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I live off inspiration. My photography is always from inspiration from somthing or someone.. i thrive off of it. I love sharing it and getting it. I love hearing about others aswell!! I wanted to do a contest that was more like a giving back for this fall. I want to challenge all of you to look in your community and tell me if you know someone that inspires you by their outlook on life, their abiilty to overcome tradegy, their comminty outreach or just them being themselves!! I want to help one deserving family get a chance that maybe they normally wouldnt get because they are selfless and help others more than they would spend money on portraits. They deserve capturing memories too! Now dont get confused, inspiration can come from many sources but I want you to search for the deserving, selfless, loving inspirations out there that you know deserves a little sunshine of a fun day of portraits with their family.

If you know somone, email their story here:
kstafford@marymomentphotography.com

My inspiration:

MY Mom! Simple. She has been there through everything in this life and is now battleing Stage 3 Lung Cancer. She is amazing and keeps trucking along just for her children. I know she will beat this cancer and live to see my children have children so that strength in itself inspires me to be a better mother and woman an live life.. and not just live life.. but LIVE LIFE!

 

NUMBER ONE-

I  love my clients and how so many of you know each other and love watching families that know each other grow up under my lens… so I’ve decided to get going on my Referral Contest.  I’m putting some of my advertising funds back into the hands of my clients!  I will be drawing prizes for Monthly Winners in July, August, September…then a GRAND PRIZE winner for the entire three months. 

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE A CURRENT OR PAST CLIENT TO PARTICIPATE! 
I keep track of all of the referrals…so when your friends, family or co-workers reserve a session with me, mention your name and complete the session, I will track your referrals for a future session!

Here’s how it will work:

Monthly Drawings

  • You earn one entry into the drawing for each  two NEW clients that reserved a session during that month.  The entry counts for the month when the session was reserved, and the session must be held before the end of the month.  (For example, your referral reserved the session in June for a July session…you then have an entry for the June drawing.)
  • You also earn the regular Referral Program rewards – $20 credit for each referral, or refer 4 people for $100!
  • The more referrals you have, the more entries you have for the drawing and the more dough you get for your future shoots.
  • At the end of each month, I will draw a winner.


The monthly winner receives:

DOUBLE REFERRAL CREDITS FOR THAT MONTH – yes!!  Let’s say you refer 4 people in June (which is 100 print credit for referals) - if you are the winner, you would get a $200 Referral Credit!!  (and even if you don’t win, that’s still $100 in Referral Credits!)ANDCHOOSE ONE PRIZE:

  • Set of folded notecards featuring an image of your choice
  • Mini accordion album
  • Mini Storyboard
     

GRAND PRIZE Drawing

  • You must have a minimum of 6 referrals to be entered into the Grand Prize drawing.
  • You earn one entry into the drawing for every two new clients that reserved a session during those months.  (Sessions must be reserved and held on or before September 30, 2010 to be eligible for an entry.)
  • The more referrals you have, the more entries you have for the drawing.

The Grand Prize winner receives:
$50 Bonus Referral Credit in addition to the credits earned when the new clients reserve their sessions.   AND

CHOOSE ONE PRIZE:

  • 11×14 Fine Art Canvas Gallery Wrap
  • Leather Accordion Album
  • 10 x 20 Storyboard

 

The Referral Program:
Being a  new small business owner, I rely heavily on referrals.  Thank you so much for spreading the word about my business.   Take advantage of the referral program as often as you like!  Receive a $20 credit toward prints at your next session for each new client that you refer.  You may combine multiple credits to one order.  REFER 4 PEOPLE AND RECEIVE A $100 PRINT CREDIT!Credits valid on orders placed before the online gallery expiration.  Credits may only be applied to Collections and Prints. Credits are awarded when the session retainer is received from the new client.

**The Fine Print:  Sessions must be held on or before September 30, 2010.  All prizes and Referral Credits apply to future sessions.  Monthly drawings will be held on July 1, August 1, and October1, 2010.  Grand Prize drawing will be held on October 1, 2010.

 

Number TWO

SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT on FACEBOOK!

This is a simple way to get you a free session fee! For the months of June, if you had you are a current client from 2010 and have displayed your MMP images proudly, post a picture on FACEBOOK to enter to win! One entry per image and this will be the people’s vote!  Remember to Add MMP as a fan or “like” the fan page and upload your photos of your images to the comment page!   Once we have them all in June, I will place them on my blog and let the voting take place!!  So get to adding MMP and to earn double the chance to enter, upload the image to your facebook page and share to your friends to ask them to vote and to add MMP themselves!!  This will be a win for everyone cause everyone is always wanting new ideas on displaying images and my clients somtimes come up with the best ones!!   Now HOP to it!

Dont worry, if you dont have fb, msg me your photo and Ill upload it for you to be in the running!

so if you havnt found me on facebook and added me and told all your facebook friends to add me.. go ahead and do it, it will be super nice of you!

http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Mary-Moment-Photography/63278043228?ref=ts

Thanks guys and Happy Summer!!!

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Workin Momma’s Photos

March 24, 2010

 

So you want to take a picture do ya? Well I do too.. so why dont we do it together?! Whatcha say?

I dont know half there is to know about photography, I am just a Momma that started a business and asked questions and had amazing photogs to help me learn my way around! Photography is just like clothing, there are tons of fads and you have to keep up with the jones to keep going in this field, so I am continuously learning now and growing to learn more and more… so it dosnt stop.  But what I do know are the basic fundamentals that I was taught by photogs on how to use my camera.

If you dont know me then you wouldnt know that I grew up around a camera.  My mother still makes us stand by the same tree in her front yard to take the same photograph that we have for years.  I also worked in highschool at a photography lab which didnt give me too much experience but I did learn the concept and lanugae of photography.  To this day you can go to my mothers house and find my shoe box of photographs that I have had developed over the years of me growing up.  I seem to have always had some sort of camera on me.  I started out years ago with film, then my first slr digital was a Pentax (which is still fab) but I have a wonderful mother who loves photography as much as I do and I was able to enherit her lenses once she switched to canon.  I then Began learning more and more about photography.. more than just shooting on green.  I would study several photographers blogs and take classes and honestly ask questions if I didnt understand and they would guide me in a way that I woudlnt just get an answer, I was intriqued enough for them to give me just enough so I would have to figure the rest out myself.  I am in no way a professional.. no way a know everything about photography.  I am Just katie with a camera who understands how eye opening it is to learn the fundamentals of shooting in raw and shooting in manual. 

So that being said, Id like to offer a class for the mommas out there (daddys too) who want to learn how to use the slr camera to take photos of their children and even those starting out in photography.  Very basic simple things that will help you understand your manual and also understand what ISO, Shutter and apperture means.  Two years ago I didnt understand much of any of this.. now its like second nature.. no more throwing your camera down because your photos are under exposed whne you really dont understand what under exposed means.  Also if you know me, I ams uper ADD so things will be dummy proof.  Simple, and easy to understand.  I seem to make things more easily understand in katie language(totally makes sense if you know me).

I will have invidual classes and a group class.  Classes are 40.00 for group and 60.00 for individual.  Group classes will be offered one Sunday afternoon a month.  Each Sunday class will involve the same material so new folks can get in but after the first class you are welcome to have an individual session to go over any problems or questions you are having.  Each Sunday Class will include the material outline, 2 hours, 1 hour of info and the other time devoted to trying it out! 

This is new for me, I love people, I love photography, I love explaining it.. so why not? 

See below the calendar for classes until august:

April 18th 3:00

May 9th 3:00

June 6th   3:00

July  25th 3:00

Since I love my clients so much and they are so dedicated I have mixed things up a bit, reduced a price here or there, added some mini sessions, even added Free photo sessions for life for my Bridal clients! So who wouldn’t want to hang out with me while I take photographs of them!?!? Well another change is the blog, I am going to keep up with you guys every chance I get! Besides loosing weight and spending more time with my family, I plan to blog more, show more sneak peaks on my blog and stay more connected with my clients! I want to keep everyone up to date with specials and mini sessions and keep my site and blog as user friendly as possible! You think you can let me know if I am not doing that.. just nudge me with a comment if you don’t see me posting enough!! So Follow me, add me as a favorite to your browser and come along for the ride of 2010 picture taking!

Check out the new MMP Blog!! It is still under construction but we will kick off the sneek of the blog with a 2009 client contest!  MMP is bringing its game in 2010 and knock 2009 right over!!

 We are starting off a new year soon and we of course cannot forget the 2009 clients! I have decided to reward my amazing clients by having the first annual “pix pick” of 2009!  I have included one photograph from only ONE session from each client of the year! If you had multiple sessions I chose the photograph i liked best!! All of these are chosen by me as the voting portrait! It may be the smile, the wink, the laugh.. for some reason I chose these! Now, you get to have your chance to vote!  This will end January 15, 2010! The winner will be announced and will be given a 16×24 print of the portrait that is chosen!!  Remember to tell your friends and family to vote to help with your chances!  You can also post this link to your sites to help with public votes aswell! But if we ended this year with all of these amazing portraits I cannot wait to see the smiles 2010 will bring!  If you dont see your portrait up please notify me and I will put it up asap! I tried to include all clients but only ONE from the year!

My New Blog is under construction so things may look silly now but by the end of this week it should be full blown fab! I’m excited for the contest, the new blog and everything that 2010 will bring!!!

Alright off to voting!!!! Each photograph is numbered and you will have to click the photograph to view the larger size to  see the photograph’s number to vote!  Underneath the photographs you will see the poll in which you will match the number to the number in the photograph!

(if you do not see your portrait and would like to be apart of the contest please contact me ASAP)- if your newly added and havnt got a voting button, please place votes in comment section to be counted!