add some suspense while people scroll down looking for the winner)

Sienna as a puppy!!!!! I’m pretty sure Sienna’s parents will be happy with their prize and I look forward to seeing their family again right around Sienna’s little brother’s first Birthday!

Our first runner up, and a favorite of people who I know don’t know any of the entrants, which I think is a pretty special distinction, is Moments, featuring newborn Luca and his mom – one of my mst memorable photography moments of the year.  Congratulations to Luca’s parents, who will receive a $240 credit for a la carte products from their 2010 or (I hope they have one) 2011 session!  I ordered a 20×24 of one of their family pictures as a sample and I LOVE it!  With this credit they can get a 16×20 and a 20×24 to put together on a wall, or a 16×20 canvas for a smaller wall!

Congratulations also to our two random winners during the contest: Jenn (a 25 pack of photo greeting cards) and Tim (three mini albums from his session) and to the additional following winners:

Elizabeth Sethi, who is my newest Facebook fan, wins a super cute camera necklace (I’m going to pick one of these) from Etsy.

Danielle Kirsch, who wrote “#15 I love how you have all the generations together. Great shot!!!” wins a $25 Whole Foods gift card!

Congratulations to our winners, and thank you all!!!  

Back to bed…

The first random prize winner of our contest is the person who wrote comment #21!

I haven’t counted the votes, but I think #11 (Moments) might be in the lead.  Every time I look at that picture, I get that feeling I did when I took it.  Click here for my blog post from that session!

This picture was our winner in 2008!

The photographs:

If you don’t see your family among these, it’s not because I don’t adore you or didn’t love the pictures from our session.  I have so many more favorites, but  I decided to narrow it down to 15, so I couldn’t include them all.    Each of these photos just has something about it that makes me want to look at it again and again, and makes me feel happy!

1. Sienna as a puppy

2. Kissable

3. Celebrity Sighting

4. I could have photographed them all day

5. Three

6. Little girl’s best friend

7. Beautiful boy

8. Mommy makes me laugh

9.  There’s nothing better

10. New

11. Moments

12. Cousins

13. Ava ‘s Family

14. Luke

15. All of us

How to Vote:

Leave a comment on this blog post letting me know which picture is your favorite.  All votes received by December 15th at 1opm will be counted.

For Extra Votes:

1. Mention this contest on any social networking site (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) / blog / message board.  Leave a comment on this post to let me know, and include the number of the picture your additional vote is for.

2. Suggest that your friends “like” Maegan Dougherty Photography on Facebook.  You can do this by going to my page and clicking “suggst to friends” at the top left.  Then click on the friends you think might be interested.  When you see that friend of yours is a new “liker, ” comment here to let me know, and include another vote!

The prizes:

I don’t know!  The truth is, I want to customize the prizes for the winners.  There’s nothing wrong with that, is there?!?!  It means that if you win, not only will the prize be great, it will be something especially for you!  Could be mini albums, photo greeting cards, magnets, prints, gift cards, a free mini session.  A grand prize will go to the owner of the picture with the most votes.  Other prizes will go to the runners up, and to randomly selected voters during the contest!  So leave a comment and then do some things so you can leave more comments…it could really pay off!

Looking forward:

As I look forward to my next year in photography, I have been thinking about how I would like my work to progress and what I want to do more of.  I want my images to be creative, I want to capture real life, simplicity, raw emotion.  I want the families I photograph to be completely at ease with me, comfortable in their homes.  I want them to snuggle in bed and roll in the leaves and not worry about anything but having fun!

I’m excited about the possibilites!  Are you???

This time I am looking for several models between the ages of 6 months (must be able to sit unassisted) and 2 years.  The model candidates (and Mom or Dad) must be available for a shoot on Saturday, August 14th in Bergen County, NJ (time and exact location to be determined).  Models whose pictures are chosen for the catalog will receive two Under the Nile outfits.  The parents of all the models who are chosen for a photo shoot will receive high resolution digital files of three pictures from the shoot (chosen by me), for printing and sharing on Facebook!   Plus it’s really fun.

If you would like your little one to be considered, please send me an e-mail (maegandougherty@gmail.com) with a picture of your child and his or her name, age and clothing size.  If you have a baby, please let me know if he or she is standing and walking yet.

Feel free to share this with any of your friends who might be interested!

Here is our cutie cover girl from last season’s catalog!

Kalispell, MT

30 minute custom family portrait session in your home

20 individually edited images

Featured blog post

Online gallery for viewing, sharing, and print ordering

CD of 20 high resolution images, plus specially sized files ready for Facebook

1 11×14 print (single image or collage) for your wall

$250

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