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National Adorable Children and Pawsitively Adorable Contest Winners {SE MN Photographer}

We are proud to announce we had 9 winners in the National portion of the Adorable Children and Pawsitively Adorable contests. The National portion of the contest took place at the lab and was judged by a panel of judges based on quality, appearance, charm, expression, and personality.

In the National Pawsitively Adorable contest…

We had First Place for Me & My Human. They won a $100 Visa gift card.

We had Second Place for Newborns. They won a $75 Visa Gift Card.

We had a Third Place for Dogs. They won a $50 Visa Gift Card.

We had an Honorable Mention for dogs. Super exciting as this is my dog, Maverick. We won a $25 Visa Gift Card.

We had an Honorable Mention in Buddies. They won a $25 Visa Gift Card.

In the National Adorable Children contest…..

We had a Second Place for Bloopers. They won a $75 Visa Gift Card.

We had a Third Place for Bloopers. They won a $50 Visa Gift Card.

We had a Third Place for 13 Months- 2 Years. They won a $50 Visa Gift Card.

We had an Honorable Mention for 9-12 Years. They won a $25 Visa Gift Card.

The lab where these took place is having some website issues, but as soon as we can see the other winners, I will post them here, too. Congratulations, everyone! Thanks for participating and voting! =)

And since we did not do the local portion of the Pawsitively Adorable as it was mostly my assistant’s dogs and family pets, and I had not posted the Pawsitively Adorable images, these are the other images we submitted. So they each received a 16×20 print from their session.

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Halloween Night {Spring Valley MN Portrait Photographer}

Gosh!  What a fun night!  Still am in shock and awe over the turnout we  had at the studio on Friday night. At one point when I happened to turn around and saw the line going out to the front room, I was absolutely amazed by the turn out even though it was so cold outside.  Each year, I think, how can we top last year?  This year will be a BIG challenge to top next year!

A HUGE thank you to everyone that came into the studio on Halloween night to help raise some money for Spring Valley Park & Rec, to check out the studio all decked out for Halloween, a treat and some games. We truly appreciate the support and hope you had as much fun as we did setting it up.

The final tally for the funds raised for Spring Valley Park & Rec is $950!!!!! Wow!  You all rock!  Thank you!

Also, a big thank you to Steph at Chateau de Chic for doing my make up for the night, my assistants and friends for putting in about 50 hours this year in total decorating and moving stuff in and out of the studio, and my Aunt Sandy Bauer for dressing up as Kristoff and helping everyone fill out their order form. Lastly a big thank you to my Aunt Lynn and Uncle Marvin Brandt for letting me borrow some of their Halloween stuff to deck out the studio once again.

With all that said, here’s a video of just some of the sights and sounds at the studio on Halloween.   Enjoy!

 

My adorable cousins!

Our team… 

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New Year’s Giveaway Winner {Spring Valley MN Portrait Photographer}

Thanks to everyone who shared the blog post and participated in our New Year’s giveaway.  I truly appreciate it!  Sorry for the delay in the post, we were working on end of the year bookwork and then I recorded the video in HD by accident and had to resize it as we have a slow internet connection, today.

Here’s the video with the name of the winner….

Congratulations, Missy! =)

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Seniors 2009 and 2010 {Southern Minnesota Senior Photographer}

Congrats to the 2009 seniors!  Thank you for giving me the honor to photograph you! May you find success in all your future undertakings!

Welcome 2010 seniors.  Summer and fall sessions are starting to fill up quickly. I usually only schedule one session a day so I am only able to photograph so many.  If you are thinking about having me photograph your sessions, please contact me soon.

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Jordan ’09 {Minnesota Graduation Photographer}

Last week, we shot the last of Jordan’s senior portraits at her home.   Jordan loves music and is extremely talented when it comes to music,  She not only plays the piano, sax, and baritone,  but she can sing and compose her own music.  While there, Jordan played a little for me, Andrew, and her Mom, so I decided to try out my new camera’s HD video capabilities.  I can see this whole video thing is going to be a learning experience, but I’m excited to experiment with it more.

 

 

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Photography by Kari specializes in custom portraiture of newborn, family, children sports team banners, dog, and high school seniors in Spring Valley, MN, and surrounding Southeast Minnesota areas.

Areas, including, but not limited to, Rochester, Preston, Chatfield, Stewartville, Grand Meadow, LeRoy, Ostrander, Kasson, Hayfield, Plainview, St. Charles and Pine Island.

Southeast Minnesota based photographer.

specializing in newborn, family, children, and senior photography.

located in sPRING vALLEY, mn

TELEPHONE :: 507.951.0640

E-MAil :: kari@photographybykari.com