Local Giveaway: Win a Session with Virginia Photographer Nicole Pavey ($380 value) **closed**
Monday, January 25, 2010 at 09:00AM *Update 2/17/10* Congratulations to our winner...... Stimey! (Be sure to post the fabulous family photos you have taken!) Plus, everyone remember that you can contact Nicole with code WINTERPHOTOS to get $50 off! __________________________
Get $50 off any session/package mention code: WINTERPHOTOS
We haven't had a professional family photo taken since the girls were a year and a half old. They cried just about the whole time. I don't even think we got a family photo. We go the girls with mommy, the girls with daddy, and the girls together. So, we are due.
Real Photographer versus In-store Studio
When the Twofer were little we took them to various photography studios located in department stores or chains that you find in the mall. When they started preschool I stopped taking them to studios because the school photos always seemed to turn out really cute. Plus, I always thought a 'real' photographer would be way too expensive. Guess what? It's not. Not when you consider the frustration we ALWAYS experienced when some teenager couldn't get the camera to work, or my kid to relax.
Spending a little more to use a professional would have been the smart thing to do. So let's go back 4 years and remind THAT Janine to smarten up. Then, let's talk about the giveaway!
Nicole Pavey Photography Giveaway
Start browsing around the Nicole Pavey website and blog and you can see her knack for capturing kids and families at their best. I like the natural feel of the family photos. And the newborn images are simple but memorable. You can almost smell the baby shampoo...mmmm.
You can win a basic session valued at $380 from TwoferMom!
Enter to win a basic session from Nicole Pavey Photography which includes
- a photo session
- an in-studio ordering session to go over the photos
- 20-30 of the best photos edited on high res disc.
Please Note: This giveaway is for local DC Metro area folk...or anyone who is going to be traveling through Northern Virginia...wants to win a session with a professional photographer in her Fairfax County, VA studio.
4 ways to enter to win:
1. Leave a comment telling me who would be in your Nicole Pavey photo session if you win.
2. Tell your Facebook friends about this contest and tag me (use @JanineLaqueurNickel) in your post so I can see it. Then come back here and leave a second comment telling me.
3. Post a link to this giveaway on Twitter 3 times before the deadline and again, leave a separate comment with the tweet URLs (click on the time & date underneath the tweet).
4. Email your friends with a link to this giveaway and cc me (scarytwins [at] yahoo [dot] com
Contest open to US residents 18 and over and ends Tuesday, February 16, 2010 at 11:00pm EST. Winner will be chosen using Random.org from all valid entries, and contacted via email. Winner has 48 hours to respond and claim prize before I choose another winner.
Thanks for entering and for supporting TwoferMom's newest sponsor and supporter, Nicole Pavey Photography!
Janine
Disclosure: I am hosting this giveaway as part of a TwoferMom advertising package and giveaway product provided by Nicole Pavey at no cost. All views are my own based on what I have seen of the portfolio and are not influenced, nor reviewed by the company prior to posting.
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Reader Comments (26)
I would love to take some great family photos...or at least get a good photo of anyone besides just emily!
put up the info on my facebook!
We would have our yearly family photo session. And since we just moved to the NoVa area I am looking for a photographer.
I would give this to my very good friends who live in the DC area--they just had a baby this month and I'm sure they'd love to have some professional pictures taken!!
would love a great family pic of me, DH and our 5 kids! what a great prize, thanks!
I would use this for a newborn session for my first child - coming in less than a month!
I would love to have a session with myself and my hubby or 1 with me and my boys. or maybe all of the above.
:-)
This session would be great for our family of 4 who rarely does professional photos! Thanks for such an awesome giveaway!
Just posted it to my FB page w/link to the giveaway but I don't think it linked to you so I friended you so you could see it is there! :)
We haven't had professional photos since Michael was 5 months old! I would love this. The picture would be my almost 5 year old, my husband, and I. I would love this to mark his five year old b-day.
I would love to document the development of our family of 5! We never make it to picture people!
Wow! Great giveaway! My friends live in Richmond, and with 4 1/2 kids (she's preggos with number 5) this would be a great gift for them!
We haven't had a family photo since my twins were born (they're 3 1/2 now!). I'd love to do one of the five of us (I also have a 6yo). Thanks for the chance to win!
I tweeted:
http://twitter.com/MoneywiseMoms/status/8307457352
I would love to have a photo session with my family of five.
I would get photos of our whole family. We haven't done it since the boys were 18 months, and they were at Walmart, and not good quality.
I live in Fairfax, so Nicole's location couldn't be more perfect for me. My photo shoot would include my two boys; the 9yo and our new 3-week old.
Oh I don't know if I could subject the lovely Nicole to my 4 crazy kids.. but maybe a nice "as they grow" shoot.. or hey maybe I could subject her to my mug for the headshots I've been meaning to get for my blog and beyond. Who knows. Thanks for the giveaway and have FUN down at Disney!
We are way past due for a family photo that actually looks good. The last one we got is pretty cruddy.
Posted on facebook. Not sure if it actually tagged you though.
I would have the pictures taken of myself, my wife, and our 16-month-old son Linus. That would be amazing!
I would love to win. My three kids would be in the photo session. It would be great to have professional shots of them.
i'd give this to my DC family and they'd be in the photos
I would say the entire family. As we've never had a family picture taken and now there's a new addition, this would be perfect for us!
Ok, I only tweeted once since I JUST found out about the giveaway. Hope that's ok.
http://twitter.com/thienkim/statuses/9218351628