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June 30th, 2008
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Here is the 1st of 3 contests coming up this week. This one is sponsored by Color Inc Pro Lab.
MCP Actions and ColorInc are teaming up to offer you the chance to win big! The prize is a free 16×20 print on their specialty Fujifilm Crystal Archive paper.
One lucky winner will be drawn randomly this Thursday. All you have to do is leave a comment below with the following information. In your comment you need to let me know which 3 vacation photos you think I should “print big” from my trip last week in Northern Michigan. I know some of these are more portrait like, some action shots, and some snapshots - as all the photos are uploaded to this album. Just tell me your favorite 3 in the comment section for a chance to win. Winner will be drawn at random, but must list 3 photos in the comment to qualify.
Click here to see the gallery of photos to select from - sorry there are so many - I literally uploaded all - no time to sort yet… At the top of the smugmug gallery, it will say, 1of 282, 2 of 282, and so on. You can just put the number, as I will leave these unsorted, at least until the contest ends.
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June 30th, 20081:45 pm at
66
91
166
But it was so hard to choose! (I wish I had that many amazing pictures on vacations….I usually start having fun and forget to take some shots!)
June 30th, 20082:01 pm at
Jodi ~ how unfair only 3!! out of 282 you only want my favorite top 3. That is really hard.
I love all of the sunset ones, love all the water, boat and bridge ones, then there are the beach ones. WOW!
so that being said if i had to pick my top 3 and i do.
I would pick numbers 38,43,56 and 241. Ok so i couldn’t narrow my selection to 3 is 4 ok?
Really out of 282 you have a ton of great images.
looks like you all really had a wonderful time!
June 30th, 20082:05 pm at
my favorites are:
7
18
53
June 30th, 20082:05 pm at
Print: #1, #6, and #9.
June 30th, 20082:08 pm at
What BEAUTIFUL, fun shots you took! You certainly captured the “family vacation”! My favorite are 5, 162, and 202. They are of your girls (who will never be that age again). They are bright and just capture the moment! Would you be able to share how you were able to capture such bright colors? Did you bump up the saturation?
June 30th, 20082:09 pm at
Okay, my favs are 28, 52 and 205 but having said that, you should blow up one of the ones of your kids on the slide, with the great sky and reflection of them in the slide! That would look great on your wall!
June 30th, 20082:11 pm at
Jodi- This isn’t easy!!! You took some great photos on your vacation and it looks like you all had fun. Here are my three favs (among many, but you said three…)
38 of 282
166 of 282
9 of 282
June 30th, 20082:17 pm at
So many great shots. It was hard to choose. I love 7, 256, and 257.
June 30th, 20082:20 pm at
Thanks for sharing your pictures with us. I love #’s 63, 138 and 187!
June 30th, 20082:29 pm at
Wow, so many to pick and of course they are all beautiful and worthy of being blown up BIG.
But the ones that speak to my heart the most are 27, 43 and 205.
Good luck picking the one to go LARGE… eek!
June 30th, 20082:43 pm at
I like 94, 187, and 274.
June 30th, 20082:46 pm at
Tough choice, but I didn’t make it past the first few because I loved 7,18,51.
June 30th, 20082:53 pm at
these are so awesome!!! i’m going to go w/ 15, 136, and 220…
June 30th, 20082:57 pm at
38
46
166
Looks like you had a lot of fun! Great pics!
June 30th, 20083:02 pm at
63- Silhouettes are great. This one captured a great moment!!
95 - Black and whites are my absolute fave!! Great job!
171 - I am a sucker for black and white hoodie pictures. The fact that she was wearing a Hannah Montana t-shirt sealed the deal!!
June 30th, 20083:12 pm at
Oh, that is just MEAN!! So many great pix and we have to choose ONE???
Okay, here are a few to choose from in order that I liked them:
53 ~ I loved the silouette of your family. A canvas of that would be over my fireplace….if I could take a pix like that!
173 ~ Another cute pix of your family and I love how the one daughter is holding a camera. Got the bug??
145 ~ Made me laugh. I have a pix of my kids under a sign that says, “Kids for Sale. Some Cheap! (or free)” Some days you just want to sell them for a nickel, huh? LOL
1 ~ The silouette of father and daughter is gorgeous
274 ~ Another father and daughter with such emotion.
123 & 187 ~ Look like fine art photos. If you’re looking for something that looks like a magazine pix, these are awesome!!
Can’t wait to see what you decide. How can you decide? I’d have a coffee table book of all of them! LOL
TFS!!
June 30th, 20083:13 pm at
i agree…wayyyy tooooo hard to pick just 3, but these are my faves (at the moment anyways)
28, 246, and 249
i can’t wait to try out the silhouette thing when i go to the beach this september!!
June 30th, 20083:19 pm at
Wow! I loved them all!!
My favorites are:
#5
#145
#160
Can’t wait to see what you decide!
June 30th, 20083:33 pm at
Wow, I love so many of them…
My choices:
1
66
274
June 30th, 20083:38 pm at
Gorgeous and fun!!! My picks are 51, 145, 166…..
June 30th, 20083:39 pm at
My favs are 7, 27, 106 Clowns are kind of scarey for some but this pic is cool!
June 30th, 20083:40 pm at
I am so inspired by your sunset silhouette shots - beautiful! I also love all the full sun shots - great color! My votes are for 54,97, and 123
June 30th, 20083:44 pm at
I loved the slide one (9-282). My first summer job away from home was working as a waitress in Petoskey Michigan…it was also my first summer romance…. so I have fond memories of this part of the country. Glad you had such a wonderful time as a family and as a photographer.
June 30th, 20083:47 pm at
Oh- your vacation photos are just incredible!! So hard to choose!! But here are my (very hard to decide on) three choices- but here are my faves… IMG 54- IMG 200- IMG 257
June 30th, 20083:48 pm at
Whew! Made it through them all.
8, 28, and 236 are my faves.
How are you ever going to choose with so many people who have different favorites? LOL
June 30th, 20083:50 pm at
I can’t get the smug mug gallery to load from my (dayjob) PC…so my favorites are numbers 1, 2, and 5 from your OSP post.
June 30th, 20083:51 pm at
Looks like you had so much fun! I like #1, 38 and 166. (But it was HARD to choose!)
June 30th, 20084:09 pm at
3, 166, and 202
Love them, thanks for sharing!
June 30th, 20084:19 pm at
SO CUTE!!!
11
28
145
June 30th, 20084:24 pm at
Wow! They are all lovely, but I think #160, 166 and 286 are my favorite! The blk & wht is stunning…
June 30th, 20084:29 pm at
I vote for numbers 51, 98 and 198. This is fun!
June 30th, 20084:29 pm at
great pics!!!
5, 38, 95 are my choices….but it was tough to pick!!
June 30th, 20084:32 pm at
Wow. You really have some great pics. I really like them all but I guess my faves are 51..the one with silouette of dad and the two girls. Beautiful. I would love a pic like that of my whole family. Number 145 with the two girls and the for sale here sign above their heads is great. It cracks me up but still so cute and funny. And number 274…..I just love this one. Looks like you had a great time. Thanks for sharing your trip with us.
June 30th, 20084:32 pm at
These are absolutely beautiful! Looks like you had a fun vacation and your girls are adorable!
My favorites (sorry, couldn’t narrow it down to three) are:
158,242,282,274,4, 51, 58
June 30th, 20084:35 pm at
162, 211, and 236
June 30th, 20084:39 pm at
They are all so great..it’s really hard to narrow them down. But I am going to go with 1, 166, and 200 as my faves!
June 30th, 20084:42 pm at
19, 98, 162
June 30th, 20084:43 pm at
28, 38 and 58 - Love them all though - beautiful shots! Lucky girl
June 30th, 20084:49 pm at
There are too many to choose from!!! If I HAVE to pick, I’d say my favs are:
15
27
53
June 30th, 20085:21 pm at
Number 44, with that I would do series of three that would include that one to print big.
-T
June 30th, 20085:22 pm at
Wow they are all great! My favs are 1, 11 and 28!
June 30th, 20085:37 pm at
Love them all… my favorites are #38, 160, and 167.
June 30th, 20085:40 pm at
Argh! It was SOOOOO hard to only pick three! I narrowed it down to 5, 28, and 255. Beautiful shots! It looks like you guys had an awesome vacation!
June 30th, 20085:44 pm at
oh love vacations, I can never narrow those shots down!!! I want to always remember every moment. These were my favs 55,169,241.
June 30th, 20085:46 pm at
Beautiful captures!!!
181, 274, 145
June 30th, 20085:53 pm at
Ok, I am not going to follow the rules to a tee, and give you 3 images!There are so many, here are my favs
#’s 38,51,59,87,190,209,229,257,274 ( so I gave you 3x’s as many as you wanted) It’s all your fault Jodi, you shouldn’t have given me so many to choose from!..lol
June 30th, 20086:02 pm at
I like pictures 1,27 & 91. But, you have so many great photos it was hard to pick!
June 30th, 20086:13 pm at
I love
237
106
159
They are all so great. I love vacations! Glad yours was great!
June 30th, 20086:34 pm at
wow Jodi, these are all fantastic. I am sooo jealous though that your girls will cooperate and model for you. I have sooo many favorites! YIKEs, now I see why you asked us to help decide. LOL
8 10 38 51 123 159 165 181 187 205
205, 187, 181 are my favs of the scenic stuff.
I LOVE (trying to remember now) number 8 of your two girls on the beach and i think u need one of them with their daddy too. You totallllly should have gotten a family shot with all 4 of you in it somehow though! wow, this is sooo freaking hard. sorry i can’t narrow it down more. they are all too freaking awesome! Welcome back!
June 30th, 20086:35 pm at
OMG 38 totally!!
Others:
51
274
amazing pictures!
June 30th, 20087:27 pm at
Looks like a beautiful vacation! Love all the colors! My favs are 11, 28, 187
June 30th, 20087:50 pm at
These are all awesome. #38, #53, #114
June 30th, 20088:13 pm at
Good luck choosing - you have a lot of amazing shots!!! I like 28, 64, and 191.
June 30th, 20088:22 pm at
I’m a newbie photographer and I just love all the information on your blog. I love the sunset pictures! I’m going to vote for 27,51 and 274.
June 30th, 20088:36 pm at
They are all great but I say…
1
11
18
June 30th, 20088:41 pm at
You have so many great images from you vacation. My pics are 5, 27, and 336.
June 30th, 20089:54 pm at
Wow they are all so good. But I have to say I like 38, 105 and 242.
June 30th, 20089:59 pm at
My 3 favorites are 5, 13, and 27.
Jack
June 30th, 200810:27 pm at
Yes, that was totally unfair….trying to pick only three from 282 shots. I see that one of my fave’s has gotten a few votes already….that would be #274. It definitely is a must to enlarge! The other two I picked are: #109 and #255.
June 30th, 200811:38 pm at
Jodi!!!
I didn’t get through all of them, but I LOVE 38!!! Both girls in it is absolutely beautiful!!!! We were just on vaca for a week and do you think I picked up my camera once while we were there!!! NOPE!
Great job!
Katie
July 1st, 200812:53 am at
So hard to decide!!! I pick 257, 138, and 54. Good luck choosing! They are all gorgeous. Looks like you had a blast.
July 1st, 200812:54 am at
VERY good capture of your vacation. Lots of good ones to choose from.
#5, #28, #54 and #162 — the silhouettes and the slides are just awesome!
I also liked #1, 46, 89, 91, 242, 274
July 1st, 20081:02 am at
53, 64, 163 — hard to choose! Thanks for sharing your vacation with us!
July 1st, 20081:13 am at
My favorites are 51, 159, 229. So many beautiful pictures, looks like a fun vacation.
Thanks.
July 1st, 20081:14 am at
9 63 159 They reminded me so much of the time I spent near the Straits of Mackinaw when I was about your daughter’s age. Terrific photos and it looks like a great family vacation.
July 1st, 20081:15 am at
O.K. I see now why you asked for our help, you have way…way too many GREAT ones! After going thru them at least 6 times, here are my picks…#38, #235, #192
July 1st, 20081:39 am at
My favs are: 205, 179, 106
July 1st, 20082:13 am at
54
95
162
Just when I thought I had them chosen, another good one came along! Beautiful photos and beautiful family!
July 1st, 20082:33 am at
I love 38, 159 and 242 the most. Beautiful vacay photos!!
July 1st, 20082:38 am at
You pawned this off on purpose, didn’t you?
I think you need to get 2 sets enlarged.
After narrowing down dozens, I came up with these two sets:
1, 91, 95
156, 159, 170
Your girls are adorable, Jodi.
July 1st, 20082:57 am at
A lot of amazing great shots, but the ones of sunset simply took my breath away. I would pring these three on large canvas and hang next to each other:
42, 58, 63!!!
Awesome!!!
July 1st, 20083:30 am at
There are so many good ones. But the ones that stood out to me ae 5, 28, 166
July 1st, 20083:43 am at
I had a really hard time deciding. So I chose one from each area of my life. As a sister, 11, because they look like they could be the best of friends; As a photographer, 150, because it is great composition and color; and As a mom 242, cause that heart they are making is just too cute!
July 1st, 20083:46 am at
It was a really hard decision to make so I made it based upon the three major areas of my life. As a mom, #242, because that heart they are making is too precious, as a sister, #11, because they look like they could be the best of friends, and as a photographer #150, because it is great composition and color.
July 1st, 20087:57 am at
I really liked 19,59,91. Thanks for sharing!
July 1st, 20088:05 am at
38,44,and 53 all of them are beautiful. So love the sunset pics.
July 1st, 20088:12 am at
my picks would be:
39
61
159
but you got SO many great ones!!!!
July 1st, 20088:25 am at
I love numbers 13,145,160. I also love 18,35,38 and 51.
To hard to choose! Great pictures by the way.
July 1st, 20089:02 am at
Hey Jodi-it was so hard to just pick 3 out of 282!!! But my favs were #’s 6, 38 and 166. It looks like you all had a great time up there and I’m wanting to back there to visit too since I was born in Michigan =) Thanks for sharing your family vacation with us, the pictures were just spectacular!!
July 1st, 20089:04 am at
Talk about hard to choose!
1, 5, 34
Beautiful images!
July 1st, 20089:18 am at
18, 43, 92, 159, 162 Sorry I couldn’t pick just 3 and I could really go on and on! Great picks!
July 1st, 20089:20 am at
OOOOhhhh, beauties in there! 39, 59, 166, although I had a list of about 10! Great job! Way to go, dad and girls - thanks for obliging your mama with some beautiful shots!
July 1st, 20089:20 am at
Hard to choose just 3 but here goes 242 they look so sweet, 275 love the Daddy shot and 162 the girls hugging with the blue background. I think all the colors in these really pop! Glad you had such a wonderful time.
July 1st, 20089:22 am at
This was easy……….not!!!!!!!!! #’s 1 (I’m a sucker for sillouettes), #91, and #274. Good luck!!!
July 1st, 20089:34 am at
Jodi
Love seeing the northern part of our state. My fav’s are
141
145
187
Beth Kraenzlein
July 1st, 20089:40 am at
Wow wow woooozer that was hard
4,18,154
You will need to build a huge wall to hang all of the wonderful prints you should enlarge:) Thank you for sharing your wonderful vacation.
July 1st, 200810:25 am at
wowza! I need to get out my camera more on vacation - fun shots thanks for sharing! my favs are 5, 28 and 61 but very hard to choose!
July 1st, 200810:36 am at
Great Pics! My favs are #1, #54, and #63. I really like the one with their outstretched hands, reaching for each other. It reminds me of how our Heavenly Father reaches out to us. If we would only take His hands and follow Him… ;o)
July 1st, 200810:36 am at
Hi Jodi, I just recently purchased some actions from your site and I am having a ball with them!! I think photos #1, 135, 274 should be big!
July 1st, 200810:42 am at
They are all amazing, but I really love these:
117
95
43
July 1st, 200811:04 am at
OK…yeah it was hard to choose but my fav’s are #27, #56, and #282. Looks like you all had a great time!
July 1st, 200811:18 am at
15 27 166 These are great! Looks like a fun trip!
July 1st, 200811:20 am at
Yikes. Hard to choose! #14, #58, and #136. Hope you had a great vacation! From the looks of the photos, you had a great time!
All my best!
Jeanette K
July 1st, 200811:38 am at
15 27 166
Cute Cute Cute!
July 1st, 200812:14 pm at
My top three were #1 #28 and #64,but it was so hard I have to add #191 and 205. which ones do you like???? see you can’t pick just three either!!!!
July 1st, 200812:48 pm at
You have wonderful shots there! Thanks for sharing. My choices:
145,
188 & 282 (I think this is one of each girl - in b&w grouped together would be awesome)
I don’t know this will actually help you though!! Having to go through all of the opinions is going to be hard! lol. Good luck!
Michelle
July 1st, 20081:05 pm at
23, 40, and 59 so pretty
July 1st, 20081:13 pm at
Man - lots of darling photos. I managed to narrow it down to these 54, 160, 241.
TFS
July 1st, 20081:50 pm at
Good grief that was difficult. How long did it take you to edit that many? The colors were so gorgeously vibrant. I loved sooo many of them but I really was drawn to the silhouettes so my choices are 28 38 and 58 (though I loved 159, 161 and 274 too).
July 1st, 20084:43 pm at
Jodi! Amazing shots. Love so many of them. If I had to pick three I’d group these three silhouettes together, 1, 38 an 59. Absolutely stunning images!
July 1st, 20087:11 pm at
28 and 35 and 101. Great shots!
July 1st, 20087:15 pm at
Have I already left a comment? It says I have a duplicate.
Hmmm. 28, 35, 101…. I think.
July 1st, 20087:57 pm at
My favorites are #38, #53 & #242. I love the sunset with both girls holding hands, very dramatic. I really love #53, the dad and both girls is priceless. #242 is just so cute with their cherry sunglasses and skirts, very summerish!! Wow what amazing shots! It was very hard to choose from!!
July 1st, 20088:24 pm at
62,96,145 It’s not even my vacation and I want to order big prints from it! lol good luck with your choices!
July 1st, 200810:04 pm at
I agree with the others … picking just 3 is a little unfair!
Looks like it was a wonderful vacation. My picks are: 62, 84, 187
July 1st, 200810:37 pm at
Definitely 99 andddddd 167 and 255. Tough call, they are all so great!
Casey Cooper
July 1st, 200811:20 pm at
11
38
51
I loved them all. So much expression and fun in them.
July 2nd, 20081:52 am at
I liked some of the same ones you did since the ones you turned black and white appealed to me the most. My choices for big prints are #229, 257, 274.
July 2nd, 20086:23 am at
I like 51, 119 and 258.
Looks like a great vaca!
July 2nd, 20087:29 am at
I wish I had more photo’s of my father and I. We were very close and he passed away 13 years ago. My 1st daughter was only 1 year old and my 2nd wasn’t born yet so she never got to meet her grandfather.
July 2nd, 20089:36 am at
That was really hard! Bad thing about being a photographer is even though you get to share those moments you don’t get to be in them
I choose 51, 159 and 274. Beautiful family! 
July 2nd, 20089:40 am at
I couldn’t get passed the first set. I love 1, 7, and 18. All fabulous photos!
July 2nd, 20082:48 pm at
These pictures make me want to be on vacation with you! It looks like you had sooo much fun. Thanks for sharing. OK, I am terrible at this because I cannot discard a single image; even the blurry ones (of which hopefully I don’t have too many) represent a memory to me! Only because you made us choose 3, I’ll narrow it down to 4 - that’s not too bad
5
38
51
246
Hope you have a lot of wall space!
July 3rd, 20081:57 am at
so many choices!! 54, 59, 91. good luck choosing!
July 3rd, 200810:29 am at
tough choice but here are my picks 91, 94 and 169
July 3rd, 200810:31 am at
Very hard to choose since they are all amazing! I totally loved #43, 196, 242. I changed my mind at least a dozen times for the top three!
July 3rd, 200810:33 am at
Love all the pictures!! My favs are: 5, 53 and 119. Looks like a great vacation
July 3rd, 200810:40 am at
Hi Jodi,
I’m not sure if this will even enter me into your contest, but just wanted to say that your vacation pictures turned out just gorgeous! There were seriously so many I loved. I loved 58, 145, 114. Looks like you had fun!
July 3rd, 200810:45 am at
It looks like everyone had a great time. Your vacation photos look like mine though. The only one I saw with you in it was the one with your reflection in the window as you were snapping the shot : ) It was a tough choice, but I think #63, 172, 174
July 3rd, 200811:08 am at
It looks like everyone had a great time on vacation…53, 159, and 274. This was a fun contest! Lots of great shots and choices!!
July 3rd, 200811:13 am at
How do you pick 3? 159, 7, 94. There are SO many good ones. Really. Other favs: 13, 38 and 63.
July 3rd, 200811:28 am at
Only three?!?!?!?! Well, for starters 38, 51, and 60. I love these to display in a group. But I also really liked 145 and 242 of your girls. You got a lot of really great shots!
July 3rd, 20081:04 pm at
Jodi, you took some great vacation pics. They are all great and I know you had fun. My favorites would have to be 1/282 - This just a great father daughter shot; 104/282 - How often do you get a happy daughter with a flower on her face; 275/282 - Love the father daughter eye-to-eye with her hands on his face, what love.
Charles
July 3rd, 20081:16 pm at
1,40, and 54. Man that was hard picking. LOVE LOVE LOVE the silhouettes.
July 3rd, 20088:32 pm at
Voting ended at 8:20 this evening - number 44 is the winner. Please feel free to comment more on this post and with your favorites. They will not be part of the contest though, but I do love your feedback.