I love the transition from Thanksgiving to the Holiday season. It’s finally OK to get out out stockings and decorate the Christmas tree (or in the case of a lot of my friends, the Menorah and Hanukkah decorations). One of my favorite things about my location in central Austin is this stretch of road where people decorate the native pine trees along the road. It’s just another one of those things about Austin that makes me smile and never EVER want to leave this city.

Savannah and I usually take a few trips to this spot – one for looking and at least one for a photo shoot (duh). Today we took our first trip.

We found THIS among all of the beautifully (and quirkily) decorated trees! (Pardon the iphone photo)

 I am currently obsessed with who this couple is. If you know them, send them my way – I have an engagement session waiting for them. Seriously – I love a grand gesture.

 Shannon Cunningham is an Austin wedding photographer who LOVES love.

Seriously, never trust a four year old.

SO, I went to a lovely site that has a REAL random number generator that understands constraints and parameters.Voila!

The winner is HEATHER M!!!! Yea Heather! I’ll be emailing you with your information.

For those of you wondering, I took all of the comments (from any post) mentioning that I hadn’t blogged (only your first one -there were a few double posts), put them in order and then assigned them a number from earliest to latest.

This was fun! Thank you so much for reading the blog. I hope you keep coming back – I have lots of other fun sessions to post and plan on posting eash day through the end of the year.

XOXO

Shannon

I would like to blog everyday in December. If I don’t and you catch me, then one of you that busts me wins a free portrait session {engagement, family, baby, bridal, day after, anything!}, or, if you are already a client and don’t want a new session, a $200 credit towards any product {albums, prints, canvases, etc}.

I promise that there will be a slip up at some point this month, so SOMEONE will win.

Here are the rules:

If there is no new blog post by 5:00PM {CST} then leave a comment notifying me of my oversight. You have until midnight that night to leave a comment.

My ever helpful almost 4 year old will then choose a number and that comment number will be the winner!

Yea! Fun games! I love this time of year.

Hope things are shaping up great for you and yours. So far 2009 has been amazing for Shannon Cunningham Photography and it’s all because of YOU!

XOXO

Shannon

I know, September seems really early doesn’t it, but it is time to schedule your holiday sessions. I’m offering a little incentive.

Up at the top of the blog there is a ‘Links’ section. Go on up there and sign up for the newsletter. I’ll be sending out information about Holiday Mini-Sessions and if you are on the newsletter, you not only get first crack at times, there will be a little extra something for you. Do it now!

One quick reminder……the holiday card order deadline is December 1.

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• There will be two location options to choose from – one more natural and scenic and one more urban and eclectic. Let me know which one you’re interested in when you contact me.
• These will be 20-25 minute mini-sessions.
• A maximum of 5 people and one family unit will be allowed during the session
• The session fee includes the creation of images and one high resolution scan for your holiday cards.
• Price of $50 plus tax

Well, I think you know how quickly time flies and I only have so many weekends between now and December 1, which (Hint Hint) is going to be the cutoff for Christmas ready portrait sessions…….

Labs and my album manufacturers are SWAMPED this time of year, so the sooner you get things in order, the better!

Stay tuned….I’m going to have a fun and easy holiday promotion coming up. Think Saturday November 10th and Sunday November 18th.