An Announcement

Here at A&L Photographix we have an important announcement to make.

It seems the randomly selected winner of the 20% Off Voucher lives interstate.

Christian Moore has contacted us yesterday and requested that his prize be given to the runner up.

So in accordance with his request- Alaina Nicholson is the new winner.

Alaina can you please contact us via email with in 14 days (by the 28th of April) so that we can email your voucher to you.

Your voucher will be valid for 12months from the date we email it to you and can be used towards any of our packages.

Congratulations and we look forward to hearing from you.

ANNOUNCING..........

The FIRST winner of our 20% off Voucher for "Fan Of The Week" on our Facebook page.

Our "Fan Of The Week" is determined by an external app that we have on our facebook page and we have no control what so ever over who is chosen.

The winner of our first 20% off Voucher, to be used towards any of our packages (conditions apply), has been decided out of the 9 "Fan Of The Week" recipients from the past 9 weeks (period 1 Feb 2012-31 Mar 2012).

The order of the "Fan Of The Week" for the first give away period is:

1. Jeanette Davy
2. Rachelle Hugo
3. Katrina Davies Hutchesson
4. Christian Moore
5. Peter Inkster
6. Alaina Nicholson
7. Teresa Ann Martin
8. Alaina Nicholson
9. Christian Moore

This has given us a tie between Christian Moore and Alaina Nicholson. In order to determine the overall winner of the 20% Off Voucher we enlisted the help of random.org to generate a random winner.

As Christian and Alaina were both selected as "Fan Of The Week" twice, I gave them the numbers 1 and 2 based on the order in which their last selection occurred. So therefore they had:

1. Alaina Nicholson
2. Christian Moore

Random.org has selected

CHRISTIAN MOORE

Congratulations Christian. As per the conditions of our giveaway, please contact A&L Photographix via email by the 13th of February or you will forfeit the Voucher to the next competition period. Your voucher will then be emailed to you to be used when you desire. Your voucher will be valid for a period of 12 months. This period will be from the date we email the voucher to you and will expire 12months after. All details of validity will be on the voucher and contained with in the email.

Thank you

To all of those wonderful people that have contacted us in regards to our Concept Shoots, Ashley and I would like to say a big THANK YOU.

We are now in the process of scheduling the shoots and we will email everyone details of when and where their shoots will be by Friday 17th of Feb, so this coming Friday.

We are looking forward to having some fun and taking some really good photos. We will have a contract that will need to be signed on the day, giving us consent to photograph minors and to use the photos for publicity of our business.

Please note that all photos are outside as we do not have a studio yet, so in the event of inclimate weather, we will have to reschedule. This however will done in consultation with those affected.

Look forward to meeting you all in a couple weeks time.

Again a big thank you to those that wish to partake.

Lisa.

WANTED: Models

A&L Photographix are sending the call out for models.  Thats right, we want models.

We are after babies, toddlers, pre-schoolers and young school age children for a series of concept shoots to be used for promotional use by A&L Photographix (all images will have our water mark over them to protect the image and safety of our clients and their families).
These Concept Shoots will be "Cake Smash" and "Bubblelish" photo shoots to demonstrate the type of work we do and the quality of our photography.

We are also after older children, pre-teens, teenagers and adults if they wish to be involved in a couple of "Paint Splash" Concept Shoots to be used for promotional purposes by A&L Photographix. Again all images used will have our water mark on to prevent the images being copied our altered.


Cake Smash photo shoots will involve the participants being photographed throughout the process of "smashing" a cake (we will source our cakes from woolworths and will be premade sponge cakes that are decorated).

Bubblelish photo shoots will involve the children playing with bubbles, from various sources, and photos being taken of them. Some bubbles will be generated by a bubble making machine, others will be made by either the children or their parents blowing the bubbles. Parents and older siblings may also be involved in these ones if desired.

Paint Splash photo shoots will involve the participants throwing paint filled ballons at each other, or flicking paint at each other using bottles, spoons, brushes etc. The paint will be home made out of flour, water and food colouring. For these ones we ask that participants wear clothes that will be okay to get stained just incase the food colouring does not come out. We also ask that the paint is kept to below shoulder height to prevent it getting in eyes, hair or mouths.


Participants of these Concept shoots will be compensated with a disc of 10-20 photos (depending on how many photos are taken during the shoot) and an Collage Poster (27.5*35 cms) with upto 15 photos on with a total value of $20.00, FREE.

Participants may purchase additional prints from their shoot at a discounted price.*



If you wish to be involved, or have your child/ren involved please email Ashley and Lisa at alphotographix@internode.on.net, with the following details:

Name, Age, Gender of participant
Name of Parent/ Legal Guardian (under 18 years requires parental consent)
Concept shoot that you wish to participate in
Best days of week for shoot and either AM or PM (all shoots will be scheduled between 9AM and 5PM).





Please send emails to us by Feburary 10 2012, Shoots will be scheduled on the  24-26 Feburary and 6-9 March 2012.

*(additional prints may be purchased for upto 6months from time of shoot to receive discounted prices)

Win a 20% off Photography Package

Well by now I trust that you all have seen that we have added the "Fan of the Week" App on our Facebook page. This has been on for about three months now and we are regularly getting our Likers picked as a Fan of the Week.

So we have decided that to recognise those that are randomly chosen as our Fan of the Week (the app randomly chooses a Fan based on interaction with our page) we are going to turn it into an ongoing competition.

As per Facebook rules, we can not run a competition directly through the Facebook page, so it will be run through our Blog.


The Competition

Win a 20% off Photography Package by being chosen as our "Fan of the Week" on Facebook the most times in TWO (2) months.

If the Facebook app "Fan of the Week" selects you as our Fan of the Week the most times in a Two (2) month period, we will give you a 10% off voucher to be used towards the purchase of a Photography Package with A&L Photographix.

Competition periods will be as follows: February 1 to March 31; April 1 to May 31; June 1 to July 31; August 1 to September 30; October 1 to November 30; December 1 to January 31.

Vouchers are to be used with in Twelve (12) months from date of issue.

Winners will be announced via our blog and on Facebook the week proceeding the end of each Competition period.
Winners are to contact A&L Photographix via email with in Fourteen (14) days of being announced as our winner or they forfeit their Voucher to the next Competition period winner.

Ashley and Lisa look forward to interacting with everyone and giving out some lovely vouchers. :)

We LOVE taking photos of......

CHILDREN AT PLAY AND PORTRAITES

At A&L Photographix we love to take photos of children at play where they are happy and glowing with excitement.

Here is a selection of photos we took one day whilst we where at Bubbles Play Cafe with Miss Kaitilyn. All ways beautifull smiles and laughs when we visit here.

We also provide budget friendly Pregnancy and Baby Photo Shoot Packages, which are a great way to capture thos wonderful memories of your growing belly and family. For information on these visit our Facebook page or email us.

Off course we would not be a photography company unless we did portraite photography also. However, at A&L Photographix we like to do things slightly different. Our portraites are done under natural light settings, with only minimal assistance from the speedlight flash unit on our camera. We love to capture the natural shine of those whom we photograph.

We believe the best photos are those that capture the moment, rather then staged photos, however, we will do staged portraites also. At this point in time though, we do not have a studio.

We LOVE to take photos at the............

PARK!!!!!!!



Over the coming weeks Ashley and I will be posting some photo blogs of our favourite places to take family photos and our favourite photography types- family, pregnancy, etc. to showcase our work.

Our first one, todays, is of taking photos at the park.

We love park and playgrounds cause children love them and their personalities can SHINE!

There is so much to do at the park. Our family loves to go to the park and play on the playground and chase the birds and ducks.

A favourite is DUCK FEEDING!

Another FUN part of playing at the park is sliding down the SLIDES. Some are big, some are small, some are fast, some are slow- but they are all FUN.

BIG "kid" or little "kid" we all have fun and smiles at the park. Such a great place for family outings.

And lets not forget SWINGS!

Swing high and fast,

or low and slow,

always having fun.

These are some of our favourite park photos. If you would like to have some family photos taken at a park- visit our Facebook page for our prices and contact information. We will travel to you, however, we advise that there may be a small travel surcharge due to the high cost of petrol, we will advise you of this when you contact us.