Let the Voting Begin - Best of 2009!

What?! It's New Years Eve already?? That seriously can't possibly be, can it? (on a little personal side note: 13 years ago today I wasn't celebrating in the traditional style -- My husband and I were in the labor and delivery unit having our first child! He came just 13 min. before the New Year so we got that tax deduction - LOL -- so Happy Birthday to my oldest son (who is now officially taller than me and I think that's his favorite birthday gift heeeee!)
Alright, so I wanted to do one last she-bang here on the ol' blog to 2009 and thought a little contest where YOU are the judges would be most fun! Aren't you excited now? Below you will find THE BEST OF 2009 (this was so hard and I totally could have put 1 from EACH session (but since I think I'd crash the poor blog uploading 100 images - LOL) I let a group of photographers help narrow it down to these 21.

So here's how it'll work: to vote, simply leave a comment below with the number of your favorite image. The image with the highest votes will win! You may, of course, vote for yourself. Feel free to share the link to this post to all your friends and family! The more votes your image receives, the better your chances of winning!

The client of the winning picture will receive a Free session to use in 2010 and a Free mounted 11×14 wall portrait of the winning image!

To make this even more interesting… after all the comments are in, I’ll do a random number draw on random.org and that comment will also win a Free session to use in 2010 (so be sure to check back after the drawing or leave your email with your comment for me to contact you).

Voting ends at 11:59pm on January 8, 2009. Only one vote per person please.

without further ramblings... I proudly present some of the BEST OF 2009!

ETA: Since not everyone has a blogger account, I have temporarily changed the settings so that ANYONE can leave a comment (so if you post as "anonymous" PLEASE sign your name so we know who you are in case you win!). I will also continue taking votes via email and manually logging in their vote :) Hope this makes things easier for friends and family!

Disclaimer: if you leave a comment as anonymous with no way to identify you (and you are the winner of the random drawing) an alternate winner will be selected. UPDATE: as of Tuesday night (Jan 5ht) at 8:30pm MST no "anonymous" vote will be counted unless a valid name and email address are left with it (if you don't want your email publicly viewable, please just send me your vote at shandyvogt@hotmail.com

#1 Deakin#2 Falling Leaves#3 Getting Mom#4 Love#5 Baby Glance#6 Love downtown#7 Baby Emma#8 Urban Ballerina#9 Golden Sunset#10 Swinging #11 Peaceful Love (I'm seeing a lot of Love-y ones... anyone getting engaged soon? LOL)#12 Vibrant Shelby#13 Expecting#14 SOAKED!#15 Means Family#16 Stern Family#17 Triple Take#18 Colorful Dip#19 Halley on the river#20 First Tennies#21 stylin' Aubree