*drumroll* And our winners are......

Wow, what a successful, amazing contest! Thank you everyone for your participation and your votes! Without further delay... First, the three voters who have each won a $10 Amazon giftcard, chosen by Random.org! Congrats to voters number 132, 125, and 152! Rebekah S, Robert Fee, and Ingrid Austin! I will be emailing you shortly.

Now, onto the contest winners!!!!

1st place and winner of a 16x20 gallery wrap canvas!

2nd place and winner of a top quality 11x14 print

3rd place and winner of a top quality 11x14 print

Little Brother Cash! {Riverside Newborn and Family Photographer}

You might recognize this great family from when I did Brody's 1 year photos in September in downtown Riverside. As you might have noticed, Crystal was pregnant. I was shocked to get a text from them at 5am on a Wednesday morning in November- Cash was born early at just 32 weeks. Not 3 days earlier, I was at their house discussing the specifics of their birth photography. We were planning on me photographing their birth- Crystal and John (okay, mostly Crystal!) were so excited and so was I. None of us had any idea that little Cash would come so early! Obviously such an early birth does not suit birth photography and from what I was told, Cash was not going to wait for anything, even his personal paparrazi ;) I was just so thankful that Cash and Crystal were doing well.  After a few weeks in the hospital Cash got to come home, healthy and happy! His big brother, 14 month old Brody, was adorable as always and I am so happy that John and Crystal now get to love two beautiful sons!

The End of Year Contest | Vote for your favorite photo here!

I am so excited to post this! I've thought long and hard about what kind of contest I wanted to do since I've never really done one before. As 2010 comes to a close, I loved the idea of looking back on all of the wonderful people that I've been able to photograph. As I was preparing the images I was able to watch myself grow as a photographer and I was reminded of all of the great memories from each and every session. The photos here represent ONE image from each individual session that I did in 2010. It was nearly impossible to choose only one photo per session, but I went with my gut and chose my personal favorite. What a wonderful year! I photographed weddings, engagements, families, seniors, maternity, kids, toddlers, newborns, baptisms, boudoir, sports teams, couples, twins (4 sets of them!), and basically, I feel like the luckiest photographer on the planet :) THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! HOW IT WORKS:

- Each person may vote for TWO photos. Each person may vote only one time. - To vote, comment to this post and state the photos that you wish to vote for, identifying them by number. - Make sure to include an accurate name/email address when you comment. - You may encourage family, friends, and people you know to come and vote! The more the merrier!

THE PRIZES

1st place - 11x14 Gallery Wrapped Canvas of the winning photo 2nd & 3rd place - 11x14 print (traditional e-surface paper) of the 2nd/3rd place photo

Also!! I will use an outside source to randomly choose 3 of the people who voted to win a $10 Amazon Gift Card!

Okay.....get voting!! Don't forget to tell your family and friends to come and vote - you can help your favorite photo win a beautiful canvas and you can also be entered to win a gift for yourself!

Contest ends on Sunday, December 5th at 6pm. No votes will be counted after that time. Winners will be announced that evening! Prizes will be delivered before December 23rd.

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The fine print: Bre Thurston Photography reserves the right to make a change to the contest at any time, at her discression. If you had a session with me in 2010 and do not see one of your photos represented here, please contact me ASAP at bre@brethurston.com. Participants may not ask Bre Thurston Photography to change the photo that she has chosen to represent their session. You may notice that certain people are represented more than once. That is because they had multiple sessions with me this year. I included one photo per session. Lastly, have fun and thanks for participating in my contest!