Big Dream Session Giveaway | Win the session of your choosing

Hello Sweet Friends!

I am so incredibly excited about our annual Dreamy Session Giveaway. I try to do something a little bigger each year. Typically I host this around my Big Business Birthday (in August) but this year really got away from me with all the travel and busy. It all worked out for the best however, because I can’t think of a better time to show you how much I really appreciate you than this season of giving thanks and gratitude. This year was indeed a bit crazy in the best of ways and I got to meet the most amazing families. I will be opening up sessions for 2018 on November 24th (Black Friday) with a GIANT sale, and thought it might also be an amazing way to kick things off. I truly anticipate each year being better than the last. I am so inspired and excited already for all the beautiful moments we will capture next year and all the families I will get to love on.

Prize:

This year I am actually going beyond what I have done in the past. I am giving away the kitchen sink. You can choose between a family session, Mama & Me or an in home lifestyle family session depending on your location (see rules below for details.)

Here is what is included.

Up to 2 hours with me on your session.

Travel to the mountains should you want it. This will either be in Estes or Bellevue depending on the weather.

35+ High resolution BEAUTIFUL digital images in a online gallery for download (but could be more. If I love it, it’s yours.)

A very special experience.

Interested??

Just enter below in this fun little widget. I will pick a winner at random November 21st!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Everything you need to know is right in this widget as well! If it doesn’t automatically show up for you, click the link that says “A Rafflecopter Giveaway.” You can also enter via the Giveaway tab on my fan page here: https://www.facebook.com/MyFourHens/?sk=app_228910107186452

And some quick Rules:

You MUST come to me in the Fort Collins, CO Area to honor this session.

The session must be held in 2018.

It is non transferable.

Travel Accommodations are not provided. You must pay for your flight/hotel/travel expenses.

The session will be held between June and September 2018. If the session is not honored by then, it is forfeited.

This session has no monetary value and is not transferable.

CAN Be used for a lifestyle or newborn session in lieu of traditional family outdoor session if within 20 miles of Fort Collins.

Winner will be chosen at random within 24 hours of the end of this giveaway.

NO purchase necessary.

Not valid for any currently booked sessions.

YOUR Moments Matter | Estes Park Family Photographer

Colorado has this healing, transformative ability. Many of the families that travel here for sessions are not only taken with the gorgeous landscapes, but this indescribable thing that Colorado seems to have. The air, the elevation, the scenery, the people. I don’t know quite what that thing is. We moved our family here about six years a go now and we were instantly enchanted. In fact, many of the families I photograph also talk about wanting to move here at some point during their session and this was NOT their plan coming in. At the very least it is a wonderful place to visit. Many come in the fall for the color and changing seasons, but summer time with it’s tall green grasses and wildflowers, I can’t put it into words. We travel for sessions throughout the year typically (though we won’t be able to next year), and coming home I often wonder at how incredibly blessed we are to call this ours. I’ve said it so many times but there is magic in these mountains.

This family made it that much more incredibly special this day. My conversations with the families I get to photograph are one of my favorite parts of what I do. I learn so much about different people in different walks of life and have seen so many perspectives I may have never considered otherwise. It’s a gift to be able to really walk in someone else’s shoes even for a moment. Family photography goes so much deeper than pretty outfits and fleeting smiles in different settings and landscapes. I knew years ago when I decided to ditch many of my props and focus solely on the connection and intimacy a family can only offer up, that I had to put more work in and maybe even put myself out there to achieve it. It takes trust and time and fearlessly becoming your own brand. Putting yourself out there isn’t as simple as I once assumed it would be. I am a self proclaimed people loving introvert. It does take a lot of energy to also be in this vulnerable space with my families but the truth is, nothing has ever proved more fulfilling and I would never look back.

This Mama’s story is hers to tell. I can tell you however, I have met very few women as extraordinary as she is. Her husband serves our country and she holds the fort down and raises these beautiful little girls with grace. The love between them all is so tangible and honest. I felt like I have somehow known her for much longer the moment we met up. There were moments when I Just stepped back and marveled.

The biggest part of my methods as a photographer is letting go of my expectations and allowing my families to bring their own personality and quite honestly, their whole selves into their images. Direction is of course necessary and I have a hand in the artistic value in my work, but once we are where we need to be, my only expectation is connection. They need only be touching in some way. I have learned that micromanaging didn’t work for me because there was so much of ME in the final images, there was no room for them. This should always be about them. I have had families concerned they couldn’t have images like those they saw from past families and it’s so untrue. We all can have photographs JUST like this family. It takes a measure of vulnerability and trust and just the knowledge that on the day we meet, we are meeting half way. These photographs are just as much you as they are me.

You deserve to have moments just like these.