2018 Shoot & Share Contest | Charlotte Family Photographer

For the past two years, I’ve entered a photo contest hosted by Shoot & Share. The Shoot & Share Photo Contest markets itself as the world’s only free and fair photo contest. Anyone can enter their photos into the contest (even you!), and anyone can vote on them (even you)! Each person can enter up to 50 photos, in 25 different categories. What I love about this competition is that it’s completely anonymous, so you’re voting solely on the merit of the photo itself and not who took it. No popularity contest here! When you go to vote, you are shown four random pictures, and you pick your favorite of the four. You can do this over and over again (and with 412,379 submissions this year, there was no shortage of photos to vote on). All in all, over 75 million votes were placed!

For me, the fun part was comparing my progress year over year:

Not bad, right!? And I was a finalist this year too! So let me show you some of my photos that placed this year in the top 20% or above:

I love this mother/son moment between baby Magnus and his mama, Lisa.

Same ridiculously attractive family, just pre-Magnus! This was an outdoor winter cake smash that was made all the more special because daddy had finally returned from Afghanistan after several months away. 

This is my sweet niece, Avery. I was babysitting her one weekend so her mommies could have a date night, and I squeezed in a photoshoot…because what else would we do!?

This one holds a special place in my heart because it’s my daughter and my best friend’s daughter. We’ve been besties for 25 years, and in this photo I see the start of the next generation of BFFs.

I’ll be honest– I love me a good sunset shoot. But in New England, in the winter, the sun sets ridiculously early and things can get DREARY. So you have to get creative. So on one particularly dreary day, I did a cereal milk bath shoot with my girls. So fun!

And as luck would have it, her sister was a finalist!!  Love my girls. 

Thank you to all my clients who allowed me to capture such beautiful moments. I can’t wait to see what the rest of this year holds! Here’s a video if you want to see all the photos I submitted: