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Facebook Contest: Win a Free Photoshoot!

All right guys, in my never-ending quest to grow my Facebook page, here’s a contest in which you can win something pretty cool.

 

Here’s how to play:

1) “LikeIronside Photography on Facebook to be eligible.

2) Share the page on your wall, send it to your friends, or tattoo it on your forehead. Get the word out somehow that you want your friends to “Like” it as well. Tell them you might win something! If you need help figuring out how to share it, let me know.

3) Tell your friends who come to “Like” this page to comment on the wall and tell me who sent them. For example, “Jane Doe told me to like your page!” (First AND last name, please!)

Note that when you send your friends to “Like” the page, they are also then eligible to win! All they have to do is send their own friends over as well.

What you win:

The person who sends the most people gets a FREE 1 hour portrait session. This can be for an individual (Senior Portraits, etc.), families, couples, you name it. Whatever you want. Session is in a location of your choice in Northwest Arkansas. You’ll receive 20 images on disk and one free 8×10. This would normally cost over $200, so it’s a steal!

 

Contest ends Sunday, August 28, at midnight.


123 GO!

EDIT:

CONGRATS to Jessica Keahey for winning!

 

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Happy New Year from Ironside Photography!

Happy New Year, everyone! Here’s to a great year and a great 2011.

2010 was a great year for me, and here’s a quick recap:

• January 1st of 2010 marked the launch of this new website.
• I had a show at the Julie Wait Gallery up in Rogers.
• I applied to six grad schools for an M.F.A. in photography, and didn’t get into a single one. I’d like to attribute that to my never having taken an art class instead of my portfolio, but who knows. Then I realized that the academic/fine art route wasn’t the one I wanted to take anyway.
• My birthday, of course.
• I officially, and legally, formed a business. Ironside Photography became real.
• I got engaged. Have you seen our website? www.stephenanddarby.com
• I showed at Art Amiss 12, and participated in many a First Thursday Fayetteville art walk.
•  I drove to Iowa to see the Dalai Lama speak.
• I shot the Wakarusa Music Festival, along with various portraits and a few weddings.
• I did some work for the University of Arkansas Honors College–most of the photos on their new website are mine.
• I went to San Francisco and Yosemite with my family and came back with some portfolio-worthy shots.
• I finished my honors thesis and graduated!
• I traveled to India on assignment.
• Darby and I traveled to Washington, D.C., to see the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear.
• Ironside Photography’s website turned 4!
Help Portrait 2010 happened, and it was great.
• 2010 ended with a nice show at Arsaga’s in Fayetteville, a contest win, and an unusually cool lunar eclipse.

How’s that for quick?

Thank you all for all of your support this year, and I’m looking forward to what 2011 will bring. I couldn’t have done it without you.

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Contest Win + Reception Reminder

I completely forgot to post this here (I mentioned it on Facebook and Twitter), but on the day of Help Portrait a week or so ago, I got a call from the Pack Rat Outdoor Center here in Fayetteville saying that I’d won first place in their annual outdoor photo contest! Here’s the photo that won, from Yosemite this summer.

The first contest I ever entered, placed in, and won, also happened to be this same contest a few years ago in high school. I entered one of my favorite shots of a praying mantis taken with my Canon Powershot as I was first getting into photography, and was ecstatic to get the call that I’d gotten first place. That contest, and this one (or so I’ve heard), was judged by renowned Arkansas nature photographer Tim Ernst, so it’s that much more special. Here’s that photo, just for kicks.

On another note, the (informal) reception for my exhibit at Arsaga’s is TONIGHT from 7-9 p.m. I hope you can make it! A few prints have already sold, and I think more will sell tomorrow night. So if you need some Christmas gifts, now is your chance!

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And we’re live in 3…2…

So, Zach and I are almost ready to launch this new website. I’m still tweaking, choosing/arranging photos for the portfolio, and making sure everything works…while I apply to graduate schools, get ready for the new semester, and prepare for an upcoming exhibition. Needless to say, things have been busy.

Here are the most recent updates from the old site to kick off this blog. May it prosper, yadda yadda yadda.

12/05/09

Just found out I placed 3rd in the Pack Rat Outdoor Center’s photo contest! The entries/winners should be on their website soon–keep checking back. www.packrat.biz

11/19/09

So, Art Amiss was a blast, and it sure was packed. Thanks to all of you who came out.

Turns out I also got 1st place in the University of Arkansas’ October 2009 student Color Photo Contest. I forgot to mention that I got 2nd place in last month’s Black & White student contest as well. Yahoo!

Art Amiss 11 Flier

Art Amiss 11 Flier

10/30/09

I got accepted to show at Art Amiss 11. It will be on November 11 at the Dickson Street Theater. Here’s a link to more info:

Art Amiss 11

10/23/09

AH! Recent news:

-I’m working on a re-design for my website. If you notice some errors in the next few weeks or the page is messed up, I know about it and am working on it.

-I just started a Twitter page for the photo-side of my life:

http://twitter.com/ironsidephoto

-I was featured on UATV this morning. Here’s a link to the blog:

http://uatv.uark.edu/wordpress/?p=399

And the big news:

I got shortlisted in the 2009 World Nomads Travel Photography Scholarship! In the top 31 out of 1050 applicants. Whoa!

Link to the scholarship:

http://journals.worldnomads.com/scholarships/post/32554.aspx

And link to the winner announcement:

http://journals.worldnomads.com/scholarships/post/36171.aspx

What a day.

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