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Welcome to our annual Photo of the Year!

As creatives, we are always learning, challenging ourselves and getting creative with our tools. Every year we look critically at our work to see if there are areas we can improve on, and to identify what we consider our BEST work to see if we might be able to enter it in any of our industry photography competitions and also to refresh our visual presence online and in print with our most favourite photos!

Part of this process is SHARING and getting feedback from YOU – our audience – about what YOU love!  

We have compiled our top ~100 favourite photos from last year and we want you to vote for the one you like the most!

How we chose the photos

We took approximately 250,000 frames in 2024 over 300+ photography sessions. (That’s not counting our personal ones of our own family!) So narrowing it down to this selection was not an easy thing to do! 

We used a few simple principles to choose – the same principles we use as judges in professional photography awards and competitions:

  • Impact – emotional and visual
  • Storytelling/narrative strength
  • Technical attributes (use of light, colour, composition)
  • X factor

We tried to remain objective, because sometimes the way you might feel about your own photos is influenced by how much fun you had taking them! So our final selection has nothing to do with how well we connected with our clients, what they thought and purchased, or what our most memorable sessions of the year were. 

What you can win

BY VOTING YOU CAN WIN
One lucky voter will win a Heartstory Family Photography Experience worth $1700. This includes a studio or outdoors session and a photographic artwork package (made up of your choice of wall art or album and prints with digital files) worth up to $1500.  Twenty five (25) lucky voters will win a Heartstory Family Photography Experience worth $400. This includes a studio or outdoors session and $200 credit towards photographic artwork.  These will be drawn randomly.
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THE STARS OF THE PHOTOS CAN WIN
The family in the photo with the most votes when the voting period closes will receive a 12x18" framed fine art print of the photo (or $795 credit for artwork from their most recent session if they already bought this photo).  2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th place families will receive an 8x10" framed print of the photo (or an alternative photo from their most recent session if they already bought this photo). 
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