#1 – With the most votes, the 2010 Photo of the year is Olivia! Congratulations – you have won an 11×14 gallery mount of the image posted or of an image of your choice from a session in 2011.

#2 in 2nd place and the winner of a $100 credit to put towards a 2011 session is Sisters!

#3 The random blog commenter winner is Tricia! You have won a mini session for yourself or to gift to a friend! The mini session must take place between February 1st and April 30th, 2011. You will receive a 20 minute session at a location of your choice within the city limits of Spokane and will receive a 5×7 print of each image in your gallery (10-15 images).

Please contact me to claim your prizes/book your sessions! Thank you so much!!!

Jaidean Baker Photography | Spokane Photographer

I’m pleased to introduce my first ever Photo of the Year Contest!  This was so much harder than I anticipated to narrow down the images. I was hoping to put 10 images up, but I couldn’t even get close, so there are a lot!

Thank you to all my 2010 clients! I am so honored that you chose me to photo your family! I am looking forward to 2011!

There will be THREE winners!

(1) The client whose image has the most votes will receive a complimentary 11 x 14 gallery mount of either the image from this contest or an image of their choice from an upcoming 2011 session they have with me.

(2) The 2nd place winner will receive a $100 credit to put towards a session in 2011.

(3) Leave a comment on this blog post (scroll down under the 20 images). A comment will be selected at random and the person who submitted the comment will receive a FREE Mini Session!! The winner may either keep the prize for themselves or gift to a friend. A Mini Session is a 20 minute session at a location of your choice in the Spokane city limits and must take place between February and April 30, 2011. You will receive a 5×7 print of each image in your gallery (between 10-15 images). (Limit of 4 immediate family members and cannot be used for a newborn session).

For winner #3 only one comment per person but you can earn an extra entry by posting about the contest on your Facebook wall (let me know you’ve done so by posting on my Facebook Fan Page and then coming back here and leaving a second comment).

Voting will begin NOW and end on January 27th at 8pm PST.
IP addresses will be monitored – only 1 vote per person
Results will not be visible on the poll and I will announce the winner on January 27th just after 8pm

Scroll down to cast your vote after the 20th image

1. Olivia

2. sweet bear

3. mommy and daddy kisses

4. B Family

5. Glowing

6. V Family

7. Chase

8. Evan

9. Little Cowboy

10. Ariel & Justin

11. Bree

12. Jennifer

13. Mr. Cool

14. P Family

15. Jackson

16. Sisters

17. Harper

18. Smell the Flowers

19. Playhouse

20. Aria

GIVEAWAY!!!

How would you like to WIN a Holiday Mini-Session with me? You’ll get the session, digital files, and holiday cards if you’re the winner!

How do you win?

You have two chances!   First, simply leave a comment below. Second, go to my FACEBOOK FAN PAGE, look for the post that shows the image above (should be at or near the top), click on the picture, tag yourself, then come back here and leave another comment.

The fine print: Contest will run through Sunday, September 5th at 5:00 p.m. One winner will be chosen at random.  For the second entry, your name must be tagged on the photo when the drawing takes place.  Session must take place on a date listed above and is good for mini-session only.  No cash value.

Clients who enjoy taking a more active role in the creation of their families’ memories have the desire to have portrait art that is truly personalized.  These more discerning clients have been known to budget and allot time for a custom photography session. Many clients opt for it to be a once a year special experience, some opt to have custom photography sessions done to record their child’s stages in life.  Having said this, it is clear that custom photography is not in everyone’s budget,  it is something that most families save for to splurge on from time to time to memorialize their children as they really are (not posed and primped in the cookie cutter studio setting).

There is a great deal of time involved in creating high end custom photography sessions for a client.  The luxury of great service, better choices and a supberb end product.  The result of all this are heirloom quality images.  The time invested at the session is only a small portion of time involved in this process.

Custom photography has been likened to purchasing a fine vehicle.  To get to point B from A let’s face it, even a bus ride would suffice.  If you want to luxuriate in a finely appointed vehicle, customizing your own experience by listening to smooth jazz while sitting in a climate controlled setting adjusted purely for your comfort in a body hugging leather interior, perhaps that Lexus you so desire is your cup of tea.  Custom photography is much the same cup of tea.  It is the Lexus of the photography world.  It is where the intangibles make the experience truly wonderful and the images themselves make the investment of money and time truly worthwhile.

Custom photography can be broken down into even more levels.  There are on location, studio, mixed studio/on location, specialty location and destination type photographers.  The beauty of custom photography is in the choices and in the luxury of those options.  The customized service level you are sure to experience will be amazing.  The knowledge that your final images are the result of someone caring about those moments so much that they take extra time ensuring that the artwork you receive is good enough to stand by with their name on it.  That level of quality and commitment  is all but lost in the age of “mass produced,” “mass marketed,” corporate “everyone is a number”.  Custom photography is based on being unique to you.  How great an experience would be,  to be able to sit back and allow a photographer to do this highly custom work for images that you will most likely cherish for a lifetime?

Keep in mind more than anything that the Lexus will never appreciate in value the way your portraits will.  The portrait art you become invested in from your custom photographer will no doubt increase in value and become more priceless as the years pass.

This information (author Marianne Drenthe) and a lot more great information about custom photography can be found at http://www.professionalchildphotographer.com/information/

I’ll stop at that…there are so many more I could share!

If you missed my post sharing a slideshow of a recent birth I photographed, please click here to view it: The Birth of Garrett Reid

This special must be booked by April 30th, 2009. Contact me for additional information.

The Birth of Garrett

Congratulations again, M Family!

If you are pregnant and possibly interested in this service, watch my blog because I will be having a little promotion for birth photography coming soon!

Here is just one picture for now.  I will probably share some more in the next week or so!