FOUR little FULTONS: Will you be one of the 5 winners of a FREE photo session?...

Saturday, February 6, 2010

Will you be one of the 5 winners of a FREE photo session?...

I have something totally FREE to share with each of my S Florida friends! How would you like to get some beautiful shots of you, your family or friends for FREE? A dear friend of mine, April, owner of CoConut CirCle photography is having a fabulous giveaway! She is giving away 5 FREE photo sessions! Yes, FIVE totally FREE photo sessions! I cannot say enough wonderful things about April & her talented eye for details! She is AMAZING! I do not know how she does it but she just has this way of capturing that "perfect" shot, the one you would never expect but want and end up framing to put up on your wall! I have MANY amazing shots of our family just like that! Her portfolio is quite the collection & hopefully it will include some of "MY" people in it soon! (= I am really psyched about the possibility of someone I know winning one of these photo sessions! So without further ado here is a few words from April regarding her BIG giveaway...

CoConut CirCle is thrilled to announce the 1st Annual Photo Session Give Away Contest!

Inspired by the generosity of others, and anxious to spread the word about my all new blog page and redesigned web site, I have decided to create a raffle....a random drawing, designed to give away 5, yes FIVE, individual Basic Package photo sessions with me, April, owner and photographer of CoConut CirCle. These sessions are TOTALLY FREE to each of the 5 winners with nothing to buy and NO CATCH! Each winner will get a CD with the high resolution professionally edited images from their winning session to keep and duplicate! NOTHING to buy and NO CATCH. Just help me spread the word about CoConut CirCle Photography and you will be entered to win. Here is how is works:

TO ENTER: make a "comment" to this blog post including your FIRST name and LAST initial, CITY, and the TYPE of photo session you would like to have, ie maternity, infant, engagement, newborn, senior photos, etc. A sample comment entry:
"April M, West Palm Beach, Engagement"
You may only enter one time this way.

To increase your chances of winning, you may enter additional times using the following alternate methods (one time for each):

1) "FAN" CoConut CirCle on FaceBook and you will receive an entry (if you are already a FAN of CoConut CirCle, you will automatically receive this entry)

2) Create a Status entry about this contest blog entry on YOUR FaceBook page, then go to CoConut CirCle's FB page and post "I entered!" so that your entry can be verified and counted.

3) create a POST of this blog entry on YOUR blog or web site. Then come back to THIS blog post and enter a comment including YOUR blog or web address so that your entry can be verified and counted. Sample entry comment:
"I entered: visit me at www.CoConutCirCle.com"

4) become a "follower" of CoConut Circle's "April's Inner Circle" Blog page. This will generate yet another entry for you.

5) send an EMAIL to your friends whom you think might be interested in winning a photo session, inviting them to visit this blog (http://www.coconutcircle.blogspot.com/) and enter. When you do, "CC " me in your email at CoConutCirCle@hotmail.com so that your entry can be verified and counted.

These methods allow you to enter this drawing up to 6 times! The more you enter, the better your chances of winning and the more people you help me tell about CoConut CirCle!

This raffle is open to everyone, including clients of CoConut CirCle. Each entered can only win 1 of the 5 sessions, and in the event a name is drawn twice, another name will be drawn and declared the winner. The five individual winning names will be drawn and posted on this blog on Monday, Feb 15th at noon. You have 2 weeks! The winners will be listed exactly as they were originally entered: first name, last initial, city, and session type for example:
"April M, West Palm Beach, wins an Engagement Session"
The winners will have 48 hours to contact me to confirm their prize. In the event that a winner does not come forward in that time, another name will be drawn. All winning photo shoots must be shot in Broward or Palm Beach counties, so basically, "you must be present to win!"

By the way April happens to be the talented photographer that took our beautiful Christmas pictures as well as captured the tribe's third birthday! She captured shots that I would never have thought of or had been able to get. Here are a few of the beautiful shots she took of our family. There were so many great shots we had a hard time choosing which ones to send out! Just take a look at her handy work!

So again I ask you?...

Will you be one of the FIVE winners of a FREE photo session?...

1 comments:

Anonymous said...: omg they are the cutest pics are too of your girls identicle

luvvin the mohawk lol you have an adorbible family

thanks; February 6, 2010 at 11:37 PM

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Our Story...

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