I met this gorgeous family down at Abotsford convent where we raced around, laughed, giggled, chatted and had a very fun photo session. By the time they left I’d made two new little friends.

We’ve reached 750 fans on the facebook page! woohoo.

So I have up for grabs a $350 gift certificate (Melbourne only) to win you must be a fan of my facebook page (link is on right hand in bar) and you must leave a comment under this post. I’ll pop all comments into a randomiser and post back the winner after 2 days here on the blog.

I like some of the above mentioned sites because they allow me to interact and keep up with family and friends, create new friendships, give me an outlet to get some of my chatter out of my system, share personal and client images, make new business contacts, find useful business, read reviews, get myself reviewed etc. its a wonderful place the internet world!

I’ve recently discovered formspring.me. this site allows users to anonomously ask you any question they like and I will respond (keep it clean!!) you can find me HERE or use the box in the right hand bar.

If your not a fan already of my facebook fan page then come join us HERE.

Do you Twiiter? Are you following me? I at first felt twitter was a bit nonsensical, did I want to read little tid bits of nothingness from peoples lives? Obviously i did as I joined and hung around. through twitter i have found fabulous things, I’ve even booked clients! Its a different world and a great to keep up with what businesses are offering, a quick update from friends or if like me you can just stalk and read the banter. Follow me on twitter HERE.

Leave a comment below too if you’d like me to join your page, follow you or ask you a question!

Meet one recently engaged couple.

Competition time!

I have created an album in facebook CLICK HERE to go to my facebook business page. You’ll need to become a ‘fan’ to view the page and images. (dont worry you don’t need to add me as a facebook friend for this) Once in facebook go the albums section and open the ‘Image of 2009′ album. Sit back relax and browse through the images there, find your favourite image of 2009 and then email me at studio@susandarcy.com.au or alternatively go into my website by clicking HERE and then place your vote through the contact page.

PLEASE put the face number eg: face89 in the SUBJECT line of your email.

NEW!!! Want extra votes? You may COMMENT on your photo of choice in facebook and that will give you ANOTHER vote twoards winning! only ONE VOTE per person for the album. Please comment with the word VOTE!

PRIZES!

The image with the most votes will win a whopping 20×30 inch CANVAS print of their choice* valued at $990

The image with the second amount of most votes will receive a 8×12 inch print of their winning image valued at $110

VOTERS PRIZES!

Yes voters too have the chance to win**!

Up for grabs for voters areSusan D’Arcy Photography session/product vouchers, itunes gift cards and a ‘Master Plan Diary’ from Milestone Press.

CONDITIONS:

Competition voting runs from Wednesday 27th January 2010 through til midnight on Friday 5th February 2010.

Only 1 vote per person/email address.

Prizes are to be collected from the studio where possible.

My decision on winners is final and no disputes will be entered into.

Allow 6 weeks for your prize to be ready to be collected.

*’your choice’ being from a past session or you may book and hold another session within the next 6 months and put the prize towards your future session.

** voters to be in the running for a voters prize you will need to include contact details (address phone number) in your voting email.

TIPS:

To get more votes some tips are,

- tag yourself in your image in facebook or post a link in your profile to the business page so your facebook friends can vote for you!

- email your friends and family, co-workers distnat relatives the link to this blog post http://susandarcy.com.au/myblog/2010/01/27/image-of-2009 so they can vote too.

- send a message to your twitter friends with this blog post linked.

- cross your fingers and hope you win!

I wanted to share some images from a newborn session, this was held at the studio, shot with natural light and in the surrounds of the studio.

Will be back to update soon and a very exciting competition is coming so come back and visit the blog soon!

Then consider getting them the gift of portraits. When was the last time you had your portraits taken? Your parents? Your grandparents? Give someone the gift of having their memories created and captured.

Cetificates available for purchase until December 18th. Certificates start at $200 to any amount you wish to spend. $500-$700 are our most popular certificate amounts. Call the studio to arrange your certificate today. All purchases of gift certificates this week will have the session fee waived. So what you gift to your someone special, they will be able to use in full towards their purchase.

Individual portrait sessions or couples session or even a session with a friend are loads of fun. Plus I think its fantastic people are getting them done. We ALL deserve a nice portrait of ourselves no matter what our age!

Lovely Eva contacted me to update her portraits for her parents. Her family all lives overseas in Germany so this was a lovely gift from Eva to them.

The first thing she told me when she contacted me to book in was ‘I don’t really like my photo being taken’ No problem, I said, neither do I! Its true I am not that comfortable on the other side of the camera, BUT I do force myself there often so that I too am a part of my families history and so my children will grow and remember what their mum looked like and well because it is a nice feeling when you get a nice portrait of yourself.

When Eva came back to view and select her images it was such a nice feeling to hear her say ‘hey I look really good in that one!’ (she looked good in all of them by the way!)