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It’s official.  It has been spoken.  It is finished.  Well, the first round is, at least.

The finalists have been chosen. And they are absolutely amazing – we are SO thankful for your votes on our “Image of the Year Competition“!!

We’re now in the final round, and we’re excited to see which work of art you will choose to be the Image Of The Year.  The 21 amazing images on this page represent the finalists in this year’s competition.  We had a pretty tight race this year, and with a tie for 20th place, we now have 21 contenders.

If you’re a newcomer to Making the Moment Photography, you might not be familiar with our “Image of the Year” competition.  You can read up on it by following the link.  Do it.  Now.  Right now.

To celebrate all that last year was, we nominated 124 images (one from each of our weddings, creative engagement sessions, family fun, newborn, or commercial shoots) to be chosen by you, our esteemed dudes and dudettes, as the much adorned, much coveted, much sought after, much anticipated, much revered, much beloved, and much awaited Image of the Effing Year 😀

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Open voting was held over the past few days, and the top 20 images were voted on by our facebook fans.  They did a stellar job.  Thousands of votes were cast on these 124 awesome photographs, and the top 20 have moved forward to the final round of the competition.  This is what all of the fuss is about:

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 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
  • Limited edition signed/numbered photograph of Brett drinking a wee bit much at last year’s openhouse
  • 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
  • One (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 reason

OK, SO WHEN DOES VOTING FOR ROUND 2 HAPPEN?

Round 2 starts now, on our Facebook and Instagram. It ends tomorrow Friday, January 29th, at 2pm EST.

WHEN WILL WINNERS BE ANNOUNCED?

On or before 6:00 PM EST on Friday, January 29th, 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!

HOW DO WE VOTE FOR OUR FAVORITE IMAGE?

Starting now,  contestants, friends, family (enemies too we suppose) can vote by simply “liking” and commenting on their favorite image (or images) on our Facebook page, just like Round 1. Make sure they like our Facebook page for their vote to count!

 EXTRA CREDIT? BONUS VOTES? WHAT IS THIS YOU SPEAK OF?

Oh Yes. In this round there are bonus votes Please head to our Instagram account, to like, and comment on your favorite image! Follow us to make sure your votes count! We will tally up votes on our Instagram account and this page to figure the final vote count.

MORE EXTRA CREDIT SUPER CRAZY BONUS VOTES?? EHH????

Of course.  We wouldn’t be us if we didn’t give you extra-extra credit.  For another vote, re-gram your favorite image WITH our attached hashtags (you MUST include them). There should be 2 total hashtags attached to the image.  Therefore an individual can cast up to 5 votes for any individual image. HOOLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAA

YOU ARE CONFUSED?  HERE’S THE SKINNY

So, to re-cap, there are 5 ways to vote:

Voting on Facebook:

  • 1 pt for liking the image
  • 1 pt for commenting on the image
  • Remember to “Like” our Facebook page for these points to count

Voting on Instagram:

  • 1 pt for liking the image
  • 1 pt for commenting on the image
  • 1 pt for re-gramming the image with our 2 exact originally attached hashtags
  • Remember to follow our Instagram account for these points to count

THE TOP 21 IMAGES

You voted for them!   Here are the top 21 images progressing from round one of our competition.  Now go vote!

 


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FAIRLY SERIOUS LEGAL MUMBO-JUMBO

  • 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 Lorain, 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 North Ridgeville, Ohio for any disputes relating to the Contest or these Official Rules.
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