Blog of Orange County photographer, Tara Whitney. Features client sneak peeks and sessions, the "check it" section (where Tara shares her favorite things found online), and personal stories from her life as a woman and mother of four.
june from photographer cafe, one of my advertisers, is offering an album basics template set to one of you.
if this is something that you think could benefit your business, enter away!
winner chosen this evening at 8pm PST.
- Ooooh ... yes, please. Is this the entry? Thanks : )
- Come on lucky #2! Those look awesome!
- I would be thrilled with the opportunity to win this prize!!! THRILLED!!!!! Head to toes!
- I would love these for my business! Thanks for the giveaway!
- Fingers crossed! Very fun templates!
- I would LOVE this!!
- definitely!! love the simple, classic look of these :)
- Oh! Me, me, me!
- I would love to win this! Is this my lucky day? thanks! tynan
- i would be as happy as a clam if i won! how awesome!
- This would be perfect. Hopefully the luck is with me today :)
- me!
- um, yes please!
- These look so good. Pick me! Pick me!
- so cute ... thanks for doing this!
- Ooooh such pretty designs!!
- Please, please, please pick me!! (Thanks, in advance ;) )
- I'd love to win!
- I would love to win this! How generous of her! Thank!
- i would LOVE to win. really. because i just wrote a really long entry about how insanely busy i am with 2 full time jobs, a youth group, a worship team, and a musical and don't even have time for dinner and then the page messed up and i could cry.
- Love it! Gotta love the giveaways!!!
- I don't think that my last comment posted! What I said was OMG these would help benefit my business SO much! Album design is the most time consuming aspect of what I do and I could totally use these awesome templates!
- oh, how awesome! Those templates are very nice....thanks for the giveaway and for sharing the link to that site. *fingers crossed* :)
- First of all let me start off with a confession....I've been a silent stalker of your blog for quite some time now. Your work is gorgeous and inspiring. True Eye Candy :) Now as far as the album templates go....bring it on baby. I love the clean lines and simplicity of these. I don't normally enter contests like these....this is fun.
- I would love to try out photographer cafe! put my name in! :)
- Very nice, would love the chance to win, although I never do ;)!
- Oooh. I'd love this!!
- I would LUV, LUV, LUV a set! These templates are great!
- oh very cool!
- I hope this is the place to enter!
- I would love a chance to win this..!!!
- What a lovely give-away! I, like everyone else, would love to be the lucky recipient of this special gift. Peace to you Tara!
- Amazing product! Pick me!!
- Oooh! I LOVE them ALL!! Pick me! Pick me!! :)
- this would be SO HELPFUL to me in the next few months as I start to take on more commisions!
- Awesome!
- I would love these! I've been album template shopping for awhile now. Thanks Tara!
- Would love these! OH YEAH!
- Looks amazing and would love it!
- Oh baby I need it bad!! This would rock my little world. Pretty please? :)
- Going to check it out! Thanks! Would love to win it!
- How cool is that?! I would LOVE a set...They look so cool!
- If I promise to do a good deed and pay it forward with my first album I design with the templates, am I more likely to win ;-)? I promise!
- This would make my life so much easier! Thanks!
- Ooh oooh pick me! These look like such fun!
- Yay! What beautiful templates! I would love these! Thanks for the giveaway opp.
- Totally awesome I would love to have this.
- Id like to win to share with a first time mommy!....thank you!
- What an awesome resource!! Saving me time means more time with my family!
- I would love to try these! How cool.
- This is an awesome giveaway! Tara, I love reading your blog and you are so generous! I would love to have some new templates for my albums! Thanks:)
- This looks amazing! And a perfect time saver. I am an associate for a Wedding Photographer right now, but want to move into Children and Families, and love the idea of templates to save time (I am a mom and student too!) Thanks Tara- You rock my world...
- What a cool product! Thanks!
- Hope I win! This would be a great business booster for me!
- pick me! pick me! :)
- why yes. i would happily take this home! i am actually in serious need of just such a thing.
- These are beautiful! I would love to have them!
- **drooling** pick me!
- What a cool prize! I would love to win this!
- Ooooo! I would love this! What a wonderful giveaway!!!! :)
- This would save soo much time! I would love to have this! Less time on the computer + more time with my babies = a very happy me!
- Beautiful! What a generous give away!
- I would love to enter your contest! How fun!! The designs are so nice and clean! Love your blog!! :)
- Those are lovely! And I like that they're customizable and have color, without being too much or too boring. Pick me! :)
- What a wonderful give away! Love the layouts.
- Those are amazing templates! I'd love to enter the drawing. : )
- I think they deserve to make it all the way to sunny Paris don't you?
- enter me in... debra parker
- Would love to be chosen as the winner of those great album templates! Thanks for the opportunity!
- The templates look awesome!
- i would absolutely love these! thanks tara...and june!
- OHHH This would be awesome to win! Tried entering before and it timed out on me for some reason! To top off Tax Day, I also got rear-ended on the freeway! So, winning something would make this crummy day not so gloomy! :)
- count me in. :)
- These are gorgeous! I can already see myself using them for an upcoming wedding. Throw my name into your virtual hat, please!
- how cool! i love albums - anything that makes them easier to do is worth it!
- So great. I'd love to win!
- yipppeeee!
- as my daughter would say, *clasping hands* 'oh please, oh please'
- Oh WOW! I LOVE these....is this my entry? Please include me!!!
- Enter me too please, working on my son's album (7.5 weeks) and this would be a great way to include all those photos I've taken. Cheers Fiona
- I LOVE how these look!
- These look fun. Great giveaway, Tara.
- Woot, I would love these!
- Wow, these would be great!! Pretty please? :)
- Those look so great! I would so love to have this!!
- yes please! these are awesome!
- Oh yes, I would love this and use it - LOTS!! Woo Hoo....
- ooo I could really use this. Enter me - Thank you!!
- I'm just getting my start and looking for album templates. I would love to have this! Thanks to both of you for the opportunity of this giveaway!
- I have never heard of this company but def. am bookmarking them for future use :) I can see clients loving this! :)
- ooh, these are great. pick me pick me please :-)
- HOLLLA!!! I actually look at every single thins that is posted on Photographer's Cafe! I'm a huge fan!...but a poor fan! I still have yet to actually purchase any designs or templates! I WOULD LOVE TO WIN THIS!!!!!!!!
- Great templates! I'm always looking for new ones, and these look awesome.
- Oh, yes please enter me! Love your blog!!
- i could beg?
- OOhh! mee too!! I wanna win! Here's to hoping!
- I would pretty much love this :)
- Just finished designing a coffee table book from scratch and I would love these!
- Wow! What an awesome give away! :)
- I would LOVE these!!
- yes. oh please me. these are nice templates.
- these look beautiful. my fingers are crossed. :o)
- i would love to have the chance to try and figure this out. :)
- very nice. simple and elegant with a modern twist. just my style!
- AAAHHHH!!! I totally NEED this!
- Very nice!! I would love a chance to win! :D
- I would love to win - but even if I'm not lucky enough to win, I'm thrilled to have found Photographer Cafe! What fabulous templates!
- I would today's giveaway! I love 'em.
- Ooooh, I could definitely use this! I am digging these designs!
- Wow, these are awesome! I would love to win. These are versatile and classy. Love them!
- Love this blog. Love those. just awesome!!
- Gorgeous!! Thanks for the opportunity!!!
- Oooh, yay! I love a good contest!
- ooooo! me want! pretty please?
- Ooh, me...pick me!
- These would be awesome!
- How cool! These templates look amazing!
- I think that would be a fantastic thing to add to my business!! Please enter my name into the drawing!
- how ver fun!
- count me in! i would love to win this :)
- Love it and crossing my fingers!
- her name is june - my name is april. it's fate. gotta have 'em! :)
- love these! Thanks for sharing Tara.
- cool templates
- OOOh so nice! I would love to be entered! Thanks!
- How beautiful!! They look like great templates. ;)
- Those templates look awesome!
- I'd love these!! :)
- WOW What an amazing prize! Please count me in, I know I would have such fun putting this together! Thanks Tara :)
- Oh, those are lovely.
- Wow! This is amazing and I don't have anything like this so I'm totally pumped!! Please enter me, I need this REALLY bad!! :)
- Oh wow. I would definitely be able to use this. Love it.
- yep, could use those.
- These are so cute! Count me in!
- Great templates!! Pick me =)
- I want.... oh realy I want!!
- We would love this!
- I would love this!! Please pick me!
- pick me....pick me.....pick me.....
- count me in! i loooove them all! :)
- I've been thinking about ordering something like this. Maybe today is my lucky day!
- OH please, oh please. This would be so awesome! What a great giveaway
- I want to enter as well...Those look fabulous..
- Oh yes yes yes...I would love to win this:)
- Oooo la la! Very nice give away . . . I'm in!
- Oooh, those are GORGEOUS! I want, I want!!
- Sweet! Consider me entered! Thanks :)
- um after taking Jay Reilly's workshop and realizing how HARD albums i NEED NEED these. pretty please. I have my first solo wedding in 5 weeks.
- Tara... that's exactly what I need to help me along with my new business!
- These would be great!!! :-)
- Absolutely beautiful! I sure would love to win.
- Oh, that would definitely help me! Thank you for the chance.
- I would absolutely be thrilled with this as a new way to start producing my own albums for my clients. I hope I win!
- I just had a session this morning that I would love to transform into an album - these templates would make it FABULOUS! (I especially dig #4)
- Wow! These are great and so are you!!!
- fingers and toes crossed! These are beautiful! Thanks for the opportunity to win! :)
- YES! This would REALLY help!! Thank you SO much! Kelly
- These are wonderful. I don't normally enter blog contest because I never win but these I would really use And I will probably buy them even if I don't win.
- I do love giveaways. And like I said, photography giveaways are even better! Thank you.
- What an awesome prize! I'd love to win! YAY tara!
- What a great set of templates! I'd love the chance to win them :)
- Would absolutely love it!
- pick me!!!! pick me!!!! pick me!!!! these look awesome
- yay for giveaways! =) and yay for you and june for offering them. =)
- Wicked! Thanks for the chance!
- Such fun....yummy images AND a giveaway - glad I stopped by! Thanks
- man, i would love this!
- Wow Very Cool I will have to check them out - Looks awesome Thanks for offering this up!
- oooh... this would come in so handy!!
- Nice! Those are awesome.
- fantastic - I could have fun with that!! :o)
- those look great, enter me too please! cheers Tara and Photographer Cafe!
- i would love to win... what a great contest...
- I would love it; I will check out her stuff; thanks!
- would love to have this...sweeeeettt! :)
- I do believe I could benefit. thanks!!
- This would be fabulous. I am just starting out with my photography business and something like this would be an incredible offering to my clients.
- awesome templates! thanks for the contest!
- Love these! I would love to be entered :) Thanks :)
- oooooh!! pick me pick me!!
- gorgeous. just the thing to make my day since it is snowing outside! my goodness, isn't it april?
- I saw these a couple of days ago and love love loved them!I've been wanting to start offering coffee table albums and having templates would definitely help with that!!!
- I would LOOOOVE one! Thanks for being so generous!
- These look great! Just the right mix of clean and fun.
- Thanks for the opportunity Tara!
- Oh oh oh pick me pick me! Love them!!!!
- yes please!! i need all the help I can get with album design!
- Love them! Count me it!
- {hummmmm} Channeling the random number picker!!
- Pick me Pick me!! I would DIE! Well not really, I would just be excited.
- Pick me! Pick me!
- This would benefit my LIFE more than my business. :) And I might actually motivate me to pick up my camera again.
- I would like to win!
- Oh my word- yes, yes. YES!! I'd love to have them, but right now the photography budget is going towards lenses... not extra goodies!!
- how cool! would totally love this! pick me! pick me!
- no way! i clicked on her site from yours and have been drooling over her stuff. this is awesome!!!
- i'd love to win!
- these awesome! I would love this too!! :)
- bring it TDub. :)
- Oh please pick me!!!
- Fabulous! Please enter me for a chance to win!
- Oh, this is so kind! I am new in my business (and it is going surprisingly well!) This would be a real blessing to me and my clients!!
- OH MY WORD! Puuuuuhhhhhhllllleasssseee! I so need this! I am just starting out and am staying up until the wee morning hours trying to get templates created and such. But I have a 3 year old, 1 year old, and am 37 weeks preggo... need SLEEP! This would make life so much much much easier!
- woohoo just want i wanted!!
- Gorgeous! Let's roll the dice! :)
- Oh yes me me me!! I want to start introducing designed albums and this would be perfect!
- oh that's lovely! i'd love to be entered!
- Love these!!
- What a great giveaway! I hope I'm picked, as I'm really wanting to amp up my album designs this year. Thanks for sharing June and Tara.
- Nothing like bringing blog stalkers out of the woodworks like a good competition ;-) I would love to be in the running for this awesome prize.
- BTW, it is actually Robyn Geering - arrrrggg, it's too early in the morning for my brain to start working.
- Oh me... PICK ME!!!
- Saaweeett!
- I found photographercafe when they became one of your advertisers. I DROOLED over their site! These templates are SO fun! My favorite at the Retro ones, but the whole pack would be fantastic!!
- is this how we enter the giveaway... i hope so.
- These templates look fabulous and I would love to try them out. Pick me, pick me! :)
- This would definitely help! Love the contemporary templates. Thanks for the contest!
- Those pages are beautiful and fun!
- love the unique layouts!! I'd love to add this to my collection! :)
- What great template designs!
- I love these! Pick me...Pick me!
- Those would be awesome! :)
- wow, these are gorgeous, I would love to be considered for this prize.
- I would love to win the template. Thanks
- Those are some amazing looking templates!!!
- Hi.......love a chance for a giveaway!
- Great giveaway. I'll keep my fingers crossed.
- Would love it! Thanks for the chance. =)
- Would love these! Great designs!
- This would be great! What great ideas!
- Wow - I love your blog and this album template would be a great addition! Thanks - keep it up!
- Me me me! I would love to get this set!
- Who wouldn't it help?! How fun!
- Enter me please!
- off to check out the site - thanks tara!
- is this how we enter? im in if so
- Very cool. I would love to try them out. Hope I win!
- OOOO this would be wonderful to have for the business aspect and the personal aspect of life!!! I hope I get picked out of 200 some people so far!!
- So neat!! This would be so awesome to have!!
- all.some!
- I would LOVE to win this! I work at a CPA firm and just finished our last day of tax season! Yay! I need a special prize!
- I would love to win this!! Pick me!! Comment #217. :)
- amazing..would love it for my business.
- Oh my! I would love to win that!
- Those are awesome! Hope I'm lucky today!
- Oh, I'd love to win. Fingers crossed:)
- Awesome product! Would love to own these...
- Suuuweet.
- This is an awesome give away.. Have a great week.
- Pick me! Pick me! I would love this template set!!! Puh- leeeze.
- oh yea! I'd love to win one! count me in
- Wow, these are great!! (Yay for contests!) ;)
- Ohh...I have been admiring these templates.
- Nice templates! This would be nice to win! Thanks for the contest!
- They look really nice. Add me to the list of hopefuls.
- these are fantastic.. the wedding i just did would benefit tremendously from this!
- Would love to enter, thank you!! Fingers crossed...
- Free stuff = fun stuff!
- I would love to have these! Thanks so much!!
- I would LOOOVE these! Thanks!!
- Sure would love to win . . . !
- How neat!! Count me in fo sho!! :)
- so very pretty!!
- i NEED these BIGTIME! please pick me!
- i really want these!!!
- I would love to streamline my albums! Thanks!
- can i enter more than once? you have no idea how awesome this would be, since i'm just setting up my photography business.
- i have been pricing out album template software all day long, and i just can't afford it right now. this would be such an awesome prize.
- I would love to win this one!!!
- Pick me, Pick me!!!!
- Would LOVE to win this!! Thanks!
- I would love this! How fun!
- This looks like a lovely album! I'd love to have it.
- yeesss!! I need it for my business....I've actually been looking around recently for some good templates!
- me! me! :)
- I'd love to win this!
- I am just getting started...this would be GREAT!
- this would be fabulous! I have thought about offering something like this but haven't had the time (or confidence) to design one. Thanks for the opportunity to win :)
- oh please, oh please, oh please!
- I would love this!
- Generous offer for a giveaway!
- These are awesome!
- Awesome! Thanks for the contest. : )
- this would be cool but i just love seeing how many million of comments you receive!
- Rockin' cool!
- what do we have to do to win it? Just leave a comment?
- fun, fun, fun!
- Oh, how gorgeous! This would be fabulous for my clients.
- What a great giveaway!!! Please add me to the drawing. Thanks!
- Love, love, love these.
- Would love to own this set
- How fun! TFS, I'll go check them out.
- I was just on her website yesterday, which I had found via the link here, and was so impressed with the products! I would love the chance to win one...count me as number 276!
- I think this would be awesome for my DH...he photos for our school sports programs, and is always looking for an innovative way to publish those photos. This is awesome!
- Ok. I'll give it a whirl! OVER HERE!!! I'm the short redhead waaaaaay at the back of the bus!!!
- This is awesome! Thanks Tara! This would not only benefit my business but also put some spark in my personal life! lol. :) Hope you're doing well! ~ J
- Those are great! I would love to be able to use them :-)
- very cool lines on these. thanks for the chance!
- I love your work!
- These are some pretty sweet templates. Might get some even if I don't win.
- Would LOVE to get it!
- ooooh that would be cool!
- Beautiful and so easy! Love them!
- Please pick ME! I would love to WIN! These look like so much fun.
- These look so gorgeous!
- Oh I would so LOVE to win this sweet template set!
- I would love to win these wonderful templates to use with my new business! Please pick me!
- this would be great! thanks for the chance!
- Oh wow, what a wonderful giveaway. Is this the entry?
- I HOPE I win! Hope Hope Hope It's good to have dreams. :)
- That looks great!! I would Love to win:) Thanks Tara!!
- Would absolutely love this!
- This looks JUST right for my little business! I am off to check out the photographer cafe website!
- I could definitely use those templates. I haven't been very lucky lately, but maybe this will be my turn in the luck department.
- Ohh, amazing. I hope I'm not too late. I could definitely benefit!
- YUMMY!!! It is so hard to find clean, simple templates without all the fluff! I LOVE THESE!
- love it!
- my mom would love this set pick me so i can surprise her with it thanks,
- very, very cool!
- oh this is beautiful....Fingers crossed here!
- What a fun giveaway! They look like great templates!
- how generous, would love to win those babies they look fantastic!
- glad i checked your blog today... just in time!
- pick me pick me pick me!!!!!! How fun!
- OHHHHHHH, I hope I win this - the templates are gorgeous.
- oh my goodness! these look awesome! I'd love to win! :)
- that could simplify my life. how nice.
- How neat! Hope I get picked!
- pick me .. pick me ... :)
- Loving it!! Thanks!
- Ohhhhh I have just begun the daunting world of album design and these would be a huge help + they look UBER WICKED and would definitely kick off my albums in the right direction !! Please, please, please tell me tonight at 8pm that I have won :)
- Please please..... I have an entire album of our trip to India to do!
- I'd love to win a set, that'd be super rad!
- Anything helps:) Would love to have it!
- Pick me!!! :)
- what a great offer! can't wait to win! ;)
- absolutely lovely. crossing my fingers & toes.
- Oooh....I would love this! Thanks!
- would love to win! thanks!
- I'm crossing my fingers, my toes.....eyelashes....you get the picture. I'd LOVE to have these templates. What a generous offer from both of you.
- You always have the coolest things! Wonderful Templates.
- i would love this. love love love love. xx jill
- oooh! those are beautiful!!! I would love to win a set!
- sooo glad i stopped by again today. how awesome, tara! thanks!
- Oooh! I'm just at the beginning of my photography journey and would love to win!
- Ooo ooo pick me =).
- ooh, me, me, me! i just wrote a big check to the us treasury ... winning this would help make up for it! :)
- man, I've had my eyes on these for a while! I'm just getting into albums and these would be a great design to offer clients. PICK ME!!!!!!!!! xo
- These look like really amazing templates! I would be thrilled to win this! (crossing fingers) :) Thanks for the chance!
- Very cool stuff!
- Would love to win. Hopefully I'm not too late! *kisses* Michelle in GA
- Super cute templates! I would love to get my hands on those.
- What a great giveaway!
- ohhh, how lovely! this would be so incredible to have! you are so amazing tara!
- Fun! I love giveaways! Looks like some fabulous stuff! :)
- These look amazing! Fingers crossed....
- Love it ... got an album waiting for my attention, would love this to get me going on it!
- What a fantastic prize... these templates look awesome! I'm in!
- ooooohhhhh pick me, pick me I never win anything on these blogs.
- Most defiantly this would benefit me. I'd LOVE to win this!
- Love it.
- I just purchased something from there the other day ... LOVE IT, would love to win the album template !!! Thank you !!
- This would be awesome! I would love to win this!
- My fingers are crossed. Pick me, please...?
- How wonderful!
- Bring it on, sista!
- ooohhhh what a wonderful giveaway!!!!
- What a great giveaway! I don't know who couldn't use this!
- Thanks for the opportunity!
- Did I miss the chance????
- now THAT is cool! :)
- Ummm. I don't think I have ever seen so many comments on a blog. Ever. LOL. Yes, I want to win too!
- Why is it that on the days I blog stalk you and check in, like, ten times an hour, you don't have a contest, but on the days when I'm too busy to get to your blog until 10:30 at night I always miss an awesome contast. Grrrrr. See me shaking my fist at the heavens for all my bad luck! ;-)
- I typically don't win much - but here's to hoping!! Yeah!! Shannon
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