*****this competition is now closed, winner will be posted as soon as possible.. no more votes will be counted from today*****
Firstly I’ve got to say that WOW, making this choice was so very hard and if your photo isn’t featured here, it definitely isn’t personal and doesn’t mean that I didn’t love our session, I had so many awesome sessions last year, how ever much I would have liked to, it would be impossible to show them all.
So on with the competition
How it works
To enter you must vote by leaving a comment in this thread.
In the comment, list the number of the photo you want to win, the number is ON the photo.
You can vote for yourself.
You can only vote for ONE photo, ONCE.
Please make sure you leave a valid email address where asked.
Anyone can vote.
So email your friends, family, anyone you think will listen & ask them to come, look & place their vote!
How do I get extra votes?
When someone votes, if they also book a session for 2009 & pre-pay their session fee before the competition ends, you will receive an additional 5 votes! The person booking MUST book & pay for their session within the competition time frame. The session must be booked for 2009. The session fee is non-refundable.
What do you win?
If your image wins, you get;
- That image as an A2 blockmount
In addition
Everyone that comments will also go in to a separate draw. If your name is chosen, you will win;
- 20% discount towards a session OR
- an A4 image printed and blockmounted
When does it end?
The competition ends the 6th February 2009 @ 6am
Without further ado, here are the top 20 of 2008.
The fine print
- Winners will be posted on the blog and contacted via email, please make sure your email address is correct
- If I am unable to contact you via email, and you don’t contact me within 2 weeks of posting the winners, you will forfeit your prize
- None of the prizes are exchangeable or redeemable for cash.
- The decision is final & no correspondence will be entered in to.
Good luck
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How do we vote Tash? love all of these but have one that is a personal fav of mine…but do we vote by email?
#18
Yes how do we vote! I have a favorite as well!
Oh well, how does one vote? I mean that figuratively. All of them all so cute. I think I love #14 best…
You make this very hard to choose! I like them all. I choose #9!
Wow, that is a pretty tough choice but I’m going to go with number 19.
Oh my goodness Natasha! This is soooooo hard, there are so many fabulous photos! But if I had to narrow it down to one it would be #2. Fabulous work through-out 2008. Can’t wait to see your work in 2009!!
All the images are stunning but my favourite of course is my Tyla #18
These are all seriously awesome!!! I think I am going to have to pick 10 though…. although if I could I’d vote for them all
I vote for the Angel in #18 as a biased, subjective, partial father. LOL!!
All absolutely beautiful, but my favourite is the princess at No. 18 without a doubt!!!
Wow! So many stunning images here! I have too many favorites to choose!!!
I have to vote number 15. I look at this picture everyday and wonder how you managed to capture their little personalities so perfectly in one click of a button.
Thank you for putting my little girls on your top 20 photos of 2008 its such an honor!
19… I can’t imagine anything better in our home as a blockmounted family pic & I’m sure that family would feel the same… there goes… no 19 it is.
#13 gets my vote – you captured her so beautifully! I love them all though!
VOTE # 18 (this is my favourite, she’s like a little fairy…SO SO beautiful!)
hell that was hard!
I have to go with Number 13 – Orefile! Those delicate features are so beautifully captured in that pic!
I’m so flattered you chose one our wedding pics *blush*
Voting for myself @ number 14
Thanks Tash
The Princess at No. 18 – stunning!!!
Number 1 is my fav, but it was very difficult to choose only one. You are truly talented!
Nr 16 – I love the fact that you can see the bubbles baby is blowing
#15 with Jazzy and Abs. They are my little sunshines and brighten up my day every time I visit. Absolutely stunning girls.
#16
Number 13.
Gorgeous photos though – that was a tough one!
#15 gets my vote. Jazzy and Abs are my little sunshines and brighten up my day every time I go visit.
#14!
I vote for number 14. What a stunning picture of the couple.
Vote #14
I vote for number 16
#13
Orifile is so cute – she is number 13!!!!
I’ll be biased and vote for No. 13
Vote Number 13
I am going with no 10!!!
I LOVE the one of Leslen but no 10 caught me!!
# 13
Vote for 13.
#13
Number 13 – Gets my vote.Just ineffable.
My vote has to go to my niece , #13. She looks so angelic !!! I could stare in those eyes the whole day. Beautifuuuulllll!!!
NO. 11. very cute
Number 13
Vote for photo nr 13.
No 13!
What a great year Tash! #7 for me
#13 – Orifiloe (aka Fifi)
I love all of them, but the expression of total amazement on number 11 gets my vote!
Well done Tash.
Thats so unfair. They are all very very beautiful. I love them all.
# 14
Definitely no. 14. Awesome!
I choose number 7! Soooo cute!!!
tough choice will have to go for no 9
What awesome photos! I’d like to vote for no. 7
#16
LOVEING NO 7!!!
Hi. I’m voting for picture no. 7.
Thanks!
no 7
I’m voting for No. 7
Thanks
Love all the pictures but I’m going to be voting for No.7
Wonderful work. #7
Definitely No7
Some many great images, I honestly don’t know how someone could only pick one if it wasnt their family.
Picture number 18.
Every photograph is beautiful and inspiring for sure! My vote is going to #3. It looks like a magazine cover. Great work!!
what beautiful photos Natasha, you are so talented, I love all the baby pics so much.
they are all so stunning..i choose no 7 as my favorite.
I can’t possibly pick just 1 they are all so very precious!!
tough choices, but I would choose 5
wow – what tough choices! I vote for 13 if my vote couns.
what a great concept!!! Good luck to everyone!
All gorgeous, but #7 for me. Love the light and the soft colours.
What amazing work. Beautiful pics, #7 gets the vote.
#15
Great photos. I mean WOW!
#14
Gorgeous images, all of them!
Of course I will vote for number 11 because in my totally unbiased opinion she is the most gorgeous child on earth.
No 14 the best
What amazing photos but I have to say how much I love #7 it reflects pure innocence (,”)
simply the best #14
All of the pics look really good, but I think #5 is the best.
I vote for the beautiful little girl in #11!!!!!
I vote for the gorgeous little girl in #11
I definitely vote for number 19 – portrait of a perfect and happy family
Your pictures are beautilful, but No 19 is the best, loving and most happy family YES YES 19
# 11
Definitely #11……..absolutely stunning
NUmber 19 is the best. Great family photo.
she is so adorable mwah
No 11.
I love number 19 – what an amazing pic…. such a fun, happy photo!!! Can’t help but fall in love!!!
I really enjoyed our session. I love this photo of Alexandra, it is so her.
My vote is obviously then for #4
I vote No 19. The best Family photo by far.
Have to vote for myself, to ensure I get at least one vote…haha…no #3
Not fair having to compete with such beautiful kids though!
has to be Alexandra – # 4 ( are you doing any sessions in Cape Town this year? Please let me know … Thx )
Wow I bet my money on No 13, isnt she a cute????????? I bet she will make the future miss world lol
#11 …… she just looks like an absolute angel!
# 11
Gotta love the fam…….. My vote goes to no.19
19 – just fabulous. This is a sure winner.
all the pictures are beautiful but my vote is for No 2 – what a precious angel
#19 – just fabulous. This is a sure winner.
I vote for #19
Natural family photo. Shows lots of love
I vote for no 19
stunning family photo.
Awesome photos but I vote for number 19! Such a beautiful family photo.
I vote for no 19
If only we had photographers like this in the UK that can capture a true family image
#19 – Great family photo
Its got to be NO 19
Lovely photo, would love to have a photo like this of my family!!!
Aww Tashy I love all of them!! You are so good my friend!!
My vote is for #19
#7 for me!
I think the family in picture 19 is stunning.
Definately # 19!!!
no. 19 is by far the best
19 wins
19 gets the vote
There are a number of beautiful photos here, but there is one that stands out for me, #19.
# 3
My choice is for #3, Maretha looks stunning the second time around. She has blossomed into a beautiful expecting mother and you have captured her beauty in this photo. To be pregnant and sexy is no easy feat. Well done !
No 14
has to be # 14
I vote for number 9
I vote for number 9
#3 – sexy mum!
All are wonderful but I vote for # 3 – marvelous!
14
Photo 11 is my choice.
#13
I vote for # 13(my Fiferella), she’s gorgeous
#2 What a cutie pie!
I love them all, but would have to choose number 18!
My vote is for #3 please – Maretha Bezuidenhout! Not only is she a beautiful person on the outside, but she has a heart of gold!Thanks!
vote #13
#7
Love the eyes of baby in Picture number 13, so pure…
Definitely nr 2! Except for the cute pic, those eyes are a sure fire winner- enchanting!!
My vote is for no. 2. She is a gorgeous little angel.
Number 19 is just too cute. I was supposed to vote for someone else but I think I’m a sucker for twins…
Number 19 definately gets my vote. It portrays everything that should be important to a family. #19
Number 19 without a doubt. It portrays everything that should be important to a family.
#2 is such a cutie, definitely the best photo!
Vote # 13
I think that photo # 2 is the best of all of them!!!
MY FAVOURITE ABSOLUTELY ADORABLE NUMBER #11
#2 is just the cutest thing ever!!!
I would like to vote for photo number3! It is an AMAZING shot!
Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.
My vote is for No. 18 – too precious!
My vote definitely goes to # 18 – she looks like a fairy.
Hi
Definately photo no 6…very cute!!!
No 6.
No. 11 is best.
#3
3
I vote for #7 because it shows such a natural beauty, and pure happiness in her eyes
no doubt about it #19
#8 for me – i LOVE it!
I vote for #6 – It’s so cute when big sister loves her little sister so much.
I’m truyly BLOWN away. Your composition is amazing – and your clarity is spot on. Very very good work. I’d bring my kids to S.Africa JUST SO YOU COULD SHOOT THEM (and I mean SHOOT in the CAMERA sense – wink)>
We’re watchin’ you now!
Cheers,
Gp.
#11 (not to be entered in to the draw)
Gosh, it’s hard to vote.
I’ll vote for number 10
Definitely #17 !!!
Vote for #5!!!
I vote for Number 5…..absoluteley adorable
I just love no. 5
#19
I Vote For #18
2
just has to be # 14
the wedding day No 14
Number 11 definately
No. 3
What gorgeous pictures ; I would hate to be the judge!!
My vote goes to picture no 11 !!
Thank you.
I’m voting for number 11!
14
# 14
#7
#7 is definitely too beautiful for words!
#7
#7
#7 is oulik.
#7 is adorable.
#7 is sooo cute.
#7 is very cute.
#7 is so pretty.
Number 6 PLEASE!!!!
What a happy pic….immediately insights happiness and makes u wanna smile – Gorgeous pic Leslen!!!
I vote for number 9…
#9 = Cute – hope she wins.
Number 9. The picture has such life and energy in it, and that naughty little smile is just too cute.
#11
I vote for my beautiful angel, Tamika #16
I vote for photo #9.
This is a tough competition, but 9 rocks the world
Definitely NO 9!!!!! She is goregous!!
vote for number 9
Hi
Pic number nine has to be the best for me
Cheers
Baby #16 is beautifull. I would like to vote for her.
I would like to vote for number 11
#11
Good luck
I vote for picture no: 9
I vote for picture no: 9. She is to cute
No. 16 The most Adorable pic.
I want to vote for #11,
Good luck
All of them are beautiful, but #19 stands out for me
Would love nr 3 to win
Definitely NO 9!!!!! She is gorgeous!!
#19 is awsome!!
I think #19 is great…
No. 9
#9
Definitely #16!!! She is the cutest little angel ever!
WOW What a stunner, number 11 is the 1!!!!
Lovely photographs. It is not often that photographs take your breathe away – you have captured people (and especially kids – very hard!!) so beautifully. No. 11!
all your pics are AMAZING, but number 14 wins my vote!
all truly gorgeous but I particularly like the hot momma No.3
I vote #9 as the best photo.
Thanks
# 11 is very classy, with the mix of colour and b&W. Nicely done.
#14 is also very nice, with the background adding to the overall effect, but not distracting form the couple
Has to be # 14. Great work.
NO 16 IS SO UNIQUE DEFFNETLY A WINNER
I vote for pic 13.
#16
She is the most precious & beautiful little girl ever!
MY VOTE IS NR 16
ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS PHOTO!! IT CAPTURES THE INNOCENCE OF A LITTLE MIRACLE!!
My personal favourite is DEFINITELY #19. Have you ever seen such a perfect family!
#16 is definately the cutest of them all!!! Love it!!!!!!!!!!
oh wow all are just awesome, but i got to say my favourite is no 9 no doubt . its how a little girl should look innocent and natural …. cheers prey
#16 is definately the cutest – Love it!!!
I love the photo of Jaclynn and Kayli!! The others are also oh so beautiful, but I`ll have to go with #6.
Vote for photo #6 to win
Absolutely adorable.
Absolutely adorable. #16
#19 What a beautiful picture …Great family!!!!!
# 14, so unusual
#16 So sweet
#II think phhoto no # 9 is so natural and childlike I vote for No. #9
I think That #19 captures sooo much love and happiness.
I love it!!
#19
Number 1 is just gorgeous!
No 7
No 7
SENSATIONAL, The most amazing photos…..
SENSATIONAL, The most amazing photos…..my favourite is #7 sweetie pie!
No 9 gets my vote
Definitely Number Seven
The pictures are all amazing!! Wish I could vote for them all, but I’m voting for picture #6
Number 9 is the winner! cutest!
The photo’s are beautiful, I vote for number 5!
# 14 definitely
no 17 for me
All are so sunning but have to go with Nr 16
Vote for #5!
Vote for #5!
Vote for #5!
Vote for #5!
My vote will have to go to #5 – definitely the cutest!
No doubt, #5!
I could not make a choice………so many awesome images Tash but if I had to pick just one it would be #8.
Good luck to all of the participants!
I vote for number 5.
Tash, I have come back and come back and come back to your blog in the last week and I’m really struggling to choose! But I’m going to go with #13!
As always, they are all gorgeous, my friend!
Anelle
How gorgeous are my granddaughters??! I vote for #15. You managed to capture the innocence of their beauty so vividly, thanks Natasha …
No. 8
Wow, those eyes!
Tash, I’m going with No13, but man, it was hard to choose!!!! As always they are super!
All the photo’s are gorgeous!! This is difficult but I have to choose #10!!
I would like to vote for number #13
Hi;
I’m voting for picture# 13.
No #11- Def teh cutest
Tracy
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#7
they’re all beautiful. my favourite one though is #8. absolutely stunning!!
I love the way you capture nature and the beauty and innocense of the children and babies! My vote is for #8
All gorgeous Tash…and wOw ..look at all those comments!!
My vote goes to #8….simply beautiful!
I love photo #9
You’re an amazing photographer!
My Vote goes for #8!!!
What a gorgeous photo! You are very VERY talented!
I vote #8 absolutely gorgeous.
I love the nature in the pics and the beauty and innocense of the children! I choose #8
Have to vote for myself
#8
Photo 6: Beautiful!!!!!!!
Voting for no 8. Precious!
Hi Natasha,
I would like to vote for Photo No.7. Adorable!
*Sarah
Number 8 – really beautiful
Number 6 – really beautiful
Photo 6 – really beautiful!!
Number 8 is fabulous!! An awesome mother-daughter(s) pic!!
We are honoured that you chose our three beautiful children to be in the top 20. #20 definately gets my vote
Number 18 is my fave!
#17 is my absolute favourite
#19 Takes the honours. 2 gorgeous boys, loving eye capturing family picture,
I vote for #8. STUNNING PHOTO!!!! my favourite. no 8 no 8 no 8 no 8 WILL WIN!!!!
#8 Beautiful!!
Number 10
I VOTE FOR HIEDI NR 6
My Fairey pricess No 11
I like number 11, she’s gorgeous, when I grow up I wanna have a daughter just like her.
#11
They are all gorgeous but number 11 is absolutely stunning! It is a beautiful picture, the composition and colouring is amazing and the little girl is simply the best. I’ve never seen cuter!
#11
I vote for photo #16, the most beautifull picture, absolutely stunning little baby. Love the colours, so unusual!!
I would like to vote for picture 11, she is just too cute
i want to vote for No 11 -
In my honest opion, the most captivated photo is number 11
Number 11 is very cute – very child like innocense- nice pic
Nr 8 is absolutely fabulous! A precious mother-daughter(s) pic!
I just love the gorgeous princess in #11. She is a shoo in!
Number 11 – Gorgeous
These images are amazing and your work is so inspiring! I love the look of your blog too!!!
#Nr 8 is absolutely fabulous! A precious mother-daughter(s) pic!
#18
No :14
Stunning couple and love the setting
It really has to be #20, the compostition of the shot and the looks on the kids faces really works for me – they are so cute. Thanks
I vote for number 20
All the photos are truly stunning but no. 20 gets my vote – notice the expressions on the kids’ faces.
#20
Number 20 is the choice thats what family’s are made of
I’m voting for number 20. They’re gorgeous.
There are some stunning photos here of cute babies and beautiful happy people. But I like the colours and setting and children in no. 20!
We love the photo of the 3 children in #20 – adorable one of little siblings!
I vote for number 20
How can I not vote for my beautiful granchildren, no 20 definitely for me, although Natasha they are all lovely phots, well done.
No. 20 : What attitude!!
No 20 gets my vote
They are all sweet but no 11 is the sweetest!!!!!
Go the Tyldesley’s # 20
Beth Emily Stuart Tyldesley spells BEST.
Who can argue with that?
Lovely photo’s – my vote is for #8!
#8 gets my vote
My vote goes to number 20, but they are all great in their own ways.
My vote is for number 20.
They are all great but I vote for No. 20.
Love the contrasting colours and background that complements the subjects.
I vote for #9
All lovely pics but my vote is definitely # 9!
Hi
You sure don`t make it difficult hey
. My fav is def nr 11 as it reminds me of my daughter.
Hope you are super well.
Talita
They are all fantastic, but I vote for No. 20, because the composition is excellent, the colours are so vibrant – and getting 3 kids to sit still and look good (all at the same time) takes a LOT of patience!
All of these are beautiful but number 10 is by far the one that stands out for me!! Both the photography as well as the image is great.
Such beautiful photographs. My vote is for number 20 – such lovely chidren in an exquiste and natural setting.
# 20!
This is such a beautiful and naturla picture
#20 Beautiful picture winner of them all, really lovely children, good luck.
My vote is for no 20. I love the contrasting colours of the children’s clothes and the background, almost as if they have been playing in the woods and stopped for a moment to be photographed! No fancy dressing up, just everyday clothes.