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.

Early November sessions are currently booking and October is extremely limited with just one weekend session left - please book now!

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!

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.

Oh man I am soooooo behind on blog posts it is terrible - but I have to share these faces for the 2010 Summer Faces Contest! Each of these adorable faces came out for my mini sessions and are now entered to win a set of 4×6 images from their session! Just one vote per day per cookie/ip address (gotta keep it fair folks!) Voting ends at 11:59pm on Friday, June 26th. Share on Facebook, Twitter, email - anything - but get voting! You can click on each thumbnail to see a larger image too.

I will be on Long Island for a very limited engagement June 4th-7th please let me know asap if you would like a session! Details below!

Well I am finally home from vacation so I have a lot of blog updating to do! A couple of sessions and I’ll share some of our vacation too. First up though we have these three ADORABLE boys from a session on Long Island. I have known their Mom since we were little and it was wonderful to catch up with her after ober ten years. You have a beautiful family Danielle and I am so glad you shared them with me!

I plan on being on Long Island again in the spring and also next summer for sessions. If you are interested, please email me directly at samara@shportraits.com!