Just a fun little bit of news to share this morning. I entered a couple of my favorite images into the photography contest at the Erie County Fair this year. My portrait entry received “best of” and was in consideration for the tri-color ribbon - yay! My pictorial entry received an honorable mention. It made trekking down to the fair 8.5 months pregnant with 4 kids and a husband in tow totally worth it.

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Here are a couple of iphone pictures from last night at the fair. . . .

“Best Of” - Portrait

Honorable Mention - Pictorial

Its Fan Friday again! Up for grabs this week is a complimentary 12×12 4 Image Collage with the purchase of your session fee ($160 value). All you have to do is leave a comment below and say why you would love a session with SH Portraits, would love a collage, or have loved working with SH Portraits in the past. Anything really! I’ll use a random number generator to determine the winner. And. . .because I totally forgot to post a Fan Friday last weekend - I will leave this one open to comments through 11:59pm TOMORROW and announce the winner on Sunday. So be sure to share the contest with your friends and family too!

I have some fun exciting news and things in the works that I will be able to share in the next few weeks too. I am just bursting to tell everyone but have to wait - so be sure to keep an eye out.

For now - here is an example of what the collage would look like and it is mounted on my standard styrene to protect it. Just frame and hang!

So so great to see this famly again, we first met up last summer and this summer I had the honor of documenting their new addition. She is just so pretty and petite - and her big brother quite obviously adores her! Thanks again guys - and for the super yummy treat on my drive home!

I was lucky enough to spend my weekend photographing newborns this week - and this little beauty started it off great. She was sleepy, curly and oh my the hair. Love her!

Its Fan Friday! Today i will be giving away a gift certificate woth $50 that you can use or give to a friend! Just comment on this blog post saying why you would like a session with SH Portraits. Yup - it really is THAT easy! Tomorrow I will use a random number generator to choose the winner.

Of course I have to include a picture with the blog post so I am posting one of my kiddos, from two years ago (well almost). Hard to believe he was this tiny - I love his wrinkly little feet here.

This litlte man is to die for! The hair, the cheeks, lips - oh my everything about him is just perfect. Great session, great time with Mom, Grandma and his Auntie too. Can’t wait for you guys to see your entire gallery soon!

It took a bit of time to get this sweet face calm and sleepy but when we did SUCCESS! Images look great and I just love her cheeks! Congrats Mom & Dad on another gorgeous little one!

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Time to share again (or get caught up on sharing I should say) with two sweet newborns!

First up - this gorgeous little girl. She had the best expressions for such a little one it was absolutely hysterical. I loved her!

And now up - this amazingly cute little man - could you just eat up every little inch of his little goodness?! I was totally in love with his lips!