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We are proud to display our newest image of the month, seen to the right! We pick our favorite from the previous month's sessions to showcase on the blog, with winners receiving an 8x10 of the portrait and a $10 Toys R Us gift card! For more on this month's image, click here. Congrats to the featured family!
Keep reading below for all the latest news & sneak peek photos. Be sure to use the links at the top to view archives or visit the main website for more details about all our session types and full galleries. We look forward to sharing moments of peace, love, and joy with your family soon!
First, an update from Thursday’s game… after four hours and 34 guesses we finally got a winner! And for those of you still stumped, the correct answer was #3! I have never met Billy Ray Cyrus, or really any celebrity of note. But everything else was true! And clearly I have lost any sense of gracefulness, ans most of you thought the ballet one was a lie! I might just have to dig up a picture to prove you all wrong! :) And keep voting in the Cutest 5 year old contest, we still have a long way to go and the race is changing every day!
Here’s a sneak peak to the next game… the one I am most excited about! It’s the newest member of our family and my self-declared blog mascot.. Boots!
This 8 week old Morkie (yes, it is a real breed, even though it sounds fake!) was a gift for my daughter’s 5th birthday and our whole family is in love! She’s going to be the star of our next game, which will launch on Monday! Until then, I hope you enjoy the holiday with your family… Happy Fourth of July!
**VOTING for the Cutest Five Year Old is still going on! Scroll down or click on the link above to place your vote if you haven’t already!**
Our first mini trivia game of the month… five things about me you may or may not know already. The only catch.. one of these is not true! Be the first to guess correctly and win your choice of a free 5×7 print with your next order ($40 value) or a $10 Target gift card! Email your answers to ann@annbeckphotography.com to play!
1. I was born in a small town in Wisconsin.
2. I am a trained ballerina en pointe.
3. I once met Billy Ray Cyrus, back in the Achy Breaky Days.
4. I have run multiple half marathons and am training for a full sometime next spring.
5. I have never tried coffee but live on Diet Coke.
Let the games begin! We’re kicking off the month of fun & games on the blog celebrating the 5th anniversary of Ann Beck Photography with the Cutest Five Year Old Contest! Check out these top five cuties and vote below, remember the winner gets a free session and a whopping $500 credit towards their order… happy voting!
Starting a little early this month to make way for the anniversary fun that starts on Wednesday!
Our winning image this month comes from a family I have photographed many times, these two sweet girls becoming as familiar as any of my own little girls’ best buddies, I look forward to every session because I know we will have so much fun! They came in June for a tiny dancer mini session and their bright tutus fit in perfectly with their ready supply of smiles and curls.
We danced and picked flowers, stopped and smiled, and played in the water fountain for a bit. But my favorite set of pictures came at what started as a more quiet moment but quickly erupted, as little girls often do, into an all-out giggle fest, for reasons I’m still not quite sure of!
Okay, I won’t lie… we are pretty fond of our baby, baby or not, and are convinced she’s just about the sweetest thing since pink frosting. But I know there are some other cute kiddos out there too!
In honor the five year anniversary of Ann Beck Photography next month, we’ve got a month full of games, contests, and fun… 30 days of new blog posts to celebrate! The first contest, which will run the entire month, actually starts now. We’re so proud of our business turning five (and our baby turning five on Monday!) that we’re looking for the (other) cutest five year old in the Dallas-Ft Worth metroplex! Please submit pictures now through July 1st to be entered… if you can please include their first name and city. Voting will begin in July and run the entire month, winner will receive a portrait session and $500 credit towards their order. This is a BIG contest… we need lots of entries to make the voting fair (and fun!)
Please email all submissions to ann@annbeckphotography.com and be sure to check back soon for all the fun!
wild, crazy, fun, loud, active, silly, hilarious…. otherwise known as BOYS!
I’ve been photographing these three every year for what seems like their whole life, and they never cease to entertain me. This year we went to the arboretum for some more traditional portraits, besides the candids we usually shoot. And of course, at a beautiful location like that, what else is there to do besides sit and smile so sweetly?
Okay, there *are* a few playhouses to climb in, on and around….
And some big open fields that make great photo backdrops… or wrestling rings….
Oh yeah. and the fountains. I surrender! Another fabulous, fun, totally BOY shoot it is!
Belated and a bit bleary-eyed… we have returned from vacation and hit the lazy crazy days of summer full force!
Our trip was amazing; we hiked in the mountains, swam in the river, watched deer snacking on the grass in our backyard, roasted smores and hot dogs over the open fire, and spent a LOT of time lounging in the hammock and catching up on trashy summer paperbacks. (Okay, that last part was more me than the kids, but we all got our fair share of hammock time!) I can’t say enough great things about this trip, and especially the cabin we rented.. we drove home so relaxed and happy, even after 9 hours in the car we were all on cloud nine!
Until, that is, we got home and discovered that our house had been struck by lightening! The electrician says we were lucky (yes-lucky!) in that there was no severe damage, and the house was still standing at all! Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for our electrical appliances, air conditioning, garage door, televisions, and just about anything at all that was plugged into an outlet… pretty much everything but my computer! (phew!) We’re working our way out of the mess of adjusters and service calls and hope to be back to normal very soon.
Normal being a completely relative term, of course.
I do hope to have all galleries caught up and lots of blog sneaks to come in the next few weeks.. and we’re gearing up for a lot of fun games & contests this July! Slather on the sunscreen and get ready for a super hot & fun summer!
Tomorrow morning (early! yawn!) my family and I are heading off for a much-needed vacation to a cabin in the Ozark Mountains. I will be unavailable until June 9th.. even made an executive decision just this afternoon to leave the laptop at home and instead opt for some thick summer paperbacks I’ve had on my list for some time. I’m looking forward to a week of reading in the hammock in the woods, splashing in the river with my girls, and all basically accomplishing not a single item off my to-do list other than the one that never seems to make it on there… having fun.
Calls & emails will be returned as soon as my body and brain return to work mode, sometime the week of June 9th. Hopefully by a much more relaxed, happier me!
Like I said.. it’s catchup week! A few more to ooh and ahh over… it’s been a busy spring! These cuties happen to be BFFs of my youngest, so I was thrilled to be able to capture their spunk on camera for once… too bad you don’t have audio to hear the giggles too!
Hello faithful bloggers… so sorry for the gaps in posts lately.. look for lots of catchup sneak peeks in the week to come.. starting with this gem from a cutie I first featured months ago when she was just a bump in her mommy’s belly and then as a gorgeous, peaceful newborn. She’s grown into the most expressive little girl with these sparkling blue eyes… can’t wait to share some more!
Hope you all had a wonderful holiday weekend.. such a wonderful taste of the summer to come!
Our winning image this month comes from a family I have photographed many times, these two sweet girls becoming as familiar as any of my own little girls’ best buddies, I look forward to every session because I know we will have so much fun! They came in June for a tiny dancer mini session and their bright tutus fit in perfectly with their ready supply of smiles and curls.
