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.

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 - since my schedule is filling up so quick and I don’t know I will get everyone in for those great fall colors I am doing Wacky Wednesdays. You and a friend get to split your session fee and you each get your own mini session! Each friends fee of $75 will be for up to 2 children. If you or your friend have more than 2 children, there will be a $25 charge per child. You will each have 30 minutes of outdoor onlocation photography time and you will each receive one complimentary 8×10 too. Doesn’t get much better than this folks - its like creating your own mini sessions!

I will be able to book up to 4 families (2 shared sessions) each Wednesday starting at 10:00am. Give me a call at 504-7635 or email samara@shportraits.com to book your session today!

Please keep in mind that all Wacky Wednesday sessions will be outdoors - so if you have a child that is only a few weeks old this is not the session for you. But do call me anyway - I love those little ones!

September 26th is this years date for holiday mini sessions! For more details please click on the Holiday Mini Sessions link under the information tab here on the blog above!

Album Sessions - $250 Session Fee for up to 3 children, 5×5 Leather Album with 10 images from the session and 1 5×7 200dpi file of your choice with limited release. I will continue to offer this with limited availability for the remainder of the year. Only 3 album sessions will be booked for each month - and they are booking QUICKLY!