Welcome to something new!
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!
This year we’re doing something a bit fun and a bit different and we would love you to get involved!
We have compiled our top 100 favourite photos from 2020 and we want you to vote for the one you like the most!
How we chose the photos
We took approximately 141,000 frames in 2020 over close to 300 family sessions. (That’s not counting our personal ones of our own family!) So narrowing it down to 100 favourite images 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
There are prizes for everyone: both for everyone who votes, and for the subjects of the photos
(who are all families who hired us to take their portraits in 2020).
For the voters:
One lucky voter will win an inclusive Heartstory Family Photography Experience worth $3100. This includes a studio or outdoors session and an all inclusive artwork package (made up of your choice of wall art or album and prints with digital files).
Ten 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.
For the stars of the photos:
Photo of the Year (the one with the most votes when the voting period closes): this family will receive a 12×18″ framed fine art print of the photo
2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th place: these families will receive an 8×10″ framed print of the photo
We will also be giving some starring visual space to the top 5 photos on our website, socials and marketing collateral (provided we have permission to do so from the subjects, of course) depending on where they might work best!
Voting is open to everyone over the age of 18, but you can only vote once per household/IP address.
Get voting!
1. Review our top photos of 2020 below
2. Make a note of the number you want to vote for (it appears when you hover over the image & in the file name when you scroll through)
3. Scroll down to place your vote!
Fill out the form to enter & vote
By entering, you agree to the T&C at the bottom of the page (please read). And don’t forget, you can only enter once!
Voting Terms & Conditions
- Only one entry per family/IP address will be accepted.
- Entrants must be over the age of 18.
- Entries close at 9am, Wednesday March 2nd, 2022.
- The top five images with the most votes will be announced on social media on Wednesday March 2nd, 2022, and the families in those photos will be contacted personally.
- One lucky voter will be randomly selected to win a Heartstory Family Portrait Experience worth $2000 and a further twenty one (21) voters will be randomly selected to receive a $400 Heartstory Portrait Experience. These winners will be notified by phone or SMS by Friday March 4th.
- The $2000 prize is for an outdoors or studio Heartstory Family Photography Experience (worth $200), and $1800 credit towards photographic artwork.
- The $400 prize is for an outdoors or studio Heartstory Family Photography Experience (worth $200), and $200 credit towards photographic artwork.
- All prizes must be taken by 31 December 2022 with no extensions possible unless there are extenuating circumstances.
- Prizes may not be substituted for any other product or service (such as a wedding photography package) or used in conjunction with any other promotion, gift certificate or discount, and are not redeemable for cash. They also cannot be used towards a special project like Babies in Bonnets or others that we may run this year.
- By entering this competition, you agree to be added to our mailing list to be kept in the loop with cool stuff like this. We promise not to spam you, and of course, you can unsubscribe any time.
