Archive for April, 2009

Just a couple of quick updates -

Tomorrow is the last day to enter the blog contest for April. If you’d like to be included in the drawing for a complimentary session, make sure you leave your comment to any of the blog entries for the month! The drawing will take place Friday morning.

I received more than enough requests for dogs for the pet model search. I’m still looking for a few more kitties! If you have an adorable kitty that you would like photographeed, please email me as soon as possible. heidi@heidismithphotography.com

Session dates are filling up now that the weather is looking better and the ground is drying up. Book your sessions early to get the best dates!

HSP Pet Model Search

April 22, 2009

Maybe you’ve noticed that little blurb up in the header, the one that changes every now and again with interesting or fun little tidbits. That’s Twitter! This is one area that I’ve yet to form an addiction with though I do think it’s pretty cool. I love that I can update my Twitter and it posts to the top of my blog. How cool is that? Do you Twitter/Tweet? If so, add HSPhotography!

And Facebook – yep, I’m addicted. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting awesome people, keeping up with all of my favorite photographers, having fun with my family, and being reunited with friends from all of my years of school. As someone who moved around a lot, this is AMAZING! I just love it! Who knew that after all these years I’d find my dear friends all over again. I share some random daily nonsense, don’t we all? But I also share my random images and client images too! I love that perk – I tag friends and clients in images and all of their friends are able to see the images as well! New blog posts come right to Facebook as well. And you never know when I might run a Facebook special that is too good to miss out on!

So yes, HSP is all over Facebook! Here are some links that can come in handy if you’re a Facebook user and want to be a part of HSP on Facebook!

HSP Business Page

HSP Fan Page

If you’re not a member of either social networking and you want to get in on the action – you can sign up at www. twitter.com or www.facebook.com – do it!

April Blog Contest

April 3, 2009

April is here, the river is receding, and hopefully things will be back to ‘normal’ around our region before long. Let’s hope that the snow stays gone for several more months and the green will appear, the flowers will bloom, oh yeah, I said this all last month – but I guess it was premature! This is going to be the month for spring in Fargo!

This month I’m changing things up some for the blog contest. I find that not everyone realizes you should post a comment to the official contest entry to be entered into the contest. So what I’m going to do is take ALL the comments from ALL the entries for the month and enter them. Each person’s name only gets entered once but please don’t let that stop you from commenting to everything! I hope this helps with some confusion and gets everyone entered who wants to be entered. If by chance someone is chosen who didn’t want to be entered, I will redraw. But really, who doesn’t want to be entered?!

This months giveaway is once again a complimentary standard session of your choice to be used any time in the next 12 months!  That’s a $100 monetary value but the lifelong value far exceeds that!

Even today, my youngest turns 6. It’s always amazing to me how fast these birthdays come around. There are so many memories wrapped up in every year and I love that I try to capture them all. As much as we’d like, these little ones don’t stay little for long! My oldest heads off to high school next fall, there will be senior pictures before I know it! NOW is a good time to capture who they are TODAY. Yearly photographs don’t always need to hold off until a birthday or a holiday, take advantage of beautiful locations and warm weather and special events that happen all year long! And schedule early – dates do fill up. If a few months go by and  you need to reschedule, we can try to work that in. But you don’t want to miss out by scheduling too late!

And here comes the standard info that you’ll see in all these contest posts:

What do you comment about? Anything! Just say hi, share your thoughts, tell me about the weather, your family, ask me a question, or anything you want.

Are there any rules? Well, of course there are – but nothing major. If you live outside the Fargo – Moorhead area and you win, the session time is complimentary but the travel is not. We’ll have to discuss that when necessary. All complimentary sessions can be redeemed up to one year of the month you won. So if you won in March this year, you have until the end of March next year to redeem your session.

So get commenting! Know that your name shows in the comment box [however you enter it in - first names only are just fine] Your email address comes to me but I only use it to email you back if you win. I’m not a spammer! If you put a web address for yourself, your name becomes a hyperlink to your site – a great way to get some interest coming your way.

Class of 2010 – now is the time to book your sessions!!

I look forward to a wonderful April! So many fun things in store for us this month and I hope for everyone else too! Please let this be spring!!

The March Winner Is…

April 1, 2009

With the kids not having school today, I had plenty of drawing volunteers. Hannah got the lucky draw this time – I don’t think she looks quite awake yet though! We had just 5 entrants this month [we need to get this number higher!] and the lucky winner is…

CHERI LARSON!!

Cheri wins a complimentary session to be used within the next 12 months! She has a super cute little boy that I can’t wait to show off here!

Look for April’s contest to be posted later today!