Week 2 People's Choice Finalist poll!

#1 All you soul-searchin' people c'mon! by Matthew Morgan #2 See of Wonder by Sean Wright

#3 Staying With the Light. by Christopher Mann#4 Sunkissed by Kathryn Mathis

#5 Resting by Jennifer Whisenhunt

#6 Breathe Elizabeth Leighton

#7 Murder Noir by Cheyne Gallarde

#8 Bethany by Braeden Rogers

#9 Taking Back Roads by Jennifer Hogan

#10 Kenneth by Jennifer Hogan

Please choose your favorite image and vote for the Week 2 People's Choice Award Finalist in the poll to the right!

Good luck!

Week 1 People's Choice Finalist!

And this week's finalist to be considered for the People's Choice Award is Stephanie Cantin with her image titled Alive! Congratulations Stephanie and good luck!

Week 3 Sponsor/Judge Feature!

This week's featured sponsor is AsukaBook USA! AsukaBook is an international company located in Bend, Oregon. Their headquarters, Asukanet, started manufacturing coffee table books in Japan in 1995, and continues to print and bind books for clients worldwide. Asukanet (Japan) asked Kevin Kubota to be their USA representative in 2005 and thus AsukaBook USA launched in March of that year; and has been booming ever since. Kevin is also the owner of Kubota Image Tools, Kubota Photo Design, and Red Boot Design. "Our business mantra is to Empower Photographers, and everything we sell and do is designed around that simple principle. If it won't help you make money, or become a better photographer, we won't offer it." AsukaBook USA was one of the first companies to offer professional quality coffee table style printed books for photographers. They offer a superior product with a polished look and feel that is very popular with photographer's clients. AsukaBook products have received the Hot One award in 2005, 2007, and 2008. AsukaBook is proud of these accomplishments and strives to continue to innovate and provide customer service that exceeds all expectations. Our featured judge for the week is Scott Perry of Think Photographics! "Think Photographics started off as a hobby, we never really thought it would end up where it has. Although we mainly aim to shoot weddings (no pun), we do a lot of portraiture as well. We find all kinds of joy and gratification from seeing people in Love. Our style has developed and become refined and we believe it alone makes us stand out from other photographers in our area." Please be so kind as to visit our judge and sponsor sites! Its the least we can do in return for their generous prizes!!! Thanks and good luck to all of our photographers!

Your Weekly Top 10 Poll! Please vote for your favorite image!

So we've carefully rounded up the first week's Top 10! Take some time to look over them all and then vote for your 1 favorite image for the week at the poll to the right!

Remember - this is not a vote for the overall winner! This is a chance for all of you to vote for your People's Choice Winner to win a 1 year membership to WPPI!!! Thank you and good luck!

Jessica & Michelle

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Week 3 Sponsor/Judge Feature!

Cheryl Muhr is an Austin-based photographer specializing in contemporary maternity, newborn, child and family portraits, as well as editorial and commercial work for magazines and companies across the United States. Her wildly successful workshops for professional photographers, The Secret Photography Workshops, teach new and already working photographers how to build profitable, natural light photography businesses while maintaining balance and joy in their lives. Spend some time looking through Cheryl's website, her work is inspiring to say the least!

WPPI Wedding and Portrait Photographers International wants you to be the best that you can be, so they provide you with exclusive information, programs and professional services to help you with your photographic artistry and business needs. They're constantly bringing their members new benefits and new industry information. Check out their latest benefits, and find everything you need to know on their website. There's never been a better time to build and develop your personal support network. Joining WPPI will give you the resources you need to succeed.

WPPI has graciously donated two memberships for our contest - one for the Grand Prize winner and one for the People's Choice Award that will be voted on by you so keep your eyes on our blog for the voting to come!

As usual, please support the wonderful judges and sponsors bringing you these great prizes by visiting their sites and having a look around!

Week 2 Sponsor/Judge Feature!

We are very excited about the fantastic images that our competitors are sending in! Stay tuned here so you can help choose our People's Choice winner with our weekly votes!






This week's featured Judge is world renowned Fashion Photographer, Melissa Rodwell! A Los Angeles native, Melissa studied photography at the Art Center College of Design before starting her globe-spanning career in entertainment photography that lead to exposure in international advertising campaigns and publications. She has photographed ad campaigns for Coca Cola, Honda, Virgin Records, and NBS Television as well as being published in Playboy Magazine, More Magazine, Sportswear International, and Mademoiselle. Check out her website as well as her Fashion Photography Blog for incredible behind the scenes footage and her invaluable information!












If you haven't been to Lensbaby.com and seen their incredible products I suggest you go now! They offer creative effect lenses that enable you to bend your lens until you find your sweet spot of focus and blur the rest of the image. And if you have seen or used them in the past, you should check out their newest lenses that have replaced their older line!





As always, without these amazing judges and sponsors we wouldn't have all of these incredible prizes to offer our entrants! Thanks again to Melissa Rodwell and everyone at Lensbaby!

Good luck!

Sponsor and Judge Feature of the week!

After a few minor delays, we are finally able to kick off the Flare Competition! If you haven't had a chance to check out what we've put together for you, you may want to head over to www.flarecompetition.com and see what you can win!! There are prizes for the top 10 images as well as a People's Choice award! Be sure to subscribe to the blog to watch the People's Choice images and vote for your favorties! Of course none of this would be possible without the help of our incredible judges and sponsors for volunteering their time and amazing products! Our sponsor feature for this week is Mpix!

Mpix.com is an online digital imaging lab for the both the professional photographer and the advanced amateur. With an internet connection, a digital file and a credit card, photographers can upload their images, order professional photographic prints ranging from mini wallets to 24x36, specialty photographic items, and press products. Mpix is offering a Print Credit worth $100 + Free Shipping for the Grand Prize winner, as well as $25 Print Credits + Free Shipping to the top 9 finalists! Please, visit their site and look around at all of the amazing products they offer!

Our feature Judge is one of our competition founders, Jessica Price. She runs her own portrait photography business, Bella Valentina Photography as well as sharing a wedding photography business with Michelle Black, called Allura Modern. Jessica does on location and in studio portrait work offering artisitc images for Seniors, Children, Families, Musicians, Models, and commercial assignments. At your convenience, take some time to browse her sites to see her work!

Thanks again to ALL of our judges and sponsors and Good luck to all of our entrants!