I am so pleased to announce that Sarah has won the New Beginnings contest!

Congratulations Sarah, you’ve won a free photo session! (value $300!)

Please email me to claim your prize!

Here are 2 gorgeous images that Sarah sent me… how adorable are those tiny feet?!

Great news!! The “New Beginnings” Contest deadline has been extended until March 14th!

Click here to email me your photo submissions!!

I decided that to bring in the new year (I know, I’m a little bit late) I’m going to have a ‘new beginnings’ contest!

All you have to do is submit any type of photo that symbolizes a new beginning that you’re experiencing.

The winner will receive a free photo session! (value $250!)

Email all entries to me by March 7th at midnight.

That gives you 7 whole days!! :)

I will post the winner a week from today!

I am excited to announce that the winner of this year’s valentine’s day contest is Allyssa Comber!

She sent in the sweetest story of how much her Poppa means to her:

“This valentine’s day, my choice in valentine should be an obvious one. Months away from marriage and seven committed years with the same boy (who oddly enough turned into a man somewhere along the way) would make anyone suspect that no one else would even be in the running. However, there is another who has a part of my heart that I guard jealously and with great joy. This love is different you see.

Jim Sheldon. My Poppa. He is old and wrinkly and pocked with age spots (No no, beauty marks, he says). His hair is snow white but he is not balding (no no, it’s just an eight inch wide part down the middle, he says). His jowls are plentiful to the point that if he was not the inspiration behind Jello then I am CERTAIN his mother was a pelican (No no, it’s a homemade scarf he says). I am most petrified to eat his spaghetti sauce as it is quite likely that within the tomato-y goodness lie dark secrets produced from weeks of leftovers…Brussels’ sprouts, stinky cold meat, wrinkly cucumbers and the like. (No no, don’t you know there are hungry children in Africa? he says). He is no doubt the finest of English gentlemen. If I move to hug him he tells me to bugger off. If I want a smooch he tells me to go bug my grandmother. If I ask to borrow a dollar, he gives me 56 cents, tells me to invest it wisely and in a few years I will have it. To him, tea is a privilege and its processes are not to be meddled with. Once I poured boiling water into a mug with a teabag in it and I thought he might disown me. If you are still in bed at the shameful hour of 7am, then he will come in and vacuum around your bed (dusty carpets are bad for nighttime breathing, he says). A catch…wouldn’t you say?

He knows all the answers to Jeopardy questions. He teaches me words like ‘Finnimbrun’ and ‘Pulveratricious’ (see above comment regarding carpets). He buys me Barolo when I would have been happy with Welch’s. He has read every book. He has seen every movie. His joy is complete when he succeeds in buying something ridiculously cheap because the store people forgot to change the price tag. He whistles like a bird and will sing to himself in a room full of people like the rest of us would if we were confident not another soul would hear. His gardens look like those out of a magazine. In one season his yard went from fenced suburbia to a second Eden. (Neighbors are nosey buggers, I need some privacy, he says). But I secretly know that he sings to the seeds, and talks to the bulbs and tells the birds where the best berries are. He wears a Tilley hat while he gardens to protect his 8 inch wide part from the sun. Once I found it sitting on the garden swing. When I looked inside I saw the brand tag said ‘Jessica’ (A good bargain is gender irrelevant, he says). As the pastoral care pastor at his church, he spends long days with those whose lives are coming to an end, singing them their favourite hymns while angels slip down to earth to bring them home. He grieves with the new parents whose infant child didn’t make it, offering hope even when his heart breaks at the thought that at 73 he wished it could have been him instead. Some call him the Jim Reaper. I call him brave with a heart bigger than I will ever understand. He loves my Nanna like they were 16 again. His laugh sounds like an aria in high ‘C’. He drives like he’s a NASCAR racer and once tore his Achilles tendon chasing after the garbage truck. He still lets me dance with him with my feet standing on his (Good heavens you weigh a ton, he says). He breaks his toffee with a little hammer and insists fruit and nut chocolate bars are two servings of fruit, one serving of protein and one serving of dairy. If I told him about this, he would say he wanted me to win because the only thing better than a good bargain is something free.

How can you not ask such a fellow to be your valentine? (You can’t, I say)”

Congratulations Allyssa, you’ve won yourself a free photo session!

You only have two more days to enter the Valentine’s Day Contest!! Just email a photo of you with someone you love and a short blurb on why you should win a free session to info@naomiclaire.com!

The winner will be announced on Valentine’s Day!!

Good Luck!!

Okay everyone, I want to see you getting out there and experimenting with different settings on your camera!
Now don’t be shy… I know a lot of you have new SLR cameras that you’re not quite sure how to use. Now is a GREAT time to get them out and be creative!

Contest Rules:

1 – You must show me that you know how to achieve a short depth of field by using a low aperture! (See this post)

2 – Contest is open until Jan. 6th at midnight! Email all entries here!

3 – BE CREATIVE!!!

The winner will receive a $50 print credit to use towards either a past photo session or an upcoming photo session!

Post a comment if you have any questions!! Can’t wait to see all your entries!!

Good Luck!

I’m so excited for this years contest!!

I just love the fall, (I have to admit, it’s mostly because I know Christmas is coming!! …don’t even get me started on Christmas!!!) … anyways I do love the fall, so this year I decided the contest will be for the most creatively carved pumpkin! (Pumpkins carved by kids get extra points!!)

I will pick the winner on October 31st. All you have to do is carve a pumpkin, EMAIL ME a photo, and voila! You are entered into the contest! There are no rules… be as creative as possible, and HAVE FUN!!

The winner will win a $50 gift certificate!

Some ideas for the gift certificate:
-Order Photo Christmas Cards!
-Order prints from your last photo session!
-Put it towards your next photo session!
-Give it to someone you love!

GOOD LUCK!!