A huge congratulations to all who entered the The Gratitude Photo Contest, hosted by Nations Photo Lab and myself. We have named our photography contest winners!! We were pretty blown away by the scope and QUALITY of the entries. Within the short open dates of the contest, there were about 6,300 photographs entered and, maybe even more remarkable, 289,000 people voted on them. It certainly was not easy to narrow the photography contest finalists down, but we managed to get our top four winners. The theme, again, was to enter a photograph that shows something you are grateful for, without using any description or words to convey what you meant. So, without adieu, a big CONGRATS to the following Gratitude Photo Contest winners: 1st Place, “Arlington in the Fall” by LindbloomPhoto 
Runner Up 1: “Shasta Camping” by justinritucci 
Runner Up 2: “Remember to Breathe” by Crayok 
Runner Up 3: “Sunset in Valensole” by paolobubu 
And the People’s Choice Award: “Dedicated” by adamsb5 
Winners, please email Allie at Nations Photo Lab to redeem your lovely prizes, which include generous gift cards from Nations Photo Lab, my Posing Playbook…for Kids Who Don’t Do Posing, a feature on the NPL Newsletter, and all kinds of winning image love. As I’d mentioned, we so enjoyed seeing all the remarkable photographs that were entered into this contest – there will be another photography contest coming up again soon. Check out both Nations Photo Lab and Tamara Lackey on Facebook for announcements for the next one. And don’t forget – if you are printing your work (and I sincerely hope you ARE printing your work), you can use the following promo codes for some amazing savings: For those who have never used Nations Photo Lab to print their work before, you can use the code HOLIDAYCARDTL to get $50 off your first order with them (just remember to use the ROES software you can download on their site to be able to use the promo code!). For those who already are customers of Nations Photo Lab, don’t worry – you are not being left out. You can use THANKFUL4TL to get 20% off your entire order – and that is even on top of their frequent sales, so that can really add up to a lot of savings on beautifully-printed work. Both of these codes expire on December 31st, 2014! Congratulations, again, to all the photo contest winners, and to the thousands who entered your images – your work inspires us.
