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So, we’re happy.  Like awkwardly happy.

You  know that type of creepy too-happy smile someone makes to mess with you?  Yeah.

2015 was another landmark year for us. Our team has grown again (we hired people – we may have also gotten taller or fatter or what-not), we got hit on some more, got hit on not enough, slipped on hills, twisted ankles, broke stuff, lost stuff, found stuff, laughed ’til we cried, met Tori Kelly, pushed through hypothermia and the blazin sun, took a crap-ton of pictures, saved a kitten from a fire, edited a crap-ton of pictures, and found some time in between to make brides, grooms, families and our commercial partners super fabulous looking.  The Olde Official Tally sits at 69,325 images.  All unique, different, and amazing.  We expect no less from 2016.

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Sometimes the best way of moving forward is by looking back and remembering. Therefore, we proudly announce our annual “Image of the Year Competition” for images that were crafted last year (2015).  This year the competition will be fierce, with over a million thousand dollars worth of prizes for our clients!

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Be it a Wedding, Engagement Session, Family Imaging Session, Senior Imaging Session, LiveBooth, Commercial Shoot or otherwise, we nominated one image from each eligible creative project to be an entry in this year’s competition.

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Image of the Year Grand Prize

Valued at over $1000 bucks, this is worth fighting for *

  • 24×36″ Metal Wall Art Print with B.A. (bad-ass) Metal Stud Post Hangers. Yes – complete awesomeness.
  • $250 gift card to the Making the Moment Photography print lab
  • Our team will re-enact your favorite movie scene to the best of our terrible ability and share the result **
  • Limited-Edition, one-of-a-kind award crafted of love and a paper plate
Image of the Year Runner-Up

Pretty good stuff still happens here for our second place winner

  • $187.15 gift card to the Making the Moment Photography print lab
  • One (1) bottle of Brett’s Bald Beautiful Balm – An innovative product from our very own Brett***
  • A poorly Photoshopped photo of our staff poorly Photoshopping a photo from Photoshop
  • A paperclip actually used by Renee to hold paper together against other pieces of paper
Image of the Year Almost Winner (3rd Place)

Amazing awesomeness still happens here for our third place winner

  • $50 gift card to the Making the Moment Photography print lab
  • (1) Over-the-phone serenading of “My Heart Will Go On” performed by Marcus
  • Vince will give a strangely long awkward hug to the person of your choice
  • Sara will arrive at a pre-designated destination to laugh at your friends for no apparent reason

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When Does This Thing Happen?

It’s happening right now 🙂 the 123 images eligible for this years Image of the Year Competition are placed on Making the Moment Photography’s facebook page.

How Do We Vote for Our Favorite Image?

Starting at 8:00 AM on Tuesday, contestants, friends, family (enemies too we suppose) are able to vote by simply “liking” the image (or images) they enjoy most on our Facebook page.  An additional vote is available for going the extra mile by leaving a comment on that image.  Therefore an individual can cast up to two votes for any individual image.  Pretty nifty huh?

Who is Eligible to Vote?

Only people who “like” Making the Moment Photography on Facebook are eligible. Please ensure that your friends and family like our Facebook page prior to (or after) casting their votes.

Round Two Voting

After the first round of voting, 20 “Finalist” images will be chosen based on popular voting from round one.  The vote count for these 20 images will start with an even playing field (all votes reset to zero), and voting will change up a bit (stay tuned for that!) It is important to know that the images will be displayed in the order of popularity via votes from the first round though. Round two votes will not be cast on our Facebook page, but instead directly on our Instagram and on a future blog post.  Keep posted on how this will affect the competition.

When Does Voting End?

Voting for round one ends at exactly 11:59 PM EST Wednesday January 27th.  At that point, we will count votes for the images posted, and narrow down to the 20 Image of the Year finalists.

OK, So When Does Voting for Round 2 End?

Round Two voting starts Thursday January 28th, as soon as the 20 finalists images are posted on our blog.  This should be somewhere around noon, but we might sleep in.  We shall see.  The Second round ends on Friday January 29nd at 2:00 PM EST.

When Will Winners be Announced?

On or before Friday January 29th @ 5:00 PM EST, we will announce the top three Images of the year!

How Can I Get Lots o’ Votes?

Simple! tell your friends.  Tell everyone!  The more likes, the better chances you have of your image winning the competition!

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Miscellaneous Official Rule List

Participants in this years competition have the following rules to abide by.  Please give them a brief read.  We also have tips scattered throughout on how you can bribe our judges.****

  • “Likes” on each individual photo in the “2015 Image of the Year” album on Making the Moment’s official fan page count as a vote, but only by official fans of Making the Moment Photogrpahy on Facebook
  • Comments on each individual photo in the “2015 Image of the Year” album on Making the Moment’s official fan page count as a bonus vote, but only by official fans of Making the Moment Photogrpahy on Facebook
  • Please remember – sharing an image on your wall might not work – Facebook doesn’t always link the likes / comments to our official page.  Only votes cast on our page will actually be tallied.
  • Votes by snail mail, email, phone, knocks on the door, inbox messages, prank calls, cookie delivery, and any other method besides facebook, do not count. We’ll take flowers though….
  • Bribing judges is permitted, but only by personally dropping off our favorite beers to the office
  • Although some entrants have multiple images in round 1 (perhaps a couple had us photograph both their wedding and an engagement session), each client / couple may only have one image proceed to the final round of voting.
  • Bribes will not however affect final outcome.  They are still of course accepted and encouraged
  • People may vote on as many photos as they’d like
  • Generally speaking our favorite beers are Belgian or Trappist ales
  • The commissioner of the image (ergo the actual “Client” of Making the Moment) is the actual prize winner, not necessarily the subject of the image
  • All Awards/Prizes/Credits must be claimed within 30 Days of issuance, or are considered forfeited
  • Award credits and prizes hold no actual cash value
  • This time of year we also like porters and stouts
  • Employees or contractors of Making the Moment LLC are not permitted to vote or “like” any images in the contest. Comments are permitted though, but will not count towards the vote totals.
  • Winners will be announced on our facebook page the day after after everything has been officially tallied
  • Eligible contestants may use our images as facebook profile images, but are not permitted to crop the image in any way
  • If the right beers are hard for you to find, we encourage you to just drop off hundred dollar bills
  • No hundred dollar bills?  That’s fine – just bourbon.  Lots and lot’s of bourbon.
  • Nominated images from the event are selected exclusively by Making the Moment Photography staff – all nominees are final
  • Nominated peeps – please don’t complain about the image we chose and how awesome the other image that “shows your good side” better should be picked.  We do our very best to pick images unbiasedly that we think really have a shot and stand out from the rest – it takes quite a bit of time for our staff to narrow it down to the best – so please trust us 🙂
  • Final winners and vote tallies are up to the discretion of Making the Moment Photography
  • At any time if the client who commissioned the image wishes the image to be removed from the contest, the image will be removed from the contest and no longer eligible for any prize winnings
  • At any time if a subject of the image (or legal-guardian thereof) wishes the image they are being shown in to be removed from the contest, the image will be removed from the contest and the image and it’s respective client will no longer be eligible for any prize winnings
  • Only fully purchased Images captured and released in 2015 are eligible for this contest (Photographic sessions ineligible for entry are sessions where digital files or home usage rights were not purchased)
  • Making the Moment can for any reason remove or prevent an image or a contestant from the competition for any reason what-so-ever.
  • Users who wish to vote, but who are without a facebook account are still eligible for the contest by creating a free facebook account

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Fairly Serious Legal Mumbo-Jumbo
  • Comment votes containing profanity, violence, hate speech will be removed and not counted towards the vote tally to the given photograph
  • Making the Moment Photography may at any time cancel the contest, alter or adjust the rules at any given time
  • This contest is void where prohibited by law. The contestants assume the total responsibility of knowing their local laws in regard to contests and are subject to any local, state, national or international laws. Making the Moment LLC accepts no responsibility for making these individual legal determinations.
  • Making the Moment LLC reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual it finds, in its sole discretion, to be tampering with the entry process or the operation of the Contest or the Website; to be in violation of the User Agreement of the Website; to be acting in violation of these Official Rules; to be acting in a unethical or disruptive manner, or with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other person, as determined by Making the Moment LLC at its sole discretion.
  • Any use of cartel, robotic, automatic, macro, programmed or like entry methods will void all such entries by such methods and persons using any such methods will be disqualified.
  • If for any reason this Contest is not capable of being conducted as planned due to infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes which, in the sole opinion of Making the Moment LLC, corrupt or affect the administration, security, fairness, integrity, or proper conduct of this Contest, Making the Moment LLC reserves the right to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Contest. If the Contest is terminated due to tampering or technical difficulties prior to its expiration date, notice will be posted on Making the Moment LLC’s website at http://www.MakingTheMoment.com/.
  • As a condition of participating in this Contest, you agree that any and all disputes which cannot be resolved between the parties, claims and causes of action arising out of or connected with this Contest, or any prizes awarded, or the determination of the Winner shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action exclusively by arbitration pursuant to the commercial arbitration rules of the American Arbitration Association, then effective. Further, in any such dispute, under no circumstances will you be permitted to obtain awards for, and you hereby waive all rights to claim punitive, incidental or consequential damages, or any other damages, including attorneys’ fees, other than your actual out-of- pocket expenses (i.e., costs associated with entering this Contest), and you further waive all rights to have damages multiplied or increased. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, or your rights and obligations Making the Moment LLC’s rights and obligations in connection with this Contest, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Ohio, U.S.A. in the County of Cuyahoga, without giving effect to the conflict of laws rules thereof, and you agree to the jurisdiction and venue of the federal, state and local courts for Westlake, Ohio for any disputes relating to the Contest or these Official Rules.

* Do not hit, bite or otherwise hurt other contestants
** Scarface preferred.  Christopher Walken to be praised.  No Frozen.  No My Little Pony.  K, maybe….
*** Bald head required for use
**** In all seriousness, you know we can’t be bought.  The voting is completely up to facebook anwyays.  Still – feel free to stop by with the above mentioned goodness.
*****There’s not even a 5th star…..sucka…

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