Photography by Kari Blog-- Southeastern Minnesota Senior, Children, Newborn, Maternity, Engagement, Family photographer. Updates and recent photoshoots from Photography by Kari. Photography by Kari is located in Spring Valley, MN.

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.

This year has really flown by! I can’t believe there’s only 3 months left of the school year… With that being said, it’s not too early to get your custom graduation invites ordered. I suggest that orders are made 4-6 weeks before you would like to mail them.

If you order a minimum of 150 Graduation open house announcements and pay in full for your announcements by midnight CST Friday, April 1, 2011. I’ll include 49 complimentary 2-sided wide-screen wallets (a $75 value) with a photo and your name on the front and your open house info added to the back. They will also coordinate with the announcement design you order. Also, this special can only be applied to one order per senior. If you don’t need 150 announcements, you can also buy 50 wide screen wallets with the purchase of 50 announcements. The wide-screen wallets are great to hand out to your friends and teachers from school that you’d like to invite to your open house.

If you are planning on ordering announcements, please e-mail me what photos you’d like, the colors you prefer, the size/type, and if there’s an announcement you want yours to look like ASAP. Pricing for the announcements can be found in your portrait agreement or on my portrait website under pricing and info and then clicking cards. To view more samples, type cards in the search box at the top of the blog. If you have any questions about the announcements, be sure to e-mail me or give me a call.